Post by Armand on Aug 16, 2010 15:57:46 GMT -7
I willingly let my hand be taken by Lestat. It was my way of letting him know that, despite my little outburst at him earlier, things were still okay between us…or as okay as they could be given the circumstances. I listened intently as Lestat explained what he thought this thing was. I winced a little bit at the mention of Claudia’s name. I, too, knew that whatever this thing was it couldn’t have really been Claudia because she would never have passed up the opportunity of harming me too. I was the one who didn’t bother putting a stop to her death, after all. Out of all that he had said, though, I decided to pick out the part about his ruined jacket because it was much easier thinking of things that could be solved rather than all of the unknowns he had uttered before. ”I’d offer you some of my own clothes but they wouldn’t fit. Tomorrow night though I’ll make sure we buy you some of the fanciest clothes we can find in the city.” That was one problem solved.
I breathed a mental sigh of relief when Lestat told me that he didn’t think I would be harmed through any of this…Yes, it was sort of selfish of me to be grateful that this thing didn’t have it in for me—that it just wanted Lestat—but you’d be happy to if you were in my position. ”So, this thing is sort of like Akasha? It’s not going to hurt your friends because it doesn’t want you to get angry at it.” That wasn’t a completely correct analogy though. Akasha hadn’t wanted to harm Lestat. This thing apparently did.
And then Lestat started rambling about how unbelievable it was that I love him. I tried not to burst out chuckling but I couldn’t. It was too funny seeing the great and formidable Vampire Lestat all flustered. But I didn’t want him to take my laughing the wrong way, so I quickly spoke up after his ramble. ”It almost sounds to me like your complaining,” I said, jokingly. ”I don’t know why you deserve my love but you have it, so stop complaining before I decide to take my words back.” ‘I love you’ weren’t exactly easy words to take back though, and, even if he really had been complaining, I wouldn’t have taken them back anyways.
Now it was my turn to be taken my surprise…Had anyone ever said those words to me? Marius had, once upon a time. Sybelle and Benji had more recently. But I had never thought I’d hear those words coming out of Lestat’s lips. And then he brought up my attempt of going into the sun. ”Why is that you never realize how much someone means to you until they almost die?” I quietly mused. But, lucky for Lestat and whoever else deemed me important in their life, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. I still believed it was God (or some other higher power) that had given me just enough protection from the sun on that roof to keep me alive for Benji and Sybelle to come and find me.
”You’ve probably never hated me as much as I hated you for ruining my little Paris family,” I teased right back. I moved in closer to Lestat, giving him a small kiss on his cheek. ”I could spend eternity talking about all of the times I wished you never stepped into my life but I think we have more important things to discuss in the time we have left. We need a game plan for tomorrow night. This thing isn’t going to call it quits after one night of harassing you. We shouldn’t do anything too crazy again, lest we don’t get as lucky this time around.”
I breathed a mental sigh of relief when Lestat told me that he didn’t think I would be harmed through any of this…Yes, it was sort of selfish of me to be grateful that this thing didn’t have it in for me—that it just wanted Lestat—but you’d be happy to if you were in my position. ”So, this thing is sort of like Akasha? It’s not going to hurt your friends because it doesn’t want you to get angry at it.” That wasn’t a completely correct analogy though. Akasha hadn’t wanted to harm Lestat. This thing apparently did.
And then Lestat started rambling about how unbelievable it was that I love him. I tried not to burst out chuckling but I couldn’t. It was too funny seeing the great and formidable Vampire Lestat all flustered. But I didn’t want him to take my laughing the wrong way, so I quickly spoke up after his ramble. ”It almost sounds to me like your complaining,” I said, jokingly. ”I don’t know why you deserve my love but you have it, so stop complaining before I decide to take my words back.” ‘I love you’ weren’t exactly easy words to take back though, and, even if he really had been complaining, I wouldn’t have taken them back anyways.
Now it was my turn to be taken my surprise…Had anyone ever said those words to me? Marius had, once upon a time. Sybelle and Benji had more recently. But I had never thought I’d hear those words coming out of Lestat’s lips. And then he brought up my attempt of going into the sun. ”Why is that you never realize how much someone means to you until they almost die?” I quietly mused. But, lucky for Lestat and whoever else deemed me important in their life, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. I still believed it was God (or some other higher power) that had given me just enough protection from the sun on that roof to keep me alive for Benji and Sybelle to come and find me.
”You’ve probably never hated me as much as I hated you for ruining my little Paris family,” I teased right back. I moved in closer to Lestat, giving him a small kiss on his cheek. ”I could spend eternity talking about all of the times I wished you never stepped into my life but I think we have more important things to discuss in the time we have left. We need a game plan for tomorrow night. This thing isn’t going to call it quits after one night of harassing you. We shouldn’t do anything too crazy again, lest we don’t get as lucky this time around.”
