reposing: (life had just begun)
Adrian "Alucard" Ţepeş ([personal profile] reposing) wrote2019-07-20 12:21 pm

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starmark: (FLUSTER ☆ so much for being chill)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-16 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a second, just one, where he finds himself standing perfectly still and unmoving as he watches Alucard rummage through the backpack, like something inside him is poised on a knife's edge and thrumming with anticipation until he gets the reaction he'd been waiting for. He can't explain it, couldn't articulate it if he tried, but something in the look of pleasure that crosses Alucard's face mollifies the agitation, soothing it back down again like the stroke of a hand along a cat's back.

Good. It's good. He likes it, he's happy. He's warm now. He smells right. He wants to just — just be next to him, drape on him, he said Iris was giving him a hard time and he wants to be the one who makes that stop, makes him comfortable, makes him —

...What the fuck.

He rubs his hand across his mouth, hiding the lower half of his face as he tries to pull his fucking shit together, and then turns his attention to the kitchen chair because that's just easier to focus on right now. He shifts it toward the loveseat at an angle that will let Alucard easily see the way his hands move across the strings, then drops into it and starts hooking up his guitar with Star Platinum's help.]


...Good.

[He coughs a little, like he's clearing his throat getting ready to sing, and pretends like he's not just filling the air with sounds to regroup while he's otherwise at a loss for words.]

The songs have words. That I'm going to play, they...there's lyrics. I'm going to play you the vocal line anyway, but — I remembered too late that you won't know the words.
starmark: (LAUGH ☆ ron swanson dolphin noises)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-16 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, well. You said...a song about being alive. So.

[He ducks his head just a little, focusing on the strings beneath his fingers, and runs a quick scale to loosen up his fingers before settling in.

The song starts slow, deceptively giving the impression that he might've chosen a ballad — and softly, under his breath, he's half-singing the lyrics just enough that the reason for his pick becomes apparent (I feel ali-i-i-ive...) before fading out again to a low mumble (in ecstasy, so don't - stop - me - now) as he works his way through the rest of the intro.

But then he hits the tempo change, and all of a sudden his whole demeanor seems to change with it; his fingers all but dance across the frets, and he's off like a shot.

By the time he hits the second verse, it's clear that he's enjoying himself; one line in and the memory of Freddie Mercury's voice becomes irresistible. This time, he's actually singing, less confident and more just out of familiarity (two hundred degrees! That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit — I'm traveling at the speed of light!), and though it's less of a proper performance and more simply that he's adding vocals to all of the objectively fun parts, two things immediately become evident:

He's really quite good at this, and doing it makes him happy — almost without even realizing it's doing it.]
starmark: (YOUNG ☆ some nights i call it a draw)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[He feels lighter. That much catches him a little off-guard, as the last notes die away in the air and a feeling of calm satisfaction begins to settle around him. He wouldn't have thought that there would be something of a release in something like just fooling around on a guitar, but...oddly, it feels like a weight has lifted off of his shoulders, just for a little while.

Music has charms to soothe, or something — his dad used to say something like that, laughing. He'd never really put a lot of faith in it, until now.

But Alucard holds out a hand to him, and the sight of him curled on the loveseat brings that earlier sensation rushing back, that same ache to just...do something that he can't even place or identify.

But it starts, he thinks, with taking Alucard's hand.

Uncertainly, he sets his guitar aside and gets up, moving over to cover it with his own.]
starmark: (DUH ☆ it's over fifteen hundred dollars)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Of literally every possible thing he might've expected Alucard to say to him just then, that...was definitely not among them.

For a split-second, there are two halves of him, the man and the Moonblessed, the human and the wolf. His Sanguis is tangled up in the smell of heat and it feels like it's rattling the bars of the cage within his bones, demanding to be let out and tend, smother, ravish, claim — while the human is still stumbling over is he sure he heard that right and holy fuck and HOLY FUCK.

But the two halves fold in on themselves and combine when his startled gaze lands on Alucard's face, gauging the expression there. He thinks of how uncertain Alucard had been even about suggesting that they might be friends. He thinks of how lonely he must be, and how he might be aching, and how he probably has no one else to turn to.]


...You're not kidding.

[If Alucard's words are an idea, his own are a moment of quiet revelation. Still holding Alucard's hand, he sinks down onto one knee on the carpet in front of the loveseat, wanting to be lower than him, feeling more comfortable if he's the one looking up into his eyes.]

Tell me what's wrong.
starmark: (INTROVERT ☆ keep running up that hill)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Shh.

[The soothing, comforting noise that escapes his throat surprises even him as soon as he makes it; that wasn't him, not exactly, but it was, and that's...strange.]

I think — I think Sanguis is...made to take care of you. Iris. I feel...

[He hesitates, lost for words. Sentences that start with I feel are always so complicated, and this situation already feels like it's spiraling out of control and he's just along for the ride no matter what he does.]

I'm going crazy because I can tell there's something wrong. Like I can't help it. Like if I don't take care of you I'll lose my mind. But that's — Sanguis. And Iris.

[He closes his eyes, another of those little growls falling from his lips without meaning to.]

I need to know what you want me to do. If you need...that. Or I can try to calm you down without it.
starmark: (LICK ☆ your spine is holding you back)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Let me do it. Just — I think it'll be better for you if you...just let me.

[He rises quickly, all fast and sleek movements like a predator on the hunt, and in the same smooth motion that he uses to sink down onto the loveseat, he reaches over and drags Alucard into his lap, facing him.

When they're close, the smell of Alucard's heat is so much stronger, thick and cloying against the back of his palate. But the blanket smells like him, and that's good. He should smell like him. His scent, his Alucard —

No. No, no, get control. It's just like learning to control Star for the first time. He's the master of Sanguis; it's not the master of him.

And yet it knows what to do, seemingly, so he carefully follows where the urges lead him — gathering Alucard up tight, burying his face against that blond hair and the side of his neck so that he can feel every hot exhale of breath against his skin.

Without even meaning to, a growl starts to rumble in the back of his throat — low and almost like purring, a sound he doesn't know how to make, but one that nevertheless seems calculated to reassure and to pacify the sort of agitation that Alucard must be feeling.]
starmark: (SMUDGE ☆ where's my kiss you bastard)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Can I touch you...?

[It's mumbled, soft, breathy where he presses it against the skin of Alucard's neck; he's being good, holding him tight without letting his hands roam, because even if the wolf inside him is insisting that the bat is his, theirs, the part of him that isn't beholden to Sanguis still won't let this go even a fraction farther than Alucard is okay with.]

Can I bite you?

[His jaw aches. His teeth feel just the right amount of sharp. They would both feel better, something nags at him, if Alucard had the marks of his teeth in his skin.]

You'll feel better. I know you will.
starmark: (HUG ☆ this is my noodle he's mine)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
S'gonna be okay. I've got you.

[Now at last, his fingers rake up Alucard's back, careful to avoid scratching too hard, but certainly leaving faint lines behind where the nails caught the skin. It's easy, too, to angle his chin just a little more and start to nibble at the column of his neck, like he's subconsciously trying to give Alucard the chance to acclimate to the feeling of his teeth before he really sets in.]

Hey. Do you...

[He turns his head, nips at Alucard's neck. Nips again, below his ear. Each new bite lands just a fraction sharper than the last.]

Do you still think about — with the antlers — when we —
starmark: (KISS ☆ no hermes not you come on)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know.

[It's a lie, an obvious one. He's preoccupied with biting him, like he's still just testing out his jaws and the way his teeth feel when he puts in just enough pressure to make them start to sink into skin.]

— Yes. Yeah. A lot. So much. You acted like you thought I didn't want to.

[He runs his nails back down Alucard's back again, this time directly over his spine, from his shoulders to the small of his back.]

I didn't know if you were right about that. I kept thinking about it.
starmark: (YOUNG ☆ some nights i call it a draw)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-17 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's hard to know what to say in response to that. He knows better than to say that Alucard is right, even if by one interpretation it's objectively true — but for the horns being where they were when they were, he probably wouldn't have kissed him otherwise. Not in the middle of window shopping, not out in the open.

He doesn't know for certain if there's a circumstance where he would've. It's not like he's looked at anybody in that way since he got here, or ever really did back home. He didn't just sit around thinking about kissing people and then...going and doing it.

But maybe that's not the right question anyway. Maybe it's about something different, and he draws back from Alucard's neck far enough to look at him properly.]


I didn't like it when it stopped. Didn't like that it stopped, I mean.

[That much, he knows for certain is true. Forget what he would've done or didn't do. How he felt about what did happen...that's more concrete.]

...You wanted me to do it again?
starmark: (HUG ☆ this is my noodle he's mine)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-18 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He feels him squirm. He's feeling all of it, thanks to the way they're wrapped up together; he knows when Alucard trembles and when he shifts, when he tenses and when he shakes. He knows what the heat is doing to him, even if he can't articulate the specific grisly details nearly as well as Alucard surely could, if he were asked.

This isn't enough. It's a balm, but it's not enough, and he knows it.]


So if I kissed you right now.

[He's already been all but chewing on his neck, but apparently this is the thing that becomes the topic of discussion.]

It wouldn't help your heat. But it'd be worth it anyway. Right...?

[He sits up a little, drawing Alucard down and into him, bringing their lips just barely to brush as his last word takes shape on them.]

Right?
starmark: (PLEASED ☆ just like the rum tum tugger)

[personal profile] starmark 2019-12-18 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Would he want him to? Now there's a thrilling and even slightly unsettling question. Would he want Alucard to beg him for what he wants? Most of him says no, and that's the rational part of him. A sliver of him says yes, and he starts to realize that it's just because he really, really wants to hear Alucard telling him what he wants.

Maybe that's cheating. Maybe people are just supposed to know. But he likes it when he doesn't have to guess — when all he has to do is say yes, himself.]


I don't want you to beg. I want you to be happy.

[One hand comes up, hooking around the back of Alucard's neck as he pulls their mouths together, trapping that unexpectedly candid opinion between them as one kiss turns into two, and then three.]

I think — your, um. Your heat. If. [He swallows hard.] So long as I'm...here for it, does it have to be...me, or could it just be...does it just have to...do you just, just need something?

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