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the vampire armand. ([personal profile] beigest) wrote in [personal profile] damnedest 2024-08-19 08:13 am (UTC)

His fledgling is very clever. Maybe they could both do with listening to him a little more. Louis should not be doing this. Armand should try psilocybin.

The burning feeling stings something deep. Armand grips the windowsill. He wants to assert— Yes, he has, yes, he has only reached out to Molloy, who isn't harmed, who is better, and Louis should be grateful because he didn't have to take this on himself. But this train of thought jumbles together with Armand imagining Louis having done it, they way they discussed, and it fills him with a bizarre and awful anxiety.

He tries to say 'Fine, have it your way', tries to concede, even lie about it. Just end this conversation and move on, be more careful. But anger stirs, then stirs a little more, and he touches the severed thing in his head left by Marius, who he knows isn't dead, and he compares it to the connection with his fledgling, his fledgling, and he feels nauseous.

'Yes.'

One word, and his distance remains, but he sounds angry. Yes, he has left Louis alone. Yes, he is still contacting Daniel sometimes, yes, he will continue, yes, he did all of it, yes, he knew the whole time.

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