[It does not take a year for Alucard to be returned to them.
He appears on the first night of October, whole as he has ever been, no sign of a whole season's sleep upon him. But with Alucard comes Dracula's voice in Trevor's and Sypha's heads, cold information just dropped there because he is Dracula, he can do as he likes.
As you have seen fit to assist in my own designs, I will return my son to you in the evenings and the evenings alone to help in that work. Before the first rays of light spread across this land, he will use his own means to return to the safety of the Castle.
Should either of you fail to protect him, know that both of you shall be responsible and that your deaths will only come after centuries of wishing for that partiular release.
The moment you embrace him is the moment that you accept these terms. I trust that there are no questions.
Alucard knows the terms already. So he doesn't move, he stays so very still, gold eyes looking at them both with quiet apprehension. Everything they've done as three, their dates, any of it, it has all been in dreams. It's terrifying to see them both again in the flesh, knowing the price that they have to pay for it.
He also knows that the moment they embrace him, they'll know the price he paid as well. There are spells weaved into his skin now, spells that ensure complete cover from the Fae Queen's eyes, spells to always bring Alucard home, spells to protect and to bind and to prevent what happened on the longest day of the year from ever happening again. Alucard's pose is stiff, the gash down his chest healed (it was healed as soon as it cut) but the psychological ache has yet to fade.]
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He appears on the first night of October, whole as he has ever been, no sign of a whole season's sleep upon him. But with Alucard comes Dracula's voice in Trevor's and Sypha's heads, cold information just dropped there because he is Dracula, he can do as he likes.
As you have seen fit to assist in my own designs, I will return my son to you in the evenings and the evenings alone to help in that work. Before the first rays of light spread across this land, he will use his own means to return to the safety of the Castle.
Should either of you fail to protect him, know that both of you shall be responsible and that your deaths will only come after centuries of wishing for that partiular release.
The moment you embrace him is the moment that you accept these terms. I trust that there are no questions.
Alucard knows the terms already. So he doesn't move, he stays so very still, gold eyes looking at them both with quiet apprehension. Everything they've done as three, their dates, any of it, it has all been in dreams. It's terrifying to see them both again in the flesh, knowing the price that they have to pay for it.
He also knows that the moment they embrace him, they'll know the price he paid as well. There are spells weaved into his skin now, spells that ensure complete cover from the Fae Queen's eyes, spells to always bring Alucard home, spells to protect and to bind and to prevent what happened on the longest day of the year from ever happening again. Alucard's pose is stiff, the gash down his chest healed (it was healed as soon as it cut) but the psychological ache has yet to fade.]