Chapter 21

When Derek thinks about all his life has been, it leaves him in this awkward situation. It doesn't even make it better knowing that this is a situation that he is able to turn it around, especially when this new journalist is not making his work any easier faster.
This is not the first time that he has been given a job to do. Many times Alucard has given him something to fix. And he has been able to do that in a matter of few days. But at this point, he has to come up with a scheme and put himself in close relations with this woman which is not normally as he will do especially when he has to put up with her and try to put up with the ordinance of her life.
It felt like a chore, and he could not wait to finish doing it. He wondered why it was taking so long for him to be able to take this woman down. Assuming he was allowed to kill her, it would have been done and dusted but this woman is literally driving him around in circles. All because of the mission that entailed to stop her. He has to go hiking on all of this menial nonsense that he would have never do.
It was important. He had to do everything in his power to make sure that she caught no whiff of what they were cooking up in the sea. So if it meant that he had to go around with one more time, he would gladly do it. As long as it could fulfill this mission and make his master proud. It was worth it.
He knew there wasn't such a strong defense around Elizabeth. She wasn't such a strong willed woman. And neither did she put a defense around herself. She perhaps thinks that she puts on some kind of trait of defenses but it is invisible.
Derrick can see right through her eyes what her personality is all about , he can see that there's a part of me that wants to break free from that marriage with just the slightest amount of effort from him. He can read that she craves for a different life other than the one she has. Derek has been one who is able to read people's minds is a very long time ago.
Since a young boy, he has been working in very close acquaintance with Alucard. Alucard, taught him many things that had to do it how to manipulate people into submitting the way he wanted them to. And he has put his education into good use by being where he was today and he would not let it go. scot free so easily. Manipulation has been a part of his lifestyle, he doesn't even realize it especially when his preys on unsuspecting.
"One like Elizabeth."
Other than the ones who stood close by Allucard, Alucard always treated him especially when he was distributing missions. And it feels as if Alucard has put so much in this mission that he has given him and because of that he wants to fulfill it to maximum capability. And the only thing that stands between him and doing that is Elizabeth who he asked to take things slowly with even if he is dying to stretch his hand forward and break her neck within a minute stopping her from continuing whatever mission she thought she was ordained to do.
Alucard is somewhat a being that literally regulated the community, he is needed and for the mayor to allow a mere journalist to come and interrupt. The functioning of their mission was disturbing and it felt as if the mayor needed to be reminded about what his position is again in that office.
But Derek will speak about this later after he has cleared this mission. Perhaps, they have to teach the mayor a lesson by himself on how to deal with whatever happens After this moment, he has just one last strategy up his sleeves and he's about to use it into good use.
Being aware of that he was a sucker for blood, and taking lives of people but now he has to go through communication, blackmail and threats. All of those things that pesky humans did. It was annoying, it was slow. And it was almost as if it wasn't him. But it was still a patient to make this to be successful.
Derrick pauses, as he pours himself a cup of liquor and him looks around the bar that he sits in. He is using this moment to just engage and think about himself he has lived a life of turmoil, before this he did not know if his living proved to be useful or was his existence doing a great fear job.
Every time he goes back to memory lane of how he lived his life, prior to this time before it leaves him with a stain on his heart, that liquor will not be able wash down. It is even worse every time he realizes the current situation that he is in now, once he is done with this mission, He wonders if there will be any usefulness him again, because all he wants to do is be of service to Alucard on all of his missions.
So, he sips it slowly as if he doesn't want time to slip away from him, he closes his eyes and tries to picture something else. His animal instincts crave blood like nothing before, to dig into humans, inside the bones of human and watch them as they gasp for breath and lose them.
Cutting off humanity is something that he finds happiness in. And he has not been able to do that, especially when she has been in such close communion with him. It feels like he's running mad. His instincts are driving him to the edge and he is literally at the edge of the table.
If there is one push a single push that was there to make him lash out. It would be a bloody battle and no one would prefer to be around him in that moment. Especially Elizabeth the one who is unsuspecting of his real intentions. She thinks he is some kind of cool entrepreneur who loves nature or one of those sorts.
She thinks he is one who is just feeding of some carefree gentleman or whatnot rubbish. At least that's the kind of personality he has put out there. He has managed to be able to hide the cravings in his eyes every time he was in the midst of and others he was well with instincts wanted to chase. He wanted to see them wrong.
He has seen her as a prey that she is, just like other humans were and the predator he is. He tries not to focus on that aspect for too long, he had to talk to himself and look at the bigger picture.
Yeah, to remind himself and it took so much for him to do that. It wasn't easy peasy. It wasn't easy. But he was able to do it and now he's at the last step but yet it feels it feels as if he's losing it. Like he's losing his control on his mind. The burning liquor wasn't enough to push it down. It wasn't enough to make him forget what the feeling of trapping humans are knowing that they were helpless and he was left to devour and pieces them into pieces.
Right at this moment, something gets his mind into focus and thar is when the glass slips from his fingers and shatters on the floor. The glass which has fallen upon the ground finds a way to scratch him with bits of its fragment before it sets to the ground and by that, it leads to a cut and it is his own blood that he sees, not human blood.
This is not the first time that he has been given a job to do. Many times Alucard has given him something to fix. And he has been able to do that in a matter of few days. But at this point, he has to come up with a scheme and put himself in close relations with this woman which is not normally as he will do. Especially when it adds light to her and try to put up with the ordinance of our life. It felt like a chore, and he could not wait to finish doing it. He wondered why it was taking so long for him to be able to take this woman down. Assuming he was allowed to kill her, it would have been done and dusted. But this woman is literally driving him around in circles. All because of the mission that entailed to stop her. He has to go hiking and all of this menial nonsense that you will never do.