Semper_Julia
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“Cardinal,” Pope Innocent said without looking up. He was signing something, slowly. “Sit.”
Lawrence sat.
“I need a favor,” the Pope said. He didn’t sound tired, exactly. Just past the threshold of fatigue into some stranger, steadier state.
Lawrence waited.
“There’s a visitor,” the Pope went on. “He believes he’s here for an audience.”
Still, he didn’t look up. Just turned a page, signed again, then closed the folder and laid the pen down with the kind of care that made Lawrence nervous.
“Bellini can’t take the meeting. I won’t.”
A pause.
“You will.”
(In which Lawrence speaks on the Pope’s behalf, and learns that being heard can be its own kind of closeness.)
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11 May 2025
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Whatever carefully blank expression Lestat is trying on disappears like a slap. “Armand made a fledgling. Why would he do that?” Lestat asks.
“Oh, you know,” Louis says, watching the three dots of a new text pop up. “He knew Daniel was… important to me.”
He means to say it with rueful annoyance, as if to say, “so he ruined him.” But as Daniel’s text comes in—the most important question I should have asked you in that fucking interview: where do you buy coke in Dubai?—Louis’s voice trails off, his words maybe lacking some of the bite.
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Lestat misunderstands what Daniel is to Louis and tries to be a champ about it. Meanwhile Louis rediscovers his drug of choice—Lestat.
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13 Jan 2025
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Akasha is dead and Louis and Lestat have reached an impasse. They said many pretty things to one another when they reunited in California, but such promises are difficult to keep. Healing is a messy process, especially with 200 years to unpack and more toxic habits than you can shake a stick at. They're in love, they have been since 1791, but it turns out they might actually like each other too.
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In which Louis and Lestat clobber each other with their respective baggage, argue in various locales, and make their own happy ending.Series
- Part 1 of Begin Again Extended Universe
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01 Dec 2024
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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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28 Sep 2024
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"Well, how did you deal with them all this time?" Louis demanded, and Lestat, by that point far beyond coherent sentences, mumbled something about not having had to, not since Paris.
It took a moment to decipher this, then another for the implications to fully sink in, and then – "You haven't had a heat since the 40s? Lestat!"
Lestat falls headlong into his first heat in nearly eighty years. Louis helps out, as good ex-husbands do.
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28 Sep 2024