 |
𝚁𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢
Runaway"You left. Without saying goodbye, again.""Claudia... you left. Without saying goodbye, again." His accented voice flowed so smoothly as he spoke his words. Hiding the hurt he felt that Claudia again had left without even thinking to tell him. Shaking her head she looked up at him. "What do you care for? I mean.. why do you give a sh*t if I leave? He chose you again over me. That'll always be. Won't never change. So why can't I go? He said I could." Claudia protested. She never once considered Lestat might actually feel some sort of way about her running off again.
"I'm sure it was an oversight. The not saying goodbye. But still, you'd think your creator might be afforded the courtesy to say goodbye." His anger now finally beginning to show through. "You don't want me." Claudia said tearfully looking up to Lestat. "Never did. I was made for Louis. And he said I could go." She flinched as Lestat moved closer to her. "Who says I don't want you? You are an impossible.. spoiled child! But... I made you. You are mine. You and I have just as much a connection as me and Louis."
"We do not!" Claudia protested. Lestat only shook his head "we do. Whether you want it or not ma petite." He said calmer now. He hadn't called Claudia that in ages. "When you are in pain I feel it. I simply have a high tolerance for it. When you left.. that will not happen again because you will not leave again. And you will never meet another. Now come home, Claudia. Louis needs you. He's so fragile. Still wounded from the last time you abandoned him. Filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike."
Claudia's eyes widened and she stared at Lestat for a few moments. "... Let it be Lestat. Just let me go." She persisted. She was horrified that Lestat even knew. "I wanted to ask but Louis would not let me. Now I love our family. But all these secrets. We must have none." Lestat insisted. "When I put my mind to it I can hear for quite a long distance."
By now Claudia was in tears, curling into herself and away from Lestat. "He thinks of you often.. Bruce." He said with a disgust in his voice. "Bastard." Claudia mumbled. "Oh I couldn't agree more. What he did was.. just in bad taste. But could you imagine if something like that happened again? Or worse? Louis would never forgive himself. He'd become worse than he is. No. Your place is home with us. So come home and make him happy."
Without hesitation Lestat stood, reaching down to pull Claudia up. "And if you ever try to leave again. I won't defile your sweet body and break your leg. I'll turn your bones to dust." Lestat threatened, squeezing Claudia's arm tighter until she pulled from his grip spitting in his face. "I hate you!" She shouted before rushing on ahead, jumping off the train.
Lestat remained a moment, pulling a handkerchief from his pocket and wiping his face. This interaction with Claudia had been an unpleasant one. Lestat had tried to make it seem like his only true cause for keeping Claudia there was for Louis sake but if he were honest, truthful with his daughter he'd have told her how much it angered him what had happened to her. How he had found Bruce after her return and took care of the situation, as well as Bruce's head. How he never would again allow another vampire to harm her or Louis. Claudia and Louis were his to do with what he pleased. No one else's.
"But could you imagine if something like that happened again? Or worse?"
0 Comments
|
