13 Griffin Way, Sunday Night

[tyler_gone]

The taste of the priest's blood still sang in Louis' mouth as he ran back to the home whose keys had been among the belongings in the apartment where he woke up with that same priest the morning before.

He was the most vile of all sinners, and he knew it, damned even among those doomed to walk as vampires. The fact he knew Lestat would take pride in what he'd done made it sting even more.

He wondered, dimly, where Lestat and Claudia had gotten to; he hadn't seen them since the tavern the night before. With that thought on his mind, he started exploring the house, searching for signs of any residents living, dead, or otherwise.

[OOC: For the other vampeers and the housemates.]

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[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

She was in a rare fit and while his words cautioned her against further argument, because she loved him so, the groan she heard captured and held her attention instantly.

"What have you done, Louis? Who is that?" And she started forward, towards the noise she heard.

[tyler_gone]

"Nothing of any significance," Louis said, frowning in the direction of the groan. "A young Englishwoman who is as lost in this place as we are served as my supper, and I'm leaving her to heal."

Or to die. Same thing.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Claudia rounded on him. "Give her to me! I beg you. Give her to me, Louis, my love, my true father. I want her and if she is as lost as you say, then there is nothing else for her. You will give her to me because you love me! Do this for me, Louis. Show me you love me and I'll never ask you for anything."

[shiroi_tiger]

"Oh, yes, Louis. Show her you love her." Lestat raised his eyebrows, stepping out from the shadows in the corner of the room which he'd been all to happy to watch the entire proceedings from. Louis, taking that woman by the throat... Well, that certainly gave the Brat Prince something to smile about.

"Or can you?" He knelt down, inspecting the woman who was growing progressively cold before him. Reaching out his hand, pressing the back of his fingers tenderly against her cheek. "She is quite a find. She has fight in her, Claudia. I wouldn't put Dear Louis in such a position. It would hardly be kind."

[tyler_gone]

"I do love you, chére Claudia," Louis insisted, uneasily leading her toward Lestat and the woman. "Would you really have us do that to Miss Bennet -- take her life and make her what we are? It is not a thing we can do lightly."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"But it is a thing you can do!" she snapped, and in the next instant her face softened, grew tender and full of love for Louis as she sought to hold his hand, bring it to her cheek. "Do this for me, I beg you. If you've ever loved me, Louis, you will give her to me for I need her. I need her and if you will not," her eyes cut over to Lestat, "then I will ask my dark prince, my love, to give her to me and he will do it."

[shiroi_tiger]

"Ah, but of course, ma chérie!" Lestat smiled warmly at Louis and Claudia as they came into view. "Anything for out beautiful daughter, non?"

He offered a perfect grin to the near-corpse before him, idly twirling a lock of hair in his fingers.

"Normally, here is where I would tell you that I'm going to offer you the choice that I was never given," he said, an almost genuine soothing note lacing his words. "If not for this; You lashed out at My Louis," and this was entirely matter-of-fact. "You drew his blood, and for that, you might have been allowed to simply die."

His teeth scraped across her wrist almost teasingly.

"I imagine you were delicious. I am certain that you'll make an excellent mother for Our Claudia."

His teeth were at his own wrist now, and his blood was glistening, beautiful red sitting stark and clear on his pale skin.

And then, his blood was trickling against her lips.

[clevermsbennet.livejournal.com]

Miss Bennet was slipping away, as her blood pooled underneath her lifeless form. There were drops, upon her lips, but she could not feel them.

As the drops wetted her lips, they awakened some strange consciousness within her; her tongue was flicking against her lips, seeking more. Hungering for it. Her mouth opened and pressed against his wrist, feeding. It was elixir. It was intoxicating.

Somewhere behind the rush of blood, the pain was starting.

[tyler_gone]

Louis folded his arms, leaned against the doorframe, and simply watched this unfold, remembering what Miss Bennet must now be experiencing. He glanced down at Claudia's perfect curls and reached for her small hand. "I hope this grants you peace, daughter."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

She held his hand tightly, watching in fascination. "What is happening to her, father? Did you not do it right? Lestat? Why is she is pain?"

[shiroi_tiger]

"She is dying," Lestat said, re-claiming his arm from the woman before him, idly licking at his wrist until it healed clean, as though it had not ever seen a wound. "We all did, once, Claudia."

He spared her a smug, tired smile. Sharing his blood was never easy, after all.

"It will hurt. And then it will hurt her no longer."

[clevermsbennet.livejournal.com]

There had been pain, the sharp sting of Louis's fangs, and then a peaceful fading out, as her life had ebbed away. Then the liquid, dark and rich on her tongue. And now ... and now ...

Eliza screamed, back arching as she writhed. Every inch of her skin was set aflame. Every nerve twisted itself and burned out. She sobbed. She pleaded. She burned.

After a thousand years, or perhaps a few long, terrible minutes, she was quiet, as her heart beat to a stop. Her hair had nearly pulled itself from her proper pinnings, during her death struggle; now it flowed around her in thick, dark curls. Her teeth sharpened themselves into fangs.

Her eyes seemed to work; Eliza sat up, carefully, entranced by the sights before her.

"What is the meaning of this?" she asked calmly, glancing at each of them in turn.

[tyler_gone]

"You are a vampire," Louis said, offering a hand to help her up. "You are as we are. You will never get old, or sick, or die. Does the world appear changed to you?"

He had hated watching her agony; he was only grateful it seemed to have been short, and more grateful yet that Claudia now had the mother she had so desperately craved. They would be a family, now, and one that might last for eternity.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

The agongy was over, and Claudia would not dwell on that particular unpleasantness. The vampire woman was beautiful and she was her mother for all eternity, to live with her as she was made to do.

"Maman," she murmured, tentatively, but with increasing fascination as she stepped forward, towards her. "Maman, you are mine as my fathers gave you to me."

[clevermsbennet.livejournal.com]

"Maman?" Eliza asked, kneeling before the beautiful child. She looked as a porcelain doll. She reached up to carefully brush a single blonde curl away from the girl's face. "Have you no mother, little one?"

How heartbreaking, to be an eternal child with no mother's comforting embrace.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

She shook her head, her little blonde curls shiny and brilliant. "You were made for me, to be my maman now. You are my love and I will cherish you always," she said, her voice small, gentle.

Tilting her head slightly, she reached up to cup her new maman's cheek. "Love me, maman, love me forever."

[clevermsbennet.livejournal.com]

Eliza's heart was breaking; the child was so desperately in need of a mother. She reached out, pulling the girl into a tight embrace.

"I shall, little one," she said, sniffling against those golden curls. "I shall be your maman. For always."

If she were doomed (and damned) to haunt the edges of night. then she would at least keep this child safe. Loved. Protected.