[ He just nods, putting the bottle of pills down next to the water and arranging the spare blanket around Alucard before sitting down. On the sofa, this time, since Alucard seems to be done with talking. ]

Should be safe to sleep, if you're on your side. Not on your back, in case you cough any more shit up.

[ It's not occurred to him that Alucard's need for quiet is more about safety than about rest. It's occurred to him that this incident might have him shaken for reasons other than pain and the unfairness of it, but it's hard to get his head around it. He's trying, but he's still a little way off. ]

I'll be here. Got shit I need to think about.

[ In theory, how to figure out who did this and kill them. In practice, a lot of gesturing at a speaker and a vampire, the two things he has the most fucking stupid baggage about, the two most incredibly all-over-each-other people he has ever encountered, and screaming 'why them?' at his own brain. ]