Subject: [FFML] Re: [fanfic][Hellsing/The Shadow][repost] Under the Shadow of Hell: Chapter 2
From: "David McMillan" <SkyeFire@aol.com>
Date: 11/21/2004, 10:17 PM
To: "Elsa Bibat" <aerolbj@i-next.net>
CC: ffml@anifics.com
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    I'm just groovin, doin' the backlog dance....

Elsa Bibat wrote on 10/31/2004, 4:23 AM:

 >
 >
 > Set in the "Pulp Hellsing" timeline _not_ in the "Dances
 > Set To The Music Of Time" timeline.

    Byakhee Bob:  "Dammit!  I'm calling my agent!"

 > *************************************************
 >
 >             DANCES SET TO THE MUSIC OF TIME
 >                        An Epic History of Humanity
 >                           From The Age of Silver
 >                            To The Age of Crystal
 >                                  And Beyond
 >
 >          http://rakhal.com/florestica/elsa-bibat/index.html
 >
 >                  Other fanfiction by the same author:
 >           http://rakhal.com/florestica/elsa-bibat/index.html
 >
 >                   Kindly archived by Larry F and
 >                    The Lost Library of Florestica:
 >                     http://rakhal.com/florestica/
 > *************************************************
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
 > -- File: hellp.txt
 >
 > **********************************************************************
 >
 >     Disclaimer:
 >
 >     Hellsing is owned by Hirano Kouta. All licenses belong to the proper
 > people. This is used without permission.
 >
 >     The Shadow was created by Walter Gibson. All licenses and rights
 > belong to the proper people. This is used without permission.
 >
 >     This disclaimer also applies to several intellectual properties
 > referred to in the text. Please be guided accordingly.
 >
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 >
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 >
 >
 > Chapter 2 Tourists
 >
 >     "Scheisse!"
 >
 >     Blue eyes and a diamondine smile gave him a look of questioning
 > condescension or condescending question. No matter. He hated that look.
 > Flicking the cellphone closed with a practiced move, he slipped it back
 > into his tailored jacket.
 >
 >     "Someone interfered. Do not say 'I told you so'."

    Ahh.  These must be the people behind The Lamia That Wanted Ceres.

 >     "I will not say it. Merely smile and let you think I said it."
 >
 >     I told you so.
 >
 >     "Will you not do that?"
 >
 >     "What?" Innocence in an angelic face of a demon.

    Damned telepaths.  Or, judging from the "punctuation," I'm guessing a 
Master/Childe pair of vamps.

 >     He sighed a long-suffering sigh. Suffering was long, endless if one
 > were immortal.

    But so are the parties!

 >     "Did you really have to try and kill her?"
 >
 >     "Unlike in the real world, a weak link can become the strongest if
 > left to itself. Alucard's fledgeling is getting strong. Plus-"
 >
 >     "Plus the fact that Helsing's experimental bloodline has a new
 > receptacle if ever the main carrier is destroyed or subverted. I know, I
 > know. I am familiar with the entire song and dance. By the way, they
 > know we're here."

    Helsing's, or HeLLsings's "experimental bloodline"?  I admit, I read 
ahead into the next chapters.  I wonder just how many places the various 
Helsing family branches cross with Alucard's blood?

 >     He arched an eyebrow. "Who are 'they'?"
 >
 >     "They, of course."
 >
 >     "Oh, ja. Be more vague. Bitte."

    Bitte-r, much?
    Ow!  Sorry!  Okay, I'll stop.

 >     "Who else can 'they' be?"
 >
 >     "There are a lot of 'theys' out there. Diogenes. MI-5. E Branch.
 > Hellsing. The Pakistanis. The Freemasons. The Vatican. Who?"

    "The Pakistanis"?  What about the Boy Scouts?

 >     "Mother called."
 >
 >     "WHAT!?"

    "It's your own fault.  YOU added her to our 'friends&family' 
endless-minutes wireless plan."

 >     "She knows we're here. She's sending Schrodinger."
 >
 >     "SCHRODINGER!!"

    "And her little cat, too!"

 >     "Ja. Schrodinger."
 >
 >     "Schrodinger." Calm. Reflection.

    The outward calmness of someone who's *trying* not to break down in 
hysterics.
    I have no idea who Schrodinger is, but the reactions here are 
pricelessly evocative.

 >     Silence.
 >
 >     "Schrodinger. Are you sure?" His question was tinged with
 > calculation.
 >
 >     "I am dead, not deaf."
 >
 >     "Ja, ja. Schrodinger." He steepled his hands as he stared into the
 > dark.
 >
 >     "Schrodinger."

    Kind of need a scene break, here.

 >     "Schrodinger. Wilhelmina Schrodinger. Right?" Talmadge looked up
 > from the passport as he looked at the person waiting patiently for her
 > papers.
 >
 >     Green eyes twinkled behind a pair of glasses. Brushing a stray lock
 > of golden hair from her face, she nodded with a smile. Whoa, those are
 > sharp.

    "Ze better to bite you with, liebchen."

 >     "Ja. That is me." The faint lilt of an accent lent her voice an
 > alluring tinge of the exotic. German was his guess. Looking down again,
 > he blinked in surprise.
 >
 >     Argentina. Must be one of those immigrant things.

    <shudder>  Someone from Argentina with a German accent is a sufficient 
automatic red flag in and of itself.  But if this ties into any of the 
Argentina suff in the Hellsing manga....

 >     He smiled and returned his gaze at the statuesque blonde before him.

    "returned TO," perhaps?

 > Good posture enhanced the woman's inherent beauty and he could notice
 > well-muscled thighs peeking out from under her mini-skirt.
 >
 >     "Business or pleasure?"
 >
 >     "Business." That smile again. Reminded him of a cat, strangely
 > enough. He stamped the passport and passed it to her. Her hand brushed
 > his for a moment and he felt a sensual tingle come up from his fingers,
 > to his wrist, to his arms, right up to the back of his brain. His hair
 > stood on end for some strange reason.
 >
 >     "Danke schon." She looked into his eyes and he stuttered a response.

    I *think* that's "Danke schoen."

 >     "Yo-you're we-welcome, ma'am." For a moment, he was inexplicably
 > frightened of her. Damn. There you go again, Bobby old boy, stuttering
 > in front of beautiful women.

    Good instincts, Bobby.

 >     As the woman sashayed away, out of Heathrow, Talmadge turned to his
 > co-worker, Trowbridge.
 >
 >     "That was one sexy cat, right, chap?" Talmadge laughed at his joke.
 >
 >     "Huh?" Trowbridge was obviously lost.
 >
 >     "Cat! Schrodinger! Cat! Get it!"

    Sug:  "Get it?"

 >     "Uh...no."
 >
 >     Talmadge rolled his eyes upwards. People here were such idiots. A
 > simple joke on quantum mechanics and they were lost.

    <facefault>  Aaaand the author is double-decking the joke for us...

 >     I hate my job.



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