12. Wet Kiss
It was raining when it happened.
Lestat is awake again, but this time she hasn’t left. And Armand means to criticize her, demean her of her motherly rights because she has never been there out of all the beings on this planet and above that Lestat could ever cry for. No, it’s always been her. She ignores him when he brings it up, spits acidic words back at him when he comes forward out of the safety of the Rue Royale and joins her soaked form beneath the stormy skies.
“You are a liar and a bitch, for lack of a better word, if you think you can use the veil as an excuse for not hearing him after all these years. Once in the chapel and not again since!”
She is opening her mouth to spit back, or avoid answering to her crime when Armand adds, “It’s hard to believe he still loves you…when no one else has the heart to.”
Thunder cracks in the distance, and Gabrielle, always unnervingly honest in her expressions, is stunned. And yet..so is he. As if they had both opened a plane of understanding in just that moment—yes, you were once unloved by all but him too.
He forgets what happened after the next thunder crack, but his hands are caressing her back and cupping her cheek, her head tilted gently into him when Armand realizes he’s kissing Lestat’s mother. The woman who turned him away after her son redeemed him, their mouths open and wet against each other and devolving into smaller, almost apologetic kisses. He For a brief moment, he forgets he hates this woman down to the very marrow of her bones.
That’s where the memory stops. They’ve never spoken of it, but somehow it pops into Armand’s head whenever she turns her cold, icy glare on him.
✏️ ;)
Idk where it is but this meme was about typing your url and telling you what I think about you 😛 sorry it cameout so late
Well I really love your page :3 I haven’t personally spoken a lot to the mun, but seems to be a fun one.
(no worries on lateness)(better late than never, as they say ♥)
everlastingporcelain that’s so sweet of you to say, let me love u, too! I think I’m a fun mun *u*
Thank u for making Bianca such a rich character to follow. And of course the pearl pron is quite enjoyable, as well 😉
♛You take such joy in pretending you’re /okay/, dearest. You’re so much better than “okay.”
Send "You take such joy in pretending you're okay" to see how my muse reacts.Is that so? Perhaps you should educate me, mon cher.
♛”Well the warm welcome you gave me last night was – I suspect – quite mutually satisfactory… Absence truly does make the heart grow fonder, non?”
I am far better than “okay” or “satisfactory,” based upon the sounds coming from you last night, yes. A reeducation is always warranted, of course. Particularly after time apart.
♛You were delicious… /are/ delicious. So good to know you missed me so much. (sings) If I said I wanted your body, would you hold it against me?
Michael: Why are you squeezing me with your body?
Lucille: It’s a hug, Michael; I’m hugging you.
Episode 1×20 “Whistler’s Mother”
vampiredevelopment: #Playing the piano with ominous undertones #Bad Parenting #IT’S A TRAP #Lestat #Claudia #interview with the vampire #Vampire Chronicles #Arrested Development #Whose idea was it to put taxidermied birds on top of a piano I bet Lestat’s
^YES to these tags… so I have thoughts about Lestat’s taxidermied birbs in IWTV….
- A stuffed animal is one that won’t wriggle or try to escape, you can pick it up and examine it’s little toes and feathers and beak and flick it in the head and basically it is the highest form of submission that a creature can be in. Lestat does like it when creatures submit to him.
- Notice, later on, that Louis and Claudia set a pair of canaries free right before they intend to leave NOLA. The caged canaries are in the same spot on the piano that the taxidermy birds were.
- There are 2 canaries in that cage, symbolic of Louis and Claudia escaping their own gilded cage.
- The taxidermied birds were birds of prey (hawks I think?) but the canaries were not.
- Taxidermied birds were in separate glass enclosures. Lestat was always in a separate glass enclosure in that he couldn’t reveal to Louis and Claudia the answers to their questions because SECRETS.
- It looks like, at least in this shot, that there are 2 HUGE birds of prey and 1 TEENSY one… underscoring the size difference between the Adult size vampires and the Kiddie size vampire. Though maybe I’m counting wrong, there seems to be more than 3 glass enclosures but WHATEVER.
Michael: Why are you squeezing me with your body?
Lucille: It’s a hug, Michael; I’m hugging you.
Episode 1×20 “Whistler’s Mother”
Do you have a gif of Louis slurping? When he told Claudia that he wouldn’t recommend rats.
♛Lestat’s birthday texts to Gabrielle, 11/28/12-11/28/14. Will he still text her? Of course he will. Of course he will.
[Painting by Tom Nachreiner]
When is your birthday? Do you do anything special for it? What is the greatest gift you’ve ever received (can be a non-birthday present)?
My birthday is November 28th. Very rarely have I had cause to celebrate this day, and most of the time it passes without my knowledge—though there are times when I find myself in a place in the world where Lestat’s text messages do reach me on this day, and then I am reminded.
There was one year where I happened (purely by accident on my part, though as much cannot be said for Lestat) to be visiting New Orleans on this date, and much to my chagrin, Lestat did insist on celebrating the anniversary of my birth. To be very honest, I remember little of the night itself, there being quite a few inebriated mortals involved.
The greatest gift I ever received?
The Dark Gift.
