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“Yeah I know, I know.” He groaned in frustration. “Yes Adalwolf I know. I'm not some baby any more okay?” He rubbed a hand across his face tugging at his hair. “I'm sorry.. I'm not doing alright I'm still dealing with it. Just stop treating me like a child please? I'm still an adult, I still have a kid, I'm just missing my husband.” Walking past a doorway on his way to make sure his daughter was in bed he paused. There's no way he saw what he thinks he saw, it's just his mind playing tricks. Stepping back to the doorway he stared, taking a breath and closing his eyes before opening them again. Only for the person to still be sitting there, a small smile on their, on his face. “Wolfy. Wolf, I have to go. I'll call you back soon, I promise.” He hung up, putting the phone in his pocket as he moved forward.
“Hey Hartmut.” The male smiled, Hartmut stopped glancing over his face.
“I saw you die. I. I watched you get buried.” He quickly sputtered out.
“I did, you did.”
“Albert. If it's really you. Tell me something only my husband would know.” Hartmut tried to make his voice sound hard, distant.
“Well Cecilia is our only child, she was born male.” Albert started.
“Our entire family knows that.”
“You wanted more than one baby, but we're only able to get one child. The adoption center refuses to allow you to adopt another because they believe your influence has ‘damaged’ poor little ‘Chris’.” Albert continued as if the other didn't speak, adding in finger quotations when needed. “When we first got together you were so nervous about how your family would respond, and the world. But you said I love you first, under an oak tree after we spent all day laying around and messing with fake tree house designs. I didn't say I love you back until nearly a year later, you were so happy you cried.”
“God Albert. I missed you so much. How. Why aren't you dead?” Hartmut had tears in his eyes, his voice thick.
“So I maybe am a vampire? Turns out I was murdered by one but some fluid exchange happened and it turned me.”
“Why did you wait so long?” Hartmut asked.
“I didn't know I was alive, I couldn't speak or see. And then all of the sudden I heard beating, almost like drums. It was a couple of animals, that I may or may not of attacked.” Albert sounded sheepish. “But then I came home, helped Cecilia get ready for bed, and waited for you to show yourself.”
“I really shouldn't let a vampire stay in the house with my daughter but. I'm willing to make an exception, if you're willing to be the father you were before? Well work out the kinks and story later. I just missed you so much.”
“Dad?” They both paused when they heard a soft voice, turning they saw Cecilia.
“Hey pumpkin, did you miss me?” Albert smiled, holding out his arms.
“Dad! Daddy said you were dead, that I would never see you again?” Cecilia sounded excited and confused, looking between them after she ran towards her father. “I thought it was a dream, that you came back.”
“No it wasn't sweetie, I'm right here. I promise I'll never leave you again.” Albert looked over to Hartmut, he had his phone pulled out and against his ear.
“You'll never believe this but I'm not a widow anymore.” Hartmut grinned towards his little family, laughing at Adalwolf’s confused questions before responding. “He’s alive, well dead. He's a vampire, but he's still my husband.”