[fic preview] Legacy

[melrose_stormhaven]

Disclaimer: I do not own Hellsing or Dracula. They belong to someone else.

Freetalk: Well. A new Hellsing fic, and I'm not finished with my first one yet! Anyway, this is just a preview of a fic I'm planning to do. If I get any good response, I might continue it. It's just a rough draft. If you think it sucks, bite me–I mean, drop me a line.

This is for a nice guy I met. Let's call him Nice Guy.

A few notes: The story takes place after the vents in Bram Stroker's Dracula, with some alterations. It is a bit based on the book, but not entirely.

Legacy

Chapter I: Abraham Van Helsing's Journal

"Good God, Jonathan! Why on earth did you–"

The young man looked up at me, his eyes unnaturally bright. "So they would know, Doctor. So they could be warned of the dangers that await them." There was a hardness to his voice, a determined look in his young face.

I looked at the book in my hand. Dracula by Bram Stoker, the title of the book was. Already it was selling like hotcakes all over London. "Jonathan, the consequences of this book are–"

"Are far less than what the consequences of what you have done, Doctor!" Jonathan Harker cut in, his voice loud and sharp. His eyes were now glittering with anger. It took all of my will not to flinch from his rage.

The young man raked his fingers through his snowy looks. "You do not understand the fear, Doctor. He hadn't been after you, or your wife! You have to understand what Mina and I go through, knowing that–that creature is still alive!" He shuddered.

"Jonathan, my love," his lovely wife, Wilhemina Harker, said as she rose from her seat and touched her husband's arm in that gentle way of hers. "Do not shout. Dr. Van Helsing understands that you meant well in having the book published." She smiled at me, that brilliant smile of hers that always tugged my heart.

I glance at the book. Here in this book was the events that documented what had happened years ago–events that should have been kept a secret. It was altered a bit, but it was truthful enough.

"Why did you have to keep him alive, Doctor?" the young man asked me, his eyes filled with grief. "He tried to kill us. He tried to take my wife from me. Why? He should be killed."

I smiled a bit sadly at the dear young man. "Because, my dear Jonathan, whether we like it or not, a time will come that we will have need of him."

Freetalk, part 2: So, what do you think? Should I continue this fic? I'm still doing research about Dracula's past.
This fanfiction would be discussing what happened after the events in Dracula (the book by Bram Stroker). As I've mentioned before, there will be alterations to fit the Hellsing storyline. This fic will probably span to the Hellsing storyline as well, perhaps a bit about Walter, Richard, his brother (Integra's father) and little Integra herself.

[Stella]

Oh you'd better continue!!!

I am completely fascinated by Alucard's past and also what went on between him and Integra's family way-back-when. Definitely an interesting premise - I'd love to see more!

Stella

[Eden]

Sounds interesting, and since theirs no such thing as too much Hellsing, I think you should go for it!

~Eden