alusion (because the world needed it)

*electricity

an unfinished old fic that i added onto instead of studying for finals.  end me, please
category: oneshot
word count: 1819

The sky wasn't exactly clear, as a few clouds littered around in the sky.  Nothing that immediately sent off warning bells in Gusion's mind that a storm was coming.

Oh, how wrong he was going to be.

As usual, Gusion was doing his daily chat with Alucard, something he'd been doing for some time now.  He'd thought he'd have been ignored by now, deemed too 'annoying' by Alucard by now as well, but, well, such didn't seem to be the case, fortunately enough.  Not that Gusion was complaining, though.

They'd been talking for quite some time now, with Gusion lazing on a chair nearby the couch Alucard was sitting on.  And then there was a rumble of thunder, which made Gusion pause in his sentence, mentally swearing.

"Y'know, cliffhangers don't really work in conversations."  Alucard said, a bit of annoyance in his tone.  Huh, maybe the other was actually paying attention to what he was saying.

"I mean, I don't know, you seem to be filled with suspense right now."  Gusion joked, forcing a grin onto his face and trying to ignore the unease settling into him.

"Oh, wow, you're so funny."  Alucard drawled out, sarcasm dripping from his words.  "Just continue."

"Fine, fine,"  Gusion chuckled.  "So, as I was saying before my failure of my cliffhanger, the grandma then decided to-"  Once again, another rumble of thunder rolled through the sky louder than the last one -- way louder.  The storm was closer, way closer.   Gusion took a glance outside the window -- a dark had covered the most of the sky, the front of the storm already past them.  The sky was growing darker by the second and then -

A lightning strike.

Unwillingly, Gusion flinched, his grip tightening on the arm of the chair as his chest tightened.

"Gusion?"  Alucard asked, a bit of concern laced into his words.  Subtle, but there.

Gusion blinked before giving a nod.  "Yeah-- yeah, I-- the storm just startled me, that's all."  He answered, trying to sound nonchalant.  He would be fine, he just had to ignore the storm, ignore the flashes of -

Another rumble, followed almost immediately by a flash of lightning.

This time a yelp of sorts left him and he shut his eyes.  God, he could feel the marks on his skin, the scars left by the electricity used by the Elders.  They burned, oh God, they burned -- this couldn't be happening in front of Alucard, oh, shit, he couldn't be panicking right now -

"Gusion?"  The worry was clear in Alucard's voice--it was so unusual for the usual stotic man.

Gusion's eyes snapped open, body tense as he tried to even out his breathing.  "Fine, fine, fine-"

Another loud rumble, another strike of lightning.

Gusion immediately screwed his eyes shut, placing his hand over his mouth to muffle the cry that left his mouth. 

"Gusion -- shit, are you -?"  Alucard had shot upwards, realizing the problem here.

"Lightning."  Gusion said, bringing the hand off his mouth--was he shaking?--to explain, offering another forced grin to Alucard.  If he had enough time to focus on something other than the fear coursing through his veins right now he'd feel extremely embarrassed--after all, what idiot has a fear of lightning?  Such a stupid fear -

Sometime during his mental conversation, Alucard had gotten up off of the couch and was now standing in front of Gusion.  "Hey, hey, it's alright."  He softly said in an attempt to soothe the fearing man in front of him.  He gently reached out and touched Gusion's shoulder, who flinched, not expecting the touch.