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

Chapter 124 - Panic! At The Disco

Allen P.O.V.

Here's my little girl babbling nonsense as her body slowly began to sweat from every pore while I could do nothing but watch as she slowly began to fade into a deep sleep. I recall Leone saying we should get her to a bedroom and make her more comfortable followed by a flurry of movement as several people whisked by me toward the stairs. Vlad placed his hand on my shoulder to jolt me back to the situation.

"She's going to be fine, Allen," he tried to reassure me. "She most likely got one of those migraines like she used to get. Remember telling us that?"

"Oh, uh, yes. I do recall that," I stuttered out. I had told them about how she used to get a headache that would lay her low for hours before she became a vampire, and also recall them telling me that she could have the same thing happen even though she had been turned.

"Then don't worry too much, friend. She should be just fine in a few hours."

I tried to take comfort in his words as I made my way up those stairs to look in on her, but there was something else that just niggled at my brain and wouldn't leave me alone. Something that had me worried more about how she would feel when she awoke. I couldn't put my finger on it, but it was there, almost as if it were making fun of me by staying just out of reach of reason. I shook it off and made my way into the room where my little glowworm was nestled into bed with a blanket drawn up to her chin and found myself waxing nostalgic.

I remembered when she was little and would get sick. Her mother wanted nothing to do with her and would leave her to her own devices, but I would go in to give her medicine to make her feel better or make her some rice porridge with leeks to help her get better. (If you know this reference, you're beyond awesome!) I'd sit by her bed with a bowl of cool water to wipe her down and change her pajamas when she'd sweat out some of the sickness and a book to read to her so she could go back to sleep. She wouldn't get too sick when she was a child, but I tried to help her as much as I could before I was driven from that house.

Sitting next to her with that bowl of cool water Lisa brought in made me sad and angry. The thought that after I left that house Y/N would have to struggle to make herself better since her birth unit and sibling would do nothing to help angered me. At them and myself. I felt that I'd been so selfish when I left that house. I left my little glowworm to suffer in a house of horrors with two people who wouldn't give a squirt of piss if she were on fire. I could have taken her with me. I should have taken her with me. Instead I'm full of regrets and anger.

"Allen," I heard Lisa whisper toward me, "don't feel bad about this. You're brooding and I can tell."

"I can't help it," I whispered back. She grasped my shoulders to lead me out of the chair and out of the room. I followed along blindly until we got back to the table where everyone else had sat.

"You shouldn't be so maudlin over this, Allen," she said louder now that we were out of the room. "Regrets of the past aren't going to help her now, so forget them."

"I can assure you she doesn't hold a grudge against you," Adrian added.

"I've never seen her this sick," I said. "She's had headaches and been sick before, but never to this extent. I just feel like I've left her alone to deal with this stuff in a place where no one else would dream of helping her."

"Well, everyone could seethe stress compounding on her," Leone said before Hugue rejoined the group. "It isn't like this wasn't in the realm of possibilities. It may be her body just said 'you know what? Fuck it', and just took her out of everything by force."

"And regardless of what happened in the past, I'm certain she would never hold that against you," Adrian added. "She's never blamed you for leaving before, so you shouldn't let that be your burden. She's outspoken enough, so if she were going to hold a grudge you'd know about it already."

"This is very true," I had to acknowledge and did so with a chuckle. "I guess its just me feeling a little bad about being helpless to help her. She's sick as a dog and all I can do is let her sleep."

"But Allen, that's all any of us can do," Hugue said. I looked up into the stoic man's face and saw a level amount of worry in his eyes, but he was right. There was nothing we could do but wait. It still didn't make me feel any better, but at least I wasn't the only one thinking this. I decided that the only thing I could do was make her some rice and leek porridge like I used to when she was sick. We then all sat at the table and nibbled on the offerings therein, chatting about what we should be finishing up for the wedding and discussing the other items we'd need for Ryan and Gregory's wedding, when we heard Y/N stirring upstairs. Adrian excused himself from the table and rushed to her side while the rest of us waited.

Alucard P.O.V.

Rushing up the stairs I saw weird colored lights flashing through the door and onto the walls of the hall. I could hear loud music suddenly blare from within and a screech of distress come from my beloved. Rushing round the corner I stopped in my tracks and tried like hell not to laugh as Y/N sat in the center of the bed waving her arms like a lunatic while a miniature disco party ball that shoots lights all over spun wildly, spitting out the chorus of 'I Write Sins, Not Tragedies'.

"Turn it off! Turn it off!" she wailed as she grabbed a pillow and thrust it down over her ears. I couldn't hold in the chuckle as I made my way over to the night table and turned off the miniature disco ball. I could hear her growling at me as I sat down next to her.

"Laughing at me, are you?" she pouted and rammed into my shoulder with her own. I tried to wrap my arm around her shoulder to pull her closer only to have her swat my hand away.

"Come on, honey," I said through a laugh, "you have to see how silly you looked. You were swinging your arms over your head like the little points of light were mosquitoes or something. I couldn't help but laugh."

"I know I looked silly, but why'd you have laugh at me? You know I only did it because I'm in pain."

"How are you feeling, by the way?" I asked. Y/N's form instantly deflated and a whine could be heard.

"I'm so embarrassed," she said sadly. "I threw up on Hugue, I passed out and had to be carried up here like a rag doll." She leaned against me and quietly sobbed for a few moments, her body shaking with every hiccup, and I rubbed her back protectively. That was until she stopped short and sat upright.

"What's wr-"

"Shh!" she hissed. "Do you hear that?" I furrowed my brow and tried to hear what she heard.

"I hear nothing," I admitted. She huffed angrily and grasped my hand.

"Listen." she said in a whisper while putting my hand to her head. I slowed my breathing down and began listening through her ears. And there it was. This pulse. Fast. It sounded like a hundred hummingbirds beat their wings all at the same time.

"What is that?" I asked, my words barely able to make their way out.

"Its.....a heartbeat," she said with wonder. "Its a strong heartbeat."

"Where's it coming from?" I asked dumbfounded. Her answer was a breathy laugh and a hand that led my own to her.....

Stomach.

And once it was there, I could feel that heartbeat against my fingertips. Involuntarily, I gasped with laughter and my eyes gathered tears. Happy ones.