Spring Forward, Fall Back (Alucard x Chubby! Reader)

Chapter 26 - Revelations

"Am I missing something?" I asked from the doorway.

"I tried to keep her in bed, but she told me she was getting bored of staring at the ceiling," Alucard answered on a laugh.

"Now that you're out here, we have to do something," I said with a smile. "You happen to have another one of those movies we could watch together?"

Y/N's face lit up with a huge smile. "Of course I do! Do you think you guys can remember how I set everything up?"

"I think I can manage that," I said with a smirk, "but we, being Sypha and I, need a little help with the seasonings for this fat goose I found for dinner."

"Just bring in the seasonings and I'll tell you what's good for what," she answered with a growing smile on her face as she saw Alucard trying to close in again.

"Alright," I said and then walked back into the kitchen to grab them.

"What's going on out there? It sounds like a battle," Sypha remarked with a grin.

"Alucard brought Y/N into the library to give her something else to look at besides the room she's in, decided he was going to tickle her into submission and is getting hit with pillows left and right. You should see it."

Sypha P.O.V.

"So what are you doing in here?" I asked. Trevor seemed to want to be in there a hell of a lot more than sitting here in the kitchen with me.

"I'm getting the seasonings together so she can give us the right ones for the goose."

"Great idea!" I said honestly. "I would have messed up somewhere, I just know it."

He smiled before saying, "Why don't you come with me? You'll be able to see her and how she's doing. I know that brain of yours is already trying to find a way to tell her she needs to go back to bed. I just want to be in the room when you try."

"Oh, ha ha," I said while trying to sound upset. My slow spreading grin belied my intentions and I just gave in, following behind Trevor with the mortar and pestle and a salt pot.

When we got into the library, the sight that we walked in on was something I really wish I could keep in my memory forever. Y/N had Alucard flat on his back in the middle of the floor laughing like a child as she lifted his shirt up and blew on his stomach which resulted in the most rude noise ringing through the room. Trevor stumbled toward a table to put the seasonings down before he dropped them, the snorts of laughter nearly disabling him. I rolled my eyes, but couldn't hold in my own laughter as I watched Y/N shaking her head while blowing on Alucard's stomach again, the noise sounding more and more like someone strangling and shaking a duck.

When she finally noticed that there were spectators, she hurriedly hopped up away from Alucard and crawled toward the nearest piece of furniture while presenting us with a wide smile. Alucard, once he wiped the tears from his eyes, picked her up and placed her on the couch. He pulled the blankets up over her legs and attempted to prop her up only to fail miserably. Naturally, I walked over to them and helped position the pillows a little better and then helped him to get her into a better upright position.

"Y/N, you need to rest," I argued, only to stop short when she pushed out her bottom lip to pout. I shook my head and smirked knowing I'd been beaten in this meager battle, and moved to put the pillows in a better position.

"You're lucky that I gave in. I would have preferred you stay in bed and rest a bit longer," Alucard admitted before kneeling down beside her legs. "But I also see why you wanted to come out here."

"I know that you want me in bed, love, but I couldn't stand being in that room with nothing more than you playing mother hen and me reading book after book with my eyes going buggy and my butt going numb."

I chuckled. "Are you trying to say that he can't play mother hen?"

"He can, but to a certain point," Y/N admitted. "I can't have him watching me go to the loo and then offering to clean me up."

Just as soon as she finished that sentence, Trevor and I were sporting a face of utter shock that Y/N found extremely funny apparently.

"Look, Fang Face, there are certain things that you do for women, and others that you should never, ever mention in polite company or even in front of household vermin. Offering to clean up after a quick piss is one of those things you really, really, really don't have to do," Trevor said nearly shouting

"Hey," Alucard said in defense, "its not like I haven't seen that bit before, you know."

"But have you seen HER bits?" I asked with a bit of heat in my voice.

"Well, no. But -"

"There is no 'but' in that response, Alucard," I chided sharply. "Until you've seen her bits, you can't go offering to look at them like you're some kind of pervert. That's just creepy."

"I'm not trying to be creepy, damn it. I'm trying to be helpful. She's weak and its hard for her to stand, much less balance herself to do something like that, so I offered to help. Does that seem like something wrong to do?" Alucard asked, returning the same amount of heat in his voice as I had.

"No, I suppose it doesn't when you put it that way, but you could have asked Sypha to come in and help if you were worried about that," Trevor said.

"Oi!" Y/N called loudly. "Dribbles the Wonder Cunt is sitting right here listening to you guys!" We all turned to look at her when she continued. "Granted, I will admit that I was a bit apprehensive to begin with. I mean who wouldn't be a bit put off with a situation that makes you rely on a man you find very attractive and maybe want to be the father of your children wiping up your drippy bits while you have zero energy? I don't know who would ever think of that as a great way to bond. But that doesn't change the fact that I needed that help. Yes, he probably could have asked Sypha to come in and help, but there's a fine line between help to the facilities and hurry up and wait."

She then straightened in her seat and said, "When you've had to go to the bathroom and clearly needed help, would you take the assistance of the person nearest you, or would you rather wait to have said person leave the room to go in search of someone more suitable?"

I could see Alucard was still trying to get past the whole 'maybe want to be the father of your children' line to be able to answer anything definitively, it seemed that he vaguely hearing responses from around him, and didn't respond to anything before Trevor clapped his hands before him.

"Hey! Stop fantasizing about what your kids would be like!" he shouted rudely, albeit with a smirk on his face.

Y/N directed us from her seat what all we needed and began mixing the seasonings for dinner, a silly smirk on her face as she looked up at Alucard. His face was still stained pink from being caught letting his mind wander and I shook my head looking between the two.