starhuevalley | [Video]

Entry tags:

[Video]

[Time flies quickly when you're focused on working. But, Rip finally managed to clear most of her land and section out what she wanted for where things went. It wasn't anything fancy.. just log posts marking out plots and signs. A few of them say things like 'Future Apple trees' or 'Future Cherry Trees' . As Rip pans her device around, there's also the start of a rock wall to section off the garden she's started. There were so many rocks... why not?

Eventually, she turns the device on herself with a shy smile and pushes her glasses up. The former huntress turned farmer was sitting on the porch of her home with a houndour puppy sprawled across her lap, napping.]

I finally got everything cleared und marked out. Now, I just haf to fill the land vith vat I vant.

[..There's a lot of cleared land. Though, strangely, there are a lot of oak and a few maple trees surrounding the house, almost hiding it on view as if on purpose. And there might be a rather monstrously large log pile next to the house. Yes...she did it all herself. Rip kind of kept working nearly non stop up until this point.]

Zo, do anyone know a good quick crop I can grow to earn zome money? I'm going to need it for all zhe trees I vant...

[Then she hesitates for a moment before coming to a decision.]

I am alzo a skilled hunter if you need zomeone to get rid of pests on your farm or any hunting done in general.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Rip listened, letting his voice and story bring her out of her shock at realizing she was going to have his child. It also reminded her of the list she found at the station a little while ago.. and things were falling even more into place with his story.

"Alucard, just.. vho are you." Her voice was quiet. Yes, the paper had given his names but, she wanted to hear it from him. Especially if she was to carry his child. Things were definitely going to change between them now.

As for considering what he said, she just nodded, her eyes drifting down to the blood bag before lifting it up and starting to drink. Admittedly, the blood was more satisfying than any other she had in quite some time.

Just who are you?

Now that's...a question that made him paused and think. This is why he starting to like Rip even more, because not even Integra asked him such a question. Integra already knows him in and out, and because of that, even his past isn't that all appealing to her. She cares about him, like two old friends, where he happily serve to her beck and call...but their friendship's true purpose it to the end the war, and that war with the Major...it the true last vampire war. After the war is over, there's no more of such a war left to exist. That kind of passion and gave is now left to humanity.

"... ... ...." At last he finally answers. "It doesn't matter. Just a guy who got his luck cursed for a long time and forget himself." He said, and he's telling the truth.

"When I come to this valley, I decided to bury my past in the mountains and start over. Back in the mountains is where I died, and here in this valley, I reborn. My past is dead."

At that he rose to his feet when she starting drinking in the blood. "So, who am I? I'm just Alucard, and I would like to be your mate."

She had been waiting for an answer as she drank and Rip couldn't deny she was feeling better than she had since their arrival. Animal blood really didn't satisfy her anymore, or even take the edge off her hunger like it used to before he found her.

Looking back, she should have realized that something was up when she had rid the farm of pest animals in less than a day, drinking the creatures dry and then feeding them to her houndour and he couldn't keep up with her.

Her attention drew back to Alucard when he finally spoke and explained that his past was dead and gone. That he was starting new here and in a way, so was she. No more hiding, no more being...lost.

But, hearing he wanted to be her mate? She froze, her eyes widening slightly. Considering she was already carrying his child...

She set down the bloodbag, only half consumed and looked up at him, studying him for several long moments before finally set it aside and got to her feet herself. Honestly, she was sizing him up a little. It was... instinct perhaps? They were a like in a lot of ways and yet so different.

He was her Master and now she was finally finding out what she really had the potential to be to him and she was thrilled.

"From zhe sounds of it, ve are both starting over here. My past vas left behind in Brazil vhen you removed me from zhere." Her voice was quiet, thoughtful and after a moment, Rip was walking around him only to stop back in front of him with a faint smile.

"I zhink, I vould like to haf you az my mate."

She still might need to drink animal blood or blood of the livestock from time to time as Alucard's found blood bags don't come often, but it wasn't in rare supply. He just happened to found it appearing in his fridge last night when he made a prayer to one of the shrines to the Harvest Goddess and he paid her his respects, and there it was.

"That sound like a good idea. As for the reasoning for my explanation, let say if I ask you the same question, I don't think you want to explain what kind of organization you used to work for. It's a past that you're not proud of, I think." After all, she doesn't need to explain what Nazis did in Germany and across Europe in World War II as there was a political and social desperation motivation for them to get organized during those times.

After some quiet, he seems calm and relaxed when she agreed to be his mate, Alucard wrapped his arms around her and hold her close to him. Since she accepted him as who he is in the present, Alucard trusted her that she didn't have any illusion about whom he is and not the man he was once.

Sin"Still, despite what I said if you wondering who I used to be. I used to be a knight. During the medieval times in the late 1400s. I would have a band of brothers and my subjects will fight with me in my armies against the enemy and followers of the Islamic faith and their empire. We were united together in faith to reclaim Jerusalem. At one point, I thought I can kill so many for the greater good for the Lord Almighty and found strength in the numbers of corpses I killed during those years, but that was my arrogance."

There are a sorrow and sadness in his story with regret. While his story isn't so close to what really happens, the story he gave her, he chose to go by that one, since it was much simpler version. Plus he hated to go down memory lane. The last person he told this story to is Integra, and she didn't quite believe him but decided not to press it. He only told her once, and afterward, she understood that he hate to repeat it.

"Anyway, if you're not doing anything else tonight, since we haven't share a bed since that day, I can move in with you. But only because if you're going to insist in working in broad daylight, then I'll be around to drag you back to the house to make sure you're safe. After all, I didn't do a good job to protect you as a mate."

Edited 2018-07-01 22:25 (UTC)

Rip settled into his arms and just listened as her hands rested against his chest. So he was a knight once upon a time, long before she was even born. For a moment it struck her as slightly funny that she was the younger one of the two of them. After all, Rip was only a little over a hundred years old. He was much, much older than her.

And yet, she didn't mind in the slightest and accepted what he chose to tell her about his past. Rip had a sneaking suspicion there was more to it than that and if the names she saw were true, then he really was leaving a fair amount out.

But, she also wasn't going to question his story and leave it alone. After all he made a good point. Rip didn't want to explain to anyone that she had been a Nazi at one point and what exactly that meant. It was something she wanted to leave far, far behind in the past where it belonged.

Though mentioning of him moving in.. she rolled her eyes at his reasoning. "Since you're my mate, I vouldn't haf you anyvhere else. But, good luck on stopping me from doing zomething I vant to do. Pregnant or not, I am vorking zhis farm until I can't anymore. "

He might find her stubbornness on that front a little trying at times.

"All the more reason why I should be around, monitoring you. You are carrying our first child after all."

Alucard found his paternal instincts, and with Rip? He's going need it now, knowing what kind of trouble she tends to push herself into.

"Hmm, luck you say?" Slight grin beneath that beard. "Well, you're not alone working on this farm. Not anymore."

It's that stubbornness that he found her the most attractive. One moment, he's holding her in his arms, and the next moment he's picking her in his arms, holding and carrying her bridal style.

"No mate of mine should work themselves to death." He said, and he carried her off inside of her home where she should be laying in her bed. "You should be resting and eat the right foods." He said, and with persuasion he lowered her on her bed gently.

She was about to protest that even in her state she didn't need help on her farm that is until she felt herself being picked up and carried bridal style in his arms. "I am fully capable of valking!" Even though she protested, she wasn't exactly fighting his hold on her and just let out a soft huff as she settled in his arms and leaned her head against his shoulder.

"I know I'm carrying our first child, but, I vould still razher vork until I can't anymore." Even if he was dead set on making sure she didn't work herself too hard in the mean time, Rip really was determined to work until she was bedridden if it came to that.

She rolled her eyes when he stated no mate of his was going to work themselves to death. She wasn't trying to! Rip just preferred hard work over making others doing it for her! And once she was settled into her bed, she huffed a bit and gazed up at him, tilting her head to the side slightly. If he intended on living her, they would need a bigger bed.. and a bigger house for their family in the long run.

"...Fine, but, zhat means you're stuck dealing vith me if I start craving zhings~."

Well, if she insisting on working herself to death, though she is already technically dead, that gives Alucard more reason to move in and take control over her estate. Rip's blood-lust and now being a work-addict? That won't do.

Bigger house, bigger bed, and all of those come in time.

"You should tell me then. I can get it for you. I shall see to it as my duty for now on. It's the least I can do." He said.

With a huff, the morning sun began to rise and he closed the windows and the shutters tightly to keep the room dark.

"And wear a dress for maternity." He commanded. "That belly of yours will get bigger. Whatever you're wearing now won't fit."

While he went around closing windows, Rip tried to stifle a yawn and settle into bed, laying on her side. The bed was a simple full sized bed. Both of them would fit, it would just be close and intimate. She didn't want to admit that with the approaching sun, she was starting to feel tired for once.

Usually she simply..didn't and kept working, only crashing every once in awhile in her exhaustion to rest for a few hours, maybe a day. But, somehow she doubted he would allow that.

"You're going to take being my mate seriously, aren't you. Get too serious und I'm kicking you out of zhe house for avhile." There was a hint of humor to her voice as she removed her glasses and set them on the night stand at her bedside. Without them, she was nearly blind, something he would know well.

"...Und I refuse to vear a maternity dress until I haf no choice. Right now, my clothes still fit zo I'm vearing zhem. Make any more fuss about it und I'll steal your clothes instead."

He took that as a challenge. "...heh. That won't be necessary if I have other business to attend to. After all, if you're serious about this running this farming business, I suggest you take up accounting and check your balances and finances. Running a farm takes the money and check your resources and I'm going to be your manager." And then with a laugh, "If your foot can reach me my rear." Alucard is taller than her by a few inches

Alucard sat on the bed, removed his boots. He's going to take a nap on this bed. "Hmm, now that's uncute, I rather say. I wouldn't mind seeing you wearing a dress or something feminine. I would think bringing you to this farm would make you change your mind and you'll work on your sweeter self."

Showing affection, he wrapped his arms around her to pull her into his embrace. "Come here Rip. I longed to hold you in my arms." Hnngh, she's quite thin to hold in his arms. "Did the blood bag filled you? You should eat and drink. The hard work requires a lot of energy."

Rip rolled her eyes. Yes, she knew running a farm took more than just working the fields. it took money, resources..and she winced at the idea of having to do the ledgers and accounting. She could learn, she just never thought she'd have to. But, Rip was serious about running her farm the way she wanted...

As for her being more feminine, she gave him a slight look of both annoyance and amusement as she settled into his arms. Yes, she was still thin now, but, that would probably change upon being forced to eat more and the natural way her body would fill out the further along in her pregnancy she got. "I vill think about a dress or two later, but, don't count on it being a daily thing. I'm still very fond of my suits und dress shirts." As for having enough to eat.. she nodded and pressed herself against his chest.

"I got plenty from zhe bloodbag earlier, promise. I'll try to remember to eat more for zhe both of us."

"If you continue to neglect yourself and be buried in your work again..." Though she probably works this hard to strive for a future she can be proud of, considering their pasts are dark and nothing to be proud of. "And let yourself be burned by the sun, I swear, I'll have to do this every day to make sure you're all right in one piece." And that means poor Alucard has to endure the sun for her sake too.

And the thing is, he didn't mind it at this point. At least, they'll be burning together this time. "Good." Well, time for that nap. But not before, he gave her a soft kiss to make her go to sleep. "Sweet dreams, my dear huntress."

He was right, she wanted something she could be proud of instead of the dark past they both had. Rip wanted something that was hers..and that desire fueled itself into this farm and it being more theirs than just hers in the long run. A future that was built on hard work and who knows what else!

She just snorted softly at his determination to keep her safe even from herself and her own self-destructive work habits. "Zhen you may just haf to do zhat~. I never said being my mate vould be easy after all." it was a tease more than a challenge.

As for the kiss, she was happy to receive it as she settled against him with a slight yawn. "Sweet dreams my Dark Hunter...hopefully you vill be here vhen I vake." She rested her head against him as her eyes closed and within a few minutes fell asleep, one of the few rare and peaceful sleeps that often eluded her during the day.

There's a chuckle. "Over the centuries, I learned that I don't like it easy and take things the hard way." He's being honest and candid, and that shows a lot of himself began to trust her.

"I'll be here. If I'm not, it will ignite my passions if you come chasing after me with a gun." But that wouldn't be necessary since for months, they are together side by side, and he's the one who begins to see her frequently, chasing after her, bit by bit...until no guns need to be raised at point blank range. And if he's away, he's away doing business around the valley.

"Hm..." A soft purr, he caressed through her black hair. If they have peaceful days like these, he hoped it never ends, as sleep soon followed with the peaceful quiet darkness in the room.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Video]

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject