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Alucard \\ Adrian F. Ţepeş ([personal profile] cryptsleeper) wrote2018-11-01 07:51 pm
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He spends a few months with Alucard, and he never touches him except to carry him from place to place. He plays at domesticity, creating only grassy land outside the cottage and tending it in the human way with digging and planting and weeding. He builds parts of the cottage in the human way, too, until Alucard has a little windowed area built of real stone and wood to sit in the sunlight and read. Trees take too long, the human way, so he never manages to put one in the garden. But he digs a little pond and brings brightly coloured fish to fill it with. Builds a little seat by it so Alucard can sit and let his feet dangle in the water.

He knows it won’t ever be enough, and it isn’t. He brings Alucard back to his own world. Takes him to a place where he says students of medicine are safer. He doesn’t ask to kiss him goodbye.

Time passes. Years. There are no real consequences to breaking the deal that he can sense, not most of the time. Occasionally, his mind screams at him to seek out Alucard (an unconscious attempt at a summoning in moments of danger, not that either of them know it). But he can ignore it. He does ignore it.

It’s seven years and two days since the burning when he next sees Alucard. It’s the very early hours of the morning when he knocks on the clinic door, antlers and wings hidden behind glamours, with a person in his arms. Breaking all the rules again, because he doesn’t know how to repair a human without magic. ]


I need a doctor. Please.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, I’m not meant to be here. I know. But-

[ He pulls the person in his arms tighter to his chest. It’s hard to tell their gender like this, coppery hair cropped short and face too gaunt to read as masculine or feminine. They’re bundled tightly in furs against the night air, with the collar of a speaker robe poking out beneath them. ]

I took the plague out of her. I did it right. But it’s been two days and she still won’t wake up. The queen doesn’t allow her people in our lands, and I don’t know-

[ Because just getting rid of the sickness by pulling it out and beating up up doesn’t actually repair the damage that it’s done. ]

-I don’t know where else to go. Please.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...won’t she- not have clothes on? If I destroy them?

[ NOT THE TIME TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. He carries the woman to the back, where Alucard leads them. Lays her down carefully on the cot there. Tries to be businesslike about it as he strips away the many, many layers of blankets and robes covering her. ]

I’ve been trying to give her sugar water, to keep her from starving or having too little water. But she can’t swallow it in her sleep and I can only give her a few drops at a time in case she- I don’t know if humans can drown from being fed water wrong.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
None left. I’ve checked. I thought it was still there, at first. But it’s not. It’s gone, it’s just- it’s not hurting her anymore, but she’s not getting better from the hurting it did already.

[ There’s an art to not looking while also not making a big deal out of not looking, and Trevor is not great at it. But he’s trying, and slowly each layer is removed and added to a tight bundle of cloth. ]

Her caravan said she left them two weeks ago, when she first knew she was sick. And she’d have to have been sick to know that she was sick so- maybe a little longer than that.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Two weeks.

[ He repeats it softly. Two weeks. Her people could have moved on hundreds of miles by then. She’ll be alone here in a country she doesn’t know with no way to find her family again. ]

...may I see her, while she recovers?
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He looks down to the bundle of cloth in his arms. ]

I should- take all of this outside to destroy it, right? [ He’s gonna eat it. He’s a moth, eating cloth is what he does. ] And then I- I’ll wait there, until you have something for me to do.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Water. I can do that.

[ It doesn't take long. It's a shame, to destroy so much material. But he can always weave more. Sypha is weak, gaunt and marked all over by sores, but refusing to die, keeping her heart beating and her lungs moving through what seems to be sheer force of will. Trevor is back at the clinic before Alucard is done with the examination, leaving a pail of water in the quarantine room before sitting down on the floor, apparently waiting for further instructions. ]
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I can.

[ And he does. It's not difficult work, at least not Trevor's part of it. Just- upsetting, seeing those sores. He's not taken Sypha's clothes off. It hasn't occurred to him that he might need to. So those have been there all this time, and he didn't know.

Maybe it's best that she didn't wake up. She'd have been in terrible pain.

It's it's only once all those sores are cleaned and bound that his gaze turns to Alucard. He's changed, as humans do with time. Grown into himself a little more. He was never ugly before, certainly not after being given time to recover, but he's- he's not afraid anymore, and that's more beautiful than anything else.

Those thoughts don't last long, though, because he notices how Alucard walks. As Alucard brings the clothes and they set about dressing Sypha, he notices. ]


It still hurts?
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He didn't do enough. Not enough for Alucard. Maybe not enough for Sypha.

She looks so small, so frail without all of the furs. He's sure she'll be warm enough in here, but still, every part of him is screaming at him to do something to make this right. ]


Would it be easier if I went to the market?
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's touching him. He's touching him. Trevor stands a little straighter when Alucard's hand touches his shoulder, trying not to lean into the touch like the over-affectionate creature that he is. He knows not to. They became clear on not touching Alucard a long time ago.

But Alucard didn't touch him, back then. This is new. Good. ]


I will.

[ He does. He talks to her a lot, as the next few days pass. Speakers like stories, he knows, and he isn't quite clear on whether that means they need them to survive and he isn't willing to take chances. So he tells her stories. They're not good ones. Most of them consist of imagining a monster made of a mixture of disparate parts and then saying 'it was bad and it died'. But he's trying.

And he tries to help Alucard in his normal work, as well. He can't do a lot, not without showing himself to people and forcing Alucard to explain why there's a person in his house (it does not occur to him that 'he brought a patient here and is waiting for them to be treated' is a completely viable explanation as well as being the truth). But he can keep fetching water. If nobody is in the clinic he can carry things and clean. And he can weave while he tells Sypha stories. He makes bandages and dressings and works on and off on a new robe for the speaker.

Sypha's woken a few times by now, though never for more than a minute or so at a time and never enough to really be coherent. It's enough. She's recovering.

But he still worries. It's evening on the fourth day, and the clinic is as closed for the night as it can be when Alucard is willing to answer the door for random fairies in the small hours of the morning. Most of Trevor is sat on the floor by the first, with a few of his moths flitting around lamps. ]


Will she not heal all the way, like you didn't?
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The hardest thing about the bandages is making them not seem too fine. He doesn't understand a lot about humans, but he knows that if Alucard went around bandaging people with silk then it would bring suspicion onto him. He doesn't like the results, but they're appropriate for the task.

He's working on a sheet of the ugly, uneven cloth now, as he frets. This has been the first really bad day he's been here to see. And it's clear that no matter what Alucard said earlier, the injuries do still trouble him. Humans are bad at healing. Slow. Sometimes they just don't heal at all. It scares him. ]


She's been waking up a lot today. [ Not enough to eat, and not enough for her to even start to understand where she is. But a good few times. He's saying it mostly for himself. Alucard- probably already knows how these things go better than he does. ] Is there anything I can do, to make this easier?
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-02 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Humans heal so slowly. I don’t know how you get anything done.

[ He huffs at it quietly, holding the cloth up to the firelight to watch it flicker through the too-wide holes. It doesn’t look like the work of a master weaver. Which is infuriating but also exactly what one needs for bandages not to raise concern. ]

Will she be able to leave, when she gets better? Her caravan will have moved on by now, I’ll need to track them down.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-03-03 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hopefully she'll wake up soon. It'd be nice to have something to call her other than just 'plague lady'.

[ Not that giving one's name to him would be the best idea in the world to someone who doesn't know how bad he is at fairy-ing. But at least he can have a fake name to call her by. He sets the cloth down. He doesn't really like looking at the imperfect work, and it'll be a relief when it's shredded into bandages. And so he turns his back on it, scooting over to Alucard's table to sit by his feet. Watching his hands, how they're bony in places and acid-marked in others, with that shiny burn scar along one. ]

Is it easier now?

[ Touching he means, not that he's giving any indication that that's what he's talking about. ]

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