have u considered Alfred watching Graf sleep

fish-d:

oh boy have i ever

so okay. this is a bunch of stuff extrapolated from a lot of weepy late-night conversations with @penhales about our beautiful beautiful boys, but –

early in the course of their relationship, after they’ve started sleeping together but before they’ve really talked about it (bc as much as they enjoy each other’s company, i definitely think they’d be more inclined to form a physical relationship before a truly romantic one, because Anxiety and Commitment Issues and Sex is Easier, particularly for krolock), alfred wakes up just as the sun has gone down & while krolock’s still asleep

and its the first time alfred’s really seen him properly vulnerable since that night in the crypt – because alfred’s already seen krolock asleep, and that was when he was holding a stake the wrong way round over his goddamn heart. this is a moment, for both of them, even if krolock isn’t conscious for it. he trusts alfred enough to be asleep around him, even with alfred having come so close to literally murdering him

so alfred’s just laying there, in the lamplight, watching krolock. maybe his hair has started to come out of its braid, maybe there’s stubble on his cheeks, maybe his eyelids are twitching because he’s in the middle of a dream, and alfred doesn’t see the Graf von Krolock or a vampire lord – just. a man. a father, a widow, someone alfred’s been intimate with, and maybe – maybe someone he wants to be with for a really long time. maybe forever.

(also krolock snores when he sleeps on his back, and there’s the tea)