(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh42/rogerbacon_2008/Hellsing-4575-1.jpg)<br/><br/><br/>For Alucard, it was very much business as usual.  Granted, the past several months had been abnormally busy but he hadn't minded in the slightest.  At least Incognito had broken the usual cycle of boredom by proving himself to be a serious threat.<br/><br/>For however briefly he'd actually been around.<br/><br/>Alucard's attention drifted here and there even as he sat and sipped on a glass of wine.  Not a bad year, whatever it was.  He noted Seras mulling over breakfast and that perhaps she needed a little nudge to get her out of whatever she'd drifted into lately.   Personally, he was pleased that she'd finally become a full vampire but the drift that had come with it was of concern.  Much like the phase that a parent would expect a teenager to go through.<br/><br/>"It's not an evening to dawdle, Seras."  His voice could be heard in her room.   "There's battle stirring in the air."