[ Lestat folds into the touch to his chest, coming closer instinctively even before Louis kisses him. He doesn't have time to respond to his words before their mouths meet, and he kisses back with a slow but urgent kind of insistence, pressing his closed mouth over each of Louis' lips in turn, lapping his tongue gently across them, tasting the slight perfume of the blood even though Louis has been as neat as ever and hasn't left a drop spare.
The words feel as though they haunt him, though, and the hand he has on Louis' ribs slides to his waist to pull him a little closer and keep him there; his fingers pressing in, his touch a resounding answer of no. No, he doesn't want to see Louis in danger ever again, and no he won't allow it to happen. Not for his sake, not for anything. Just the thought of being trapped in that room while Louis suffered a blade to his chest makes his heart ache with the need to tear into something, or to curl around Louis and hiss, to protect him, or to build him up so strong that nothing would even dare to come near to him in the first place. ]
I won't let you.
[ Lestat murmurs, pulling back just enough that their mouths come apart but their noses still touch. ]
Let me dote on you in that way. Let me protect you.
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The words feel as though they haunt him, though, and the hand he has on Louis' ribs slides to his waist to pull him a little closer and keep him there; his fingers pressing in, his touch a resounding answer of no. No, he doesn't want to see Louis in danger ever again, and no he won't allow it to happen. Not for his sake, not for anything. Just the thought of being trapped in that room while Louis suffered a blade to his chest makes his heart ache with the need to tear into something, or to curl around Louis and hiss, to protect him, or to build him up so strong that nothing would even dare to come near to him in the first place. ]
I won't let you.
[ Lestat murmurs, pulling back just enough that their mouths come apart but their noses still touch. ]
Let me dote on you in that way. Let me protect you.