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Lee ([personal profile] atehimrightup) wrote2024-09-26 01:34 pm
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two bloodthirsty monsters walk into a bar

When Lee heads for the bar, his plan is to find someone to leave with. He still doesn't know if the plan ends with him eating them or fucking them, but he needs something. He's antsy and lonely, and in too dark a mood to be around Bev or any of the few other friends he's made in this place.

He's lonely, but not safe to be in the company of anyone normal. Same shit, different day.

The bar is a bit of a dive-- the kind of place with no security cameras and bartenders with hazy memories, and Lee takes a deep breath as he steps inside. There are so many smells, all of them layered over one another, so many hearts beating in overlapping rhythms that it's a little dizzying for a moment, but he adjusts.

He sits at a stool and orders a beer from the girl behind the bar. She looks too young to be working here, or maybe she's playing into it for tips, with her pigtails and sparkly lip gloss. Either way, it's kind of depressing. He takes a sip from his beer and straightens a little at the sudden itch at the back of his neck, like his hair is standing on edge. Like a predator is near.

When he slowly turns to look, he sees Lestat across the room and goes deathly still for a moment, then turns back toward the bar. There's a dirty mirror behind the liquor bottles on the bar and Lee stares at it, making out the smudged blur of Lestat's reflection, then swallows hard and curses himself for reacting at all.

He still doesn't quite know what to make of the night that met Lestat. Sometimes it still doesn't feel entirely real, but most of all he's embarrassed, he thinks. Even the people he's been closest to in his life never saw him like that, flayed open and raw, but he had wept in Lestat's arms. He'd been kissed tenderly, and then Lestat had wiped the blood from his face and got up and left, like he hadn't just reduced Lee to rubble.

Lestat probably hadn't spared Lee another thought. He probably just went on with his fabulous rock star life having forgotten all about his encounter with the gremlin under the bridge. Lee isn't being malicious or petty in these thoughts. It's just what makes the most sense to him. It's what he's used to.

"Do you want another?" The bartender asks after Lee finishes his beer, and he hesitates, honestly unsure. He had come here to hunt in one way or another, but there's someone higher up on the food chain already here, so he should probably just find somewhere else.

It angers him, though. He had come out because he needed something, anything, and now he just feels worse than before.
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[personal profile] unwilling_devil 2025-03-03 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
There was an element to it that revolted him. Vampires innately avoided the blood and meat of the dead. When he had first been turned, he had been viscerally repelled by the smell of corpses. It had taken him years to become accustomed to dealing with his victims' bodies once he'd had his fill of them.

But the boy was eager and blazing hot as Lestat gripped his upper arms, holding him at a distance for just a moment before allowing him close, his own tongue sweeping across the boy's bloodied chin.