[The theory Alucard held in private has been proven distressingly true. At the same time as the actual attack happened, the turning begins anew. Walter's blood (his father's blood, his blood) enters Trevor's system, because the timeloop cannot prevent all of this, and the horror unfolds yet again.
It is not easier on the second day. If anything, it is worse, because they all know how it plays out. They know that to attend to every scream of agony is to deny precious moments of trying to make this stone work, and it is needed more than ever. They keep Trevor in the lab because they have to have him there to test the damn stone and that may actualy be the worst part of it all. They have to listen to all of this because they have to monitor the turning. Pinpoint the key moments.
(Alucard takes goddamn blood samples, and he knows, he knows it's horrible but they need the information. He takes hurried notes while looking at the stuff under a microscope. He has theories now. Better ones. But he still flinches when there's a new and terrible noise.)
By the third day, they at least know what to expect in terms of timing and in terms of volume. It is no comfort. It is only terrible, terrible knowledge that lets them all brace. And it is in that moment that Alucard thinks he's come to understand something of this terrible turning, because he's got both eyes pressed into the microscope viewer, delirious and delighted because this might be the key to all of it and---
--and there is a new noise he hasn't heard before, and he looks up in terror of the new.]
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It is not easier on the second day. If anything, it is worse, because they all know how it plays out. They know that to attend to every scream of agony is to deny precious moments of trying to make this stone work, and it is needed more than ever. They keep Trevor in the lab because they have to have him there to test the damn stone and that may actualy be the worst part of it all. They have to listen to all of this because they have to monitor the turning. Pinpoint the key moments.
(Alucard takes goddamn blood samples, and he knows, he knows it's horrible but they need the information. He takes hurried notes while looking at the stuff under a microscope. He has theories now. Better ones. But he still flinches when there's a new and terrible noise.)
By the third day, they at least know what to expect in terms of timing and in terms of volume. It is no comfort. It is only terrible, terrible knowledge that lets them all brace. And it is in that moment that Alucard thinks he's come to understand something of this terrible turning, because he's got both eyes pressed into the microscope viewer, delirious and delighted because this might be the key to all of it and---
--and there is a new noise he hasn't heard before, and he looks up in terror of the new.]