20s AU Post

[cryptsleeper]

"Land of the Dead" (Watch on YouTube)

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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[cryptsleeper]

No.

[He tries to be defiant about at least that much. He nearly fusses in Trevor's arms, but restraints the urge. He can do that much.]

Not until you're in bed with me.

[There. A tiny, insistent tone. It's important.]

[miraclewhip]

Okay, okay.

[ In truth, now they're no longer in danger, he likes when Alucard gets like this. It's cute. Makes him feel wanted. Gives him easy tasks that he can't fuck up at, like 'lie next to that vampire you adore'.

He lays Alucard down, untying his hair. ]

I'm going to have to let go of you a while for this. But I'll come back. I'll always come back.

[ Getting nightclothes onto Alucard he can probably manage without letting go of him too much, but changing into nightclothes himself will require a little more letting go. ]

[cryptsleeper]

[In the light of morning, or warmth of afternoon, Alucard will admit the behavior here and now to be childish. But for the moment, he can't make himself care. All he can do is stay where he's put, watching Trevor withdraw.]

What time will she get home?

[He's going to be asleep, but still.]

[miraclewhip]

Train's in the early hours of the morning. The car'll bring her back, but I might need to get out of bed to bring her up here.

[ Okay, so maybe 'need' is a strong word, but she'll be sleepy and he likes excuses to carry everyone around. Unless Alucard asks him not to he'd going to see if he can get to carry the both of them up to bed in one night. ]

It'll only be a little while, and she'll be here when you wake up. [ He finishes buttoning up Alucard's pajama top and strokes his face. ] Promise.

[cryptsleeper]

That's fine. All of it.

[So long as she's here in the end, that's all that will ever matter.

Soft and stupid, towel still wrapped around him, the dhampir attempts to pull a few blankets closer to himself. It's cold now, the warm water gone and Trevor's body heat no longer near by.]

[miraclewhip]

[ It's a few more moments before the pajamas are done and he can pull away the towel and dump it on the floor - he'll deal with it later with the rest of the laundry - and pull the blankets more tightly around Alucard. He kisses him again before he pulls away to change himself.

Which doesn't take too long. It's only a minute or so before he lies down on the bed himself, pulling Alucard against him. ]

Better?

[cryptsleeper]

[He's warm. That's nice, especially when Trevor leaves. Alucard knows, logically, that Trevor will return. That it'll be a minute or two at most and then he will have his Belmont.

But he's needy, and when Trevor withdraws it is instinct that causes him to reach out. Even if he's watching. Seeing exactly where Trevor is. It's fine and--

--oh.

Alucard buries his face into Trevor the moment he can. Wraps both arms around and clings, and never has it felt so good to do so. This is a clinginess born only of working as men do. No regent bullshit, no vampirism, no injuries. Just themselves.]

So much better.

[miraclewhip]

Enjoy your rest, liliacul meu. You've earned it well.

[ Just themselves. And maybe some days that's uncomfortable for Trevor, when being himself is the last thing he's always been supposed to be. But right now? Right now it's perfect. ]