"You weren't here..." (hey alucard~~~)
↳ try to break my muse’s heart in a single sentence + @cravesmagic !
they were supposed to be safe now, he thought — survivors, with the scars to prove it. but there was only so much alucard emery could do for those that went deeper than skin. he didn't mean to stay gone very long. rhy hadn't woken at the knock at the door, hadn't even stirred. from fitful, restless nights, alucard knew firsthand how rare those moments of deep sleep were. it wasn't supposed to take so long, and the matter was simple enough that he could take it off rhy's hands without questioning his decisions. still, the dight his prince - his king - disheveled and panicked, shards of barely repressed memories in the gold of his eyes, tore at alucard's heart. ( voluntarily or not, he'd been the one to put them there, and as all wounds they would need time to heal. ) ❛ i'm here now, love. ❜ hushed tones as he gently took hold of rhy's hands, cradling them between his own, feeling the other's pulse race beneath his fingers. ❛ the whole maintenance issue needed to be taken care of, but you were sleeping so soundly. i didn't want to wake you. ❜ he could only imagine how it'd feel for rhy, to wake up to an empty bed, alucard's side of it rapidly cooling, a reminder of a dreadful day almost four years prior. ❛ i'm sorry. i should have left a note, so you knew i wasn't gone. i'll do it next time, alright ? ❜ i'll give anything for you to trust me as you did back then, he thought, and did not say.
