Restless (Chronological Order)
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Gnaghe by Judy_The_Dreamer
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
22 Jun 2025
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Nowadays, when the Maestro summoned him to his chambers, Amadeo knew there would be a task entrusted to him after they’d shared the pleasures of the flesh.
OR: Amadeo is dispatched to welcome an esteemed guest. It doesn't go to plan.
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- Part 1 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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In the middle of the night they come to wake me, furious hands on the doors and the window panes. "Hurry, hurry, Bianca! Your boy lies in bed, and Death has put his name on the the final list. Tonight is the night, we swear, we swear!"
OR: Amadeo on his deathbed. (Through the eyes of Bianca Solderini.)
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- Part 2 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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An Instrument Fit For Killing by Judy_The_Dreamer
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
12 Jan 2025
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Bianca is not a stranger to the ironies of life.
For a long time, she bore her grief like a noose around her neck, waiting for it to suffocate her into nothingness.
Then, the thing that caused it to all fall apart gave her a new lease on life.
This is that story.[This is a prequel to the main storyline of the Restless series. It can be read separately or be completely ignored.]
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- Part 3 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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In the Arms of the Devil by Judy_The_Dreamer
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
06 Apr 2025
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Armand’s mouth is slack with sleep, eyelids fluttering the tiniest bit as he dreams. He looks serene and relaxed in a way that Daniel has not once observed him being through the haze of drugs and pain.
OR: A fever dream from 6 days in San Francisco.
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- Part 4 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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‘Tu es si merveilleux,’ Lestat cooed like a proud mother who’d just seen her child take its first steps. The tone washed over Daniel, carrying him high into the air until all of the city diminished to pinpricks of light far beneath him. ‘Appelle-le ici. Apelle ton Armand.’
OR: With nothing but his confused memories and a scribbled note to go on, Daniel travels to New Orleans, unaware that another monster is lying in wait for him.
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- Part 5 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Armand’s eyes filled with speculation as he absently put his bloody finger into his mouth, lapping at it like a piece of candy. Daniel felt ashamed at the interest that stirred in him. Dying and horny, the Daniel Molloy story.
OR: Daniel and Armand clash for the second time in their lives and a twisted game commences.
[This follows directly from the events of Close Call, but reading that first isn't strictly necessary.]
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- Part 6 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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If an angel were to descend from the sky and ask him to identify the hotbed of all Evil in the continental United States, Daniel would point to Walmart and sentence the entire chain of stores down to the pits of Hell. A couple of months ago, he’d have done it because of capitalism, now he’d do it because of Armand.
[Re-post]
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- Part 7 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Armand, possibly in a ploy to drive Daniel insane with boredom, insisted on taking the train south to Miami and beyond.
OR: Armand and Daniel travel together for the first time. Daniel tries to interview another vampire.
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- Part 8 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Armand’s eyes glittered as he leaned in across the table. ‘In the interest of complete honesty, Daniel, I’d planned to kill you tonight.’
The instinctual flash of fear rooted Daniel to his seat but he managed to breath through the worst of it. ‘What made you change your mind?’
‘You did,’ Armand said with quiet eagerness. ‘That boy in San Francisco, the one I kicked into a bloody mess on a hotel floor, he wanted so desperately to live. Nothing could get him down, and yet here I find you, merely a year later, at the end of your rope.’
OR: Daniel has hit rock bottom during the winter of 1974. Armand accidentally makes things worse before they get better.
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- Part 9 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Daniel doesn’t want his monster to act vulnerable or pretend to show its belly. He wants his monster to control him and turn his bleak life into something wildly magical.
OR: Daniel needs to decide if Armand will be part of his future or not.
[Follows the events from 'Twist' and 'Break'.]
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- Part 10 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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When our minds connected and it told you I wanted to be on top of the world one day, Daniel moaned pitifully, hanging onto a wrought-iron crossbeam. I didn’t mean it quite so literally.
[Repost]
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- Part 11 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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- Chapters:
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‘In these solitary years, you have been the gravity drawing me back into the stream of life. And I am so grateful to have shared those experiences with you.’ A brief flash of a starlit sky and an ancient mosaic bled over from Armand’s mind before the vision was whisked away. ‘But some things are better left in the past.’
Or: Daniel is getting married to Alice. Armand takes the opportunity to say his final goodbyes.
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- Part 12 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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As much as it hurts to say, Daniel is starting to feel his age.
OR: Daniel fulfills some professional obligations and catches a glimpse of an angel.
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- Part 13 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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The Roles We Play by Judy_The_Dreamer
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
12 Oct 2024
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The problem with jumping back into acting after having spent many years in the director’s chair was that you forgot how difficult remaining an objective participant becomes when you’re part of the scene.
Or: Armand doesn't handle Daniel being back in his life well.
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- Part 14 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Whenever he was acting contrary, the volume of Rashid’s voice rose as if it were some kind of weapon or defense that he could bash Daniel over the head with.
Or: Daniel settles into the Dubai penthouse and experiences a strange 'nighttime' event.
Note: This fic spans the time between episode 1 and 3 of season 1 and follows directly from 'The Roles We Play'.
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- Part 15 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Nothing was tightly controlled about Armand now. He was shaking on bare feet, eyes glued to the hands that swung gently between those two bodies, feeling time and space compress around him in a vice grip. He gasped for breath that he didn’t need, wishing for some escape. Let the dream take him, cast him out if it must. Everything was better than this.
Or: Armand and Louis try to manipulate Daniel through his dreams. The plan backfires spectacularly.
[This takes place between episode 3 and 4 of season 1.]
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- Part 16 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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‘Well, either my increased stress levels have led me to develop sleep paralysis and I should be getting in touch with my actual doctor. Or…’ He paused, internally cringing at the farfetched nature of what he was about to share. ‘I’m possibly being haunted by what the sleuths on the internet call a ‘shadow person’. The first I can handle, the other I’m not so sure about.’
OR: Subjected to nightly hauntings, Daniel journals to make sense of it all.
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- Part 17 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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Healing and Prayer by Judy_The_Dreamer
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
21 Sep 2024
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‘Frankly speaking, it is not my fault that your nervous system is unable to handle coexistence with others.’
‘Got your claws out this morning, kid. That’s one for the gravestone.’
Or: In the wake of Louis triggering Daniel's Parkinson's, Rashid offers to help his nervous system calm down.
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- Part 18 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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‘He’s a desirable young man, our Rashid,’ Louis said with surprising earnesty. ‘Nobody blames you for looking and wanting, but I would ask you to kindly stop distracting him from his duties. Perhaps, if you were to lay off, he would be more inclined to indulge other kinds of attention.’
Daniel had to swallow the laugh of disbelief that threatened to escape. ‘Are you telling me to woo and fuck the help?’ Would he like to? Yes. Was he going to? Absolutely not.As the power imbalances become clearer, Daniel struggles with finding a healthy outlet for his emotions, and resolves to put somebody else's needs above his own for once.
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- Part 19 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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"Since you returned to me, I spend day after day split in half between the present and the past. I can be in the penthouse having a perfectly civil conversation with you and Louis, and some other part of my brain will be in 1979 cleaning your sick off the floor as you systematically destroy your body. And I cannot even banish the spectre of death anymore, it follows you everywhere!"
OR: After Daniel refuses Louis' offer to turn him, Armand must come to grips with his boy's mortality.
[Spoilers for the end of S01E06.]
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- Part 20 of Restless (Chronological Order)