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FAMILY THINGS / Catch-all before the Beach Party

[Since Espio's arrival on the 3rd, Marco has been unwilling to put the chameleon down or let him out of his sight. Even worse than he gets with Thatch and Ace. After all, he might have trouble holding onto them, but he can usually FIND THEM again, Espio, on the other hand, was in a place Marco had troubles going, and almost no way to pull Espio out. So he'll be damned if he doesn't throw his all into keeping Espio here as long as he can. Probably at the expense of everyone's sanity including his own, however. Someone stage an intervention.]

[Around Attleton, Marco takes his best friend and baby bro to see the sights.]

[And mostly to show off his terrible crow and seagull posses. As you do.]

[Nova gets a short tour because ew skyscrapers are only good for haircuts and landing on.]

[And the Everglade... well.]

So I burned down the building I owned, and you'd have been proud of everyone else. They threw a fit, and deposed me from being a deputy. And now it's a rose garden in Kitten's honor. [Hence the fucking skulls and bloody swords. :|] Turnip farms probably make better sense in Fayren though, yoi.

[The one time Marco lets go of Espio and actually flits away, is to go do illegal shit that Espio would give him a hard time over. As you do. Besides he's hoping Ikki and Leanne can distract him with justice shit so he can go be a pirate okay.]

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My bro from another world just got here from everything-is-an-illusion hell. [Be glad he left out the rest of the details.] Turnip party at the beach! Normal party at the beach this weekend you already know about, but someone throw presents at Namur's face, it's his birthday! ♥

And before you buncha losers whine about the heat, good. Stay home. Volcanic hibernators only! :P

[Locked to Grell]

Pinkie's here, but in a bad way. Go easy on him for a few days. No idea how to handle Ash and him yet. Or even pokemon.

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Yes, you told me about them. A family of pirates. [Then he laughs.] So I trespassed on your captains' estate. [Nope. Not sorry. Alucard is very curious about this captain now.]

[Then quietly.]

Still, this estate. Does it bring any other unpleasant memories? After all, you're hiding in a storage room.

[She nodded to both his questions.]

Yes, zhis is my captain's home zo you really shouldn't be here... and not so much unpleasant memories az.. zhe urge to protect und guard.

Now I wonder how strong this captain of yours is capable of. Can he fight? I would like to test his strength in battle someday.

[He pulls up a chair.]

If you must stand at the window at the very least, sit down. Please. After all, there's nothing here to guard and protect. And then there's only me.

[She frowned and turned her attention out the window again, refusing to sit down and just leaning against the frame with a faint snort.]

Marco iz a Phoenix. He can fight vhen he desires to, mostly to protect our family.

[For the moment, she really was refusing to sit and kept slightly on guard. The instincts were just than ingrained at her at this point.]

I know. Und you are no threat, not here anyvay.

A phoenix, eh? Someday, I would like to test that fire if he has any. He sounds like an interesting man.

[With a huff.]

I can still crush you with my own mind, Rip.

[However, it's easy to tell it's an empty threat. While he can drink to fill his stomach, he can't take any lives or else he can't recognize himself. That's Schrodinger power and making it his weakpoint. And Rip's mind and life is chaotic enough as it is.]

I saw that demon before. Back on that world when we're last together. It's that man wearing the butler suit. I take it this estate remind you of that time.

[...Gently.]

I asked you to sit down. You can't do that for me?

[The demon brainwashed her to be loyal to him and the estate, to the point she won't put up a protest if Sebastian wanted to end her. For Alucard, he has to start from rock bottom.]

Marco is, so are zhe rest.

[The idle reminder was just that. Rip knew it was an empty threat and whatever Schrodinger had done to the Dark Hunter was still affecting him, otherwise, why was she still standing? Even then...

Rip rubbed her eyes under her glasses once more, memories and the instincts to protect feeling stronger and just as pronounced as when she had been there.]

Yes, it does. But, zhe layout is different from zhe one in zhat vorld. It vas a manor on Queen Anne's Row...a lot like zhe ozhers. Sebastian had just claimed in in zhe Phantomhive Name.

[There was a subtle twitch in her hand at the gentle request, almost as if she had wanted to aim a gun at someone in protest. But, there was no gun to aim anymore. She always came here unarmed because there was no need for it. To her, The Rose Estate was one of the safest places in this world.

And yet.. she reluctantly nodded and pulled away from the window frame to glance at him and then slowly took a seat. She knew what Sebastian had done to her..and part of her hated that she allowed it to happen. But, she...was lost at the time and he gave her a purpose and opened herself up to...and had been already partially done to her by another before Sebastian. He merely completed the work and took full advantage of her mental state as rocky and chaotic as it was.]

I met zhe young Earl once in zhat place. Ve didn't get along... nor did ve get along in Ruby City.

[All Schrodinger did is messed up his mind and Alucard couldn't recognize himself for 30 years. Filling his head with imaginary numbers and mathematics from another dimension.]

See, that's much better. Now that wasn't so hard, is it?

[Easy, step by step. While Alucard can't fix what was programmed within her, but perhaps it will be his mission to override what the demon taught her over a period of time. After all, he's a vampire of many skills and flowing through her veins, while a cheap imitation, it does come from his blood, and here he is, the original vampire who started it all, the alpha and omega.

One of his skill is hypnotic suggestion, which he used to temporarily brainwashed that poor clerk in Brazil to get the penthouse for free. If he can do this one day at a time, without using force...it might work...and programmed her loyalty in its rightful place.]

Now you can gaze at the clouds. I want you to be comfortable. [With him.]

[Well, it's in Everglade. It just that citizens can't enter the subarch without a pendant. The good news? Marco and Grell had really redecorated the place that it doesn't seem like it was previously owned by the demon.]

So, for two worlds, you were taught absolute loyalty. I know soldiers who will die for a cause they believe in, but do you truly believe that such a master and his assets are worth dying for? Was it your will?

[She hesitated for a moment before shaking her head. No, sitting down wasn't too hard. Rip was honestly trying to relax and finding it difficult though not because he was in the room with her.

If anything, knowing someone that could stop her if her mood took a turn to something more violent was a bit of a relief at the moment as she kept her eyes focused on the clouds outside for a few more minutes before taking her eyes off him and glancing to Alucard.

Her Dark Hunter.. the one that haunted her nightmares for so long and now? Was not as scary as he used to be. She did want to know him more and perhaps be friends and see where it took them. Whether it just be friends, as Master and Fledgling.. or maybe eventual Lovers. She didn't know where this path might take her.

What she did know was the raging chaos inside her head right now.]

One vorld.. absolute loyalty to Sebastian. In anozher I vas terrified of him.

[Her voice was quiet and as strong as her loyalty was, there was still that underlying unease of both versions of him.]

...I don't know if it vas my vill or not to follow him to zhe point of dying in zhat vorld, but, I did... and...

[She gritted her teeth and let out a low growl as she fought back the rearing insanity and overwhelming urge to protect. Adstringendum really did a number on her mentally and she was trying hard to hide it.]

They both mean the same thing. You're serving what is no longer necessary. It's not worth it yet you hold the feeling inside of you.

[Seeing her gritting her teeth, her mind is a raging storm. He has the power necessary to quell it. While he can't undo the demon's programming within her...he can silence it.]

Sit still, Rip. You're struggling like a frantic bird. I'm coming over. I want to show you something.

[He picked up his chair to come over to Rip. He opened the window just slightly so the sunlight didn't come through to burn them, and outside, Rip can see the flowers of summer blooming, and the sound of the songbirds from the forest surrounding the mansion.

With their chairs close, he sat behind her.]

I never hold you during that time we're together. I should have held you that time when you're carving the pumpkins. It was close to Halloween. That day stayed in my memory for this long for all of these years.

[As Rip is near close to becoming insane, feeling the extreme anxiety to protect what really isn't hers...Alucard wrapped his arms around her, giving her a hug that she never felt from him for all of these years.]

[Rip knew he was right as he moved towards her. She glanced up when the curtained opened more and glanced more towards the gardens, just trying to focus through the chaos in her mind and that overwhelming urge to protect..

When he spoke again, Rip turned her head slightly to listen to him and what he said called up those memories.. the time she was carving pumpkins for Halloween..He remembered that? She felt reluctant as he moved closer and then when his arms were around her, she tensed up slightly before very slowly... relaxing in his hold and just tried to focus on that memory. Something to bring her out of the anxiety and overwhelming need to protect she felt..]

...I don't blame you for never holding me back zhen. Ve vere still trying to figure zhings out between us back zhen.

[...But he keeps bringing her back to that time, which seems like long ago before Rip's long journey through hell and back through many worlds brought her to this. He'll stop that doing that now since he figured she doesn't care to remember or a part of her resist to remember.

Six years is a long time. She may loss a lot of herself and so does he. In the present, a lot of things have really changed.

But his feelings for her haven't.]

Now, watch this.

[His pink eyes give a glow, calling on his power, and with a flick of his wrist, he used his power to call a brown songbird to come and fly to the window sill. The bird landed on the wood, hopping around, opening its beak to twitter and coo. He reached over to hold the bird in one of his large hand and placed the small creature in Rip's hand.]

Be gentle, I want you to hold her without crushing her. As to what reason is this, to me, your soul is like this small bird. When I call her over, she comes and beckons, and when I ask her to, to perch beside me, it will sing it's song for all to hear.

But I want her to come willingly, not with clipped wings, but I want her to understand she has many seasons to go to sing as she flies.

Back home, there are no more vampires. Just me and Seras. And that is all. If I include you, you'll be the third. We're all that we're left, Rip.

[At that he reveals the timeline of their world. He came from a future 30 years after her time.]

[Rip remained quiet as she felt something from him, some sort of.. power? And before she knew it a bird was on the window sill and soon in his hands. She marveled at the small bird that was gently put into her own hands as she listened to what Alucard had to say.

He wanted her to come to him.. to sing. To know she had reasons to come out of the darkness and sing again. Something Rip hadn't done since she returned and was almost afraid to do. She remembered a time where she couldn't sing. And now..? Rip stared at the bird as he explained that the three of them were all that was left.

...That he was from further in the future than she realized.]

You two vere zhe only ones permitted to live. How can you count me vhen I am already dead in our vorld.

[He opened her hand, so that bird can flutter off and then eventually she found her way out of the window and she flew off to join the other birds in the forest.]

Who says I want to take you back in our world? I haven't found a portal and door to return back home yet. You can stay in this one with your allies and family.

Don't you want it and desire it, my power? You know I can complete you. Only I can. What you are now because a part of my blood is within you. Think about it, how did you survive death each time and resist that which you fought against? A part of me is always within you.

It just that, to be able to stay here for as long as I like, that's beyond my power.

[At that, he reached over to close the window. The bird serves its purpose in the lesson.]

[She watched as the bird fluttered off and found herself a little calmer than she had before. His words had weight to them and part of her knew that it was true, he was the only one that could make her.. more than what she was. ]

Of course I do. Vat do you zhink drove me for zhe time between zhe vars? I vished to prove myself, to be more zhan vat I vas... I haf fought Seras Victoria and marveled at zhe power she wielded because of your blood.

[And she had a few times when they were in Ruby City together. Every time they fought, Rip always lost. Not because of her lacking skill, but, because of the pure power the blonde had at her disposal.]

But, I do not vish to loose myself eizher. I am.. reminded by ozhers zhey love me az I am. Incomplete... artificial.

[Rip leaned against Alucard and closed her eyes for a moment. The war against her insanity still raged, coming and going like the tides.]

I cannot go back. Even if you vhere to complete me, I am still stuck hoping vorlds for zhe rest of eternity. Vhether you or zhe others are by my side or not..

You still have time. As for me, my feelings for you...the fire is burning and as long it burns, that fire will tie me to you in this world, regardless of your choice to remain as you are or whether you choose to be complete.

[With Rip leaning on him, he continues holding onto her. Embracing for each and very year that he isn't with her, and squeeze the chaotic emotions out of her.]

My only intention is to make up to you for lost time, so that's why I'm offering. The choice is yours. It's fine.

[In other words, if she's indecisive and rejects him. He's fine with it. It's fine.]

Do you want to join them? Your family?

[She nods slightly and just relaxes into his embrace for the moment. Memories.. emotions of the short time they were together in that other world played through her mind. Rip had been apprehensive and curious about him.. trusted him and yet felt uneasy and trapped by her 'employer' at the time.

And then her mind wandered to the other version of him she met, the one before he had arrived and the feelings for the other. Rip let out a soft sigh as she opened them again.]

Zamiel, regardless of zhe choice I make, I am vill not reject you. But, do understand I vill not be yours alone. I do love Namur und Augustine equally and I refuse to let zhem go or be forced to make a choice between zhem und you.

Who says I'm forcing you? Everyone is equally selfish. Maybe you must learn you're not a machine without feelings. That's what the demon made you believe.

[While holding her, he raised a finger to point at her heart, in the exact location above her chest.]

There are a time and place for most things. Whenever you and I meet in the darkness of places, you and I exist in a time and place, right here. When we're together, you're mine alone and my wisdom shall be in your service. I'm everywhere and nowhere, so when you call me, I'll be there by your side and I'm equally yours as well.

But on other days and other times, when you're with them, your time is with them. So, choose your time wisely with me whenever we meet.

[He unravels his arms from her and walks over to open the door for her...but he's also on his way out.]

I don't mind them at all. And even if you might reject me, it brings me no pleasure to make you choose me. Like I said, I'll give a friendship a try. After all, I was bored and you make things interesting for me.

[But before he's out the door.]

But mark my words, and this is not an idle one. You're not a war trophy or a victory to be won or a treasure to be owned nor an object for entertainment. We are just...two hunters who enjoy long talks and long walks in the middle of the night, talking about everything and nothing, and I like you to pretend that I am taking your feelings seriously.

[A pause while he's at the door.]

But maybe I'm selfish of you too, just a little bit. After all, I would like to kiss you. You're too tempting not too.

[A spark. Rip listened and she watched him. A frown graced her lips as she felt a little bit of her anger swell within her. She already knew those things! Rip had loved and lost.. had wept and screamed for her lovers return on more occasions than she dared count! Both before he entered her life those fateful months and after.

As he head towards the door, She got to her feet. If he was going to take her feelings seriously, he was about to learn a rather stark lesson about this particular version of her. One other's already knew and accepted.

Despite the restraint she had been practicing, there were still times when Rip was.. herself and embraced what made her feel alive. Those emotions and passions that always ignited her into action and right now? They had her moving towards him.]

If zhat's zhe case. Zhen listen to me. I am vell avare I am not Sebastian's guard dog anymore despite zhe conditioning tugging at my very being to do vat I vas trained.

I vas never some machine und haf loved zo deeply und lost so harshly it played apart in my insanity. I haf been left alone to die, discarded... bound like a beast und yet loved by people vho vouldn't haf me any ozher vay, artificial or complete.

My choices from zhe moment I've set foot on zhis vorld haf been completely mine und mine alone. All my happiness, everyzhing I've accomplished haz been me. Your blood may be flowing partially through my veins, but, I haf managed to accomplish more zhan any of my brethren ever could.

I'm zhe last of zhe Letze Battalion und even if I choose to stay zhis vay, it is because I choose to.

[She stopped next to him and glanced up at the slightly taller male.]

And I still cherish every moment you are around in zhose darkest hours just as much as I cherish every morning I manage to sleep in Namur's arms or every valtz I haf vith Augustine.

[She smirked slightly and then grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him down for a brief kiss.]

However, if you vanted to kiss me zhat badly, just do it. Ve are friends yes. But if you haf a flame for me zhat long burning, don't play games vith me.

[At that, Rip headed out the door.]

[Marco is...]

[Eavesdropping from the ceiling.]

[So if Rip looks up, she'll see a hybrid phoenix trying hard to hide in the chandelier. Which would work better if he didn't fucking sparkle.]

[She does indeed look up and is really not surprised a certain sparkly big brother of her's is eavesdropping. Rip just pauses, hands on her hips as she stares up at him.]

Zo, how much of zhat did you actually hear?

[He flits down with an innocent shrug, as if he didn't do anything :V] Enough to hear your loyalties. [Rip gets another kiss to her cheek and he takes her hand in his.]

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