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And lo, there the devil is. Nude but for the soft crush of the sheet, low on his slender hips, unruffled as his girl scrambles from her own bed, his golden hair mussed and his body slender, tapered as it ever is, frozen in its eternal invitation. The heat in his head, his chest, drips.
“Six years of begging, you think a song’s gon’ get a rise out of me?”
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The obligatory 1.06 fic. Louis brings Lestat home. He doesn't feel good about it.
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“My Maître would simply like the evening’s plans to go ahead without the reveal of a seam,” Armand simpers from his draped position on red velvet. “There’s much to discuss with the visiting provincial nobility he intends to host, as I’m sure you can imagine. Besides, at least the Prince is fairly predictable unlike some of our esteemed society fixtures. Even in these last years in titular exile, he has always been particular in his choice of accessory, has he not?”
And, well.
Louis would be hard pressed to deny that.
“Always has liked himself a blue-eyed blond.”
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1787, Paris. Louis is a bourgeois man in the city with dreams of elevating his family name and securing his beloved siblings' futures through earning a title. While he has many businesses, it's his work as a pimp catering to the aristocrats of Versailles that he sees his path to social elevation, but when he falls fast and hard for Prince Magnus' prized courtesan, Lestat, things get - - complicated.
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Thing is, Lestat doesn't even really consider his birthday A Thing until Louis asks when it is, offhand, back in 1910. This human little thing that Lestat feels so far behind him, but Louis' 33, Louis' still mortal, for Louis, birthdays are like hometowns which is to say they're the bed you grow from, not the place you do everything in your power to get away from, and Lestat has to wrack his head to even remember.
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By popular request - scrappy little bits of writing from tumblr, all in one place.
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Outside, Tokyo’s early evening traffic thrums with urgency beneath heavy rain, and he knows if he trained his ear, he’d hear the city alive regardless with chatter and music. If he trained his nose, he’d smell the thickening, humid weather, the bay, the heady smells of gyoza and Takoyaki and tempura, cooking in spitting oil, but he doesn’t. No, what he does is keep looking at Lestat and thinking – not for the first time – that this has been a mistake. Thinks he has stayed too long here in Japan, even if it’s been just shy of two weeks.
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It's been 18 months since they reunited, Lestat's on the cusp of fame, Louis' trying to be companion enough for himself, they're both a mess, but they both still want each other all the same.
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- Part 3 of and then the spell was cast
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the steady murmur (always in my head) by flashindie
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
29 Oct 2024
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Deafening, the sound of her.
A pounding at his ear drums, an aching ream of resonance singing round and round the shell of his ears. Whipping winds howling at his eyes until he can barely see, bloodied tears pooling at his lids, catching in his lashes, courting dust, dirt, debris, the smell of the Mississippi hauled outta her riverbed and up in the air, drowning him as he tries to steady his feet. He can’t vamp. Not with his hand still holding fast to the knot of Lestat’s robe, not when the hurricane would force him, them, any direction it wanted, toss them around like a cat with a muddy-shelled roach, and vaguely he realizes that he has no idea where he’s going.
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Louis and Lestat leave the shack the night of the hurricane, seek refuge in a store, navigate too many memories, argue, ache, and maybe figure out the start of a way forward.
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- Part 1 of and then the spell was cast
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“Why do you ask?”
And fuck, if that doesn’t rattle the box Louis’ tried to lock this up in, and if they weren’t trying to be better, do better, Louis would ask him why do you think? Would ask him what goes on in your head that you think I wouldn’t want to know all of this? Would ask him what it is about the two of them, who can talk for nights on nights on nights, who can know each other’s topography and undersoil, who can live within the most wild and rugged terrains of one another, yet only turn over their most weathered stones for tourists.
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Louis and Lestat argue about moving in, the interview, and finally, deeply, darkly, about Magnus.
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- Part 4 of and then the spell was cast
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“I want to know about your life before me. Had to learn it the hard way, didn’t we? About the Paris Coven?”
“I told you both what they were, you just didn’t listen,” Lestat snaps, and at least they’ve had this fight already in the time since that fateful reunion – that telling them, vaguely as he did, that vampires outside of New Orleans were vicious doesn’t fucking count for anything – and Lestat seems to remember that around the same time Louis does, because he shrinks a little. Runs a hand back through his hair, looks up at Louis through his painted lashes. Then, softer: “You still think I am withholding?”
Which - - fuck. Louis laughs.
“Yeah, baby, I do.”
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A year after Louis and Lestat reunite, they're still figuring it out. Daniel calls it out, Louis tries to move them forwards, and maybe they just fuck instead.
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- Part 2 of and then the spell was cast
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Your head caught in a waking dream by flashindie for FakePlastikTrees
Fandoms: Under the Bridge (TV)
21 Jun 2024
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“You still haven’t told me if you liked it,” Rebecca says, and she’s naked too, thinner than she’s ever been (or at least that’s what it had felt like, when Cam had frowned at her ribs when she took her shirt off, thumb brushing the grooves between her bones like she could excavate her bruised and fragile heart through them), curled up in her sheets beside her, and Cam laughs, something soft and tired.
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Rebecca and Cam reconnect at Rebecca's book launch.
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Hold Me Close and Hold Me Fast by flashindie
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
09 Jun 2024
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“What an impossible task you set me, Louis, to describe him as he was at the start rather than the end.”
His gaze tears from the page to where Armand rests against the desk now, elegant and soft-edged in the half-light of the room. Louis wets his lips, means to apologise, to tell him he understands, that perhaps this was a mistake after all, to dredge up the past, when Armand speaks again.
“He was so young when I met him, just a fledgling really. Almost graceless in how he wielded himself, but he was beautiful, as I’m sure you know.”
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Armand and Louis talk about Lestat, Lestat and Louis talk (and fuck) in Louis' head, Claudia is, once again, failed. A bit of a coda to 2.04.
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I Might Be Great Tomorrow (but hopeless yesterday) by flashindie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Apr 2024
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And they do make it out alive, with Mike Wheeler’s superpowered girlfriend managing to seal off the gate to the Upside Down with little more than a nosebleed, and look, Eddie can’t say it’s the best Spring Break he’s ever had, but he can’t say it’s the worst either, especially with Chrissy, bruised and tired and dirtier than he thought it was physically possible for her to get (he just kinda figured shit didn’t – couldn’t – stick to her, y’know?) smiling at him like that. All uneven teeth and crinkled nose and eyes kyber crystal blue, and there’s something in his chest that feels tight, but not in the way it normally does. Not in that stretched dead-mom-dad-in-prison-can’t-graduate-trailer-park-piece-of-shit way, but just in a way that sort of feels full.
Like he’s pulled her and been pulled by her through an enemy base, and they’re fucked up but alive and there’s a prize in that. A not-quite-heroes'-end for a pair of not-quite-heroes.
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Eddie and Chrissy make it out of s4 alive, and try to figure out what the hell happens next.
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For a minute, it’s hard to see the source of the blood, rivulets running down the thin lines of his abs, pooling in the hollow of his belly button. It smears red across too much of him, and Beth has to lean in a little closer until the metallic scent of blood hits her nostrils and it’s all she can smell. She curls her hair behind her ears, traces her gaze until she finds the wound that’s still weeping. A round little puncture about the size of a watch face, a newborn’s yawning mouth, a golden dollar, in the normally honeyed skin at the edge of his left hip.
Beth exhales, and she’s close enough it hits his side, if the shiver that runs through him is any indication, and she shifts back onto the couch as she looks back up at him.
-A blackout rolls over the city and Rio shows up at Beth's in need of a little care. Set post-s4.
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“He won’t die,” Roman tells her, and she can’t see him now, but he sounds so fucking sure. “Trust me, he doesn’t actually want to be alone with Dad in the PetCo Mausoleum. He’ll wait for Connor to pop off before he jumps off Hudson Yards.”
Her breath hitches, despite herself.
“You’re an asshole.”
“He won’t die,” Roman says again, and Shiv thinks how can you know? Shiv thinks he could, Shiv thinks he’s been on borrowed time since Italy, since earlier, since God knows fucking when.
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Set two weeks after the finale, Shiv and Kendall are forced back into each other's orbit.
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“It’s a super special treat to go for a swim this close to dinner time, remember? So you need to be good and - - and quick too, because Mommy doesn’t like it when you smell like chlorine, so we need to have a bath before Marla serves up.”
In the house, a door slams, and Kendall blinks hard, glances down at the floor and pulls his goggles off. He holds them out to Nina, but she’s not paying attention to him anymore, back to trying to get the stupid book out of Shiv’s mouth, and so Kendall drops his goggles to the floor where he is and wobbles back to sit on the edge of the pool, sinking his legs into the water and looking out to the garden. Daddy liked to call this room The Green House because all the walls are made of glass, but Mommy called it The Vitrine, and Kendall didn’t know what that meant, but she said it often enough that the word felt stuck between his teeth like the taffy Uncle Frank would bring them whenever he came back from Florida. Kendall liked it when he did that, because Roman and Shivvy were too little to eat it, so if Mommy wasn’t at home, he could eat until his tummy hurt.
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Kendall is six years old. His parents have a fight, and he has a formative experience with a swimming pool.
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“The children are upstairs, if you want to see them before the guests arrive. I don’t want them underfoot at the party, so they’ll only be down here for some photos around dinner, and then the nanny will be putting them to bed. They’re in trouble though, so try not to be too pleased to see them.”
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It's Connor's 24th birthday! He has trouble working out what that all means.
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“A day, maybe two,” he decides, letting him go, but not quite moving to stand just yet. “I reckon you won’t even know it was there.”
“Shit, was hoping it’d scar,” Roman replies. He’s sitting cross-legged on the closed toilet seat, his eyes cast downwards to where he’s tugging the sleeves of his sweater down over curled fingers. Like this, he looks younger than fourteen, bug eyed and round faced with hands and feet he hasn’t grown into yet. Scrappy, like Kendall was at his age. Like Connor’s pretty sure he was too. “Start my supervillain era.”
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1996. Connor's home for an evening, and things have hit the fan.
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Here’s how it happens:
Your father dies, and everything’s on you.
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Kendall, Roman, Shiv during 4.03.
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She thinks of the scars she’s found on him over the last few weeks – a recent one from fencing with his brothers, an old one from a hunting accident when he was little more than a boy – the first expedition he had taken after his father’s death. The latter she had pressed her lips to the first time she had seen it, had tasted an old hurt and hoped to swallow it whole, leave him light and unburdened, and when she had looked up at him, his gaze had been wide, chest still, like maybe he was.
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Kate and Anthony take their first bath together.
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After 3.09, Shiv, Roman and Kendall go back to Kendall's villa.
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Point is the news drops and then keeps dropping.
First, it’s with the seeming confirmation of Waystar buying Gojo after a few drone pap shots of Logan and Roman at Lukas Matsson’s Lake Como estate leak, sending every news network that isn’t ATN into a frenzy – an endless parade of guest experts and chatter about what the sale could mean (and, of course, noting Roman’s apparent rise to the role of Heir Apparent in the Roy family roman-fleuve). Nan even calls her, asks if she’s heard anything about it, the implication of since she’s fucking around with the Heir Ousted implied.
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Set immediately after 3.09, Naomi simultaneously tries to figure out what's going on while also ignoring absolutely everything. Past Kendall x Naomi, but with residual feelings. Endgame Naomi x Tabitha.
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It’ll happen almost every summer after their dad leaves, but it’s the first one that the heat always peels up – lifts like the end of a band aid to reveal what won’t ever heal beneath – the memory left to pulse in the stagnant air of her bedroom, because Beth can be seventeen, twenty four, thirty nine, forty two, whatever, and she can gather the cotton of her shirt to try and unstick it from her chest, and just - -
Suddenly be thirteen again.
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Memories keep Beth awake. Rio helps her unwind. PWP.