regarding this post i made last night about vamp!dutch van der linde and his human bloodbank!javier escuella, i had a scenario involving these two up in my mind this morning.
it's late into the night, the party was an afterthought now. socializing and mingling took its toll - mostly on javier because naturally, him being a human amongst a sea of those who valued and consumed the precious red substance that courses through his vein, it was an overwhelming experience regardless of how many of these events he went to with dutch.
for dutch, the parties were an easy means of furthering his influence amongst their higher class of vampires. he was already well known amongst them all but power and influence was a fleeting thing and when you have immortality, you needed to maintain it for as long as you could.
but dutch knew how this kind of festive opulence could take its toll on his human prize.
which was one they were home, he had one of the servants run a hot, bath - filled with suds and some expensive bath solution he had imported from some foreign land.
sometimes javier would be too tired to walk up the cascading stairs of the massive house but it was fine - dutch didn't hesitate to swoop him up into his arms and carry him up the stairs to the bathroom.
once in the bathroom, he helped javier undress and once he was undressed, he undressed as well. he lets javier get in first and then follows behind, sitting at the other end of the tub. javier was still shy about this kind of thing, bathing with his vampire patron but when dutch makes a 'cmere' gesture with his index finger, javier obediently crosses the water and settles into the open space in between dutch's legs. dutch wraps his arm around javier, pulling him close to his chest and javier just melts, resting his head on dutch's chest and eventually, the exhaustion catches up to him and he ends up falling asleep in dutch's arms.
dutch smiles and sighs softly before tilting his head back and in spite of being a nightwalker, sleep barely being a necessity for him, he still takes this moment as a brief respite, closing his eyes and just...listening to the sound of his precious human sleeping soundly against him all while the hot, soothing waters of the bubble bath melt and washes away the tiring memory a long night of late night festivities.