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lestat de lioncourt. ([personal profile] damnedest) wrote2024-10-19 07:25 pm
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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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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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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-25 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Is he angry? Truly?

Louis has been provoked. There is some hot, furious feeling in him that Lestat feeds, and the flickering recollection of Lestat's dressing room, their argument, the fracture of it, is drowned out under the application of teeth and tongue, the insistence of each kiss. If there was a hope of restraint, the intention of collecting himself Louis had grasped at when they'd left the club, it is dwindling down to nothing.

And there is what is always true: Louis wants him. Has been wanting him. Has wanted Lestat for near a century and more.

Lestat, who makes these familiar sounds and Louis feels the vibration of them in his chest. It's a wholly separate ache from the determined fight Louis puts up as Lestat pins him more securely, wrangles Louis through the wild twists and bucking attempts at evasion.

Bites down hard on Lestat's lower lip, comes away red-mouthed and panting and still straining within Lestat's grasp. No sign of yielding, considering the likelihood of escape.

If he wants to escape, truly, beyond stubborn inclination towards a struggle.
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[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-25 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
They are supposed to be doing something else. Friendship.

Instead, Lestat's hips roll down and Louis bites his own tongue, stifles whatever sound might come at the application of pressure in a rush of blood. He is helplessly hard, nothing to be done for it. It is as it always was: they want each other. Louis wants Lestat.

His arms burn, half-healed wounds and overstrained muscle aggravated once more. Louis struggles still, even as Lestat firms up his grip. Even as Lestat lays him out.

Maybe he is proving a point. Maybe this is all play. Maybe both.

Louis shakes his head. Can't open his mouth for fear the sounds that fall from his lips would betray him. Ragged breaths, still twitching towards any possibility of reversing their positions and coming up empty handed.

Old games. They stopped playing them even before Louis cut Lestat's throat.

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