10 Works in POV Sam Barclay
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Martyrdom Is Overrated by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
25 Nov 2025
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Sam clutches the duvet to his chest, mortified. “Oh my fuckin’—” he scrambles in the sheets, failing to find any of his or Rashid’s clothes, because of course they’d left all of them in the living room in their haste the night before “—don’t tell me he’s actually turned up—”
“You said it yourself,” Rashid sighs, rising. He starts opening bureau drawers. “Nothing summons him like indolence.”
“Would the two of you care to explain, assuming you’re both in there,” Raglan ventures with trepidation from the other side of the door, “why one of Amsterdam’s best, brightest recruits is shut away downstairs like he’s been earmarked for transport and court-martialing?”
“Sure,” Rashid says, raising his voice just loud enough for Raglan to hear him as he tosses what looks like a set of gray joggers and a faded black tee onto the bed. “Agent Klaas was rude to Sam last night. As you can imagine, that’s counterproductive to our investigation.”
“Spare us your misguided chivalry. Sam has more than a century on you and can look out for…” Raglan trails off, and then makes an astonished noise. “Oh dear.”
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Speaking of Dust by granddutchessanya, irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
15 Nov 2025
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Once the dust settles, Sam’s main issue with Lestat’s inadvertent apocalypse isn’t the amount of paperwork. It had generated a fuckton for anyone Talamasca-employed or Talamasca-adjacent, and that had made Rashid cross for a week. No, Sam’s plight is that having been on tour and conscripted to fight some batshit, six-thousand-year-old elder had put Halloween on hold for him personally. His love of decorations had been one more nail in his unpopularity coffin with the Paris coven; he hadn’t even given them a respite from that come October.
Secondary problem: the world knows about vampires now. Rather, more of the world knows about vampires than did before—like, pretty much all of the world—and Amsterdam has decided to fob the politics off on London, which means it’s Raglan’s jurisdiction. His misery is fun to watch; Rashid’s, not so much. Everyone who’d been on tour with Lestat and survived the debacle had been sent to London and detained there. Sam only counts himself and Rashid lucky because that’s home. That, and they’d gotten a front row seat to Raglan’s suffering.
[This is a slightly belated Halloween fic-and-art collaboration!]
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Something Still Sleeps Below the Earth by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
16 Sep 2025
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Rashid reclines in the grass next to Sam, lulled by the tapping of Sam’s thumbnails against the glassy, glowing surface of his iPhone as he writes. Watching Sam perch in the window seat upstairs over the past several nights with his laptop […] had been a lovely diversion during the sheer frustration that had been learning to produce fire.
However, the task that Sam has assigned Rashid tonight as he continues to whittle away at his prose is tougher. Rashid finds that making flames in his hands is one thing, but causing the tinder and logs to catch fire in the earthenware chimenea a few feet away is another.
Sam sets his phone down when Rashid huffs in frustration, rolling onto his side so that he can set one hand in the middle of Rashid’s chest. “Some vampires never make that leap, and it’s fine,” he says reassuringly. “There are gradations of ability to use the Fire Gift. You have it.”
“Armand’s finding-the-vulnerability-within-the-object advice is rubbish,” Rashid replies, tearing his gaze away from his target so he can look at Sam. He covers Sam’s hand with one of his own, tracing the backs of Sam’s fingers. “I refuse to believe I’m worse at this than Louis.”
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- Part 8 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Daniel Molloy, following Lestat’s entourage on account of the documentary he’s filming, has in fact shown his face in the crowd. Raglan had been right about Sam’s presence being sufficient incentive for Daniel to attempt to catch him for comment on Paris once he’s offstage, maybe—or to assume that some other party might also show up because of Sam’s presence, in order to either speak with him or to enact vengeance.
Sam doesn’t need to flip any more switches or control the rest of what’s happening with his music. From here on out, it’s automated, although he’d taken into account he might have to lock it down at any point and simply watch his mark (or marks) if he’d happened to catch sight of him (or them) early. He probably seems distracted now even if the crowd can’t see his face; he’s not moving anymore in a way that anyone in their right mind would consider expressive. His stillness would strike Daniel as inhuman if Daniel happened to be paying attention to the stage.
Daniel hasn’t been paying attention to the performance. His back is turned, and he’s looking at something else.
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Sam waits until the door closes, pitched into darkness, to roll away from the wall and squint blearily at his new minder. He’s afraid he might cry.
Armand looks like hell. His unkempt curls frame his face, unspeakably lovely for that fact. His shoes hit the floor. “Starving yourself?” he asks.
Sam shrugs, setting his jaw as his eyes start to sting. “I let him do it,” he grits out. “Let him do the thing that fuckin’ got him killed. Fair’s fair.”
“Rashid’s death is fair,” Armand says, sliding under the covers next to Sam, “because he knew the risks. He became a lawbreaker in your stead.”
“You’re saying my death wouldn’t be,” Sam whispers tremulously as Armand gathers him close, pressing his face against Armand’s exposed neck.
“I understand that you’re grieving,” Armand whispers back, “but I refuse to shoulder that just because you’ve forgotten everything we discussed.”
“Fuck right off. I have not,” Sam snarls, both ashamed and relieved that the provocation is enough to make him sink his fangs in Armand’s neck.
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- Part 2 of Love’s Not a Strong Enough Word
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“If you’re having second thoughts,” Rashid says patiently, squeezing Sam’s hand as he keeps pace, “we don’t have to go there tonight.”
“I promised,” Sam replies, determined. “No sense in running any longer. I’m here, and it’ll be easier to face it with you than without.”
“You haven’t been anywhere near the site since the fire,” Rashid realizes abruptly.
“I’ve been nowhere near it in decades,” Sam confirms, nodding his head in defeat.
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- Part 5 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Bizarre and Breathless Pause by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
08 Feb 2025
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Paige glances up at [Sam], her troubled eyes flickering. “I know Armand’s not innocent. What did he do to the coven when you let the rats loose?”
Rashid snorts in wry amusement, laying a hand on Sam’s ankle since that’s all of him he can currently reach. “Can’t escape Paris tonight, can you?”
“Shut us down for a month,” Sam says. “No going out meant no hunts, no hunts meant no sacrifices, no sacrifices meant no performances.”
“No hunts and no performances meant none of you ate for a month,” Ricky guesses. “He inflicted his disordered eating on all of you, huh.”
“Oh, no, we ate,” Sam says, grimacing at each fledgling in turn. “There were rats everywhere, remember? Our punishment was cleaning them up.”
Paige covers her mouth with both hands and starts to laugh hysterically. “Oh, nooo,” she wheezes. “Hah, wow. Holy fuck. That’s so petty.”
“How about you try living on rats for a month and get back to me,” Sam says thinly, patting Paige’s arm. “Let’s see if you’re still giggling then.”
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- Part 2 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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An unexpected guest visits the agency.
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I've decided I'd try myself in this one as well! This time, I'll make it a single multi-chaptered work, and maybe even keep to the order of the prompts!
The chapters will not be connected unless specified.
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"For a couple of moments, he considered turning back. He was anything but surprised to see the evidence to the romance between his two bosses (he was good at reading the room, after all), but he’d rather go and dig another corpse than embarrass them."