the chaos of cosmic dust; @vcxxangel
Alucard sighed as Blue ranted at him. “Princess, this is what my life is. This is why I tried to hide it from you. Do you think that I enjoy coming home to you looking worse for wear? Do you think I want to explain why my fucking arm looks like it was mangled by a psycho? Do you think I want to worry you, Blue?” He washed his body as good as he could with only one arm and turned off the shower. Alucard wrapped a towel around his waist before drying off in their bedroom and pulling on a pair of silk lounge pants.
The pure blood sat on the couch, silent, as he watched Blue prepare the drugs. “Have you ever known the feeling of fighting with a sibling only to realize halfway through that they’re fighting to the death? I had that realization, today. The feeling of knowing that your own flesh and blood wants you dead hurts more than a fucking broken arm. Like it’s not even the first time but this time felt different. It wasn’t a hit or a set up. He was using his bare hands. That’s fucked up.” He couldn’t help but to chuckle at the realization.
“I could have killed him. Three more seconds and he would have been dead. But his death was never what I wanted. Yeah, most days I can’t stand Dragan. He knows it. Sypha knows you. Shit, everyone knows it. But at the end of the day, I’d murder a whole city to protect him. But knowing that he wants me dead kinda puts me in a weird spot.” Shrugging, he let his head fall back onto the couch. “What if I just walked away from it all; Nightbloods, my family, Agdoeg? What if we just cleaned out my account and fucked off to some town where nobody knows who we are? Or what if I did us all a favor and took myself out of the equation? I know my family would love that.”
His head lulled forward and he shot a smile at Blue. “It’s not realistic. But it sure is nice to dream about.” He winced as the final bone seemed to pop back into place. Slowly, he lifted his arm and tried to bend it. “See, good as new.” He spoke through the last of the pain. “As long as I can come home to you, nothing else in my fucked up life really matters.”
Blue didn’t say anything at first, simply poured a bit of the baggies contents on the dark glass of the coffee table. He took the ends of the card, sliding it along the smooth expanse of it as he gathered the pile into a slender line, before slicing it into individual lines. Going on to do the same with both a sling or glittering tear dripped down his iridescent skin as he listened to Alucard talk.
“No,” he sniffed, “no I don’t know what it’s like to fight with a sibling. Or a parent, or a cousin, or an uncle or any fucking one that can be your flesh and blood Alucard, because the only person I really have on this God forsaken planet, in this disgusting, evil, filthy city is you. All I have is you. And right now you’re sitting behind me, talking about taking the one thing I’ve ever loved that didn’t hurt me away from me because of how those people, that I dreamed of at night when we first met, make you want to do that.” Blue could vividly remember when Alucard first told him he had siblings, not like he didn’t know at least a little bit, the whispers in the precinct were always about the Jeups and he had to assume if Alucard was one there’d be others. He remembered how he’d lay awake, wondering how they were, if Sypha was doting and caring, would he feel the warmth of a mother in her smile, or the strength of an older sister in her hugs. He’d wondered if Dragan liked video games, and was he a bratty baby brother like he assumed all were. But the longer and longer he craved to be apart of that family the more and more their skeletons poured into his life. His life he thought he’d cleaned up.
Blue wipes his face with the back of his hand, glitter still scattered along his cheeks even as he leaned down and sucked a line through his nose. It was an image he’d known far too well, disappointingly so. He finally turned to face him, his brows furrowing in sorrow at Alucard’s smile. “Your arm is good…but what about everything else.” The elf asked him, eyes falling as they watered all over again.