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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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Something, something, cheating isn't in my basic nature.

[LOOK. Look.]

I have to account for all possibilities. The worst one is the one at the forefront of my mind because it impacts the only two people in this city worth caring about at this point.

[He sighs, hanging a left.]

It's the point we all fixated on, and so here we are.

And you've made the announcement? There's nothing that can be done, now?

[ He must have. He was ready to before Trevor left, wasn't he? And he turns that thought over in his head - there's nothing that can be done. So far as this ever was in his hands, it's out of them now. When he speaks again, there's a rawness to it that's so often hidden by anger of humour or anything other than the soft defeat that's there in the absence of everything else. ]

You better not make me dig another fucking grave. I'm so tired.

This ends come dawn tomorrow. Unless she doesn't show, in which case we have pretext to hunt her.

[He didn't demand a response from Carmilla when the announcement. Her presence would be response enough, or else she was well and truly game for hunting.

Alucard hates that rawness. He wants to pull over. Pull Trevor to him, but he can't. He has to keep driving, or else there's no discussion to be had at all.]

I won't. We're all too tired to bare any more of this.

[ He's already had one boyfriend funeral this year okay???? ]

...do I still owe you a ring?

[FAIR.]

Wasn't aware you still wanted to give me one.

That wasn't a fucking answer, vampire.

[ There's no irritation left in him, just that raw emptiness. That tired nothing from when they first met, blinking out of compulsion to a vampire who wouldn't just give him the death he wanted. ]

[Back to square-fucking-one. When neither of them need to be at that place.]

I have to give yes or no answers instead of the honest one, which is I don't know where we stand anymore and I'm terrified to ask?

You're marching off to a fight to the death, and you're terrified to ask a question.

[ Well. Honestly, same? But he can still be shitty about it okay. ]

Where do you want us to stand?

Yes I'm terrified to ask a question!

[The vampire's grip on the wheel tightens a little too much, and he nearly slams the horn.]

And it doesn't matter because what I wan't isn't as important as your feelings. I already made Sypha cry tonight, you've decided you don't want me, so I'm entitled to fear but I'm trying to respect what you're feeling as well, and I'm allowed to be scared of your responses because guess what's more important to me right now!

Well, shit. If that's your idea of a good fucking answer then no wonder you're terrified to ask questions.

[ There's still no emotion in his voice, just exhaustion. ]

If what you want wasn't as important as our feelings, you wouldn't be doing this. So if you could please have the balls to continue being a selfish fuck long enough give me a straight fucking answer when I ask you if you still want me to love you or not then that would be wonderful.

If I still want it, yes. [There. Firm answer. He then snarls at himself for saying it, because selfish fucking princeling hit too hard.]

Going to keep calling me selfish until we're home?

Then yes, I still owe you a fucking ring. Was that so difficult?

[ Yes, clearly it was. But he breathes out, and there's finally something in his voice again. It's soft and afraid, but it's something other than the raw, gaping empty wound that there was before. ]

Only if you act it.

Yes, see previous statement about fear.

[Alucard's grip on the wheel lessens, at least. It's not white knuckled, and he actually leans over to open the glove compartment so he can get his gloves.]

So, yes. Because that's apparently a trait that won't be changing.

So I call you selfish all the way home, and then you go off to ideally not die in some stupid fight, then if you've not forced me to dig a grave for someone I love again, I marry you.

[ It's ridiculous. It's so, so very ridiculous. ]

Good to have a plan, at least.

Marry both of us. Otherwise correct.

[Alucard's own voice is so very tired. It has been a long day. A long night, and there's still so much more of it to go. The vampire rests his chin on the top of the steering wheel as they come to a stop light, and he just looks off into the distance.]

Pretty sure I'm obliged to get angry with you for making her cry, too. But I'll save that for if you survive.

[ While the red light lasts, he reaches over to put a hand on top of Alucard's. ]

I love both of you. More than anything. You do know that?

It's very daring of you to think I haven't guilted myself stupid about everything that's happened since I got home today ten times over.

[Alucard's hand is steady only because he's driving. He still has a tremor or two left in him that will have to be let out when no one else can see.]

Of course I know that. I love you both too, selflessly and selfishly.

Oh, I'm sure you have. But I've only given you hell for making me cry so far. Can't leave a task unfinished.

[ He squeezes Alucard's hand and then lets go before the light changes. Not far now. ]

We'll survive, without you. We'll be able to be happy, without you. It can be done. If the worst happens, don't think you've broken us somehow. We'll live.

[ It's easier to say, now that he's not working on shock and a vague, familiar feeling of betrayal. ]

I don't promise that the Vampire Killer won't find its way to Carmilla's neck before we leave, though.

I appreciate you waiting.

[The light does change, but that's not what Alucard focuses on. Don't think you've broken us.

And that's the fear right there, isn't it? That he's done to them what was done to his father. Forcing that kind of horrible grief upon them, demanding they cope.]

I'll be too dead to stop you. If I can claw my way back as a spirit, I'll help.

[The city will still be in chaos, but guess how many fucks the vampire gives about the city.]

You won't have to, of course.

And I can't promise that we won't be doing something stupid when you come back. Your fault for leaving us alone.

[ He's found warmth again. Gradually, gradually, he's getting his entire set of emotions back. ]

Let me go over your battle plan properly, once we're back?

I'd rather come home to you two doing something stupid than anything else.

[They're on the backroads now. The one where the headlights are important and Alucard is leaning a little more over the wheel to see.]

There's a set of index cards with different movements and responses so they can be rearranged into different sequences. They're yours to review.

Careful what you wish for. We'll find something really stupid.

[ ...everything's still tender. Everything hurts. He still resents all of this. If either of them were going to get sleep tonight, it still probably shouldn't be in the same bed. But things are a little more normal now. They can talk like this.

He's furious, still. Hurt, still. But it's not going to be forever. ]

I'll go through them, then. Won't let anything happen to you.

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