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“It has been a very long voyage, my beloved.” Alucard whispered, his golden eyes never leaving the soft rounder features of Sypha’s face. His fingers, long and lean, went to leave gentle caresses on the apple of her cheek.
He shook his head as he felt their partner trying to interrupt him. “Trevor, shut that dirty hole you call a mouth for once and let me open up. You never change.” It was hard to hide his affection completely as he said those words, aware that their teasing had now become another way to keep up some healthy banter in their relationship, that it was their form of loving the other, even if unconventional.
The dhampir took a deep breath, the air perfuming like lilies and the humidity of the grass after the gentle rain of the previous night. The scenery was beautiful in its own grim way, as autumn had fully taken the place of summer and the green and brown had left space for cooler but darker shades that colored the world around him.
It was weird having to look down on them, laying down beneath him but carved in the stone that reached his waist. He had requested those graves himself, supervised that their bodies would be sculpted in the beautiful clothes they had worn the day of their wedding and had left a space in between them just large enough he would've hopefully been laid to rest there when his time would've finally come.
But now it was time to get on the road again, to help new people and see new faces. He took the gloves off his hands while slowly kneeling down, wanting to meet their gaze, to turn his head on either sides and see them from a similar perspective he saw when he would sleep in between them at night.
He leaned in, his hand oh so gentle as it cupped the cold stone that was Sypha's cheek and he closed his eyes before leaning in, his lashes gracing the gray material as he let his soft lips crush with the hard surface, his tongue licking that curvature that felt so familiar yet so strangely foreign, recalling the taste of her lips. By this time, if they were in the flesh and away from indiscreet eyes, he would've slid his hand down her jaw and then neck until it'd reach the cut of her dress and he could've let his hand slip inside. It was improper and dirty, but there was no other way his beautiful wife would've ever deserved being kissed before a long voyage.
“I'll come back to you, my shining star.” He whispered before going up to leave an affectionate kiss on the forehead.
Then it was Trevor's turn, Alucard's trousers grated the grown and dirtied themselves with the dust as he made small movements to turn his body to the other side.
And then it was even worse than before, more scandalous and prohibited. He could've kissed his husband only in that way, imagining him holding his head back by pulling on his hair as his tongue had no problem finding the entrance to his mouth, he was aware the grave wouldn't have responded and he was now feeling his own spit running down his jaw. But he couldn't bring himself to care, not when his eyes were still full of unshed tears from the moment he had gotten there and he could feel Trevor's hands so vividly caressing his jaw and calling him one of those affectionate names he would've told to him only in intimacy.
He had to force himself back, to breath some air and to clean the spit off his lips. He knew this wasn't normal or conventional, but what had ever been normal in him and his entire existence?
He finally got up, closing his eyes as he took another deep and trembling breath, welcoming the cold air in his lungs. “I'll come back before dinner, don't miss me too much.” He managed to say something simple and futile, the only thing he could bring himself to tell them without completely breaking down.
And with that, he turned to his head to look over his own shoulder, seeing his horse was still there waiting for him and he admitted to himself that for a moment he had hoped it wouldn't; that was the reason he hadn't tied it down to anything. But it was too late now, and all he could do was take a step closer to the animal and accept the fate of the road ahead.