[ It had been such a peaceful slumber, a dreamless sleep, one Adrian had become acquainted with in the years passed. It had been easier to sleep and dream of nothing, than to let his heart fill his dreams with things he could never feel again. Adrian had become so reside to the fact that he would never feel that same love he had had in Vatheon that some part of him had broken because of it.
In his sleep he felt himself saturated with a terrible, beautiful and familiar scent. It brought forth euphoric memories and made the small, black, kernel of a heart that resounded in his chest skip a beat or two.
Adrian slowly began to regain consciousness and still wrapped in the deadly blanket of sleep his familiar golden eyes gazed upon Alucard's weeping visage.
He must have died at last.
To be held in that loving embrace once more before he was to be damned to Hell, to allow himself to see a glimpse of what was his Heaven before burning.
The Dhampire prince was limp like a rag doll in Alucard's embrace before he managed to whisper a few, choice words. ]
I am crying because they took you away from me. They dared to touch you and rip you away from my arms.
Never again will they touch you, my precious boy.
[ The vampire kissed his son on the lips, holding him close. He kissed Adrian with such passion and love. He bit his own tongue, letting his blood spilling into his boy's mouth. Adrian was his pride and joy. Adrian was the No Life King's prince. He didn't let anyone touch Adrian. Not even that pedophile doctor.
He held his son so close and so tightly. He loved his favorite child. He beloved and favorite child. Ever. ]
[ Adrian moved to speak, to utter another soft word or two, but he was captured in that kiss, engulfed in its raw and debilitating passion. Knowing that his Father could hear his thoughts, and unashamed to speak them in his mind, he let the words he had wished to speak be whispered softly in his mind instead.
I am so sorry that I left you, I thought of you so often. I... was so afraid I had dreamt of you, that I had made you out of my own desires.
Adrian began to swallow that sweet, familiar blood in their forbidden kiss and he shuddered with a terrible delight, one that had gone unfulfilled for years.
[ The vampire ran his hand through Adrian's now black hair. How he adored his son and his new look. He adored everything about him. He adored and loved him to no end. ]
Come back to the manor with me, Adrian. I want you in my arks forever. I will never let anyone touch you. Not the pedophile doctor. Not even Sebastian. I love you so much, my precious child.
[ Adrian tilted his head into that touch, how familiar and welcome it was now and he smiled. The first smile he had felt since he had come back to Vatheon, and there would be countless more in Alucard's presence, he did not doubt that.
But those words lost him somewhat, he did not understand and there was a small hint of confusion on his angelic features ]
Of course I will return with you, there is no one else I would return with... but what do you mean? "Pedophile doctor"? Sebastaian? I am sorry... I am confused, Father.
Muraki. The pedophile doctor. He will not touch you. He will never touch you. I will not let him touch you. And if he does, I will kill him.
I will slaughter and impale him.
[ Alucard snapped his fingers and the two were back in his room. In his sacred bed. He laid Adrian down on those Romanian smelling sheets. He kissed his son again. ]
1/2 (this is a big one :Db)bequeathalJanuary 1 2011, 19:17:39 UTC
Muraki is... a pedophile?
[ How curious, Adrian had never come across someone with that... "view" before, but surely if that was the case, then he was not in any danger, as it were. Well, he did not inquire to it any further, as the very mention of it seemed to anger Alucard and Adrian only wished to see him happy again now, happy as he felt to be back with him.
He felt his fingers suddenly grip Alucard's clothing as the two of them were spirited back to their home.
Plush sheets that smelled of home; of local wild flowers and crisp cool air, how comforting it felt and Adrian gladly accepted another kiss. ]
I...
[ It was difficult to begin retelling the past two-hundred years. Where to start? ]
I think... it has been about two-hundred and thirty years since I left, it was... just before my birthday, I don't know why, but I remember that I was getting excited about it for some reason. Normally I so rarely celebrate it, but I... was quite looking forward to perhaps doing something with you, or the few friends I had made here...
But on the eve of it, I went back home. To my Father's---to Dracula's castle. I thought it was a dream for some time, that perhaps it was one of the curses that this odd place likes to give us from time to time.
But... the nights went on and there was no sign of me returning. I think... I must have been very lonely at that point, to have gone from so much love and affection to having none at all. How odd it must sound, for someone who has the potential to do so much wrong to be so affected by loneliness, and what am I to feel as much as a mortal can and yet...
[ He trailed off at that thought, thinking that he could appear like any other man, and yet not be one at all. ]
I suppose it must have been years until a young woman I once knew found me, her name was Maria... I... think you might have liked her very much, she was a strong and very independent woman. She knew me at my best, years before, when I was so determined to destroy Dracula. I was focused on that and nothing else. But when she returned to the castle, in search of his remnants, she only found me... But I was a shadow of who I once was.
I think... she grew to pity me and it is strange how an emotion like that in a person can change. She tried to build up my spirit once more, she loved me as much as a woman could and... I think I grew to love her too in some ways.
I once tried to explain to her of Vatheon, of those I loved here and missed... but she could not stand to hear it, perhaps she thought I was mad, perhaps I had grown a little mad by that point...
And you may not believe it, but at that time I was quite content and in time she gave me a son. A little boy with pale hair much like my own once was... and he was pure. Truly pure, not like myself, he had large blue eyes and a strong chest and I loved him... very much.
[ Adrian was beginning to find the retelling of this story quite hard now and he had to fight back the bloody tears ]
But... my curse and my gift ultimately separated them from me... for human lives are so beautiful and so strong that they cannot last as long as mine can. They burn too brightly, I heard it once said, and as much as I tried to care for them they did die.
[ He gritted his teeth for a moment, trying desperately to compose himself, he did not wish to cry in front of Alucard ]
... It is a terrible thing to bury those you have come to love so much, and what a monster I must have seemed to them, unaging as they grew older.
But, I digress.
After they passed away I could not longer live in that place. There were too many painful memories. So, feeling that I had to take my life in another direction, I moved to the Far East.
I lived in a very organised and strong country, Nippon, or Japan as it was later called. A land filled with much beauty and grace. I lived alone there, my knowledge of European history and foreign languages a great benefactor in my finding an occupation. I learned a great deal over those years. I enjoyed a land very different to my own and a culture and people with their own beauty and foibles.
I... suppose I must have lived there for a great many years. I saw new inventions coming to life. Music players, electric pianos, cinemas, televisions and eventually computers. The age of vampires and witch burning seemed all but over and I went by in the world of man, as a man. My paleness was considered part of my own fashion and it was around that time that my appearance began to change.
It happened over the course of a few weeks, as my hair darkened and I think I grew just a little thinner... although that may have been down to my diet more than my age.
And it must be true that life is quite mysterious, as at the moment when I thought that I was destined to be alone forever... I was brought back here.
I feel that so much about me has changed, yet I can kiss you and feel like only seconds have passed...
[ Alucard listened intently to Adrian. Time was such a relative concept. He was not surprised that weeks in Vatheon translated into centuries. His child had grown. Gone to see the world change. For that, he was grateful. He was proud of all Adrian's accomplishments. He was proud that he rid of his biological father. That man was not himself. An unloving creature. Alucard was Dracula, the Impaling Prince. The Dracula that Adrian mentioned was a fraud. Nothing. He deserved to perish. ]
I am glad that you continued to dream of me when you were away. I cried and I wept for you. My favorite son. My precious child. You are mine. My flesh. My blood. My everything. My pride and joy. It fills my heart with impossible light and joy to know that you grew so much. To see you mature. My little boy has earned his crown of demonic horns... Like I.
But as for Muraki. Yes. He is a pedophile. He has harmed several younglings here in Vatheon. He is filth.
[ Adrian reached for Alucard's palm without hesitation and lifted it, resting it against his own cheek and leaning into it. The familiar feel of it, the coolness that went with it and even where each finger lay on his cheek filled him with a strange sort of comfort. ]
Was it wicked to let a mortal fall in love with me, knowing that we were so different?
[ His eyes slowly closed and he sighed, his worry and sorrow draining away slowly ]
Please... tell me what I ought to do, to be better than I am now?
[ As was Adrian's quest, to better himself over his true nature, to be more than what people used to call him, better than a half breed vampire.
And he paused as Alucard chose to go back to the subject of Muraki ]
Muraki... harmed the children here? I... but... he has always seemed so gentle, so... harmless?
In his sleep he felt himself saturated with a terrible, beautiful and familiar scent. It brought forth euphoric memories and made the small, black, kernel of a heart that resounded in his chest skip a beat or two.
Adrian slowly began to regain consciousness and still wrapped in the deadly blanket of sleep his familiar golden eyes gazed upon Alucard's weeping visage.
He must have died at last.
To be held in that loving embrace once more before he was to be damned to Hell, to allow himself to see a glimpse of what was his Heaven before burning.
The Dhampire prince was limp like a rag doll in Alucard's embrace before he managed to whisper a few, choice words. ]
De ce plângi, tată...
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Never again will they touch you, my precious boy.
[ The vampire kissed his son on the lips, holding him close. He kissed Adrian with such passion and love. He bit his own tongue, letting his blood spilling into his boy's mouth. Adrian was his pride and joy. Adrian was the No Life King's prince. He didn't let anyone touch Adrian. Not even that pedophile doctor.
He held his son so close and so tightly. He loved his favorite child. He beloved and favorite child. Ever. ]
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I am so sorry that I left you, I thought of you so often. I... was so afraid I had dreamt of you, that I had made you out of my own desires.
Adrian began to swallow that sweet, familiar blood in their forbidden kiss and he shuddered with a terrible delight, one that had gone unfulfilled for years.
I... never wished to leave you. ]
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Come back to the manor with me, Adrian. I want you in my arks forever. I will never let anyone touch you. Not the pedophile doctor. Not even Sebastian. I love you so much, my precious child.
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But those words lost him somewhat, he did not understand and there was a small hint of confusion on his angelic features ]
Of course I will return with you, there is no one else I would return with... but what do you mean? "Pedophile doctor"? Sebastaian? I am sorry... I am confused, Father.
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I will slaughter and impale him.
[ Alucard snapped his fingers and the two were back in his room. In his sacred bed. He laid Adrian down on those Romanian smelling sheets. He kissed his son again. ]
Tell me everything that has happened.
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[ How curious, Adrian had never come across someone with that... "view" before, but surely if that was the case, then he was not in any danger, as it were. Well, he did not inquire to it any further, as the very mention of it seemed to anger Alucard and Adrian only wished to see him happy again now, happy as he felt to be back with him.
He felt his fingers suddenly grip Alucard's clothing as the two of them were spirited back to their home.
Plush sheets that smelled of home; of local wild flowers and crisp cool air, how comforting it felt and Adrian gladly accepted another kiss. ]
I...
[ It was difficult to begin retelling the past two-hundred years. Where to start? ]
I think... it has been about two-hundred and thirty years since I left, it was... just before my birthday, I don't know why, but I remember that I was getting excited about it for some reason. Normally I so rarely celebrate it, but I... was quite looking forward to perhaps doing something with you, or the few friends I had made here...
But on the eve of it, I went back home. To my Father's---to Dracula's castle. I thought it was a dream for some time, that perhaps it was one of the curses that this odd place likes to give us from time to time.
But... the nights went on and there was no sign of me returning. I think... I must have been very lonely at that point, to have gone from so much love and affection to having none at all. How odd it must sound, for someone who has the potential to do so much wrong to be so affected by loneliness, and what am I to feel as much as a mortal can and yet...
[ He trailed off at that thought, thinking that he could appear like any other man, and yet not be one at all. ]
I suppose it must have been years until a young woman I once knew found me, her name was Maria... I... think you might have liked her very much, she was a strong and very independent woman. She knew me at my best, years before, when I was so determined to destroy Dracula. I was focused on that and nothing else. But when she returned to the castle, in search of his remnants, she only found me... But I was a shadow of who I once was.
I think... she grew to pity me and it is strange how an emotion like that in a person can change. She tried to build up my spirit once more, she loved me as much as a woman could and... I think I grew to love her too in some ways.
I once tried to explain to her of Vatheon, of those I loved here and missed... but she could not stand to hear it, perhaps she thought I was mad, perhaps I had grown a little mad by that point...
And you may not believe it, but at that time I was quite content and in time she gave me a son. A little boy with pale hair much like my own once was... and he was pure. Truly pure, not like myself, he had large blue eyes and a strong chest and I loved him... very much.
[ Adrian was beginning to find the retelling of this story quite hard now and he had to fight back the bloody tears ]
But... my curse and my gift ultimately separated them from me... for human lives are so beautiful and so strong that they cannot last as long as mine can. They burn too brightly, I heard it once said, and as much as I tried to care for them they did die.
[ He gritted his teeth for a moment, trying desperately to compose himself, he did not wish to cry in front of Alucard ]
... It is a terrible thing to bury those you have come to love so much, and what a monster I must have seemed to them, unaging as they grew older.
But, I digress.
After they passed away I could not longer live in that place. There were too many painful memories. So, feeling that I had to take my life in another direction, I moved to the Far East.
I lived in a very organised and strong country, Nippon, or Japan as it was later called. A land filled with much beauty and grace. I lived alone there, my knowledge of European history and foreign languages a great benefactor in my finding an occupation. I learned a great deal over those years. I enjoyed a land very different to my own and a culture and people with their own beauty and foibles.
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It happened over the course of a few weeks, as my hair darkened and I think I grew just a little thinner... although that may have been down to my diet more than my age.
And it must be true that life is quite mysterious, as at the moment when I thought that I was destined to be alone forever... I was brought back here.
I feel that so much about me has changed, yet I can kiss you and feel like only seconds have passed...
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I am glad that you continued to dream of me when you were away. I cried and I wept for you. My favorite son. My precious child. You are mine. My flesh. My blood. My everything. My pride and joy. It fills my heart with impossible light and joy to know that you grew so much. To see you mature. My little boy has earned his crown of demonic horns... Like I.
But as for Muraki. Yes. He is a pedophile. He has harmed several younglings here in Vatheon. He is filth.
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Was it wicked to let a mortal fall in love with me, knowing that we were so different?
[ His eyes slowly closed and he sighed, his worry and sorrow draining away slowly ]
Please... tell me what I ought to do, to be better than I am now?
[ As was Adrian's quest, to better himself over his true nature, to be more than what people used to call him, better than a half breed vampire.
And he paused as Alucard chose to go back to the subject of Muraki ]
Muraki... harmed the children here? I... but... he has always seemed so gentle, so... harmless?
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