...That's a lot less common than you think.

[Alucard breathes out. This is harder than he thought.]

My father did not walk up to my mother in the middle of the night, declare her his wife, and take her with him. Such action, that would be considered monstrous by many. They were friends first. They knew who each other were, and then they decided they wanted to be husband and wife.

[He wants that part to connect.]

You can't walk into my life, declare a thing, and expect it to be so.