#Vigilantes seeing frazzled not-quite human looking dad feed the kids his blood: We’ve connected the dots

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 287

“Bleh,” Danny stuck his tongue out, nose scrunching at the taste of blood. “Ma’ nose ‘s bleedin’!” he complained, utterly offended that it had been from ducking into a wall and not something like a fight. But also incredibly concerned about how dripping blood everywhere meant dripping literal poison. 

Jordan snorted and Vlad cursed under his breath, a napkin already in his claws. Curse these tinier bodies, but at least it was better than being a toddler. But they were still so fragile compared to how he’d been at 14 that it was annoying! 

And okay, they didn’t have a lot of choices being on the run, but still. Could be worse with how close their cores had come to cracking. They could have shattered instead of both halves bleeding across to the other. 

And look he’d never thought he’d be on the run with Vlad and Dan and Ellie but… He didn’t want to think about it. Danny grumbled as his face was wiped, but it was better than leaving traces of their presence, crime-ridden area or no. 

Ancients this was a mess. They were all exhausted and injured and had already fled across several states, backtracking and leading false trails when they could. They hadn’t eaten much, not gotten a chance to besides what they could steal on the way, avoiding any sort of cameras or being spotted in general.

“Ellie ‘s hungry,” Dan spoke up, practically tattling on their now-younger sister who had gotten in the habit of not mentioning when she was, despite being the youngest and needing the most food of them all. And that was without even starting on her medical issues. 

Vlad cursed again under his breath, biting into his wrist. “Not too fast,” he grunted as crimson ecto dripped from the wound. Ellie latched on immediately with her own grumble, glaring at Dan before she did. The oldest halfa half picked her up onto his hip, motioning the both of them closer. 

“Both of you too,” his voice was no-nonsense, the one that promised that he would force-feed them ecto so they didn’t collapse again, despite it only happening once. Stupid Vlad somehow actually being a good caretaker during this entire bullshit.