#second verse

"Sister Magda is not likely to say anything in particular," Alucard smirks at his dirty thoughts from earlier. "She's not anything what she appears to be."

"Alucard what did you do...?" a loud sigh of irrigation.

"Tested an observation..."

"With your guns..." Integra pinches her nose.

"But of course Master," Alucard sits silently which includes not breathing.

"And?"

"She lived," Alucard tilts his head slightly like a cat lazily studying a bird. "I only shot from shoulder to rib cage. The right arm was pretty much hanging by bits of muscle..."

"Jesus Christ! Sister Magda should be dead! So explain...this," Sir Hellsing hisses in disapproval.

"Gunslinger assisted to get Krst to the church for sanctuary. I saw the sister only from the area I shot her. She was healed and her sisterly clothing was regenerating...technically she's wearing priest's vestments."

"Well she had to adapt, obviously, to damn vampires like you. She's not the flying nun for Christ sake Alucard!" Sir Interga rubs her temples. "Just go to the basement and behave for once."

"Of course, I always behave myself in the basement..." the No Life King replies with a definitely not innocent look on his pale lips. "You could have someone represent Hellsing at the visit with the Queen tomorrow..."

Then Alucard was gone, phasing through the floor of Sir Hellsing's office. "Fuck. Now I have to call Penwood at this hour..."

‡ 4 p.m. London England ‡

"Yes of course your Majesty," Sister Magda says. "The gardens are lovely this time of year."

The Queen now asks, "Are you enjoying your visit to England, Sister Magda?"

"Yes of course..." Magda replies with a smile. "So much tradition and history, I feel quite at home."

The Queen pats her hand,"Do stay for tea Sister..."

"But of course your Majesty, I am honored by your request..." Sister Magda softly returns her answer to the Queen.

Upon entering the palace Father Tres approaches Sister Magda. "Sister, I need to speak with you."

Magda turns to the Queen, "May I?"

"But of course Sister Magda, a servant will bring you to our location..."

"Tres, even for a machine you seem jumpy..." Magda watches the male assigned machine.

"Alucard is here to speak with the Queen," gunslinger reports.

"This to be expected," the sister nods her head. "We are on neutral ground. By all means let's have some tea with the Queen."

Magda and Tres are escorted to the tea room. They happen upon the Queen and Alucard in a rather intimate embrace. Sister Magda sits down, her back mostly to them. She can hear Alucard's 'potty' mouth but the bond he has with the Queen of Albion is none of her business. Father Tres stands next to Magda with his targeting eye on the Midian.

A servant begins to set the tea out and various 'goodies' that always go well with tea. Magda stands to reposition her body and finishes with a bow to the Queen.

"Alucard do you have a title I should address you by?" she asks.

"I have many titles but all rather grim for the likes of you," he smirks.

"Midians do not have inherited titles? I am on a personal name with the Earl of Memphis, an entitled noble of the Methuselah..."Sister Magda inquires.

"There titles left on turned vampires but I had a title before I began the first..."Alucard snorts.

"Vampires are not born Methu-Midian?" Magda looks confused.

"No sister...I'm starting to think Iscariot has a nutter or a senile member," Alucard sneers.

"Time changes, places replace others and what was, is now not it...such is the workings of the universe and it alternates," Magda says with a distant look. "Well Father Tres and I have taken up, enough precious time, for the Queen and you."

Sister Magda rises to her feet and turns to leave the tea room. Alucard finally takes time to observe the sister's vestments. Black with steel reinforcement along hems down the front. An ornate but ominiously designed, cross hangs from a scratched collar, meant to protect the throat. The chain is attached to it. Arm, shoulder and a back piece of matching armor with a red cross, finishes her wardrobe.

Father Tres is dressed slightly different but just lighter on armor to his vestments. The sister carries a handgun the size and firepower of his Casull while gunslinger carries paired pistols, with a concealer ammo feeder. Well no wonder gunslinger had so many rounds at the last meeting.

"Sister do you always attend functions so heavily armored?" Alucard smiles with the points of his fangs showing. "Some would take offense to how you and Father Tres are ...dressed."

Magda glaces over her shoulder, "That is a possibility always but in this case we are heading back to the Vatican. Perhaps someday we shall meet again but for now this is farewell..."

Alucard grins, "Oh I can guarantee we will sooner than you think..."

"That is for Bishop Maxwell to decide..."Magda smiles slightly amused.

The two Iscariot church members say their farewells to the Queen then are gone. Alucard is once more foiled from his fun. Then an evil thought crosses his mind. Hellsing have military helicopters. Iscariot only use ones that are high speed and light armor.

Once the Eldritch Vampire gets off the phone, his ears pick up the sound of two large military helicopters. They are a few minutes away so he decides he can 'stall' the sister. Unfortunately it's Sir Penwood that 'stalls' Alucard.

Both of them watched as a light armour helicopter lifts off. The vampire squints his eyes. A soft growl comes out. That's not her!

Then he hears a quiet running engine. His eyes rise up, just in time to something large, black and deadly, doing a barrel roll towards them. The helicopter is completely upside down, at one part, of the roll.

Alucard just got his first introduction to an Apache helicopter A64, in action. Magda completes a partial roll to the left to straighten the helicopter up then sends the Apache up straight. She begins a series of maneuvers when the two Hellsing helicopters arrive. The Hellsing ones would have never survived. It is like watching two water buffaloes and a large Thompson gazelle. The Apache can do aerial maneuvers that couldn't be matched.

Alucard is absolutely enthralled. If Sister Magda can handle a "beast" of military helicopter, like that, then they need to make a date. The male vampire is making some sort of strange growls and a low rumbling grunt.

Is Alucard in love?

No, oh God in heaven! He's in a rut!

Sir Penwood is not amused and the sounds Alucard is making are completely nerve wrecking. Penwood can't imagine dealing with this wild teseterone fed, male land shark that can't be killed, thanks to Hellsing.

"Relax Penwood..."Alucard smirks. "I haven't lost control, since Mina."

"But you've been in the basement...?"

"Hmm... that's true," Alucard just chuckles. "That is definitely true, now that you mention it."

Then with that Alucard is slipping through a swirling, inky portal. He can already hear his Master's voice.

1. Penwood called her.

2. The Round table called her.

3. And she's just now getting off the phone with Maxwell.

Fuck! But it was worth it to the Vampire King. As long as he has lived, seeing a powerful and confident woman handle that war machine, is worth all the suffering he is about to get.

"Think about the feelings of those who are being protected and yet kept in the dark at the same time."-To Abel