[There had been an order to things after getting home. Alucard, in spite of his exhaustion, did not sleep. He stayed up for the hour when the turning would have begun, and then lingered until midnight when a reset would have occurred. There was nothing, glorious, beautiful nothing, and then out he went to talk to the local wolf pack.
A long discussion. They had noticed he was not home (his den was gone entirely), and there is assurance of food to be brought to the front door. The sun rises before all is agreed to, and at that point, Alucard decides that he ought to just go to town and take care of matters at the market. There is no food at all in the castle, and all three of them need to eat so terribly.
It is only after returning, laden with groceries and meat and milk and everything else that the castle lacks, that he goes to bed. And remains there for four full days, asleep and refusing to let Trevor go. Sypha has to gently undo those too possessive arms for the important things, like bathroom trips, and perhaps Alucard shouldn't have slept because that means four days of Sypha's cooking.
He's given the speech to the rest of Europe's vampires. Made it clear that any additional fuckery will not be tolerated, and he's done it with the Crimson Stone in his hand for nothing more than a bit of theatre. They've had visitors now, those making it clear that he has their loyalty, and as much as Alucard hates to become even a fraction of what his father was, he knows that this is better than what the three have endured otherwise.
The rest is simple. It is caring for the two again as intensely and lovingly as he ever has, a greater emphasis placed on recovery. Hardly the same type that he underwent (that scar game is a ways away), but he knows the outline of it now. The benchmarks for improvements. And he watches Trevor meet each one with such a relief that he nearly cries from it every time.
Best of all is Trevor's outside. Outside and doing...something...most days, except for here. And now. Because he's on the floor, because goddamnit the man loves floors too much.]
Steam and vents. The Romans did it a millennia ago. [He's more than a little concerned by the question, and he walks over to where Trevor is.] Why?
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A long discussion. They had noticed he was not home (his den was gone entirely), and there is assurance of food to be brought to the front door. The sun rises before all is agreed to, and at that point, Alucard decides that he ought to just go to town and take care of matters at the market. There is no food at all in the castle, and all three of them need to eat so terribly.
It is only after returning, laden with groceries and meat and milk and everything else that the castle lacks, that he goes to bed. And remains there for four full days, asleep and refusing to let Trevor go. Sypha has to gently undo those too possessive arms for the important things, like bathroom trips, and perhaps Alucard shouldn't have slept because that means four days of Sypha's cooking.
He's given the speech to the rest of Europe's vampires. Made it clear that any additional fuckery will not be tolerated, and he's done it with the Crimson Stone in his hand for nothing more than a bit of theatre. They've had visitors now, those making it clear that he has their loyalty, and as much as Alucard hates to become even a fraction of what his father was, he knows that this is better than what the three have endured otherwise.
The rest is simple. It is caring for the two again as intensely and lovingly as he ever has, a greater emphasis placed on recovery. Hardly the same type that he underwent (that scar game is a ways away), but he knows the outline of it now. The benchmarks for improvements. And he watches Trevor meet each one with such a relief that he nearly cries from it every time.
Best of all is Trevor's outside. Outside and doing...something...most days, except for here. And now. Because he's on the floor, because goddamnit the man loves floors too much.]
Steam and vents. The Romans did it a millennia ago. [He's more than a little concerned by the question, and he walks over to where Trevor is.] Why?