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20s AU Post

Current Carmilla plot outline
--Post-fire, Carmilla and Mr. Peanut team up mostly to use each other. Carmilla's spent the past several months (since November, it is now February 1925) networking, and it's clear to her that Alucard's not suited for the position and that the other two are the obvious weakness. Mr Peanut needs something back, so this is perfect on her end. Mr Peanut can only imagine the joys of vampire blood in his work, and he'd like an army of vampires for his own ends.
--Shit stirring from Mr Peanut (all of March?)
--Mr Peanut also begins to sell mis Miracle Serum, which has vampire blood in it.
--Gang is very much trying to murder Mr Peanut during this.
--Start of April, vampire gets a call from one of the blood bank contacts that 3 patients have come in and are displaying some bizarre signs. Investigation yields the fact that they're in process of turning, and they've all taken the same serum.
--Additional investigation reveals O FUCK IT MR PEANUT
--Meanwhile Carmilla's been made aware of a familiar she didn't sire, so she knows something's up. Big fight with Mr. Peanut and thus Mr. Peanut is left depowered
--Gang commits a murder
--Carmilla's well sured up on her contacts now, and it's time for open rebellion (mid-April)
--In a more subtle attempt to let Alucard just step aside, she cuts the breaks on demon car and shows up to gloat/suggest he not pull a dad and go to deal with his grief quietly while she runs the city. The how he wants to do it is up to him (black widow joke goes here.) Treffy and Sypha walk in.
--1 week of straight up rebellion; feedings, no help from allies, need to do damage control instead of fight carmilla, every dracula rule is
--MEANWHILE IN GRAVITY FALLS, triangle shows Vlad what's up to try and psyche him out, somehow this finalyl snaps Vlad out of his depression and he heads home
--Just in time for Alucard and Carmilla to be tearing each other to bits in one of the bayous, it's not going well
--Vlad coming in means the king of vampires is accosted by a belmont with a pair of blessed knitting needles and a speaker with a fucking gun and he's just like what the shit happened to the world while i was gone
--Wards around the fight means that only demon car can break the wards, everyone has to pile in.
--Carmilla gets her ass kicked AND SENT TO THE JUSTICE DIMENSION

THEN THERE WERE FAERIES.
--Prior to all of this the vampire and Sypha have done a shit ton of research on how to get their Belmont back
--Sypha has also been practicing debating with dad, which leaves everyone Very Tired.
--When Trevor is actually snatched up (1 year after marriage, it takes fae effort. Taking Arn's shape fails, so it's a lot more kidnapping by force), Sypha and Alucard go into Faerie
--But they're playing this as politics, not as heroes rescuing their damsel, so that means the faeries are just "wait what now excuse u?"
--There are 3 gates and 3 trials (the particulars we're still bullshitting.) Each is asked to sacrifice 3 things. (Alucard: voice, his titles as bestowed upon by his father and his people, i forget the third; Sypha: her human form (she's a birb), fuck what were the other two)
--They enter the court at the end of the third trial. After LITERALLY ALL THE TITLES Sypha declares she Speaks for Trevor Belmont
--Claim debate over Trevor, turns out that the rules are in Sypha's favor.
--But that means debating to leave Fae without giving up what they've chosen.
--Sypha lawyers it all out, Alucard is a safety deposit and hangs out with Fae!Trevor
--In the end, safe passage out of Faerie consists of Sypha giving up her memory of the necromancer (billed as a great mage she studied under), the vampire gives up his immortality, and Trevor is replaced with Carmilla (dad was aware of this option and OK with it), but Trevor has his ability to swear taken. He now soundslike a rubber ducky when he tries
--Everyone gets home okay, except for the AU of this AU where the gang fails, but Trevor's on their doorstep like a bat out of Hell because time doesn't work right and he's been in Hell for a WHILE.

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He...

[Alucard stops, trying to make sense of not just the words, but the mental image that goes with them. There is a short, sharp incredulous bark of laughter.]

He tries very hard, doesn't he?

[Also he's absolutely right, but vampire's not at that point of thinking about Dad's Problems yet.]

Because I want to indulge, obviously.

Bunicuta's explained to him that your father doesn't really eat sandwiches, and he keeps not understanding. Like he can't not bring sandwiches. We have so many sandwiches. He leaves the tray whenever your father tells him to leave.

[ They havn't, even in Alucard's absence, been short on food. Between the sandwiches, the leftover frozen meals, the constant meals from his grandmothers-

It's nice, to feel Alucard laughing against him. Really laughing, like things are arranged so he can be happy again. ]

I think that that can be arranged.

At least the sandwiches saved you both from a week of Sypha's cooking.

[There are many positives and that's the biggest.

The vampire is snug here. Safe. Warm. He's still not sure what absolute happiness looks like yet, his life has been ever-shifting since his mother's death, but this feels about right.]

Mm. If I was really spoiled I'd demand it now.

[But he won't, because recovery is far more important. Such as it is, this is all the vampire can take.]

I presume being angry at me happens after I'm fully on my feet.

Unless you're particularly looking forward to it.

[ The anger, that is, not the indulging. Everyone's looking forward to the indulging, probably. ]

It can wait. I'll be angry at you when you stop looking at me like that.

[ Because how? Can he be angry at this vampire? When he looks so soft??? ]

Hm, that sounds like a way to get out of the anger entirely, you know.

[EXACT WORDS, BELMONT.]

Do I ever look at you any other way?

Sometimes you look kind of sad.

[ Can he be angry at the vampire when he looks kind of sad, though? That seems difficult. ] Or bored.

[ He sighs with contentment, though, for now. He's back. He's safe. He doesn't know that he can be angry with him any time soon. ]

...Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by that first one.

[It's accurate. For a lot of reasons, but many of them should be gone now. If not gone, then minimized quite a bit, and the vampire can be absolutely content with that.]

I'll work on bored. Find better things to occupy myself with now, outside of the two of you.

[When was the last time the vampire actually got to think about the future? With Sypha, perhaps, before the needs of the city made themselves clear. They had spoken of places to travel to, things to see and...

yes.

Alucard hums for a moment, nuzzling at whatever he can reach of Trevor.]

She and I talked about traveling, you know. Going back to old places she'd been before and would want to see again.

[ A stab of jealousy (the two of them were able to talk about the future, when he never could) melts into warmth when he lets himself think about it (the two of them are able to talk about the future, when they haven't been able to in so long). He sighs again, reaching for the cool, thin blanket to wrap it around the both of them. Not for warmth, but for a barrier, as if this talk of travel were a matter of conspiracy, something to hide away from the world. ]

Would you want to? This is- just about the only place I have any roots anymore. I can go just about anywhere if you want me to.

Even I've only seen a tiny fraction of this country.

[The vampire's failed to clarify that this conversation happened ages ago. It was all a part of learning about her, about her life, about what Sypha loved most from her life as a Speaker and trying to parlay it into being stationary whenever the vampire could.

Best to amend that now.]

I don't doubt she's changed her mind, over a year later. This was...I think we must have had that conversation before you even left Europe. Some time ago, at any rate.

[Alucard doesn't begrudge the blanket at all. If anything he's glad for it, for the additional sense of closeness it gives them.]

We can see her people, out in California. Or go north. Or east. Anywhere. She's probably been there before us anyway.

I've seen one port and the insides of a lot of trains. I think you're overestimating the amount of input I can realistically give, here.

[ He purses his lips in thought, trying to make sense of a lot of options he doesn't stand the slightest hope of understanding. ]

California's a pretty name. And if her people are there, I'd like to see them

[ They deserve to know what became of their European cousins in the war. ]

Then we have to ask her to design the entire trip. That...[Alucard pauses, then laughs softly.] That'd make her happy, I think.

[But, California first.]

They're the most non-traditional, out there. My understanding is that a lot of them are involved with film making, which does make sense in it's way.

[AND NOW WE KNOW HOW THE GANG GOES TO HOLLYWOOD HAPPENS.]

Makes her happy, means I can't screw it up. Seems like a winning plan all around.

[ He pulls back again, just for a moment, to check his watch. ]

Five minutes left of her show. Shall we go surprise her?

Gets us out of this city for a while too. We could all use that.

[There's a little whine of protest as Trevor pulls back. Alucard knows why he's doing it, but still. His warm Belmont.]

I want to, but I admit getting out of bed seems a trial.

[ He kisses the vampire again, depression nap breath be damned. ]

What if I carry you?

[Well that's the ideal. The vampire just nods in approval.]

I'm bringing the blanket with me. So it can bundle all three of us up.

Fine, fine.

[ He pulls himself free of the blankets. Free of the vampire's arms, difficult as that is, and moves to the side of the bed, wrapping the blanket around Alucard and preparing to lift him. ]

You'll tell me the second this hurts, right?

[There's a little whine of distress as Trevor has to extract himself. It's silly, given where they'll be in just a few moments. The blanket helps though, just as the promise of being back against Trevor's chest does.]

You will be made very aware.

[ That whine of distress is fucking heartrending, and it's hard not to give in to the temptation to crawl back into Alucard's arms to make it stop.

But no. He's a Belmont, and he won't let vampire tricks tempt him away from doing the right thing.

He goes silent when he lifts Alucard, pulling him up against his chest, all his focus on keeping him supported and steady, as if he were made of cobwebs. ]

[This is good. This is cozy, and even if there's a dull ache or two, Alucard's shrugged off far worse pains. Trevor's warm without it being a furnace, and there's warmer days to come anyway. The blanket helps too, it's like a buffer for anything that would be jostling against Trevor directly.

He breathes out, settled and certain that this'll do.]

You're fine.

[It might be more of a walk than normal, but that's fine. It's just a minor obstacle so that they can be all together again.]

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