20 Works by DeepRedBells
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In which Hans Capon and Henry act like perfect little idiots.
"I cannot protect you if you don't operate with a modicum of self-preservation!”
“I dunno what a modicum is, but if it means leaving your side I want nuthin’ to do with it!”
“Christ’s wounds! I might as well be talking to that…useless bit of wood than you!” Hans shouted, biting his thumb at the crucifix. Well, some things never really changed.
“Sir Hans…what is your sin?”
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What You Do To Me by DeepRedBells
Fandoms: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
09 Feb 2026
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“There you are,” A tired but familiar voice whispered from the scratchy speaker. I knew what lay behind the industrial steel door in front of me, because Helen had told me; Jasper, bound up in the cell using steel chains and wards while kept in what Helen described as an “artificially weakened state.”
They were starving him.
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Three years after the end of King's Rising, the birth of Damen's twin daughters has changed Laurent's mind on letting his line die with him. He has a lot of favors to ask of Damen before his wedding to a Patran princess.
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A Grave Infliction Of The Heart by DeepRedBells
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
24 May 2025
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“I wish you would eat someone,” I say. He raises his eyebrows.
“Oh, I'm sorry," he says. "Do we have a volunteer?”
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“...his makers, yes. Our friend who is not our friend wishes to know…if young Daniel’s difficulties are a result of previous meddling with his memories?” Lestat said. What a stupid fucking question. Disgust twisted my stomach, even as my heart pounded with excitement. I actually like Lestat, he’s a funny guy and alright to talk to. Marius told me he’d be coming, I’d been looking forward to it. But the awake part of me that was Armand hesitated. Lestat; a ruinous, pompous, vain, arrogant, slutty and, most of all, stupid.
“Lestat…”
“It's a question that has left our mutual acquaintance in a kind of frantic desolation.”
“This is not his fault.”
“Marius?”
“Lestat, look at me, directly. Convey this message to him: This is not his fault,” Marius said.
Daniel loses his mind following the event of Queen of the Damned and Marius de Romanus takes him in. It's never clear what makes Daniel mentally ill in the books, but I figured I'd apply the show's logic and see what came out. My apologies to all my other fics.
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A Taste For A Taste by DeepRedBells
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
16 Oct 2024
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“What else have you done as a mortal?” Armand said.
“Well, first I curled up in despair for a while.”
“What a waste. You do that as a vampire all the time,” Armand said.
“I then got hungry and thirsty. I ate the first thing I came across–a gas station hot dog”
“Ew,” Louis cringed so hard he bared his fangs. Still in love with humanity, and still a snob.
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“Danny!” A tired looking kid in a pink puffer jacket, pink backpack and Pichachu knit hat ran up to me on 54th Street. I nearly jumped out of my skin when she wrapped her arms around my knees. What the fuck? She turned what should have been big brown eyes up to me but they were clotted with an otherworldly control. A woman in scrubs looking just as tired came running up and grabbed the girl’s arm. She looked at me with the same dead gray eyes.
“Danny, it's not safe to be out,” she said. I shook the kid off and walked away. The mother stared at me slack jawed, her long curly hair catching in her open mouth.
“Yeesh,” I said. Quite the trick. I should have known Armand would find another disguise to get out of facing me
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Masters of each other by DeepRedBells
Fandoms: Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
26 Jun 2024
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“When?”
“Amadeo…” he says. I hate when he says my name like that, full of regret.
“I've accepted my duty,” I say, waving off his pained concern. My master is not as well-practiced at moments of powerlessness as I am. “When?”
“...this evening, when the light is perfect in the west workshop.”
“I know the time. I'll be there, Master,” I say. He reaches out to touch my face but I step away and rush towards the overly bright courtyard where wooden sticks in the shape of rapiers crack together. He doesn't follow me. I'm glad. I don't want him to see my tears. I can't stand to be touched at that moment by him, the one I love the most in the world. I have to start to prepare myself for the hands of an artist, of a stranger.
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“Don’t kill me Louis,” I whispered urgently in his ear. The fact that he could, instantly, in that movement, made my head swim. I took a long draw of his blood to keep my strength up. Fourth of July sparklers, bombs raining down on some village in Europe, the yellow light of burning buildings.
“Baby, I could never. Never,” he said. I loved when he called me that. I slowed down my efforts to better enjoy the moment and let my heartbeat catch up with the blood loss. Baby. He always said it in a tone that came from deep in his chest. He returned to my wrist to kiss away the blood dripping down my wrist and sip slowly from the puncture marks.
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You Loved Me Once, And It Was Not In Vain by DeepRedBells
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 Apr 2024
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“Who told you I was in New Orleans? Do you have people working for you? Some human private investigator or maybe a fledgling you put up to this?” I demanded. My accusation hadn’t affected his pure, boundless golden retriever energy. I looked him up and down. I hated his affable smile. I wish I could know such an ease of love. I wanted so badly to be happy to see him.
“No one had to tell me, Louis,” Lestat gently said before touching my elbow; fire and ice all at once shot up my arm. I pulled back. “I knew you’d come home after all that transpired with Armand and Daniel. I've been in New Orleans for three months giving you, as you said, space.”
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“wait are you like…hunting me?"
"Depends."
"On…on how interesting I make the chase."
"Yes."
"Does it start…right now?”
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Well, don't think for a second you are going to start feeding me again for your own enjoyment. No waking me up at 3 a.m. to call Paris. No bringing home whores for me to fuck. I’m too old and tired for that whole song and dance you know–”
“I am not here for my own edification,” Armand said, coming to stand in front of Daniel. Even with his trademark unsettling stillness, his eyes were full of sympathy. “I’m here to make sure you are taken care of.”
"Gee, and here I thought it was the other way around," Daniel said.”
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“Well, it’s too bad because I do feel like dancing. If you won’t, I think it would not be hard to find someone who will."
“God damn it,” I muttered and took a deep breath. Embarrassed as I was, the idea of watching him dance slowly in the dark room with another man set my newly sharpened teeth on edge. I can’t say it was out of concern for the longevity of his dancing partner’s life. Jealousy flared in me in a way I’d never known before. Both literally and figuratively, Lestat had turned me into a green-eyed monster. He smiled and reached for my hand, knowing he’d won yet another battle. It wouldn’t be his last victory, not by a long shot.
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“Married? Ain’t I already got enough problems,” Louis said with a laugh, putting a stop to his own thoughts. No one need shame Louis for his actions, he even policed his own internal workings and desires. He was beginning to realize he was in love with me, but dismissed the idea out of hand. Despite my deep sorrow for him, I laughed alongside him. It made him feel bolder. “I mean…what about you? Handsome, rich…you seem like a catch.”
What the fuck was that? “You seem like a catch.” Goddamn what a stupid thing to say. He was making conversation and you go digging around for…something. I don’t know what.
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"What was it like?” she asked breathlessly. He pulled back with a look of pure shock on his face.
“What was that?” he whispered. He had to have misheard her, she wasn’t asking what he thought she was asking.
“Another bloody question, Tom,” she warned. He was trying to figure out what she wanted from him, but she was being incredibly distracting. A slow smile spread across her face. “If you’re going to have a boyfriend, I want to hear about it.”
(This started as smut (and is still quite smutty) but it's also turning into a story about Tommy's polycule with Alfie and Grace.)
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You want me to do…what with that exactly?” Tommy asked. Alfie held in his hand a glass object, egg shaped, thick and heavy, with a flared base. He held it aloft in his fingers like it was a precious gift. Tommy had just stepped out of the bath in Alfie’s house. The steam in the room gave the unnatural object a frosted, dewy appearance; jolly and perverse, like a Christmas ornament left out in July. Tommy ran a hand through his wet hair and once again wondered if he’d be able to do any of this.
“It’s for you to uh, wear to the party,” he said.
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Charlie Shelby is home from his boarding school for the summer and he's struggling to find his place in the family and in his father's life. In the middle of this turmoil, it becomes clear that his adoptive second father and accepted part of the Shelby family, Alfie Solomons, is ill, and won't be getting better. Charlie gets his first love, his first shiner, and his first brush with what it really means to be a Shelby while the family struggles to make it through Alfie's rapid decline.
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"For the last time," Garak said briskly. "I was no angel during the occupation, but I certainly didn’t run a death camp.”
Julian was committed to believing him, had risked his career on it, but the Bajoran woman who'd interrupted their six month anniversary lunch seemed just as convincing. His genetic enhancements made the memories far too vivid. He was instantly transported back to the moment and he could see it all in perfect detail; the look of sheer horror on her face as she stumbled back into a crowd on the Promenade, clutching the side of her face where a prosthetic eye peered from scared flesh as she screamed. She pointed directly at Garak. There was no mistaking it, she knew him and was horrified.
"MURDERER!"
(Kinda inspired by The Mountain Goats song Lizard Suit on their album Dark In Here. Tags and archive warnings will evolve as the story does.)
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He stood from the desk and tried to take Tommy’s chin in his hand. Tommy whipped his head away, but the Station Chief had him and they both knew it. "Every man has his price, Tommy, you said it yourself," he said quietly, smoothing his hair back from his face in a performative act of gentleness. "This is mine. So what's it going to be, eh?"
The question hung heavy between them and, after a moment, Tommy faced him and let out a halting, defeated breath. The Chief recognized his victory and walked across the room to lock his office door. When he heard the lock latch it was like the very air in the room changed. Tommy thought back to Grace in this awful moment...what had he told her all those years ago?
Everyone's a whore, we just sell different parts of ourselves.
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Things That Scare Me by DeepRedBells
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
18 Dec 2020
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This takes place three days after the end of the world. Crowley and Aziraphale get an offer they can't refuse from their very own ethereal lawyer. They have to do several tasks to get back into heaven or hell, with the option to switch sides entirely if they desire. Heaven and Hell have made it difficult for them to get the job done.