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    Hedonist that he is, Lestat has never particularly cared to be held to the constraints of a schedule. Louis may enjoy the routine and predictability of something as prosaic as the requirements of managing a business–one of his many little idiosyncrasies that Lestat simultaneously enjoys and is frequently irritated by–but for him? Non. He can enjoy the artistry of a well-planned ball or the satisfaction of a business deal well-struck, but he’s always enjoyed the freedom of not quite knowing what’s coming next. In a long, long life, it’s far too easy to fall into a rut and find oneself constrained to it for decades before noticing.

    Even with his taste for surprise, however, Louis holding out a tiny, sooty, sniffling child is a shock he is not best pleased by.

    He flicks his eyes up from the big-eyed, dripping moppet, raising a brow and feeling his lip curl slightly in distaste. The child reeks of smoke and fear and God only knows what else.

    “Put it back,” he says flatly.

    (AU based on the idea of Louis finding Claudia at the age of five like in the book but raising her until she's old enough to be changed) (marked complete because each chapter can stand alone but will be updated)

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    When Lestat had changed Antoinette months ago, it had been with the tentative belief that she might bring about the end to his thousand nights of loneliness but instead in many cases seems only to have exacerbated it. Then at one of her parties, Lestat meets the young owner of the Azalea and Antoinette's boss. He finds himself...interested.

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    Louis is the other woman.

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    Gilbert and Anne's correspondence and goings-on.
    These letters/chapters take place after season 3 of Anne with an E.

    **BE SURE TO CHECK OUT PART TWO OF THIS SERIES: Once in a Golden Hour! xo

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    It was a heady thing, my darling. I cannot say that I regret kissing you so eagerly (and… ahem… frequently…), but I do hope that my behavior didn’t alarm or upset you.

    Though, in my experience with you thus far, I can venture with some certainty that had my advances had offended you, you would have let me know, and most definitely not by holding my own face in your soft, small hands, and kissing me back with such… I can almost feel you in my arms now, pulling your waist close to me as you…

    Pardon me, Miss. I think I’ll go for a quick walk around the block.

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    “What do you want me to do?” Remus says, tiredly. All he wants is to curl up on his bed. Smoke a pack of cigarettes. Get drunk. He can’t stop looking at Harry.

    “Remus...” Dumbledore is gentle. Remus hates when he has that tone. Hates that he knows it will hurt. “There is no one else left.”

    A bitter laugh escapes him. “So you’ll curse the poor thing with a werewolf for a guardian?”

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    Oh,” he says then, quiet realisation, “Is that what you want to hear?”

    “I – I don’t-” Simon starts, and then all thoughts leave his head as Markus moves forward, taking hold of his other wrist like he had the first and caging him there, pressed against the desk.

    “That you’re good,” Markus murmurs, “That I think you’re brilliant.”

     
    Or: Simon is struggling with what it means to be free. Markus tries to help. It ends with the misuse of Markus's office desk.

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