[Alucard travels with Sypha, but there are a great number of particulars he takes care of as he does so. First and most important is finding a way to balance between her and not leaving his mother alone during daylight hours. The speakers are good allies to have, as taking care to note the spread of witch trials is impossible without them. Alucard is terrified of such accusations reaching their doorstep, and so is his father. To travel with Sypha almost feels like a betrayal, but there is a schedule and there is Lisa's demand that if her husband is to take a break from traveling, then her son should do so instead.
Then there is the question of shape. As a wolf, Alucard is imposing, but he might look more akin to a witch's familiar than a large dog, so the form is used carefully. At best, he's a wolf by night when on watch, capable of sussing out real threats and taking most of them down in that shape. In daylight, he is always a man, just an oddly matched one for traveling with a Speaker.
The wolf form is easier. There is no need to fill in the hours with discussion as human form demands, and for a while it is awkward. Alucard wants to be distant, because the moment that Trevor returns is the moment he must be gone. Every time he opens his mouth around Sypha, every actual conversation he has with her, he can feel the growth of emotions towards her, and that is wrong on every level. She has a love and it is the mark of a lowlife to even accidentally move in when Trevor is absent but not.
And isn't that the real problem? Sypha's infinitely warm. So easy to love. They talk magic theory into the night, and then about her travels by day, and it goes on and on and it hurts to think of leaving it behind. Even if it's for everyone's best.
Trevor's attempts at reformation have been fascinating, albeit gross in turn. He did sort of want the weird skeleton to stick around for a little, mostly because Lisa Tepes would be fascinated.
Alucard is very much not asleep when Trevor reforms again. He only has his eyes closed. It means that the minute Trevor is there, Alucard snaps upright from his reclined position in front of the fire, and--
--oh fuck him, he's eye level with Trevor's cock. Of course he is.]
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Then there is the question of shape. As a wolf, Alucard is imposing, but he might look more akin to a witch's familiar than a large dog, so the form is used carefully. At best, he's a wolf by night when on watch, capable of sussing out real threats and taking most of them down in that shape. In daylight, he is always a man, just an oddly matched one for traveling with a Speaker.
The wolf form is easier. There is no need to fill in the hours with discussion as human form demands, and for a while it is awkward. Alucard wants to be distant, because the moment that Trevor returns is the moment he must be gone. Every time he opens his mouth around Sypha, every actual conversation he has with her, he can feel the growth of emotions towards her, and that is wrong on every level. She has a love and it is the mark of a lowlife to even accidentally move in when Trevor is absent but not.
And isn't that the real problem? Sypha's infinitely warm. So easy to love. They talk magic theory into the night, and then about her travels by day, and it goes on and on and it hurts to think of leaving it behind. Even if it's for everyone's best.
Trevor's attempts at reformation have been fascinating, albeit gross in turn. He did sort of want the weird skeleton to stick around for a little, mostly because Lisa Tepes would be fascinated.
Alucard is very much not asleep when Trevor reforms again. He only has his eyes closed. It means that the minute Trevor is there, Alucard snaps upright from his reclined position in front of the fire, and--
--oh fuck him, he's eye level with Trevor's cock. Of course he is.]
Trousers!
[He hisses as not to wake Sypha, but still.]