Behind Lestat, the lock clicks into place. Louis has a chair he will wedge into place, taken from another room, to act as insurance against the possibility of intrusion. Share and share alike was all well and good when Louis was only asleep beneath the bedframe. But he can't have any interruptions tonight.
But he can grouse, "Drafty fucking shutters," even as his hands lift to cup Lestat's face.
Still novel, that Louis can simply do this. Touch him. He'd dreamed the desire for decades, and now it is simply possible.
To Louis' credit, it is literally blizzarding, trapping them all inside with icy snow, compelling Lestat to force people to put up with eight dogs in close company. Objectively, it is too cold.
But it sounds so much like the kind of complaints that would come Lestat's way if a Louisiana Christmastime was unseasonably cold that year, enough to necessitate even a scarf, that amusement and affection both make his eyes crinkle as he smooths his hands up Louis' chest, fingertips finding bare throat.
"Ours will be warmer," he promises. "Stone walls, and a hearth in the bedroom."
He wanders a hand to Louis', gently flattening it against his own cleanly shaven cheek, his throat, tipping his head into this touch. He would like to ask if it is very warm in Dubai. If Louis favours a dry desert heat over the sticky, clinging New Orleans summers. But they are speaking of Rubilykskoye and the life being made there.
It all feels new, delicate, like freshly birthed eggshell. Left alone, for now, as he slides his arm around Louis' waist, turns them both around in purposeless circle. "But I think we can manage without, for now."
Remembered words, descriptions offered up to Daniel: It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. Carefully chosen words, Louis remembers, to describe the last winter of his mortal life and Lestat's presence within it.
He murmurs this now as they twirl, Louis' fingers sliding along Lestat's shoulders to link hands, make the motion into a lazy waltz. Brings them closer, so he might put lips to Lestat's cheek as he speaks.
"Make me forget it's storming outside and the whole village crammed in here with us?"
Is it storming outside? Is the whole village crammed in here? Lestat hardly notices when Louis is this near to him, swaying in place. It takes no effort at all to lean in just a little more, turn his head, place a kiss against Louis' mouth.
Chaste, just about, despite the way Lestat echoes, "I'll warm you up," is laid on thicker, tangling their hands together in this quasi-waltz they find themselves in. "You tell me your needs, mon cher, and I will attend them."
Past and present and a dream, it all blurs for a moment. New Orleans. Rubilykskoye.
And then Lestat's fingers lace through his, and anchors Louis fully into this moment. All things Lestat has offered. The blood in his veins. The familiar clutch of his hand at Louis' waist. The ease of their movement, slow swaying, just as they had made such a habit of in their life before.
Louis noses back in, close, catches his mouth. It is not a chaste kiss. Some heat, some hunger. Some of the things Louis has been holding so tightly in check.
What does Louis need? Is it not clear? Is it not in the force of this kiss, deepening as the sway together, as Louis leans into Lestat while his knuckles whiten in Lestat's grip.
Lestat closes his eyes only a split second after Louis returns his kiss with that gentle force, a sound evoked from him as he holds on tighter. As obliging as he has promised to be, he parts his mouth, another low sound from him as Louis deepens it so immediately.
Louis leans in and Lestat meets him, pressing in close for the sake of it, to feel their bodies map together through the muffling layers of knit. He has wondered before, how long he might have lasted, really, if Louis had come back to him after that first night, if they could have shared more time between then and the night of his turning.
An act of love, he had explained once. The little drink. An ultimate test. He understands Louis had practiced, and it is almost sickening how jealous it makes him to think about.
Even as hungry as he is, as tempting as Lestat is, there is still the desire to simply stay here. Hold him. Sway together. Be near, and breathe, and know that it is enough.
How far can Louis' self-control stretch? He's spent long decades denying himself everything, starving himself, exerting control over his hunger and when it would be sated, how it would be sated, if it would be sated at all. But there has never been anything as tempting as Lestat.
It is hard to remember truly what he tastes like. Louis has fragments, from which he spins out memories, conjecture. He has the small mouthful Lestat gave to him after they woke from the dream with Reaver's death still clinging to them.
But these are only small pieces.
They are kissing and Louis crushes Lestat to him, holds him, hears their hearts fall into perfect sync.
"Tell me again," Louis whispers to him. "One more time."
Lestat breathes in deeply, both to take in what little he can of Louis' scent as well as to let his lungs expand, press his ribcage outward, feel even more tightly the hard, unbreakable grip Louis has on him. How welcome it is to be caught.
Louis asks him this and Lestat is not sure there is any language that could convey the severity of the answer. How much he welcomes Louis' bite. How he had not been lying, that there had been a sweetness in the way Louis had held him while he slit his throat, how terrible and good it felt to be embraced by the one he loves most in the world and destroyed.
It is not, he knows, exactly what they are doing, but when he says, "I want you to do it," it is a surface ripple of a statement over the deeper ocean of feeling beneath. He kisses him in between his answers, continuing, "I want your fangs," a lure, inviting in a way a vampire might hope their meal to be, "And you'll know how much when you take from me."
Lestat had dismissed the possibility so easily. But they have been apart for so long, and Louis' appetite has not diminished. The force behind it is as it has always been, too much, too desirous, too desperate.
And he has never wanted anyone the way he wants Lestat.
They are kissing and Lestat is saying these things, and Louis can feel his fangs sliding down without any conscious thought.
His fingers curl in at the nape of Lestat's neck. Touching, letting his fingertips follow the beat of pulse here, the slide of blood beneath the skin in those most vital veins. His thumb lifts, slides along Lestat's jaw, encouraging his head to turn.
"Lestat," is hushed, soft warning before Louis' fangs graze skin. Not piercing, not yet. A tease of touch, while Louis wavers, testing out the edges of his self-control.
Lestat turns his head, blurry vision sharpening now that his gaze is directed aside. Lamplight, curtains, raw wooden walls. Paying no attention to any of it, just what he can feel of Louis' mouth opening against his throat, and the graze of sharp fangs, this barest touch making his heart jump in his chest, a shot of adrenaline.
"That's it," whispered. An old encouragement.
He could usher him along with more poetry. Speak of how jealous he is of the blood in Louis' veins now, how it should be his, how only then he can touch him as deeply as he would like to, swimming through veins, gathering in his heart. But here, Lestat is sure that his anatomy and all that Louis' vampiric senses can gather from it is doing all the talking required.
So he just holds on closely, hands clenching in woolen layers.
Louis' arm slips around Lestat's waist, crushing him close. Shivering to hear the familiar words in Lestat's mouth, encouraging and coaxing, guiding Louis in those early days of his transformation and then later, when they had fallen into each other in bed and in coffin and on hardwood floors and Lestat had coaxed Louis' fangs out and given him his throat then too.
Everything is different. Lestat is mortal. It has been almost a century of separation. Louis thought they would never do this again.
Hitching breaths, unsteady, as his fingers slide into Lestat's hair. Maybe steeling himself, maybe trying to scrape together enough restraint to cement his own self-control.
Louis is trembling still, arm tightening around Lestat's waist as he gently, gently pierces his skin. It takes everything in him to move slowly, great effort not to bite down as eagerly as he feels.
Blood wells up. Louis moans, soft. Begins to drink.
How painful it is, at first. Sweat slicks Lestat's palms, a human response to injury while he allows himself, happily, to lean his weight against Louis, in his arms, chin tipping further aside. Eyes open, still, watching the patterns in the wooden boards of the wall, and—
Ah, there. Louis begins to drink. Lestat can feel it, heart fluttering when it no longer possesses control of the rhythmic flow of his own blood, even as Louis begins so gently. No, he did not think this would happen again either. That Louis would ever choose to allow it.
Armand had spoken of vermouth. If so, if true, then Lestat's blood and the love it contains recalls the sweet variety, caramel and cherry and clove, cloying and insistent. A ballroom that is remembered as thick and redolent with plantlife, although it was not; a rundown shack, water streaking down the humid, dirty glass like sweat beneath closed shutters, the overgrown vines snaking up the side walls as though their admirer did not move from one spot for some time; a desperate heart beat, something like panic and excitement and fierce love while trying not to let his voice shake so much as he tells a frightened Louis of a promised home while fire thickens the air with smoke.
Sensory, frantic, a familiar clamour that is perhaps all the more vibrant for the way the maker-fledgling divide is gone. Lestat, anyway, is not trying to convey anything, he is only bleeding.
His fingers stroke soft at the nape of Lestat's neck as he drinks. Louis had always intended to stay out of Lestat's mind, maintain his privacy. But as he drinks he feels himself sinking into the vibrant rush of emotion, the flood of sensations and memory.
Louis is holding Lestat so tightly. Keeps him clutched to his body and caught in his jaws, existing in a blurry space where Lestat is himself and prey simultaneously.
How many nights had they spent falling into each other? Lestat giving Louis his throat and then coaxing him away, murmuring, diverting, and Louis releasing Lestat from his bite.
It's been almost a century. Lestat tastes as Louis remembers and different. Subtle changes. Overwhelming, because Lestat always is, always will be. Their heartbeats fall into perfect synchronization.
The whorls in the wooden boards begin to swim, warp, blur, at which point Lestat closes his eyes. Sinks.
He thinks of all those nights too, bedsheets and low electric lights or the velvet dark interior of a coffin. Louis, hungry, and Lestat eager to feed him, anxious for him to be well, to be happy. This feeling now, a desire to provide, a thrill to be doing so on its most basest level. A long dining table, laden with food, meat he has killed himself being carved and devoured. A purpose, and for a long time, the only one he had.
And then there is sensation. How good it feels, divorced of purpose, how selfish the offering can be. Louis holds him now and Lestat feels his body respond, growing hard between them even as his fingertips tingle, as his sense of gravity shifts. All the more intense, for being human. A memory slips through, of arms of wrought iron holding him, bare feet in cold snow, his terror and anger being pushed aside by the raw pleasure brought about by a vampire's bite.
He had echoed the word no over and over, even as his body said something else. Here, none of that, and what a relief it is to sink, to give in, to relax into the thing he wants. To feel like he is loved by someone he loves.
'Je t'aime,' wends its way through their cursemarks.
And Louis drinks all of these things down. This swirl of memory, the chill of snow, the laden table, the closeness of their coffin. All these pieces of Lestat, swirling in the blood, in his mind. He is laid open. Louis could dive in, delve deep, see all things that Lestat had refused to share.
The desire is there. But Louis can't. Won't.
Lestat whispers love to him through their cursemarks and Louis puts his answer directly into Lestat's mind as Lestat had once spoken to him:
I missed you, Louis tells him. I dreamed of you.
Slowly, slowly, a loosening of Louis' jaws. Transitioning to broad licks, laving the deep marks his fangs left behind. Lapping up the flowing trickles of blood, not yet knitting the wound closed. His grip doesn't loosen. If anything, Louis holds him impossibly tighter.
You taste like home.
Their home, what they made together. It had all come apart, but there had been love. It had been good, even amidst all that had gone so wrong.
He feels there is a weight to it, Louis' voice in his mind without taking the road paved by the Duchess. The sense of a vampire in his mind, he could do whatever he wants there, and there is something of an anxious psychic clench that does not try to push him out or conceal so much as grasp after, a reaching hand in the dark.
Louis missed him, dreamed of him, calls him home. There is no coherent response for this, just a liquid, overflowing happiness, a sense of awe.
And then he becomes more aware of the room, the present moment, the warm contact of Louis' mouth grown softer. Another rush of feeling, that perhaps can no longer be tasted, but: pride. Baseless, maybe, but pride nonetheless for Louis ending it as he chooses, no encouragement required. Lestat hums a content sound as his wounds are tended to, grip on Louis' clothes loosening, tightening.
"It ain't such a neat mark," Louis tells him, a conclusion drawn only from the drag of his tongue and subsequent kisses, softly applied to damp skin.
A little critical. A little longing. Louis would drink Lestat down to nothing. He would have all of him. Everything.
They are swaying. Not dancing, but movement. Lestat remains held, tucked in close to Louis' body. A little roll of hips, acknowledging and meeting Lestat's own. Fingers straying down his spine, touching possessively as he kisses up and back down Lestat's throat.
"How you feeling?" comes as a whisper, Louis' lips brushing the shell of Lestat's ear.
"It's yours," a counterpoint. Neatness irrelevant.
Lestat winds his arms around Louis' shoulders, holding on. Lightheaded, yes, but it is pleasant enough as the ache of the bite slowly diminishes, fades entirely. The specifics coming back into focus, the kisses at his throat and the placement of Louis' fingertips.
"Like a leaf on a lake," he answers, a smile against Louis' jaw, shaping a kiss there too. See, he is here. He is well. "Like all that remains of my blood has dedicated itself to a second task. How do you feel?"
Some things never truly change. He is hungry. But it is quieter now, diverted into other avenues and appetites. Preoccupied by the trickling drips of blood oozing from the bite Louis has left unhealed, as requested.
"Better," he answers. Not satisfied because how could he be? Lestat must remember how he'd had to coax Louis away from his throat. It is the same feeling, curbed only by Lestat's mortality and several decades of near tot restraint.
"You should have some water," Louis says into the delicate skin of Lestat's throat. "Something to eat."
Practicalities, divorced from the sway of their bodies and Louis' roaming fingers.
In response, Lestat concentrates on getting his balance on his own two feet—not to move away or even really stand under his own power, but to push against Louis, insist on their closeness, make himself a little less limp in his fledgling's arms even if he wouldn't mind just swooning in place. Slides a hand up Louis' spine, scratching blunt fingernails along the nape of his neck.
"And such little thought given to what I want," he chides, teasing.
Louis is only teasing himself, worrying at the bite, tending to every stray drop of blood. Lestat's pulse is evening out, settling, even before his fingers find their way to Louis' nape. He breathes out against damp skin, doesn't yet lift his head from Lestat's neck.
"Tell me about what you want," Louis invites. "You want me to bite you on the other side, even out the effect?"
Maybe that is what Louis wants, wishes for. Maybe.
There is also his bed, close to hand. There is a locked door. It is night and the boarding house is not yet quiet, but quieter than it was before Lestat had entered and closed the door behind him.
Louis is not done holding him. They had done so little of this in New Orleans before, and Louis can only assume the hurricane broke them apart in spite of the gravity of their reunion. He is indulging.
Louis says it, and Lestat wants it so immediately. There is simply no universe in which he would discourage Louis from taking the blood he needs, or simply wants. To be greedy, to take more than his share.
The soft sound he makes conveys this, knowing and amused and warm all at the same time.
"Yes," he tells him, lifting his head a little, the end of his nose nudging Louis' temple. "But under the condition that you take me to bed first."
Or during. He will not be too strict on the order of events.
Conditions, as if Lestat is as durable as he had been in New Orleans. (More durable than Louis had even known.
A thought there and gone, banished.) Louis knows that he cannot take as much as he would like.
And yet.
The bed is close, it would be simple enough to back Lestat onto it. But Louis lifts him instead, a momentary sacrifice of the bruising grip Louis had held Lestat in while he drank.
"We can negotiate," Louis promises. Trace blood at his mouth, skin flushed warm, Louis' appetite is all there on the surface. It is there in his eyes, still blown black with desire even after what he's already taken.
Desirous of more, and of more beyond that. Questions, "You gonna stay here with me tonight?"
A quieter desire, but just as vulnerable as the baring of his hunger. Louis, letting Lestat see these desires. Letting himself ask, tread along the blurry lines of their newly healed and still unnamed relationship.
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But he can grouse, "Drafty fucking shutters," even as his hands lift to cup Lestat's face.
Still novel, that Louis can simply do this. Touch him. He'd dreamed the desire for decades, and now it is simply possible.
"It's too cold in this place."
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But it sounds so much like the kind of complaints that would come Lestat's way if a Louisiana Christmastime was unseasonably cold that year, enough to necessitate even a scarf, that amusement and affection both make his eyes crinkle as he smooths his hands up Louis' chest, fingertips finding bare throat.
"Ours will be warmer," he promises. "Stone walls, and a hearth in the bedroom."
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As if he doesn't commit it to memory, as a requirement for whatever place he makes for them.
"And you'll make me a fire," Louis solicits, fingers gentle at Lestat's jaw. "Make our room warm as summer?"
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He wanders a hand to Louis', gently flattening it against his own cleanly shaven cheek, his throat, tipping his head into this touch. He would like to ask if it is very warm in Dubai. If Louis favours a dry desert heat over the sticky, clinging New Orleans summers. But they are speaking of Rubilykskoye and the life being made there.
It all feels new, delicate, like freshly birthed eggshell. Left alone, for now, as he slides his arm around Louis' waist, turns them both around in purposeless circle. "But I think we can manage without, for now."
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Remembered words, descriptions offered up to Daniel: It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. Carefully chosen words, Louis remembers, to describe the last winter of his mortal life and Lestat's presence within it.
He murmurs this now as they twirl, Louis' fingers sliding along Lestat's shoulders to link hands, make the motion into a lazy waltz. Brings them closer, so he might put lips to Lestat's cheek as he speaks.
"Make me forget it's storming outside and the whole village crammed in here with us?"
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Is it storming outside? Is the whole village crammed in here? Lestat hardly notices when Louis is this near to him, swaying in place. It takes no effort at all to lean in just a little more, turn his head, place a kiss against Louis' mouth.
Chaste, just about, despite the way Lestat echoes, "I'll warm you up," is laid on thicker, tangling their hands together in this quasi-waltz they find themselves in. "You tell me your needs, mon cher, and I will attend them."
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And then Lestat's fingers lace through his, and anchors Louis fully into this moment. All things Lestat has offered. The blood in his veins. The familiar clutch of his hand at Louis' waist. The ease of their movement, slow swaying, just as they had made such a habit of in their life before.
Louis noses back in, close, catches his mouth. It is not a chaste kiss. Some heat, some hunger. Some of the things Louis has been holding so tightly in check.
What does Louis need? Is it not clear? Is it not in the force of this kiss, deepening as the sway together, as Louis leans into Lestat while his knuckles whiten in Lestat's grip.
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Louis leans in and Lestat meets him, pressing in close for the sake of it, to feel their bodies map together through the muffling layers of knit. He has wondered before, how long he might have lasted, really, if Louis had come back to him after that first night, if they could have shared more time between then and the night of his turning.
An act of love, he had explained once. The little drink. An ultimate test. He understands Louis had practiced, and it is almost sickening how jealous it makes him to think about.
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How far can Louis' self-control stretch? He's spent long decades denying himself everything, starving himself, exerting control over his hunger and when it would be sated, how it would be sated, if it would be sated at all. But there has never been anything as tempting as Lestat.
It is hard to remember truly what he tastes like. Louis has fragments, from which he spins out memories, conjecture. He has the small mouthful Lestat gave to him after they woke from the dream with Reaver's death still clinging to them.
But these are only small pieces.
They are kissing and Louis crushes Lestat to him, holds him, hears their hearts fall into perfect sync.
"Tell me again," Louis whispers to him. "One more time."
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Louis asks him this and Lestat is not sure there is any language that could convey the severity of the answer. How much he welcomes Louis' bite. How he had not been lying, that there had been a sweetness in the way Louis had held him while he slit his throat, how terrible and good it felt to be embraced by the one he loves most in the world and destroyed.
It is not, he knows, exactly what they are doing, but when he says, "I want you to do it," it is a surface ripple of a statement over the deeper ocean of feeling beneath. He kisses him in between his answers, continuing, "I want your fangs," a lure, inviting in a way a vampire might hope their meal to be, "And you'll know how much when you take from me."
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It's still true.
Lestat had dismissed the possibility so easily. But they have been apart for so long, and Louis' appetite has not diminished. The force behind it is as it has always been, too much, too desirous, too desperate.
And he has never wanted anyone the way he wants Lestat.
They are kissing and Lestat is saying these things, and Louis can feel his fangs sliding down without any conscious thought.
His fingers curl in at the nape of Lestat's neck. Touching, letting his fingertips follow the beat of pulse here, the slide of blood beneath the skin in those most vital veins. His thumb lifts, slides along Lestat's jaw, encouraging his head to turn.
"Lestat," is hushed, soft warning before Louis' fangs graze skin. Not piercing, not yet. A tease of touch, while Louis wavers, testing out the edges of his self-control.
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"That's it," whispered. An old encouragement.
He could usher him along with more poetry. Speak of how jealous he is of the blood in Louis' veins now, how it should be his, how only then he can touch him as deeply as he would like to, swimming through veins, gathering in his heart. But here, Lestat is sure that his anatomy and all that Louis' vampiric senses can gather from it is doing all the talking required.
So he just holds on closely, hands clenching in woolen layers.
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Everything is different. Lestat is mortal. It has been almost a century of separation. Louis thought they would never do this again.
Hitching breaths, unsteady, as his fingers slide into Lestat's hair. Maybe steeling himself, maybe trying to scrape together enough restraint to cement his own self-control.
Louis is trembling still, arm tightening around Lestat's waist as he gently, gently pierces his skin. It takes everything in him to move slowly, great effort not to bite down as eagerly as he feels.
Blood wells up. Louis moans, soft. Begins to drink.
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Ah, there. Louis begins to drink. Lestat can feel it, heart fluttering when it no longer possesses control of the rhythmic flow of his own blood, even as Louis begins so gently. No, he did not think this would happen again either. That Louis would ever choose to allow it.
Armand had spoken of vermouth. If so, if true, then Lestat's blood and the love it contains recalls the sweet variety, caramel and cherry and clove, cloying and insistent. A ballroom that is remembered as thick and redolent with plantlife, although it was not; a rundown shack, water streaking down the humid, dirty glass like sweat beneath closed shutters, the overgrown vines snaking up the side walls as though their admirer did not move from one spot for some time; a desperate heart beat, something like panic and excitement and fierce love while trying not to let his voice shake so much as he tells a frightened Louis of a promised home while fire thickens the air with smoke.
Sensory, frantic, a familiar clamour that is perhaps all the more vibrant for the way the maker-fledgling divide is gone. Lestat, anyway, is not trying to convey anything, he is only bleeding.
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Louis tastes neither.
His fingers stroke soft at the nape of Lestat's neck as he drinks. Louis had always intended to stay out of Lestat's mind, maintain his privacy. But as he drinks he feels himself sinking into the vibrant rush of emotion, the flood of sensations and memory.
Louis is holding Lestat so tightly. Keeps him clutched to his body and caught in his jaws, existing in a blurry space where Lestat is himself and prey simultaneously.
How many nights had they spent falling into each other? Lestat giving Louis his throat and then coaxing him away, murmuring, diverting, and Louis releasing Lestat from his bite.
It's been almost a century. Lestat tastes as Louis remembers and different. Subtle changes. Overwhelming, because Lestat always is, always will be. Their heartbeats fall into perfect synchronization.
There is nothing else in the world but them.
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He thinks of all those nights too, bedsheets and low electric lights or the velvet dark interior of a coffin. Louis, hungry, and Lestat eager to feed him, anxious for him to be well, to be happy. This feeling now, a desire to provide, a thrill to be doing so on its most basest level. A long dining table, laden with food, meat he has killed himself being carved and devoured. A purpose, and for a long time, the only one he had.
And then there is sensation. How good it feels, divorced of purpose, how selfish the offering can be. Louis holds him now and Lestat feels his body respond, growing hard between them even as his fingertips tingle, as his sense of gravity shifts. All the more intense, for being human. A memory slips through, of arms of wrought iron holding him, bare feet in cold snow, his terror and anger being pushed aside by the raw pleasure brought about by a vampire's bite.
He had echoed the word no over and over, even as his body said something else. Here, none of that, and what a relief it is to sink, to give in, to relax into the thing he wants. To feel like he is loved by someone he loves.
'Je t'aime,' wends its way through their cursemarks.
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The desire is there. But Louis can't. Won't.
Lestat whispers love to him through their cursemarks and Louis puts his answer directly into Lestat's mind as Lestat had once spoken to him:
I missed you, Louis tells him. I dreamed of you.
Slowly, slowly, a loosening of Louis' jaws. Transitioning to broad licks, laving the deep marks his fangs left behind. Lapping up the flowing trickles of blood, not yet knitting the wound closed. His grip doesn't loosen. If anything, Louis holds him impossibly tighter.
You taste like home.
Their home, what they made together. It had all come apart, but there had been love. It had been good, even amidst all that had gone so wrong.
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Louis missed him, dreamed of him, calls him home. There is no coherent response for this, just a liquid, overflowing happiness, a sense of awe.
And then he becomes more aware of the room, the present moment, the warm contact of Louis' mouth grown softer. Another rush of feeling, that perhaps can no longer be tasted, but: pride. Baseless, maybe, but pride nonetheless for Louis ending it as he chooses, no encouragement required. Lestat hums a content sound as his wounds are tended to, grip on Louis' clothes loosening, tightening.
"Leave it," he murmurs. "Let it linger, chéri."
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A little critical. A little longing. Louis would drink Lestat down to nothing. He would have all of him. Everything.
They are swaying. Not dancing, but movement. Lestat remains held, tucked in close to Louis' body. A little roll of hips, acknowledging and meeting Lestat's own. Fingers straying down his spine, touching possessively as he kisses up and back down Lestat's throat.
"How you feeling?" comes as a whisper, Louis' lips brushing the shell of Lestat's ear.
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Lestat winds his arms around Louis' shoulders, holding on. Lightheaded, yes, but it is pleasant enough as the ache of the bite slowly diminishes, fades entirely. The specifics coming back into focus, the kisses at his throat and the placement of Louis' fingertips.
"Like a leaf on a lake," he answers, a smile against Louis' jaw, shaping a kiss there too. See, he is here. He is well. "Like all that remains of my blood has dedicated itself to a second task. How do you feel?"
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Some things never truly change. He is hungry. But it is quieter now, diverted into other avenues and appetites. Preoccupied by the trickling drips of blood oozing from the bite Louis has left unhealed, as requested.
"Better," he answers. Not satisfied because how could he be? Lestat must remember how he'd had to coax Louis away from his throat. It is the same feeling, curbed only by Lestat's mortality and several decades of near tot restraint.
"You should have some water," Louis says into the delicate skin of Lestat's throat. "Something to eat."
Practicalities, divorced from the sway of their bodies and Louis' roaming fingers.
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So says Louis.
In response, Lestat concentrates on getting his balance on his own two feet—not to move away or even really stand under his own power, but to push against Louis, insist on their closeness, make himself a little less limp in his fledgling's arms even if he wouldn't mind just swooning in place. Slides a hand up Louis' spine, scratching blunt fingernails along the nape of his neck.
"And such little thought given to what I want," he chides, teasing.
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"Tell me about what you want," Louis invites. "You want me to bite you on the other side, even out the effect?"
Maybe that is what Louis wants, wishes for. Maybe.
There is also his bed, close to hand. There is a locked door. It is night and the boarding house is not yet quiet, but quieter than it was before Lestat had entered and closed the door behind him.
Louis is not done holding him. They had done so little of this in New Orleans before, and Louis can only assume the hurricane broke them apart in spite of the gravity of their reunion. He is indulging.
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The soft sound he makes conveys this, knowing and amused and warm all at the same time.
"Yes," he tells him, lifting his head a little, the end of his nose nudging Louis' temple. "But under the condition that you take me to bed first."
Or during. He will not be too strict on the order of events.
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A thought there and gone, banished.) Louis knows that he cannot take as much as he would like.
And yet.
The bed is close, it would be simple enough to back Lestat onto it. But Louis lifts him instead, a momentary sacrifice of the bruising grip Louis had held Lestat in while he drank.
"We can negotiate," Louis promises. Trace blood at his mouth, skin flushed warm, Louis' appetite is all there on the surface. It is there in his eyes, still blown black with desire even after what he's already taken.
Desirous of more, and of more beyond that. Questions, "You gonna stay here with me tonight?"
A quieter desire, but just as vulnerable as the baring of his hunger. Louis, letting Lestat see these desires. Letting himself ask, tread along the blurry lines of their newly healed and still unnamed relationship.
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is this how territory