20 Works by rue_with_a_difference
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secrets i have held in my heart // are harder to hide than i thought by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
02 Sep 2026
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will you let the fire die down soon (or will i always be here) by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 Aug 2026
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The Underworld was pretty. Pretty red lights on all the walls, pretty black marble floors, pretty incense smell wrapping around every corridor, and a very pretty man sitting on a pretty throne.
Normally Daniel had more intelligent observations to make. But to be fair, he’d had a very disorienting day.
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Persephone belongs to the light. Hades, to the darkness. The story has been told before.
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je t'aime... (moi non plus) by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
28 Aug 2026
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Lestat sauntered happily over to the dining room, where Daniel was typing at the table, slouching in his chair and sipping a glass of blood. Aha!
Very suddenly Daniel found himself with a lapful of Lestat.
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Louis and Armand go out, leaving Lestat and Daniel to their own devices. Big mistake.
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- Part 6 of rue's diabolicule cinematic universe
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Expert Obedience Training For Dogs by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
21 Aug 2026
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When Armand got home, his dog was always waiting by the door.
He stepped inside, took his shoes off, and waited for his dog to bring him his slippers. Undignified for an adult man to be just walking around barefoot, after all. What was he– an animal? He shrugged the coat off his shoulders and hung it off the coathook, right next to the leash. Not the collar; he had the dog wear the collar inside the house, too.
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Armand has a really good dog.
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flesh and blood need (flesh and blood) by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
14 Aug 2026
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Cold. It was cold. His wrists were cold, bound above his head by cool metal cuffs. Not a silk rope for him, no– for him, from his Maître, no soft comforts. Only restraints with bite to them. Only words that cut like blades. Only blades that cut like butter.
Louis, high on his knees, above him. One lean thigh braced at each of Armand’s hips. Poised for attack, a praying mantis selecting her mate.
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Daniel can’t keep up the dom act too long. Louis lends a hand.
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- Part 5 of rue's diabolicule cinematic universe
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i spend my time with nothing on my mind (just coastin') by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
11 Aug 2026
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Light flooded the streets, the sun rising steadily as Armand ventured out of Lestat’s Montreal home. The four of them were staying there for a couple weeks, having grown bored of the monotonous grey of the Dubai penthouse.
Armand believed the rest of his lovers to be settling down for the night, locked away in shared coffins. Armand had been wrong.
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Daniel and Armand reinvent bondage.
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- Part 4 of rue's diabolicule cinematic universe
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the darkest hour of the darkest night // comes right before the dawn by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
02 Aug 2026
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Hell wasn’t hot like they say. Hell wasn’t much of anything. It was dark and empty. It hurt in the way that numbness hurt. You felt the doctor prodding at you through the anaesthesia and had the horrible understanding that you’d been put under and that was the only thing keeping you from agony.
In Hell you were always torn open. You were a gaping wound that didn’t feel a thing. And fuck, you were alone.
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Claudia and Madeleine find each other again.
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chain, chain, chain (chain of fools) by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
28 Jul 2026
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“Hey Lestat,” he found himself saying, “you remember what you said last week?”
The blonde vampire took out one AirPod irritably, waving his hand dismissively. “I said multiple things last week. Be more specific.”
“Yeah, man, I said ‘blow me’, and you said, and I quote: ‘Perhaps sometime soon, Dan, you need only ask.’”
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Daniel puts Lestat in his place, with some guidance from Louis and Armand.
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- Part 3 of rue's diabolicule cinematic universe
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another blackout night by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
22 Jul 2026
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So she was pregnant. That was fine, thought Daniel, that was fine. Wasn’t too late for the abortion, was it, her trim waist hadn’t even begun to grow too large for his hands to fit onto. Daniel didn’t know a lot about all this, but he knew that much.
Tonight was an alcohol night. He told himself he wasn’t an addict as long as he didn’t mix drugs with drinking, and tonight he needed to be drunk. He wasn’t allowed to sleep in their bed tonight, not after how he’d reacted to Alice’s pregnancy, and he didn’t know where his home for the night would be. Whatever. He’d find a place to crash, he always did.
He was always crashing, landing on the ground with a crunch, and peeling himself back up off the concrete. He didn’t even worry about it anymore. Waste of his energy. He always figured it out in the end. (Except he didn’t have anything figured out, did he? Not really.)
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Daniel, running from responsibility into the nearest bar, takes comfort in the arms of a familiar stranger.
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everybody play the game (of love) by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
20 Jul 2026
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As his companion licked and nipped at his hipbone, Daniel remembered that he was naked. That was good. It made him accessible. He really hoped Armand was planning on accessing him soon.
The young vampire blinked a few times, rubbed his eyes with his spare hand. Armand looked up at him, molten hot amber eyes peering through long dark lashes.
“Fuck. You’re so pretty.”
“Thank you, Daniel. You are so handsome yourself– particularly when you want me. Do you want me, Daniel?”
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Armand and Louis fuck Daniel's shit up, and learn to tolerate each other again.
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- Part 2 of rue's diabolicule cinematic universe
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Armand had gotten accustomed to self-denial. In his many, many years of life, his own desires had been met very rarely. He had come to understand that satisfaction was something he was able to bring to others– never something he might hold for himself. He had accustomed himself to usefulness. He had made peace with it.
And then, Lestat.
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An evening at the theatre with Lestat changes Armand's outlook on sex, agency, and power.
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the old men and the sea by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
05 Jul 2026
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The boat rocked violently under Daniel’s feet as he, once again, asked himself whether this whole thing had been a suicide mission.
He knew he would die out here. Why not today?
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Lonely and aimless, Daniel moves his life onto a houseboat he barely knows how to operate. He finds meaning when a storm leads him to a strange creature's island.
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(one of these days) these boots are gonna walk all over you by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
04 Jul 2026
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Tonight it was just Louis and Daniel.
As was typical for their friendship, Daniel was on his knees buck naked, and Louis was standing over him fully clothed.
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Louis steps on Daniel's dick. That's what the fic is about. ...Yeah.
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- Part 1 of rue's diabolicule cinematic universe
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Louis has always had a bad habit.
He likes being vicious.
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A character study of Louis and his relationships through the lens of kink.
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Sail Away, Sweet Sister by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2026
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The first thing Louis did when they got to Regina’s shiny new apartment was tape blackout blinds onto all the windows. He was helping her move, which was unasked for and somewhat unappreciated. But, then again, he bought her a fucking apartment. So she could learn to suck it up and say thank you.
“Thank you, Daddy Lou!” The voice was cloying, sugar-sweet. It didn’t fit onto her life. She suspected it didn’t fit onto Claudia’s life, either.
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Regina and Louis hash it out.
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A Guide to the Mind Gift and Finding Your Soulmate, by Daniel Molloy by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
24 Jun 2026
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“Armand, baby? No need to play hard to get, I’m in this for the long haul.”
No response. Well, Armand is probably out getting him breakfast. He probably thought Daniel would sleep longer. It isn’t something to worry about.
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Daniel is really, really good at being a vampire. Too bad his absentee maker/soulmate isn't here to see it!
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The high doesn’t last. The blood is everywhere on him. The pain is everything in him. His mind is the pain, as well, as he is fractured. He knows that he’s fractured, that something is wrong with him. Nicki does not think it will be trained out of him so easily as a stutter from a handsome blond man. He thinks he may never be cured.
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What happened after Lestat slammed the door on Gabriella in Episode 3.
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the hand that rocks the cradle (rules the world) by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
17 Jun 2026
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Lestat has a very high tolerance for pain. The near-decapitation line across his throat, the swollen, punched eye, the million tiny nicks and cuts from broken glass – none of these bother him.
But the exquisite agony of his reunion with his maman, his dearest Gabriella… this! This is a torment too sweet to bear!
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After Lestat and Gabriella's reunion, Lestat begins to better understand their relationship and why it feels so bad.
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Vampires don’t dream.
Vampires are corpses: when the sun pulls them into drowsiness, it is the light reminding them of their lifelessness. They become unconscious bodies and nothing more: no circadian rhythm, just the ebb and flow of night and day.
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A dead vampire reaches out to Lestat in his sleep. He takes drastic action in an attempt to reunite with Claudia.
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see my lover on the other side by rue_with_a_difference
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
22 May 2026
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After the Walk, Pete's body just keeps walking. But his soul doesn't walk with him. He has a reunion to make.