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Alucard \\ Adrian F. Ţepeş ([personal profile] cryptsleeper) wrote2018-11-01 07:51 pm
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2019-10-07 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The grave. The grave. Oh, but that is a comfort to hear. The grave. ]

If. If you had a body. Not no, you? You are dead.

[ Her voice is weaker than she wishes it were, but she pushes aside another lump of meat, inching slowly closer to Dracula. ] Deader than any of us ever were. You abandoned us for your petty revenge, and I? I have ensured the survival of the best of our kind in the void you left. Culled the weak to bring power to the strong.

[ Dracula's blood burns. She can feel it tearing away her skin so much more keenly than she could feel Alucard's claws and teeth. But pain is not death, and so it does not frighten her. She will not cower before a dead man. ]

I have done what we have always done, my lord. I have taken. You left your son among wolves - I only bit.
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[ She hates that she stumbles back again. But this time when her back touches meat (warm meat, still with a pulse. Still bleeding. Still breathing. Still screaming) she doesn't flinch away. He is dead. He is dead and this is her kingdom of flesh and bones and blood. ]

No, my lord. On the morning of my coronation, I speak nothing but the truth. Our kind will survive. Thrive. Even if we must be diminished to one to do it. My master is gone. You are gone. I remain, my lord, to carry your legacies as they deserve to be carried out. To be the paragon of our kind. To take and to take and to take until all things are mine.

[ The hook in Alucard's chast brushes against the back of her head, but she barely feels it. Barely feels Dracula's blood burning away her skin anymore. She has won. She has won and this is an illusion. ]
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2019-10-07 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You are dead.

[ She says, and at first she stands tall. He draws closer and closer and she does not flinch. Will not flinch.

But doubt creeps in. He is dead, yes. But death has never stopped any of them. She falters. Steps back again, until her back is against Alucard's chest and her weight swings him backward on the hook. ]


You are dead!

[ It's a screech of her own when she says it again, claws extended as she brings her arms in front of her face to protect herself against nothing at all. ]
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[ And just like that, the sun is risen. Dracula is gone as suddenly as he appeared. He is dead, and she is alive.

It takes her a moment for that to sink in. And then it does, and the halfbreed is down from his hook. A trick. It was a trick. ]


You- [ She begins, pulling herself up. She lifts Alucard by the hole in his chest, fingers tearing into the wound, and then tosses him across the room. Humans and pigs and night creatures alike are torn from their hooks as she gives chase. He lands in a pile of cold bodies and then she is above him, all claws and teeth. ] -I have no more patience.
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[ The wound takes. How can it not, when it's her own body turned against her?

She doesn't die instantly. No, she thrashes about. Drags more corpses down on top of them. The weight of them pins her down (the weight of humans! pinning her down! that oughtn't happen) and then her death throes are against Alucard, fierce to the last but bruising rather than bone shattering and steadily growing weaker. And then they stop, and Alucard is alone in the slaughterhouse, trapped beneath Carmilla and a pile of strangers. ]
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[ It's hard to say how long there is nothing bit silence in response. But eventually the first sound comes. It isn't Trevor or Sypha. It isn't Carmilla.

It's a snuffle, followed by a few quiet oinks. The sound of their feet on the wooden floorboards. It's hard to say what they're responding to, until a moment later there is finally a voice. Not Trevor's or Sypha's, but a voice. Soft and tired and a little too calm, but with an edge of certainty to it that not even this place has dulled. ]


Here. This is the slaughterhouse.

[ A thump, then another, and then splintering wood and the door swinging open and slamming against the wall behind it. And then a chorus of pleased-sounding oinking. And then, finally- ]

-Everyone, behind me. She's in here somewhere. Sypha, once we find her be ready to break a hole in the ceiling to get her into the light. And- I'll be honest, I didn't plan for the pigs. The pigs are a surprise.
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Shit-!

[ He had a plan. A proper, well thought out plan. The whip is near enough useless in tight quarters like this, and so then he had a new plan. And then there were pigs, and so he had to work around those, and-

Fuck plans, he's going in.

There are heavier footfalls accompanied by the sound of a crutch hitting the ground, followed by lighter ones. Quiet 'oofs' from the both of them as they push past the hanging bodies. A quiet, horrified 'oh-' from Sypha after one of those, followed by the sound of a body being pushed away and those quiet footsteps moving quicker. And then the load of bodies is becoming lighter, until the last of the corpses between the two of them and Carmilla's body is gone. ]


Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck-

[ Before he knows she's dead, Trevor is pushing Sypha back. Trying to get her clear of Carmilla. Sypha is having none of it. There's a whoosh of air, followed by a long spike of frozen blood that rises from the ground with enough force to puncture Carmilla's body and lift her away from Alucard. ]

-dead. Thank god. Thank god. And- shit. Shit, Adrian-

[ There are hands on Alucard now. Warm ones, lifting him carefully from the corpse pile. A smaller, warmer one brushing hair away from his face. ]
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I saw. Shit- yeah. Sypha, if I hold this closed-

[ He kicks bodies away unsteadily, clearing a place on the ground to lay Alucard down. He’ll need the crutch again before long, but for now adrenaline is enough. Sypha’s always-too-warm hands stroke through Alucard’s hair as Trevor puts rough stitches into the cut to keep it closed long enough to work on. It’s nothing, compared to the meat hook and Carmilla’s nails, but Sypha tries to comfort him through it anyway. ]

Ready as it’s going to be. Just get it closed.

[ They switch places at that. Sypha attending to the wound and Trevor crouching by Alucard’s face. He doesn’t stroke Alucard’s hair the way that Sypha did, but he tugs at his shirt the way they’ve learned communicates affection. He’s largely unhurt, at least compared to Alucard, but visibly shaking. The front of his tunic is splashed with that looks to be the contents of someone’s stomach. ]

We’re here. [ He says, as Sypha begins and the smell of burning flesh starts to fill the horrible room. ]
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Hate to inform you, but there’s not going to be an awful lot of her to crumble. Maybe the bones. They might leave the bones.

[ Once Sypha gives the okay to move him again, he props Alucard up against his chest so that he can see better. The oinking has continued while they’ve been working, and a white-haired man stands unsteadily over Carmilla’s body, looking on impassively as a group of four of five pigs - two of them still with the hooks buried inside them - tugs meat from bone. A headless one butts its neck stump against her, like it’s trying its best. ]

They can get rid of the worst of this, right? So there’s not too much blood in the river. Don’t want to turn anyone downstream.

[ The man turns and nods, then returns his attention to the pigs. He strokes the back of the headless one to comfort it when it finally realises that eating is difficult. ]
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Better the pigs than someone downriver.

[ But he looks to the white haired man, who nods. Very well, the sun it is. Still supporting Alucard with his bad arm, he uses his good one to spin the head of the morning star until it gains momentum and then releases it, allowing it to puncture the ceiling above Carmilla. A beam of light floods through the gap, and when it touches Carmilla her flesh bubbles angrily. Only for a moment. Then, she’s dust. The pigs oink in objection, but the forgemaster speaks to them softly until they calm. ]
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[ It’s Sypha’s, and it squeezes delicately. Despite knowing better, Trevor finds his arms wrapping around Alucard. They almost lost him. He saw how close they came to losing him. ]

We’re here. She’s gone, and we’re here. We’ll get you back home.
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[Despite everything, he laughs. ]

No shit it hurts- [ And he’s swiftly interrupted by Sypha’s elbow in his ribs. She looks over the injury again one-handed, not letting go of Alucard’s hand, while Trevor speaks with the white haired man. The man strikes two coins against each other and everything in the slaughterhouse twitches. ]

...yeah. He’ll be just fine here. Let’s get you somewhere less- fragrant. You smell worse than your damn cloak.

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