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lestat de lioncourt. ([personal profile] damnedest) wrote2024-10-19 07:25 pm
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-21 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
A flicker of humor in Louis' face. A verb. He can choose to find that funny instead of letting it prickle at his pride.

He also must decide what kind of answer he should give to the question Lestat is posing.

His thumb lifts. Drags along Lestat's lower lip, smearing the blood there even further.

"You got a car waiting still?"

Practicality.

Even if Louis were making reckless decisions, they probably shouldn't make out in a burning building
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Somewhere, Rachida is dialing Christine on her phone while a flurry of legal papers are drafted and readied to be dispersed.

Outside the club, Lestat leads Louis by the hand out of the fire, out of the club, through a crowd of mortals scrambling for cell phones with clumsy fingers. Louis is aware of pictures, turning only to bare gold-capped fangs at the bold enough to dare reaching out to them seeking Lestat's attention.

The interior of the limousine smells of blood and drugs. Of unfamiliar bodies. Of a kind of party Louis knows but hasn't engaged in for decades.

Lestat gets in, and Louis follows after, sliding across plush leather. The door closes, muffling the sounds of people shouting Lestat's name. Louis looks at him, eyes dark still, rapt even as adrenaline ebbs and injuries make themselves known.

"You gotta wait for your band?"

Louis would like the answer to be no but steels himself for yes.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-23 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Louis observes him as if from far away, time slowing around them. Lestat lowers his head, lifts Louis' arm and Louis knows what he doing and doesn't draw his arm away.

Like on the mangled balcony with two corpses at their feet, watching Lestat suck blood off his fingers, Louis simply watches. Feels his body catch fire.

The application of lips to the gouge in his skin drags sound from Louis. Stifled, almost a moan, tamped down into a ragged scrape of breath. His fingers flex, tighten and loosen and tighten again, knuckles grazing Lestat's chest. A sense of fabric, speckled with blood.

"Lestat," falls out of Louis' mouth.

Like Louis should have been gripping his chin, thumbing at his lower lip, Lestat shouldn't be touching him this way.

He'd been provoking Louis before. Louis is uncertain if this is better.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-23 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
All his resolve, all his good intentions—

Lestat puts his mouth, lips and tongue, to Louis' skin and Louis forgets everything that isn't him.

Long moments looking at Lestat's bloody face, the slice of blue in his eyes. Breathing. Feeling the lock-thud of their heartbeats.

Eventually: "My fingers work fine."

His voice sounds so ragged.

A true answer. Rubbing away wounds with cut fingertips, drinking down blood after to erase any lingering shadowed evidence of the injury. It's served.

It is nothing compared to this. Lestat keeps hold of his arm. Louis lets him. The car is moving and Louis doesn't know where they're going like he doesn't know what they're doing.

"I handle it."

Reassurance? Provocation? Even Louis can't say for certain.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-23 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
It is needling. Bracing, in a way, even as Louis feels as if he's sinking, the air between them molten as Lestat tongues a second wound higher up his arm. Being needled doesn't banish any feeling in Louis' body. It stokes the heat. Always has.

"If you'd given me five minutes, I'd have finished the other," Louis asserts. Believes it to be true. "I done it before."

Regularly. But how regularly isn't necessary in this moment.

"You don't believe me?"
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-23 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
When did Lestat get so close?

Treading over delicate ground, nettled and desirous and in pain. His fingers turn, catching hold of Lestat by the front of his shirt.

"You gonna make me?" Louis murmurs into the space between them. Everything smells of Lestat. Of blood. Intoxicating.

He'd kept all of it from Lestat. As much as he could. Lestat couldn't hear Louis' challenge, flung into the night. Lestat hasn't seen the aftermath, what takes place beyond the glare of his stardom. Louis had preferred it that way. His burdens to bear. His war, his scuffles and fights.

Louis' knuckles press down, feeling Lestat's breath rising and falling. Teetering between pushing him away and dragging him closer.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-24 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Bitten. A sharp jolt of sensation, distinct from the pain left by rising bruises and the dig of claws. Lestat bites him and Louis feels all his blood rushing up to meet the sting of fangs.

His grip tightens so hard at Lestat's shirt. Welcoming.

What a quick slide from their carefully established distance and boundaries to this.

Louis bites him back, with marks Lestat's teeth ringing his cheek dripping blood. Driven only by instinct, by wanting his teeth in Lestat's skin. They're kissing and Louis bites down on his lower lip and his mouth is awash in blood. Yanking on fabric hard enough that it gives way, drawing Lestat into him.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-24 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Had Lestat groaned this way in his dressing room, that night where they'd come all apart? Maybe. Louis doesn't remember. Has only a fleeting thought of it, there and gone, as Lestat gives him a thigh and Louis arches up against it. His back meets leather. Lestat is hard against his hip.

They shouldn't be doing this.

They are doing this.

They are doing this?

A hiss, injuries aggravated by sudden movement, but Louis is already grabbing at Lestat. Ruined vest tossed down to the floor of the limo and forgotten as Louis bites him again, sucks at his tongue.

No thank you offered, only the increasingly furious grasp of hands and draw of limbs, trapping Lestat in close as they kiss, snap, scrape, struggle,falling into each other.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-24 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose he thought if he
exposed all his power to me, I would never feel his equal and
the relationship would suffer.


A theory. Louis felt it held weight. Has thought of it often in the passing years, more some decades than others and then less since the turning of the millennium. Lestat's restraint. Why he exerted it. What he hoped would come of it.

Here, now, Lestat pushes and Louis struggles, fights Lestat's grasp and the pinning pressure he exerts. Not above tricks, arching his hip up into Lestat's to distract as he twists in his grasp. The second time tonight, being grappled by the arms. Pain in this too, but it is not a deterrent, only a new dimension of sensation as Lestat pins his arms over his head.

They played like this in New Orleans, with what must have been barely a fraction of Lestat's strength. Old games, new context. Louis twists bodily beneath him, tasting blood. Biting again, Lestat's chin and jaw, one leg bracing on the floor in search of some leverage as Louis snipes up, "You think this is all it takes?"

In a fight? No. But when it is them, when it's Lestat—

Well.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-24 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
If it's matched strength, Louis cannot win.

In other scuffles, Louis takes care to make sure it never comes down to simply matched strength. He creates favorable conditions. He burns those who would pin him down.

He doesn't wish to burn Lestat. And his favorable conditions here are only the distraction he creates with the upward drive of his hips and the snap of his teeth.

Panting, stubborn, aching, Louis shakes his head. Bares his teeth back up to Lestat, bloody mouth and gold-glinting fangs, no indication that pinned hands has persuaded him as he rocks upwards.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-24 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
All these things in combination: the bruising grip of Lestat's hands, the application of weight and friction, Lestat himself.

It is undoing. It would be undoing if Louis were even an iota less stubborn than he is, and even then—

He still moans through the sensation, gritting teeth, squirming for purchase as his heel scrapes along the plush carpet on the floor of the limousine. Useless leverage. It gives him nothing but better purchase through which to receive Lestat's ministrations.

"This ain't gonna do it."

Denial still. A game of keep away, another old favorite.

Louis still twisting against Lestat's grasp. Less a bid for freedom than it is a reassurance of how well he is caught. Familiar. They are so changed but see how much of them remains, see what is still here even after almost a century apart.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-24 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A passing attempt to buck Lestat off, thwarted by the lack of torque in these turns. A limousine isn't built for speed, doesn't provide the momentum Louis needs to unseat Lestat.

"Fuck you," is unimaginative, panted out while Louis tries to regroup.

Lestat is an impossible distraction. Louis' mouth is full of his blood and his senses are so occupied by his closeness. Lestat over him and focused on him and flushed with pleasure and infuriating.

They aren't supposed to be doing this.

Louis arches up to snap his teeth at him anyway, seeking to draw blood once more.

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