#vampires and robots
Content Warnings: non-sexual nudity, reluctant caretaker, death mention/threat, injury, possession, ghosts, drugging, mute-ish (?) whumpee, obedience - If you want anything generally CW’d, just ask :)
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Theo sat in the potion shop under his house with a crossbow in his lap, a drink in his hand, and hundreds of grasshoppers at his feet.
He was sitting next to his phone - it was made out of dark wood and affixed to the wall.
“Here are a few searches related to yours,” the phone said. The earpiece had a mouth, but Theo was careful to hold it away from his ear, because this phone’s mouth was full of very sharp teeth. “How to kill a golem. How to kill a cursed doll. How to get a cursed doll to fall in love with you.”
“That’s not what I asked,” huffed Theo. “I asked ‘how to kill a possessed human cursed to be a doll.’”
The phone paused. Then, “Do you want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days?”
Theo swore and hung up the phone, then finished his drink. “I’m just going to shoot it,” he said aloud. “If it’s possessed, I’ll figure out how to kill the poltergeist later.”
Several hundred grasshoppers watched him.
“It doesn’t matter how injured they are,” he said to the grasshoppers. “They summoned music out of nowhere! Curses and poltergeists can be contagious - and they’re full of wires.”
A grasshopper jumped onto his sleeve and Theo shook it off with a stern “No.”
He stared at the grasshoppers, then sighed. “Fine. I will consider helping them, alright? But only because I’m curious what they are. Maybe they’re just cursed, and their family’s curse isn’t on record somehow - but I’m bringing the crossbow.”
Theo stood up gracefully, shouldered the crossbow, and tried to stomp his heeled boot on a grasshopper (He missed. He always missed).
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Afternoon fluttered their eyes open.
The bathwater was cold now, and they had slipped all the way under it. It’s okay, they thought. I only breathe to express myself. I don’t need to.I’m waterproof. They smiled.
The water swirled above them and shimmered beautifully, and Afternoon thought they must look very pretty under the water. Delicate from being injured. Sparkly, soft and shivering from the cold.
This is amazing o.o and so unique and I love it and I can’t wait to see what happens between these two. Aahhh!
