michaelgayland:

Okay but imagine David and Daniel as companions for a time.

I like to think that David would have a serious respect for Daniel—after all, Daniel was the first to ever record a vampire’s life the way they all do now, the first to create the fictional safeguard. If it weren’t for him, so many important things would never have occurred—he’d count Daniel Molloy a personal inspiration.

And Daniel would be so shocked because he’s been self consciously believing he had, in a sense, been replaced now that David does his job better than he ever did, but David has none of it and the two of them strike up a very nerdy rapport.

And Daniel pokes fun at how stuffy the Brits are and that David needs to relax, and still calls him an old man—who cares if the body’s young?

And David begrudgingly finds that endearing but only half heartedly glares and tries so hard not to acknowledge when he does that.

And they’re both so genuinely into the archiving and discovering of things and Daniel has a way of continuing his journalistic urges, in a sense and David is no longer the only person besides Jesse who does that—hell, Daniel, David and Jesse can form a cute little vampire trio of nerds.

And I just really want Daniel to have friends who respect and enjoy his company and I really want one of those people to be David Talbot.