[ After all the fighting, swimming, and stressing, Alucard didn't need much time to drift off after he shut his eyes. Maybe he shouldn't have been so quick to fall asleep next to someone so morally dubious, much less cuddle up to them, but it felt like a good gamble to trust Astarion on the same day of saving his life. It's also felt like entirely too long since he was able to be intimate with anyone, to indulge in the comfort of another body after dealing with the cruelties of the world. It was worth a risk... or maybe he was just desperate.
When Astarion returns, he'll find Alucard much the same as he left him, curled on his side asleep. One arm curls up against his chest while the other is still sprawled across the empty patch of bed beside him, a place the elf had once filled. His side rises and falls with a steady tide of breathing, some of the strands of his long hair stirring before his face with it. In his sleep he looks younger, but also perhaps more troubled without that dazzling smile in place. He's also warm to the touch - not feverishly so, but enough it's attracted the cat to coil up against his back to soak it in. She stares up at Astarion, an unblinking, white sentinel that seems to be asking if he's just going to creep on her owner for the next however-long or what. ]
no subject
When Astarion returns, he'll find Alucard much the same as he left him, curled on his side asleep. One arm curls up against his chest while the other is still sprawled across the empty patch of bed beside him, a place the elf had once filled. His side rises and falls with a steady tide of breathing, some of the strands of his long hair stirring before his face with it. In his sleep he looks younger, but also perhaps more troubled without that dazzling smile in place. He's also warm to the touch - not feverishly so, but enough it's attracted the cat to coil up against his back to soak it in. She stares up at Astarion, an unblinking, white sentinel that seems to be asking if he's just going to creep on her owner for the next however-long or what. ]