Random OneShots

I heard you complaining

By: TaylorSabrine on Ao3

Saphael

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'He was running as fast as he can, but it still wasn't enough. He could feel the other's arms around his neck, the cold blade right next to his throat. His aggressor spiked the metal into his body, letting his warm blood stream down on the ground. He could feel that he's getting weaker and weaker and soon all he could see is dark. He felt like he was dead, but he could still feel the pain, so overwhelming he wanted to scream and he did but he couldn't hear himself and someone was shouting and shouting at him, but he couldn't make out the words. It hurt too much...'

"Simon! Dios, Simon, wake up!" The boy beneath him was crying silently and it broke Raphael's heart.

He shook Simon a bit stronger and the fledgling finally opened his eyes, although he was still crying. He clung to the elder vampire and buried his head into the crock of his neck.

"Shhhh, it was just a nightmare, it's over now." Raphael couldn't tell how long they stayed like this, but the boy eventually calmed down and fell asleep again. Raphael gently laid him down on the bed and flicked hair from his forehead. Then he left to his work. When Simon woke up the next night he thought it must have been a dream. Raphael would never be that kind and gentle to him.

The leader's cold attitude just confirmed that.

***

It was two day later, when it happened again. Raphael wasn't surprised. At first, he considered staying in bed, he would do that if it was about any other vampire, but this annoying fledgling was somehow... special. It hurt him physically, that the boy was experiencing such a pain at such an young age. But it was a frequent thing, the nightmares, even for the older vampires. Their families, feelings they had before death, digging their way out of the grave, their guilt, their pain.

Even Raphael had nightmares. They all had to handle them. But the way his boy was whimpering, the way he was screaming or crying silently... He couldn't stand it. So he got up and speeded to boy's room.

All he had to do after calming Simon down, was pretending that nothing happened and that it was all in fledgling's imaginary.

***

Something was wrong.

It was just too quiet. For the past few days, the boy's room was quiet all the time and the boy was isolating from the entire clan. Even when he passed someone in the kitchen while eating, or when he was training with his leader, the boy kept quiet. He stopped joking around, laughing, he wouldn't look Raphael in the eyes. All his free time he would spend locked in his room. At first, Raphael wanted to give the younger one space, maybe Simon was just grieving not being human anymore? But eventually, the clan leader had enough.

It was a shitty night for him, he had to deal with some rogue vampires, fill tons of the paperwork and stand the others talking how much they are worried about the fledgling. So once he was done with everything, everybody was fast asleep, but he didn't care.

He slammed the door behind himself and stormed into Simon's room. He thought he'd need to wake the boy up, but, to his surprise, the fledgling was wide awake, looking at him with his big, bleary eyes. And he looked fucking tired. Raphael wanted to scream.

"We need to talk. Now!" Within a second he was back in his room, the boy slowly going after him.

He did his best, and yet he still managed to annoy Raphael. But he was keeping quiet, he stopped disturbing everyone and he wasn't waking them up with his screams at night anymore. He heard them complaining about it lately, so he stopped. He told Raphael as much, but it only seemed to annoy the older one even more.