damnedest: (Default)
lestat de lioncourt. ([personal profile] damnedest) wrote2024-10-19 07:25 pm
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-26 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
All their good intentions, left somewhere in the rear view. Lost in that moment on the balcony when Lestat touched him, when Louis touched him back.

Louis has some awareness of it. Can't hold onto it firmly enough. Louis had barely asked and Lestat gives him this, touches him. Is bitten again for his efforts, Louis' teeth at his jaw, moan muffled against his skin.

And he can't stop moving, restless twitches and shifts into all the places they touch, testing Lestat's hold and finding it unyielding.

"Like that," panted out, Louis' head falling back to the leather seat. Outside the window streetlights fly by. Louis isn't sure of where they're going, can't bring himself to care. Lestat touches him and his whole body jolts, alight.

They aren't supposed to be doing this.

The thought slips away as Louis crushes Lestat back into a kiss.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't go unnoticed, the tone in Lestat's voice. It cuts. Needles. Louis feels himself flushing, hot burning hotter. Shame. Stung over the mockery, hurt that feeds annoyance, frustration. Stokes the feverish, stubborn movement of his body, the snap of teeth up after Lestat's withdrawing mouth. Audible sound of teeth, gold flashing up at Lestat from bared fangs.

Can't catch his breath. A flash of consideration: Lestat has fucked mortal after mortal after mortal, and there has been no one for Louis but Lestat. If they aren't kissing it is harder to bite back the sounds Lestat is dragging out of him as he grips them both, moves into the tight circle of his hand.

Louis' fingers twist in his hair. Pulling. Everything is heat and blood and pain and pleasure and Louis feels like they are burning. Burning together.

"Don't fuckin' do that."

But it is all they do. Old games. Winding each other up. Lestat had taken to it the very first moment they'd met, needling and pushing.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Words said in the heat of the moment, yes. But words that will linger. Louis will hold onto them. Don't tell me what to do. weighed against Ask it of me, if it is keeping you from me. That's all. Uncharitable. But its in his nature, to doubt. To hold something painful close to the chest and let it fester, burn to fever.

Then they lance it. Then they find their way.

Or they did. These days, they haven't quite managed—

"Kiss me," he pushes, orders, demands.

They'd spent lifetimes kissing each other. Nights where Louis would have been content to do nothing else but kiss him.

He wants more. He is still struggling. Contradictions, stubborn kicking against Lestat's hold even as he arches up into his grip.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"You are so fucking—"

Annoying lives somewhere at the end of the sentence, bitten off rather than snapped out.

Not a disqualifier. It never has been.

Louis cedes his grip on Lestat's hair, digs nails into the nape of his neck as he strains up off the seat. His arm isn't meant to bend this way, pain spiking and ignored as Louis applies pressure. Pulls hard downward as he arches upward, a full body squirm upwards, disrupting the angle of Lestat's hips in some minor way as Louis snaps after his mouth.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Lestat's weight bears him back down against the seat, quelling Louis' kicking struggle. Offers Louis opportunity to kiss him, bite him, lick blood from his mouth, and it is enough to draw Louis back from this latest scuffle.

His arm aches still, bleeds where Lestat's claws dug in. Barely registers. Half his wounds healing, the other half aggravated by Louis' dedication to being difficult. All of it eclipsed as they kiss and Lestat's breath begins to hitch, his heartbeat erratic.

Louis remembers this too. Drives his own hips up, nails scraping across Lestat's shoulders as Lestat comes apart over him, and the slide of his hand grows so slick, and Louis—

Needs more. (Wants more, always, more of Lestat.)

"Come on," he urges, breathless. "That all you got for me?"
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Nostalgia, a sudden side-swipe of feeling. Absurd. Nostalgia over the fall of Lestat's hair.

"You gonna make me beg?" has bite to it as well, strain in his voice as Lestat releases them.

A question with a foregone conclusion: Louis is no more inclined to beg than he had been to express the gratitude Lestat had requested.

Still held, secure and caught up beneath Lestat. His own fingers clawing up Lestat's back to his neck, a stall against the certainty of Lestat's withdrawal. Sensing, maybe, a retreat, and seeking to head it off.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Between them, it has been Louis applying teeth. He could argue Lestat instigated; the ring of bruised teeth mark on his cheek would be compelling evidence. Louis had responded in kind. (Had done what he had maybe been thinking about each time he arrived to find Lestat smelling of a strange mortal, or of a bandmate.) Lestat draws back and Louis observes his handiwork and feels a tug of desire in his belly, the ever present part of him that observes Lestat and wants him.

A split second where Lestat releases his arms and Louis makes some impulsive twist towards freedom or reversal or simply holding Lestat fast in turn.

But no. He goes nowhere.

They watch each other. Lestat puts his teeth into Louis' skin and Louis' mouth falls open, breath ragged.

Indulges. Puts his hands back into Lestat's hair. Arching up off the seat, muscles working as he strains up against Lestat's weight.

"Lestat," falls from Louis' mouth, somewhere between complaint and encouragement. Tremors running through his body, the exertion of trying to arch up from under Lestat's hands, thighs flexing hard around Lestat's hips. All of his body alight, aching. "Les."

Old endearments, rolling easy off Louis' tongue in spite of everything, all this time and distance and change and frustration. Still. These minor tells. Affection, still.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
This has been a fight as much as it has been an act of intimacy. Louis has been combative, Lestat has been provoking. Complicated. Reason to withhold his own reactions, diminish them, stifle the sounds Lestat would otherwise be dragging out of him if they were doing this any other way, started a different way than a needling provocation. (Than a thing they aren't talking about, Louis' side hobby, fighting vampires, this intrusion on the time they spend together.)

Lestat leaves a bite mark bleeding on his hip and Louis is moving, restless, begging with the shifting of hips and legs, his fingers curling in Lestat's hair. Gentler than he's been, still too rough by far.

"Fuck," standing in for the spill of softer things Louis might say. Pressure at the nape of Lestat's neck, encouraging push of fingers. Rude, maybe. Overstepping, maybe. Says, "Lestat," in strangled tones, ragged and insistent and encouraging.

They're making a mess. A mess of each other, of the equilibrium they'd found their way to after their last blow up. Louis knows this, but they're too far beyond any stopping point.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-27 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Uncomfortable to hold this position, shoulders up off the seat, hands grasping at Lestat. Appealing and ignored and all the more nettled for it.

(It is good. It is always so good.

It is as he said: the best he'd ever had.

Even like this.)

"Lestat," bitten out, bared teeth that can go nowhere and reach nothing like this. His nails digging in, pushing harder.

Lestat looks so smug. He looks wrecked. Louis' heart feels like it will shatter watching him.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-28 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Somehow, it is unexpected. This is unexpected.

Louis had expected to be teased and needled and maybe denied. But Lestat does this instead, and Louis has a split second to watch before his muscles give out and he is sprawled again, struggling up on one elbow to keep Lestat in his eyeline.

Makes a sound, in spite of himself. Something like a moan, something like Lestat's name. Something wrecked and furious and achingly fond.

The presence of fangs is sufficient motivation to still some of Louis' struggling, the distraction of movement ebbing as Lestat works and Louis watching the slide of his mouth, the fall of his hair, the flush rising in his face and tries to remember the reasons they had for not doing this.

There are reasons. Louis knows them.

Usually.

His fingers stay caught in Lestat's hair. Pulling still, begging as Louis' breath comes in ragged pants. Unconscious desire sees his other hand set over Lestat's. Claws dig in, yes, but still. A tender link of contact as Lestat works.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-28 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
All this performance. Louis wants to put teeth into him again, bite his throat, his shoulder, lower. Maddening, how satisfied Lestat looks. Maddening and familiar and welcome.

Louis can't catch his breath. He is shivering with the effort of remaining still, the grip at his hips a reminder not to move as Lestat takes him in, fangs and all, over and over.

"Your mouth, I missed—"

Bitten off. Louis bites down so hard on his lower lip he draws blood. Keeps some other, raw thing from tumbling out of his mouth.

Frustrated admissions: I missed you. I miss you.

Past tense. Present tense. A constant state of being.
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-28 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Long years together and Lestat had withheld from Louis all the power at his disposal. He presses down harder and Louis' restless movements are stymied. Effortless, maybe. Does it cost Lestat anything? They are both older now, but Lestat still far outstrips him.

Louis can't ask. Lestat wouldn't answer.

(If they had remained together, if New Orleans had happened differently, would it have been Lestat showing Louis how to summon fire? Would he have helped cultivate that skill, or dampened it?)

A flush, caught out.

There has been no one else. There was Armand, and it is over, and it doesn't matter now. Louis doesn't burn for Armand. It was never that way with them.

Maybe the truth is laid bare by the rush of heat in his body, skin warming, fever-bright under Lestat's hands. He is touching Louis. Louis has not yet been able to buck him off. And Louis is busy, at the moment, trying to claw back the wounded sound he makes when Lestat draws off.

Scrapes himself together enough to breathe: "Generous now, about what I am and ain't saying?"
divorcing: (Default)

[personal profile] divorcing 2025-07-28 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
They know each other too well.

As much as they have changed, they are still the same. The quality of their desire, the way they want each other. Lestat reading that in him still, easy. No need to touch his mind. Lestat knows Louis, all that he was and all that he is.

Easy to twist claws into each other. Easy for this too, for Lestat to unravel Louis even as he hisses and spits and snarls through the entire process.

Argument strangles in his throat as Lestat reapplies his mouth. As Louis' fingers spasm, tighten, loosen, tighten again in his hair, encouraging.

"You imagining things now?" Louis breathes out, frustrated, affectionate. Lestat has levered his weight down, harder over his thighs, but the tremors running through his body continue. Endurance fraying.
Edited (missing letters) 2025-07-28 03:29 (UTC)

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 04:21 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 04:50 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 05:14 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 10:17 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 11:42 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 12:24 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-28 22:25 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-29 01:07 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-29 03:25 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-29 03:41 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-29 04:42 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-29 11:58 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-30 10:58 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-30 15:29 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-31 03:44 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] divorcing - 2025-07-31 11:04 (UTC) - Expand