[This is about Trevor and about managing a massive fear. Giving him utter control over it feels like the only good and correct solution, everything else be damned. Alucard's finger is still resting atop Trevor's ring. It hasn't stilled.]

I think we've learned that I can survive most stakings anyway.

[That is garbage reassurance, but true.]

It was the expression on your face that made us realize how worried we ought to be. [They had always been worried.] Besides there...

[His turn for the vulnerable, perhaps.]

After her, all the emotions hit at once, at the same time as physical recovery. This had felt sort of like a delay, if that makes sense.