He'd never. The ways in which they had touched and attended to each other had been so—
Specific.
Few and farther between.
The way Louis cared for him in little ways, tenderness cultivated and deepend in those long years together, fraught upon Lestat's return.
Complex now, as Louis stands naked in this room with Lestat and looks at him and thinks of the ways in which all Louis' drawn lines hadn't saved them. How his awareness of the ways they moved through the world in public had never quite been able to be barred from Louis' mind when they were in private. How some awareness lingers even now, the two of them together for the first time in so long.
"I been making some changes," Louis tells him, setting the hair dryer onto the countertop so he might use both hands to bind the towel about his waist. "Glad that you like them."
No need to speak of what Louis is shaking free of. He threads fingers into Lestat's hair, testing the length. Somewhere between his memories, but still lovely, gleaming gold even in the low lights.
no subject
He'd never. The ways in which they had touched and attended to each other had been so—
Specific.
Few and farther between.
The way Louis cared for him in little ways, tenderness cultivated and deepend in those long years together, fraught upon Lestat's return.
Complex now, as Louis stands naked in this room with Lestat and looks at him and thinks of the ways in which all Louis' drawn lines hadn't saved them. How his awareness of the ways they moved through the world in public had never quite been able to be barred from Louis' mind when they were in private. How some awareness lingers even now, the two of them together for the first time in so long.
"I been making some changes," Louis tells him, setting the hair dryer onto the countertop so he might use both hands to bind the towel about his waist. "Glad that you like them."
No need to speak of what Louis is shaking free of. He threads fingers into Lestat's hair, testing the length. Somewhere between his memories, but still lovely, gleaming gold even in the low lights.