"Now it's off to bed for the two of you. Don't forget your prayers. Good night."
"Hai, Walter-san."
Hotaru sighed to herself as the stately butler gently closed the door on his way out. For months, both she and Ranma had stayed at the Hellsing Castle. Ever since the day of that explosion, she had been under guard, by both Ranma and Alucard. And after the first few times that those weird demons started showing up trying to catch her, Integral-sama had ordered soldiers and Walter to watch over her practically all hours of the day as well.
Hotaru looked over to where Ranma was setting up his futon near the foot of her bed. There wasn't an available room large enough for two beds down in the underground area of the mansion, but that hadn't deterred Ranma at all. Nowadays, he didn't let Hotaru out of his sight even for a moment.
Hotaru paused in thought as she prepared herself for bed. No... that wasn't right. Alucard-sama managed to drag Ranma off every now and again. He hadn't told her what it was he was doing with Ranma other than "training", and Ranma was close-mouthed about it too. It couldn't have been a good thing though. Ranma was as gentle to her as he had always been, but whenever he came back from one of those little trips, he would have the most insane gleam in his eyes and a huge smirk on his face. And after the first few months, he'd start doing that really, really creepy chuckle with Alucard-sama every once in a while when they were off talking by themselves and they thought that they were alone.
Hotaru shivered for a moment. Alucard-sama was so weird sometimes. Especially when he gave you that "I'm so far above you" smirk that he liked so much. It didn't help that he was so tall either.
'Oh well,' she thought as she and Ranma kneeled by the bed in preparation for the their nightly prayer. 'Ranma's still as nice as always, so it can't be that bad'. Every night, they'd pray together, although it was Ranma who actually spoke the prayers that were taught to him by others at Hellsing. Hotaru never was too good with learning languages like he was, so she didn't really understand the English words, just that it was supposed to be a request to Kami-sama for good fortune or something, and that she should say "amen" at the end. Anyway, if Ranma was praying to Kami-sama every night, then Alucard-sama couldn't have been too much of a bad influence on him right? Right!
Hotaru listened intently as Ranma solemnly recited the prayer for the night, as he did every night.
"In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead
shall be banished into eternal Damnation.
Amen."
"Amen."
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