Arcane: Vander X Male! Topsider! Reader

Part 4

After a few hours and a couple more drinks you were decently tipsy and attempted to pay and leave, yet Vander stopped you, giving you a stern look as the patrons began to file out, the bar beginning to close "I'm not lettin' a drunk topsider walk around on his own, you're staying here till I clean up then I'm taking you back topside." he huffed as he walked around the wide bar, picking up glasses and cups that were dumped by drunken patrons, you huff, your head down on the bar top, your empty glass beside you as you grumble "I don' need help..." Vander huffs out a chuckle and shakes his head as he wipes down tables and collects up rubbish and cups.

Vander continuously checks up on you while he's cleaning up, making sure you haven't puked yet or passed out while he's not looking, after a few minutes he finishes up by wiping down the bar top and making sure the sign was turned off so no one tried to enter while he was dragging you home, eventually he walks over to you and huffs out a laugh at your pissed drunk state "you're a fuckin' disgrace you know that?" He teases as he tosses one of your arms over his shoulders and wraps his free arm around your waist to keep you standing as You stumble and drunkenly slur something about being fine.

As he leaves the Last Drop with you in tow, he checks around for anyone that would do you harm, keeping a close eye out as he drags you through the bustling Under City and into the elevator "you know... I think you're alrigh'. Even if you are a topsider... and a lightweight that can't hold his whiskey..." he says absentmindedly as the elevator ascends with you leaning heavily on Vander for support, making Vander look down at you with a soft smile on his worn features, finding the way you cling to him like a drunk baby kind of endearing despite him being the one pulling you home by your arm.

As he sneaks through the academy district you stumble after him, mumbling unintelligibly every now and again, all the while he's attempting to avoid detection as a big man dragging a drunk academy student behind him towards the boy's dorm. Eventually he finds your dorm and open the door only to be met with yet another obstacle, the massive growling mutt perched on the sofa, guarding the dorm as was his duty, Vander carefully put his hands up, only for your drunken ass to run past him and jump on the sofa, giggling as you nuzzle up to the canine, causing the poor mutt to stop growling at the burly man now stood in your doorway and look at you with a tilted head.

"juliuss! oh your s-so soft..." you giggle out drunkenly as Vander chuckles and shuts the front door, sitting in an armchair just to make sure you're not doing anything stupid while intoxicated. he chuckles and shakes his head, pointing to you as the dog looks at him "he's an idiot. i should've stopped servin' him after his second" the dog tilts his head as he listens, the mirth in the older man's voice completely lost on the mutt, but not your intoxicated mind, causing you to giggle and laugh at his tone, your arms falling loosely around your dog as you lay back on the plush sofa.

After a small moment Vander sighs and stands as you slowly begin to fall asleep, too much of a drunken idiot to drag yourself to your bed, Vander turns and looks at your trusty dog as he prepares to leave and sneak back into the undercity so he can see his children to bed. "Keep him from burnin' the place down, right?" he says, urning a head tilt from the dog, before he left, making sure the door is fully closed before he began sneaking back to the undercity, all while you pass out cold from the four drinks you drank... 

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