cryptsleeper | 20s AU Post

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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 clicks his tongue. ] Shame.

[ Useless and clingy is- not fine, because it means the vampire is upset. But he's more than content to be clung to. He wasn't really expecting anything more. They're all exhausted. So, so exhausted. ]

Suppose we've had enough excitement lately. Boring distractions don't sound too bad.

Don't think I'm sturdy enough for that yet.

[The vampire is going to be upset for at least a month.]

It'll just be like this then. Very boring. [Just a vampire being clingy.]

If I gave you a shopping list, could you take care of that while you're out too?

Excitement when you're feeling stronger, then. We'll still be here when you are.

[ Hopefully. He laughs at the request, because really, isn't that just an apt description of their whole lives, being asked to collect groceries on the way back from combing through a dead elder vampire's home? ]

It'll be late, so I'll have to pick through what they have left. But I think I can do that.

You will. [I hope.

Alucard's not sure where the humor is, but it feels like the first laugh this house has heard in too long of a time. For that fact alone he nuzzles against Trevor's jaw, slow and careful. Memorizing how the scruff feels against his skin.]

That's fine. And my car keys are in the basket next to the garage door.

[Trevor's pretty much the only person driving this month.]

I'll drive safely. Promise.

[ And also, you know. Try not to get fucked up while doing his work. But the work itself is an off-limits topic, so- ]

Whatever happens, don't got fucking taking credit for your dad's work. This isn't your fault. None of it.

Oh, with you I never worry.

[Trevor's constant refrain of seatbelts alone means the vampire doesn't worry about Trevor driving. He just is far too protective of his car.

The second part provokes a deeper rumble from the vampire. He's not convinced. But further discussion is probably still ill-advised.]

The origin of everything is no one's fault except for one very stupid man.

[That's all he can manage on the topic.]

[ He isn't convinced. He probably isn't going to be convinced. No matter how little they blame him. No matter how hard they argued (against him!) to stay with him only a few days ago. He's blaming himself. For his father's actions. For not letting them go. ]

I want to stay with you. Both of you. In your too-big country where everything's made for cars instead of for people. And I don't want things. I'm shitty at wanting things. But I want that.

Whatever comes of this month, it'll be worth it, to stay with you. As long as this ends with the three of us in each other's arms, I'm happy. Just- tell me how I can make this easier for you in the meantime.

[Of course he is. Because for all that he had said that safety was important before fucking off to deal with Carmilla, he had denied them that same safety when it mattered most of all. He was selfish in that moment, worse than ever before. So his mind is convinced that the reminder must come to pass at every waking moment, until this is all done.

There is a comfort though, and even Trevor articulates it. The Belmont never wants anything, and it's when he first says that word is when some of the tension finally, finally leaves the vampire.

Because it means he maybe didn't make the selfish choice.]

It's always stunned me how little you express needs and wants. I know why but...

[That's not the topic at hand.]

This. This is fine just...when you need things, tell me.

[If he can give, then he wants that. The only thing that will make this easier will be to help them through.]

Both of you.

I’ll try.

[ And he gathers Alucard up in his arms, standing before putting him down on the chair. ]

I’ll get back to work. The sooner I’m ready for tomorrow, the more time I have with you tonight. But first- hold out your hand.

[Alucard's not sure what policy on lifting the vampire up and carrying him around is, now with rules in place. He isn't about to ask, because it's still so, so precious.

He's careful when he settles on the chair, shifting just a little so that all weight is turned away from his leg. Then and only then he does as instructed.]

Yes?

[ He takes Alucard’s hand as he did before, bringing it to his lips. ]

Adrian Tepes, dearest to our hearts, bearer of a thousand titles that don’t mean shit anymore.

[ And he kisses, first over the ribbon on Alucard’s ring finger and then on his wrist, turning his hand over to press his lips against the inside of it. ]

I don’t have any fucking announcement to make. I just wanted to say that.

[Last time, the vampire couldn't blush. Last time he had to think politics, about optics, about every single word about to pour out of his mouth. This time, this time he can react properly. Red in his cheeks, a terrible, weak laugh at a thousand titles that don't mean shit, the ability to lean down closer when Trevor puts lips to the inside of his hand.

It's so easy to guide Trevor up, so that their foreheads rest against each other instead. So that Alucard can take both of Trevor's cheeks in hand and hold him there, counting infinitely precious seconds.]

And I never realized how much I wanted to hear it.

I can do it again. It’d be weird, but there’s nobody to judge.

[ It shouldn’t count as plotting, far enough from it to be safe, close enough to feel intimate and forbidden, in hushed tones and hidden behind Alucard’s long hair. ]

We love you, both of us. We love you more than anything. You bring us more joy than your father could ever bring sorrow.

For today, it's enough.

[Today. Tomorrow, maybe another variation of it. Over and over again because to hear it is to put fears to rest for a small window of time.

His thumbs trace quiet, gentle circles on Trevor's cheeks as more words come forth. There's soft noises of acknowledgement from the vampire, the I needed to hear that noise.]

My fear is that those things will change.

[They all know that so much can change in a month. But for now, because whatever Trevor's response to fear will be, Alucard just wants to put his lips to Trevor's and hold them both there.]

Hasn't yet.

[ Is all he manages before the kiss. And it's held but it's not demanding. It's soft and kind and everything that there hasn't been enough of in the last day or so. He waits a long time before eventually breaking it, just for air, and keeps his lips grazing against Alucard's when he speaks again. ]

Perhaps you'd better hope that they do, though. We both still owe you a telling-off from before, and you get to escape it if we're not here.

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