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Alucard \\ Adrian F. Ţepeş ([personal profile] cryptsleeper) wrote2018-11-15 08:03 pm
willpowerful: so much at stake, so much to stake (FUTURE ☆ what lies beyond this morning)

[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-05 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That's better.

[It's also curious, because by virtue of that lift-and-spin move, Sypha has ended up rotated a hundred and eighty degrees from the direction she'd previously been, which is new and interesting and just slightly beyond her to properly appreciate at the moment. The fire used to be one way and now it's the other; she can still track it from its glow and its warmth, but it really shouldn't just move around like that when she's trying to watch it, because it makes it difficult to follow.

His arms are still supporting her, she observes, and so almost thoughtfully she finds control of one hand and lifts it until she's fairly certain the fingers are resting against his arm somewhere near the elbow, then painstakingly begins to follow it up toward his shoulder like a garden path because she's reasonably confident she'll find Alucard at the end of it.]


Are you cold?
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-05 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmm. More fire.

[Breaking contact with him for only a moment, she lightly flails her arm in the vague direction of where she thinks the fire is and curls her fingers into a grasping motion, sweeping it back in a clumsy and scattered pulling motion. It's the right sort of movement, recognizably so, but with absolutely no focused intent behind it, there's no magic — just a shift of the arm.

Which is probably a very good thing, so that she's not pulling fire around and throwing it places in her sleep.

When her arm comes back again, it lightly thunks against his chest instead of his shoulder, and she frowns a little while she feels around, making sleepy appraisal of the body beneath her fingers until she sort of figures out what it is she's touching.]


I helped.

[She pronounces, tentative but satisfied.]
willpowerful: how am i gonna be an octopus about this (TRIO ☆ and the walls kept tumbling down)

[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-05 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'welcome.

[She is nothing if not helpful and eager to please, even mostly asleep. Her hand slips down a little, more just from being drawn by gravity and a lack of concentration on keeping it aloft, until finally it settles and she's back to drowsing, punctuated only by the occasional jaw-cracking yawn.]

Mmm. I was thinking.

[She's also forgotten she said that already, a minute or two ago. Maybe this time she'll remember to elaborate aloud, instead of in her head.]

You need to bird.

[...Well, she made it halfway. That last bit is just incomprehensible dream gibberish.]
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-05 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[That rouses her, a little. It's not enough to pull her back from the sticky strands of dreaming that have been wrapping around her like a web, but the word catches at her like a hook, less because of what it is in and of itself and more because of how he says it. Even half-asleep, even halfway to senseless, there's a part of Sypha that is resonant with Alucard, that knows to pay attention when it hears that rare tone of voice.]

...Where?

[She thinks that's the right answer, maybe. There's a fire somewhere. She lost track of it a while ago, or maybe it was only a minute ago, but it's there somewhere.

She blinks once, twice, with heavy lashes and eyelids that can barely stay open, and tilts her chin up just a little to try to find his face. Her gaze is unfocused and soft with sleep, but after a moment she seems to find him, and it registers that he's smiling.]
willpowerful: how am i gonna be an octopus about this (TRIO ☆ and the walls kept tumbling down)

[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I love you.

[She curls inward when he lifts her, snuggling up close against his chest as her fingers curl into the soft material of his robe. Presumably the way she compacts makes it easier to carry her, but it's also about as close to midair cuddling as it's possible to get.

About fifteen seconds pass before it occurs to her that she's forgotten a vital addendum, and she sleepily adds: ]


And Trevor.

[...Wait. That seems wrong. There's only two and that's not right, and she needs to fix it.]

And me.

[Perfect.]
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Very rarely is Sypha ever up before Alucard is, and today is no exception. Granted, she'd woken up before he had, probably owing to the fact that she'd been dozing already before he'd put her to bed, and thus ran the necessary length of her sleep cycle before him. But in the course of the night they've shifted around, just from natural moving and rearranging, such that she's on her side facing him, trapped snugly between the wall and his body, like a barrier between her and the rest of the room.

She's still half-dozing herself, or at least lounging around in bed, but she's managed to find herself a loose section of his hair and has been methodically working tiny braids into it while he slept, each a slightly different weave — some three strands, some four, this one a herringbone, that one a rope, and all left unfinished at the ends, at risk of unraveling with the slightest jostling.]


Good morning, sleepyhead.
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Very. Are you?

[She finishes off another braid, this one another herringbone, and lightly tosses it so that it falls across his face up near the bridge of his nose.]

It's funny. I do not remember falling asleep in bed, and yet here I am. Did you perhaps have something to do with that?
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs at the face he makes, reaching just enough to tug lightly on the strand of braid he's just repositioned. Then that in itself gives her an idea, and she picks up three of the braids she's already done and absently starts to weave them together in their turn.]

Let's see...I remember I was watching the fire, and thinking.

[That's a good start. She hums, as she continues to sift through her drowsy recollection of the previous night.]

You came in. I remember you seemed...so happy.

[Hmm. Her brow furrows, as she ponders a little more.]

...What is 'heartfire'?
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Nearly this whole side. If I'd had some beads, I would have strung them on as well. Did you know in some cultures, important life events are commemorated by carved beads threaded onto braided strands of hair?

[She finishes off her plait, then gives that a tug for good measure.]

...I wonder if I dreamed it, then. Heartfire...

[Denying it may prove even worse than admitting to it, because now she's going to SOLVE THIS MYSTERY.]

...Hearth fire? Hmm. It sounds like a spell, or —

[Wait a minute.]

What do you mean, it's nothing? Then you do know what it is!
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Long enough. I tried to go very carefully, so that I would not disturb you.

[And she's clearly proud to have succeeded, even if god forbid he see himself in a mirror right now, with half his hair loose and the other half this braided monstrosity.

She raises a hand, though, making a circle with her thumb and forefinger about the size of a cherry or small grape.]


About this big. The carving is very delicate, and the material has to be lightweight so as not to weigh the hair down too much.

[...But.]

You realize I will sit on you and extract a confession, don't you?
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
...Names for...

[For her. So that's what it was, then — her explanation, colored by his bashfulness, offered up in mitigation once she'd coaxed it out of him. A patronizing name, or so he calls it. A bit of affection, spoken, to go with the expression that she remembers him wearing while he looked at her.

Hearthfire. That's how he sees her, he says; that's the word that comes to mind when a moment passes between them like the one last night. As though she is the fire that warms his home, a light to make his shadows withdraw, burning red-orange in tandem with his own gold and moonlight white.

He always compares her to fire, doesn't he? And not just to flames in particular but to heat, to the sensation of being warm. Sometimes he teases her about it, with more unflattering nicknames than this one, but always he acknowledges her as the warm spot in the room, his foil when he himself is so often cold.

(It surprises her, a little, to consider that. In his worse moments, she sometimes perceives him as a deep well of sadness, withdrawn in a way that gives off a chill. It's never really occurred to her that he might harbor similar thoughts of her in return, perceiving her as the warmest place in a room, a burning flame that night moths couldn't help but be drawn to.)

His fire, but not just any fire. The one that burns in his hearth. The one that burns in his heart.

And he thinks such a thing is patronizing.]


Why don't you voice it?

[She's barely even noticed that her cheeks have flushed; now even her face is hot, further proving his point.]

Am I not always that to you?
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Is it possible for her to flush any redder? It turns out that it is, and she has to press her lips together, chewing on her lower lip because her mouth is aching with a smile that pulls unbidden at the corners of her lips.]

...Yes. But for me, there is only one Alucard to call me such sweet things.

[And she really does shift now, nudging the blankets aside just enough that she's able to climb on top of him, forearms braced on either side of his head so that she can look down into his face. If her hair were long enough, it would make a curtain around the two of them; as it is, it's too short to do her that courtesy, but given the way she holds his gaze, in Sypha's mind there's nothing else in the rest of the world but the two of them right now, anyway.

(And Trevor, of course. Always Trevor. He's always there as a part of them, even when he's not there in reality.) ]


And Sypha is my name that everyone has the right to use and to call me. But only you have the right to call me that endearment.
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[personal profile] willpowerful 2019-01-06 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yes. I like the sound of my name in your voice, too.

[She ducks down a little, stealing a kiss from the corner of his mouth, very lightly and very fleeting. What a pair they make, both red in the face for related yet differing reasons.]

But could you, just once? While I'm awake, so I can appreciate it.

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