Test Substances Ch 3

Test Substances
Chapter Three

Ivory followed behind Dr. Serra to meet Alucard in his room. She didn't want to, but she didn't want to be sedated and made to go anyway so she followed quietly and obediently. However she followed very unhappily. Aura had been taken by one of the female doctors to visit Dracula right before Dr. Serra came to get her.

"So you know to be careful right?" Dr. Serra asked as they stopped a few feet from Alucard's door. She had explained that Alucard was rather violent when provoked. Dr. Serra wanted to make sure that Ivory didn't push her luck as of yet. Maybe if they took to each other they could mess around.

"Yes, you stressed that quite well." Ivory grumbled as she crossed her arms over her chest, tapping her foot. She wanted this to be over with already. "If you believe him to be so dangerous, though, then why are you endangering me? I thought I was of some use."

"You are important Ivory." Dr. Serra said as she reached out for Ivory, but instantly pulled her hand back remembering that it would not be a good thing to touch Ivory. "However both you and Alucard need companionship…"

"That's not the reason for this!" Ivory yelled at Dr. Serra stomping her foot. It was not a childish gesture but one of almost pure rage. "You're lying! You're a liar!"

"Ivory, don't do this…" Dr. Serra sighed rubbing the bridge of her nose. "Please just except what I'm saying."

"No." Ivory growled lowly in her throat. "I know that is not the reason I'm standing outside his door like a prize. He got me for turning out right, and because he will not cooperate with out something in return, so you made a female for him to have! I am that female aren't I!?"

"I'm sorry Ivory, but since you know go and be good. Don't be difficult because of something you cannot change." Dr. Serra said motioning for the door to Alucard's room.

"No. He will not have me in any sense of the word!" Ivory growled. "I am not some bargaining chip!" When Dr. Serra reached out for her, this time to grab her, Ivory jumped back with a fierce growl, saying, "Touch me and I'll rip off the limb that touches me."

Before Dr. Serra could get the guards in the hallway laughing stopped all activity in the hall near Alucard's room. It was a deep almost baritone laugh. After a moment it reduced to a chuckle before a voice said, "Dr. Serra let me out and I'll get Ivory in here. I'll make her be good."

Ivory glared at the direction the voice came from. She assumed that it was Alucard, and was positive that her assumption was right. Her red eyes landed on Dr. Serra as the woman started to tell her something.

"You can go in there willingly or I'll be forced to allow him to come out here and get you." Dr. Serra said with a frown. "I don't want to have to do that Ivory. I know you don't like to be touched."

"Fine, I'll go in on my own." Ivory growled at Dr. Serra. She watched as Dr. Serra told Alucard to move away from the door after she opened the latch to look in the room. Dr. Serra opened the door and motioned for her to go in; Ivory narrowed her eyes at Dr. Serra before walking in.

"Now, Alucard play nice with Ivory." Dr. Serra said as she moved in the room behind Ivory, and left the door open. "Try to respect her space, and keep your hands to yourself."

Alucard smirked, his messy black hair hiding his eyes while he sat on his bed. "Oh I'll try Dr. Serra." Alucard said his smirk turning into a fang showing grin. "She's oh so pretty though. It would be a shame not to touch her."

"If he touches me I'll give you such a headache that you'll believe yourself to be the insomniac, Doctor." Ivory growled at Dr. Serra, though her eyes didn't move from Alucard. He wore a blood red pair of loose pants, and a loose blood red shirt, but you could still tell that he was well toned under it all. Really he was appealing to Ivory, but she didn't want to be near him.

"I'll be back later Ivory. He's been instructed to be kind to you. You be kind to him." Dr. Serra said before she turned on her heal and left. She did not want to be in the room with those two particular test substances for very long.

"Come Ivory, why don't you sit with me." Alucard said as he lifted his head to set his red gaze directly upon her. His eyes slid along her body before rising to her eyes. Sure he knew that she was afraid to be touched, and she hated it. However he was promised a girl, Ivory would just have to get over that fear, at least for him anyway.

"I don't want to." Ivory said shaking her head. She didn't want to be near him. This man made her nervous. "I just want to leave."

At this Alucard stood up and slowly walked over to her. He kept moving towards her as she backed up muttering something he couldn't quite understand. When her back hit the wall then he could understand her.

"Don't touch me!" Ivory said as she glared up at him when he put his hands on either side of her head.

"I'm not touching you." Alucard said simply as he looked down at the brunette. He could see her quivering lightly even though she was glaring defiantly up at him. It was amusing to him.

"Get away from me! You're going to touch me!" Ivory yelled before she tried to duck under his arm and move away from him. Unfortunately she was right; he was going to touch her. He caught her just as she made it under his arm. The second after it registered to her that he was holding her she yelled, "Let me go! Stop touching me!"

Alucard shook his head and picked her up to walk over to his bed. "You're going to have to get use to me." Alucard insisted as he put her on the bed. Once he let her go she moved back on the bed until her back met with the corner all the while muttering for him not to touch her.

His eyes narrowed at her as he moved onto the bed too. "What are you so afraid of?" Alucard asked in a growl. "Do you think I'm going to hurt you?"

"Just get away from me, and don't touch me." Ivory whined as she pulled her knees up to her chest and put her arms around them. "Don't touch me!"

Alucard growled shaking his head at her, "Shut up Ivory!" The girl fell silent and then he moved his face closer to her and said, "Why are you afraid of me touching you?" When he got no response besides her hiding her face against her knees he said as a grin slipped across his lips, "You're mine, I wouldn't do something horrible to you."

"I don't care what you say, don't touch me…" Ivory muttered as her body started to shake. "Don't touch me."

Moving his hand out Alucard ran his fingers through her hair. The only reaction he got from her was for her to start muttering over and over for him not to touch her. He then took his hand from her and held it out in front of her as he insisted, "Look at me Ivory."

She looked up at him and then tried to shrink back away from his hand. Her brown hair was fanned around her but staid out of her face as she watched him with scared red eyes.

"Ivory, touch me." Alucard instructed as he flexed his hand lightly. Alucard's eyes narrowed when she didn't touch him but just watched him. "Ivory you will get use to me one way or another. I don't care if you won't let any other being on the planet touch you, but you will let me." Alucard paused to see if she'd react at all. She didn't so he went on, "Now you can put your hand in mine, or I'll just continue to ignore your pleading."

"No, no, no please. Don't touch me. Please don't touch me." Ivory whined and whimpered as she shook her head at him. "You're going to hurt me."

"So that is what you're afraid of." Alucard said as he moved closer to her before pulling her into his lap. When she tried to get away and started to yell he yelled over her, "Look Ivory, no feel, I'm not hurting you! I'm holding you, and I'm not hurting you!"

"You're going to though! Everyone who touches me hurts me! Let me go!" Ivory cried as bloody tears slipped from her eyes. "Let me go you're going to hurt me!"

"I'm not hurting you!" Alucard growled as Ivory stopped trying to get away and tried to roll into a ball on his lap. "I'm not hurting you. Do you understand me? I'm touching you, and I'm not hurting you. See nothing bad is happening to you."

Ivory started to cry harder as she shook her head. She wanted to leave, and she wanted him to let her go. Why did Dr. Serra have to bring her here? She didn't want to be here.

"Ivory, pay attention to me." Alucard growled lightly when he found she had stopped listening to him. "You're going to get use to me. You're going to understand that just because I'm touching you doesn't me I'm going to hurt you." He cupped her face in his hands and made her look at him.

"See little one, I'm not hurting you." Alucard mumbled as he wiped away her tears. "I'm touching you and I'm not hurting you one bit."

"Your just one person!" Ivory said trying to reason this out. "You could still hurt me, too. Every time…" Ivory was cut off by Alucard's lips. His lips were on hers…

Ivory wasn't very sure what to think. This was a kiss…she had been told about them. She had seen them in a movie once. She had never been kissed by anyone though. She had never even had parents to kiss her goodnight. Her eyes widened and Alucard's red eyes were staring right into hers. She always thought people shut their eyes but she was scared, and shocked…

Alucard pulled back before saying, "I'm not everyone. I'm not even a person anymore. Don't lump me in with anyone."

Ivory was still scared that he was going to hurt her…She sat in his lap. He could reach her so easily. Ivory could tell that Alucard could see this in her eyes.

"I'm allowed to touch you." Alucard stated in such a way that it made it sound like there was no room for argument. "I don't care if you fuss about others touching you, but I'll do as I please, when it pleases me. If I want to hold you I will. I know you're afraid, but I don't care. You'll just have to get use to it Ivory…"

~

"I don't know how he did it, but he got her to stop screaming and he's still touching her." The guard, that had been told to check in on them every once in a while, said to Dr. Serra when she came to get Ivory. "He's holding her in his lap."

"That's interesting…" Dr. Serra said before she opened the latch and looked in. Indeed Alucard was holding Ivory in his lap. Ivory wasn't muttering or having a panic attack by the looks of it. After a second she shut it and then opened the door and walked into the room saying, "Hi Ivory, Alucard."

Both of them merely looked at her, different emotions flittering across their faces. Dr. Serra walked over and then held out her hand to Ivory saying, "You can come with me back to your room Ivory."

"Don't touch me." Ivory said leaning away from the extended hand. "Please don't touch me…"

"Alucard's touching you." Dr. Serra said as she put her hand back to her side. Obviously Alucard hadn't put Ivory's phobia to rest.

Ivory frowned and nodded, "I know. Just don't touch me. No one else can touch me." She didn't even want Alucard to touch her, so she wasn't going to allow anyone else to.

"I'm making her stay in my lap." Alucard said as he rested his chin on top of Ivory's head. "Don't touch her; she's still afraid of people touching her." A grin slipped across Alucard's lips before he said, "If anyone touches her out of spite, I'll kill them. If she tells them not to and they touch her anyway, I'll kill them if I get my hands on them. That includes you Dr. Serra, so don't touch Ivory."

Dr. Serra was taken aback by this. Alucard seemed to be protecting Ivory. He wasn't hurting her himself, and he didn't one anyone else to hurt her. Yes Alucard had threatened to kill people before, but never on behalf of someone else. He never cared about anyone else. Not even his brother Dracula.

"Why do you care if someone touches her Alucard?" Dr. Serra asked lightly. She watched for reactions. She wanted to know what was happening. Now that she looked it was obvious that Ivory was still uncomfortable about Alucard holding her. "Also aren't you touching her when she told you not to?"

"Because she's mine. You promised me I could have her." Alucard said with his eyes shining dangerously. They held dark promises for Dr. Serra if she took Ivory away from him. "This is why I can touch her, and why I care if someone touches her when she doesn't want them to. I can't have people stressing out what belongs to me; I can't have them hurting her. That would make me a bad master."

"You're her master?" Dr. Serra asked as she looked at Alucard weirdly.

"She belongs to me that would make me her master." Alucard said simply his arms moving firmly around Ivory. "You promised her to me, you can't take it back now or I won't cooperate."

"I know Alucard." Dr. Serra said with a nod. "I won't take Ivory away from you that way, but she needs to go back to her room. Both of you need to try and rest."

"Bring her back tomorrow." Alucard demanded still not letting go of Ivory.

"You'll be visiting her room tomorrow. You'll get to see Aura and your brother too." Dr. Serra informed him as she moved back from the bed knowing that Ivory wouldn't get up unless she did.

"Fine." Alucard said as he let go of Ivory. However, before she got up Alucard kissed her cheek before saying, "I'll see you tomorrow Ivory."

"Tomorrow." Ivory agreed with a nod before she moved out of Alucard's lap. "I'll see you tomorrow Alucard."

Alucard grinned widely saying before Ivory left the room, "Remember, Ivory tell me if anyone touches you when you don't want them to. I'll kill them…"