cryptsleeper | 20s AU Post

"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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My strongest suit, as you well know.

[In the future, Trevor won't be coming home injured. Just covered in oil and it will cling to him for several days. The need to touch will be there, the desire for it still fierce, but it will not be a matter of Trevor's health.

His grip on Trevor tightens. There's a terrible and fierce kiss pressed to the top of Trevor's head, I was so scared.]

That makes three of us in total.

[ Okay, so it may not be declaring that this Belmont is his in front of a room full of vampires, but the kiss is still protective and he sighs contentedly, going limp against Alucard. Safe. So very safe. ]

I hope you understand that this is my plan for the entire day.

Yes. Which means the only question I have is if you'd prefer a different room for it.

[He's safe. He is protected, and woe unto anyone who disturbs the day's plan. Alucard's displeasure will be even more severe than normal.]

It'd be nice to be back in our own room.

[ His room is basically a storage room for his spell components at this point. It's not bad, it's just essentially a work room. Not the best place for this. ]

I can walk, but-

[ But he kind of wants to be carried. It doesn't happen often. ]

Oh, you say that like you had an option.

[He says it with all the warmth in the world, before dragging Trevor properly into his lap. It's the perfect place to make sure that Trevor's in the exact right position, for Alucard to move his hands, and then there's nothing else to do but scoop Trevor up.]

Because you didn't, and if you were going to protest, I'd simply have you over my shoulder instead.

You’d pull the stitches, doing that.

[ He falls bonelessly against Alucard’s chest, draping one arm over his shoulder to at least pretend to be putting in any effort at all. He isn’t. He doesn’t need to.

In an ideal world, this is what he could come back to every time. It won’t be. There’s always going to be that wait, and they were lucky this time that Alucard is able to spend a few days doing barely anything but spoiling him. They won’t always be. Even this will likely end up cut short by some thing or another. ]

I’ll take care of you, eventually. Promise.

I'd rather you didn't need to.

[Because none of them should need this. None of them should have to be cared for because of the horrible things this city's precious balance demands of them. Alucard hates that he has to be so protective of them both, that they need position themselves as things that belong to the vampire for their own safety.

As precious as this all is, and God it is so precious, he wishes that there was never a demand for the situations that create it in the first place.

The bed is unmade. No surprise there, they've hit the too lazy to bother par of that cycle. Rather than place Trevor down on the bed, Alucard sits them both down on the edge, then lies down on his back, bringing Trevor with him.]

Never said I’d need to. I just want to.

[ Maybe he just really really wants to have a turn utterly spoiling the vampire, gosh.

He lies against Alucard’s chest, bringing his hands up into his hair. ]

It’ll be wonderful. To take care of you the way that you take care of us. Our precious Adrian, ours to keep safe and happy.

[There's no need for blankets right now. Not really, it's warm enough, but with his foot, Alucard kicks one thin one up anyway. Moves it juuuust enough so that he can then grab it and drape it over them both, pulling it up to Trevor's shoulders and then letting it stay there. Easy to do.

Then his hands settle. One on Trevor's mid-back, not daring to move because spines are apparently very sensitive Belmont things, the other on his shoulder, thumb tracing soft and idle circles. This is good. Warm. Safe. Made all the better for the hands in his hair.]

Well, want is different. [He sighs, all contentment just at the thought.] I'd like that very much.

[ One thing he's learned since coming here is how, even if it's too warm for them, blankets are still comforting things to have. Even the slightest weight makes the world feel smaller. Safer. Draws it back until it consists of only what is here. ]

Once this is all over. We'll need time. [ He strokes Alucard's hair, stretching up to kiss him. Alucard's hand on his back, even if it isn't moving, is the most comforting thing that he can imagine right now and he leans into the touches. ] So much time. So much we have to do.

You'll end up creating a whole strategtic plan, I'm sure.

[Rather than angle his head down awkwardly, Alucard scoots Trevor up a little closer. That's what closes the gap between them, letting Trevor's lips meet Alucard's at just the right angle that it's uncomfortable for neither of them.

He closes his eyes. Luxuriates in just having Trevor here and being able to kiss him at all. That I missed you is threaded in every little shift, the gentle entreaty for Trevor to open his mouth just a little more, every moment of the kiss.

Possessive isn't on the table. It isn't safe, and isn't that an irony?]

[ There isn't much more than this that is on the table, really. He'd rather recover quicker than put that at risk, even for the best reason. He holds the kiss for a moment, then pulls back with a grin. ]

Oh, I already have one. Have for a while now.

[ There is still one more thing he can do, and that's to be kind of a shit. ]

Mmm, that sounds like it was drafted before any of this started in earnest.

[He knows that grin. That is a grin that is Not To Be Trusted.

He loves that stupid grin.]

Oh, it was.

[ You have no idea, Alucard. He's not even going to try to admit how long ago it was when he started considering this. Mostly because it sure as hell wasn't later than halloween. Oops.

He settles against Alucard in the new position, torn between kissing the boyfriend and sleeping next to the boyfriend (aka the two things he's been wanting to do all week). ]

It's going to be great.

And you haven't shared any of it with her, have you?

[As much as kissing the boyfriend is important, sleeping next to the boyfriend is more prudent. The hand that is on Trevor's shoulder moves, and it begins to run through Trevor's hair softly. Catch little knots and undo them. Try to soothe anything else that needs such administration, because he needs to recover. Recover quickly, because Alucard knows they'll need him at full strength as soon as he can be.

He'll daydream of his father returning. Vactioning in California or New York or somewhere further away, letting Trevor's terrible (wonderful) plans unfold. Of them arguing over who to spoil senseless, and have that be their only concern.]

Not a word. I really ought to, else she'll be awfully confused when it happens.

[ It sounds like he's going to continue that thought, maybe even tease Alucard with a hint at what it is that Sypha will be so confused to discover, but instead he sighs with contentment at the feeling of Alucard's hand in his hair. It doesn't take long at all before his eyes are closed and his breathing soft and steady. ]

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