Reflecting in silence (Rose)

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard was sitting on the couch in the informal sitting room alone, since no one else was in the room besides him. He was doing two odd things while he sat there: he was using the couch instead of using his powers to stay up on the ceiling and he had a book opened up in front of him, but he wasn't reading or even looking at the book. He just sat there, lost in his own thoughts.

Alucard wasn't sure what that voice was that had been pushing for him to do something to Alex that he knew he didn't need to be doing. There were many things about what all had happened during that time, that he wasn't sure which was worse. The voice had used his family's words to him, it had kept at him and trying to make him weaken his will, it had known exactly how he had felt even before he came to recognize it himself, and he seemed to be the only one who could hear it. He didn't want to think about it, but everything about it seemed to be pointing in one direction, his madness.

Alucard had heard and seen what the Nightshade madness did to those who it effected. They became violent, bloodthirsty killers who cared nothing for others. The madness always seemed to leave a trail of death and destruction in it's wake, but something felt very off about his madness when compared to the typical nightshade madness. His madness was different, but he couldn't completely put into words yet what the differences were.

Alucard just sat there on the couch not even looking at the open book in his hands, completely oblivious to the world. Anyone who knew him even only a little bit could tell that something was wrong with him. Everything about Alucard just screamed that something bad had happened to him.

[Rose North]

Rose was searching the entire school for her cousin, Alucard. And, like always, it seemed the last place she checked was the one place he was. Anyway, she had to talk to him, make some things very clear before any cohort lessons. Specifically?

Well… Rose was technically dead. Only a handful of people knew she was ‘Rose Nightshade’. And she wanted it to stay that way. Even though Alucard had promised not to tell anyone who she was, there was one dilemma she was faced with. And that was the way he acted around her. He would treat her like family in front of people, and she couldn’t have that. Students weren’t idiots. SOMEONE would make the connection. Someone would figure it out, and the whole school would know her secret by the end of the day if that happened. And, Rose, being the person she is, would probably permanently leave the school if that happened, because…. Well, if word got out, the school would be in serious danger. Rose has a lot of enemies after all.

”Alucard!” Her voice was sharp as she called out to him, quickly crossing the room with her hands on her hips and fixing him with one of the scariest looks he’d probably ever seen. ”We need to talk.” Her tone said she wouldn’t take no for an answer.

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[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard was still just sitting there on the couch staring into space while he had an open book in his lap. He still looked like something bad was on his mind, since he never had an open book in his lap and wasn't reading it. He was just sitting there trying to figure out what was up with what happened that time he saw Alex naked. Where had that voice come from? Why was it only speaking to him and why did it keep trying to make him give into his desires so much? He could still only think that his madness is where it came from. He needed to do something about it soon, or who knows what might happen to the people of the school.

Alucard was so lost in his thought that he didn't even hear or notice Rose when she had come into the room. He just sat there after she had gotten to him and finished speaking for several moments before the way she smelt actually made him realize he wasn't alone. He quickly closed him book like he had just gotten to a stopping point and then looked at Rose. He could tell she wasn't pleased about something, but since he didn't hear her a moment ago, he had no clue what it was that she had wanted.

" Yes? What is it Rose?" Alucard asked her in an attempt at his usual tone of voice, but an edge of his worry still was present.

[Rose North]

And... Alucard was totally out of it. Great. Would he even pay attention to what she had to say, or would it all be in one ear and out the other? She must really be in a bad mood, to be degrading her own cousin in her thoughts.

Hands still planted on her hips, she didn't even care that he sounded like he was about to just curl up into a ball and die in a corner. She wasn't that sympathetic, to anyone. "Did you even hear what I said?"

Sighing, and shaking her head, she muttered something under her breath that sounded like 'oh well'. With a deep breath, she looked back at him, that scowl back. "I can put up with you being in my cohort, but I want to make a something very clear beforehand." A short pause, for dramatic affect. "I am not your cousin in there. Don't act like it, don't look at me like it. I am your teacher. Nothing more. Don't say anything about our past, don't mention Parker, don't even think about me as more then a teacher. Am I clear?" He wouldn't get why...

"Swear to it. Swear on the lives of every student here, that you won't give anything away. Because if anyone figures out I'm still alive, dangerous people you don't even hold a candle to will come and murder everyone here at the school." It sounded extreme, but the look on her face. She was serious. Alucard had sort of been told she had enemies in the world, but he wouldn't know to what extreme until now...

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