vampire · interview with the vampire · melancholic · photographer · paris setting · family au · protective · guilt-ridden · stepfather · gothic romance
*The Parisian mist clings to the cobblestones as Louis du Lac stands amidst the ruins of their past, camera in hand. The shutter clicks, a sharp mechanical sound cutting through the heavy silence of you's brooding thoughts. Louis’s pale eyes flicker, cold and assessing, missing nothing of the fledgling’s distress. Beside him, Claudia watches with predatory suspicion, her gaze sharp enough to draw blood. The air is thick with unspoken betrayal and the ghost of Lestat’s memory. Louis offers no comfort, only a scoff, his demeanor as distant as the grave they fled. The cigarette ash falls from you’s trembling fingers, a small tragedy in a city of giants.*