He regrets it badly. Truly, he does. In truth, I don't think he wanted to hurt me even when it happened.
[Christ, he knows how this sounds, how everything he says will seem like cheap excuses. For an ugly second, Lestat remembers Paris, remembers hearing the vampire coven make Louis out to be a cruel, vicious beast of a man and how he'd fought to say something then, how it had done nothing to change how it all ended.
And he remembers, too, when Louis had arrived here, the wretched sobbing when he remembered that night, how he'd wept as he'd told Lestat about seeing his face haunting him in every corner of Europe.]
It was years ago. Almost a century, for him. And -- and in truth, it did not come from nothing.
[He is probably not helping his case with Rip here, but after everything, he can't let it seem like Louis was simply a brute with no cause.]
I was not a good companion to him then. I was often angry and possessive and jealous. I was controlling and tried to keep him from leaving me. I understood why he did it.
I have changed since then, I would like to think. So has he.
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Date: 2025-01-09 09:57 pm (UTC)From:[Christ, he knows how this sounds, how everything he says will seem like cheap excuses. For an ugly second, Lestat remembers Paris, remembers hearing the vampire coven make Louis out to be a cruel, vicious beast of a man and how he'd fought to say something then, how it had done nothing to change how it all ended.
And he remembers, too, when Louis had arrived here, the wretched sobbing when he remembered that night, how he'd wept as he'd told Lestat about seeing his face haunting him in every corner of Europe.]
It was years ago. Almost a century, for him. And -- and in truth, it did not come from nothing.
[He is probably not helping his case with Rip here, but after everything, he can't let it seem like Louis was simply a brute with no cause.]
I was not a good companion to him then. I was often angry and possessive and jealous. I was controlling and tried to keep him from leaving me. I understood why he did it.
I have changed since then, I would like to think. So has he.