[ Lestat feels his pulse tick faster just from the barest and altogether familiar touch of Louis' hand over his heart. He's felt it before, why now is it capturing his attention so, and making his body feel like a gun about to go off?
The memory of a leather strap in his hands and dogs around him is one he often visits, sometimes in the few moments before sleep takes him and sometimes in idle daydreams when he has nothing better to do... but from Louis mouth and in this situation it reminds Lestat too much of their time in the department store where they'd given in to temptation and played the role of human for a brief interlude. What if he were human now, and he had his dogs sleeping on their bed at home, and he and Louis were spending the evening together before retiring and waking up in the morning to the sun, both with bodies that craved food and contact instead of the suffocating pull of the blood...
That tapping of Louis' finger feels like a test, like the twitch of a rabbit's tail at the side of a racetrack. Lestat forces himself to be still beneath it, though he can't do anything to calm his heart, nor the haze it's pace seems to put him in. ]
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The memory of a leather strap in his hands and dogs around him is one he often visits, sometimes in the few moments before sleep takes him and sometimes in idle daydreams when he has nothing better to do... but from Louis mouth and in this situation it reminds Lestat too much of their time in the department store where they'd given in to temptation and played the role of human for a brief interlude. What if he were human now, and he had his dogs sleeping on their bed at home, and he and Louis were spending the evening together before retiring and waking up in the morning to the sun, both with bodies that craved food and contact instead of the suffocating pull of the blood...
That tapping of Louis' finger feels like a test, like the twitch of a rabbit's tail at the side of a racetrack. Lestat forces himself to be still beneath it, though he can't do anything to calm his heart, nor the haze it's pace seems to put him in. ]
Then command it, if you believe that.