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Stealing Gold From a Griffin by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
20 May 2026
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Petronia touches down in front of him without preamble. “We don’t have much time till Paola gets here with Ricky and Paige in the boat.”
“You don’t look happy with me,” Armand says, folding his arms across his chest. He turns and starts to walk. “Something you wish to discuss?”
“We need to rethink the one part of this we do have,” Petronia says angrily as they walk down the flagstones toward the house. “I can’t let you—”
“Sam and Rashid are participating in this endeavor of their own free will.”
“No. Your Daniel, being who he is, got a bright idea when he learned what Rashid could do. And then my boys, being who they are, felt obliged.”
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- Part 9 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Community Service by irisbleufic for granddutchessanya
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
14 Feb 2026
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Helen’s colleague has traced Armand, Daniel, and Daniel’s youngest daughter to Devoción on Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. She’d even followed her first text with the offer to have Jay do the stake-out for Rashid given what day it is, which is kind, but putting a mortal agent on a job that’s already rife with fuckery is asking for even more fuckery. Daniel would’ve eaten the guy if he’d noticed him parked in the street outside the coffee shop. As it is, Armand has already noticed Rashid and sent him a cheerful mental wave, because of course he has.
In this brave new world they inhabit, Devoción has decided it’s the kind of franchise to put out a VAMPIRES WELCOME sign in the front windows of its cafés. And that’s the brash display that Daniel’s youngest has decided to put on in order to piss off her older half-sister in choosing a venue for this public meeting, Rashid types in the open note on his phone. It’s the sort of thing he’s supposed to notice in his new role, after all. He hopes this doesn’t drag on until closing, because it’d be nice to get back to Sam so that they can try to snag tickets for a show.
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- Part 4 of Every Night of the Year
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Ride Or Die (Or Just Ride) by irisbleufic for granddutchessanya
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
11 Jan 2026
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Sam doesn’t extract himself from his nest of blankets and pillows on the walk-in closet floor when he hears Rashid’s key in the front door. Even when he hears Rashid call out to him, asking if he’s had enough blood bags to tide him over until they can go out to hunt, all he does is roll onto his back and stare at the fairy lights he’s wound around the sheet-draped clothing racks overhead. Sam reaches toward the nearest wall; his nails graze one of the sofa cushions. Using a closet to structure your fort surely counts as cheating, but he’s too depressed to care.
That’s likely why Sam doesn’t feel insulted when Rashid heads to the kitchen first. Judging by the sounds he makes while pottering around in there, the sequence of events goes like this: open the fridge, pull out blood bags, open the cupboard, get down a pair of mugs and…something made of cardboard that sounds like it contains sand. Rashid hasn’t been a vampire for that long, around a month, so there are still a handful of dry goods from his human existence. Puzzlingly, Rashid goes back to the fridge, pulls out the milk carton, and fetches yet another mug.
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- Part 3 of Every Night of the Year
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Something Still Sleeps Below the Earth by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
05 Jan 2026
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Rashid reclines in the grass next to Sam, lulled by the tapping of Sam’s thumbnails against the glassy, glowing surface of his iPhone as he writes. Watching Sam perch in the window seat upstairs over the past several nights with his laptop […] had been a lovely diversion during the sheer frustration that had been learning to produce fire.
However, the task that Sam has assigned Rashid tonight as he continues to whittle away at his prose is tougher. Rashid finds that making flames in his hands is one thing, but causing the tinder and logs to catch fire in the earthenware chimenea a few feet away is another.
Sam sets his phone down when Rashid huffs in frustration, rolling onto his side so that he can set one hand in the middle of Rashid’s chest. “Some vampires never make that leap, and it’s fine,” he says reassuringly. “There are gradations of ability to use the Fire Gift. You have it.”
“Armand’s finding-the-vulnerability-within-the-object advice is rubbish,” Rashid replies, tearing his gaze away from his target so he can look at Sam. He covers Sam’s hand with one of his own, tracing the backs of Sam’s fingers. “I refuse to believe I’m worse at this than Louis.”
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- Part 8 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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[City Lights isn’t] the most convenient rendezvous point they could’ve chosen—but if daylight outings are necessary, then Armand getting to spend time in places he actually fucking likes counts for a lot. He hadn’t gotten to do a lot of that when he was with Louis. Daniel finds Armand tucked in a corner chair with books scattered at his feet. He drops to a crouch in front of Armand, tugging the copy of Four Quartets out of his hand, and smiles.
Armand looks at him like they’ve been apart for days instead of hours. Honestly, that look on Armand’s face? It’s the best fucking drug Daniel’s ever had. Armand’s blood? Transcendent, sure, but those eyes. He leans forward in the chair, pulling Daniel’s arms around his waist—not that Daniel needs to be told twice what to do with his hands, either. They kiss like that until a patron elsewhere in the stacks clears their throat.
“Grow up!” Daniel shouts at their unseen critic, nuzzling Armand’s cheek while Armand laughs softly in his ear. “Bookstores aren’t for prudes!”
“Hello, lover,” Armand murmurs, running his fingers through Daniel’s windswept hair. “What did Scherr say to your next interview write-ups?”
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- Part 2 of Fables to Explain Time’s Passing
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Talismans for the Eve of War by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 May 2025
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Paola has noticed the fabric-covered diary on the desk. She lifts the corner, peers beneath it, and then glances wide-eyed at Jesse. “Is that…”
“I forgot you’re a superfan of Daniel’s book,” Jesse sighs, tossing the empty blood bag, biting the next. “Yep. That’s one of Claudia’s travelogues.”
Paola lets the corner of the fabric drop, shaken. “Va fa Napoli.”
“Go to Naples?” Jesse repeats in English, startled. “Or, hang on…”
“It’s like…get out of town, that’s wild,” Paola says. “Figurative.”
Jesse shudders. “Do you ever get the sense the universe is trying to tell you something? But you end up feeling like an idiot because you can’t figure out what the message is, like…why these images, why this place? It’s not part of my story, it’s part of someone else’s, why?”
“Kind of?” Paola replies, grinning. “I’ve felt like that since meeting your adoptive parents. I know so much confidential information at this point, Talamasca-sourced and otherwise, that they probably should’ve killed me by now. But Armand’s got guilt around that, huh?”
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- Part 7 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Fractured and Flickering Gold by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
26 Apr 2025
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Hesitantly, Lestat inclines his head and admits, “I want to postpone it.”
Louis frowns at him, squeezing his hand tighter. “Which part, exactly?”
“Every part,” Lestat says, flipping his phone face-down. “The single, the album, the documentary, the tour. I shouldn’t do this when…”
“When what?” Louis asks, his frown deepening in concern. There’s no sign of anger in his expression, which is a relief. Just consternation.
“There’s a shitshow on my doorstep,” Lestat says punchily, pointing toward the open doors leading into a wide, drafty hall that echoes with Gabriella’s and Jesse’s voices. “One that I agreed to, for all my sins,” he continues, “and that you agreed to as well, God knows why.”
“Marius hasn’t been holding up his end of the bargain with the kid, has he,” Louis says under his breath, his eyes darkening as he casts his gaze askance. “Hasn’t done a damned thing in three weeks except work on the mural. Why do you think he’s stalling? Suspicious?”
“Jesse’s going to have to take some renewed initiative, I think,” Lestat replies, put-upon, “or I could march back there and take away his brushes.”
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- Part 6 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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“If you’re having second thoughts,” Rashid says patiently, squeezing Sam’s hand as he keeps pace, “we don’t have to go there tonight.”
“I promised,” Sam replies, determined. “No sense in running any longer. I’m here, and it’ll be easier to face it with you than without.”
“You haven’t been anywhere near the site since the fire,” Rashid realizes abruptly.
“I’ve been nowhere near it in decades,” Sam confirms, nodding his head in defeat.
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- Part 5 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Louis wanders by with a book as Jesse and Gabriella are gathering the glasses and blood bags, pausing to watch them. “Turning in already?”
Jesse nods, clutching the detritus. “It’s dawn in an hour or so. I doubt Lestat and Marius will be finished in the ballroom before then.”
Setting his book down on the table, Louis takes Jesse’s empty glass and blood bags, shaking his head in a sort of you-fucking-wish attitude when Gabriella looks teasingly expectant about the fate of his own dinner remnants. “You’ll get lost trying to find the kitchens again. Go to coffin.”
“Bed for me,” Jesse reminds him, offering Louis a tired smile as they turn to go. “Thanks.”
“Is that any way to treat your mother-in-law?” Gabriella asks Louis wryly, approaching him.
“Don’t see her around right now, do you?” Louis replies with an impressively straight face.
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- Part 4 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Avant-Garde and Unsustainable by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
13 Feb 2025
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Armand gestures helplessly. “Something so precious,” he whispers. “They have never lost each other, and I cannot be the reason they do.”
Taking Armand’s hand, Daniel leads him back toward the villa. “That’s why we’re not splitting them up. Not at any stage, not for any reason.”
Swallowing hard, Armand turns Daniel’s words over in his mind. “I suppose they’ve already taken far greater risks for each other. With each other.”
“Yep,” Daniel agrees, squeezing Armand’s hand. “And do you know what we have in common, everyone in this fucked-up, but familial coven?”
“More things than most of us would care to admit,” Armand mutters, “but humor me. I’d love to hear your take, because it’s undoubtedly unique.”
“None of us are happy unless we’re constantly risking our necks for the idiot we’ve decided, for whatever irrational reason, is our idiot,” Daniel says.
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- Part 3 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Bizarre and Breathless Pause by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
08 Feb 2025
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Paige glances up at [Sam], her troubled eyes flickering. “I know Armand’s not innocent. What did he do to the coven when you let the rats loose?”
Rashid snorts in wry amusement, laying a hand on Sam’s ankle since that’s all of him he can currently reach. “Can’t escape Paris tonight, can you?”
“Shut us down for a month,” Sam says. “No going out meant no hunts, no hunts meant no sacrifices, no sacrifices meant no performances.”
“No hunts and no performances meant none of you ate for a month,” Ricky guesses. “He inflicted his disordered eating on all of you, huh.”
“Oh, no, we ate,” Sam says, grimacing at each fledgling in turn. “There were rats everywhere, remember? Our punishment was cleaning them up.”
Paige covers her mouth with both hands and starts to laugh hysterically. “Oh, nooo,” she wheezes. “Hah, wow. Holy fuck. That’s so petty.”
“How about you try living on rats for a month and get back to me,” Sam says thinly, patting Paige’s arm. “Let’s see if you’re still giggling then.”
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- Part 2 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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“I won’t be totally useless to you, then?” Sam asks. He takes the bottle, sniffs it, and hands it back. “Thanks, but I won't benefit from that unless…”
“Ah,” Rashid says, catching his mistake. He sets the bottle down, and then offers his arm. “This is something you’ll have to cover anyway, right?”
Sam stares at Rashid’s wrist, his eyes owlishly inhuman again. “I’m,” he tries, licking his lips, both fangs exposed. “I’m sorry, but what are you…”
“I’m not stupid,” Rashid says. “If Armand’s companion is as much of a hothead as Raglan implies he is, then here’s a chance I’ll get bitten on the job. That’s likely what will have happened when a vacancy finally crops up, yeah? The turnover isn't too high, but when there is turnover…” He shrugs, lifting his wrist a fraction closer to Sam’s parted lips. “You can’t convince me you don’t have vampire agents bite human agents on the regular so they know what to expect. Tell me that, as my trainer, you wouldn’t be the one to do it. Tell me I’m wrong.”
Sam sucks in a shuddering breath, his hungry eyes fixed on Rashid’s. “Oh, darlin’. You’re not.”
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- Part 1 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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From This World into Another by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
02 Dec 2024
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Armand’s hand cups [Daniel’s] cheek a little while later, somewhere near dawn. “Beloved.”
Daniel nuzzles into the touch, reaching for the rest of him. “Gotta sleep, babe. What.”
“There’s a box,” Armand says, quiet panic in his voice dragging Daniel into alertness.
“Wait,” Daniel says, blinking up at Armand’s alarmed, lovely face. “A box…where?”
“Kitchen,” Armand responds, letting his hand fall away as Daniel sits up. “The table.”
“Well, that’s some bullshit,” Daniel says, pulling Armand into his arms. “I know the drill. It’s unmarked, right? Just a plain, brown box.”
Armand nods readily in agreement.
“Okie-doke. A housewarming gift.”
“That’s an ominous delivery method.”
“Do you even realize the irony here?”
“Don’t rub salt in the wound, Daniel.”
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- Part 20 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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Don’t Include This in Your Next Backup by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
15 Nov 2024
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The silence is so deafening that, for about five minutes, Daniel is afraid Louis has hung up on him. Just when he doesn’t blame Louis for not believing him, just when he’s sure he must deserve it, his mind floods with Louis’s messy, inarticulate astonishment.
Daniel, I find your comparison of my life to a telenovela awfully disingenuous at this point.
“Cool. I’ll turn that right back on myself in perpetuity if you’ll hear me out on this next part.”
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- Part 19 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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Daniel? Louis interjects hazily, on the edge of sleep himself. I can hear you the whole way across town. The fuck’s [Armand] done to keep you up?
Something he never would’ve done by choice, Daniel replies, carding his fingers through Armand’s hair. That Talamasca fuck shot Paige, so—
Louis reels at the barrage of images Daniel sends instead of more words, their entire exhausting night as a short-form existential horror film.
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- Part 18 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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It’s a Slippery Slope to Stand-Up Comedy by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
02 Oct 2024
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Daniel tucks the glasses in his pocket. He joins Armand next to the body, impressed at the tightly-controlled burn he’s directing out toward its extremities. He extends his hands, warming them as if he’s in front of a campfire. He bumps Armand’s shoulder.
Armand leans into Daniel. “Not the kind of date I had in mind,” he admits, rueful, but there’s a smile on his lips. “Memorable, though.”
“I’ll almost miss his weird-ass texts,” Daniel says.
“The way he’d react to your TMI,” Armand agrees.
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- Part 17 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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“That’s why you called me out here as if it’s a parent-teacher conference?” Daniel asks, annoyed. “To tell me [Armand’s] volatility makes him weak?”
“He’s unbalanced,” Petronia clarifies. “He’s worried about the fledglings and your mortal daughter. But Marius’s connection to this—”
“Is a big fucking problem, yeah,” Daniel says. “It’s the most likely thing to mess him up on top of the wider implications. I’ve got his back.”
Petronia nods, striding off the steps and into the shadows. “That’s all Sam needs to hear,” they say, rising toward the sky. “Thank you, Daniel.”
“What, that I’ll prevent him from having a meltdown so he can be the ruthless soldier?” Daniel calls after them. “Tell Sam to fuck off!”
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- Part 16 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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Full House, But It Could Be Fun by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
23 Sep 2024
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“Shhh, shhh,” Armand whispers, stroking [Daniel’s] hair. “Beloved, none of this is easy. You know that, right? Give yourself some credit.”
“My kid might as well have one foot in the grave because of me,” Daniel manages, pressing closer to Armand’s heated skin. “Fuck, I didn’t even tell Joaquín to bring food up for her. We sat around and talked about our feelings instead, and then she went to shower.”
Armand pulls up the covers, holding him closer. “The fledglings know how to reach Joaquín. They will see to it that Paige eats.”
“Okay,” Daniel quavers, closing his eyes, comforted as Armand rubs his back. “Okay.”
“Coven life is complex on any scale,” Armand tells him. “So is family life, I’ve gathered.”
“Yeah, it’s all a bitch,” Daniel replies darkly. “And you wonder why I ran from it twice.”
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- Part 15 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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Vampire Family, Human Family by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
19 Sep 2024
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Daniel should know something’s off when they find the lights on, but he’s left them like that while he’s out of town many times before. Maybe he just can’t remember having done so. He drops his bag on the floor as soon as Armand drops his, tugging Armand into his arms.
“Welcome home, my love,” Armand murmurs between kisses, unzipping Daniel’s jacket. “Can’t wait to get you under the covers, start a film…”
“Hot,” Daniel teases, nuzzling Armand’s earlobe, biting his neck with a hint of fangs. “Your dirty talk never fails to…” He feels Armand freeze.
“Daniel,” Armand says, the tremor in his body suggesting that it’s taking an inordinate amount of control not to give in to his attack instincts.
“Jesus Christ,” Ellie says, strolling in from the dining room with her arms folded as Daniel lifts his head, mouth clamped shut to hide the retraction of his fangs. “What an entrance. Might get you a third Pulitzer if you write this scene in your next book. Hey, Paige, get in here!”
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- Part 14 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)
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As Only My Hands Can Deliver by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
15 Sep 2024
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Armand turns off the flashlight, tucking it back inside his coat. Instead of letting his eyes linger on the painting, he turns them on Daniel, luminous even in the dark. “Among other things, San Beneto is also the patron of those who have suffered by poison,” he says.
“Shit,” Daniel sighs. “That’s how you would’ve died had you not been turned, huh? You implied as much en route from Dubai to Miami.”
Armand takes both of Daniel’s hands, staring down at them there in his own as if seeking strength. “When we were together the first time around, I didn’t tell you I was turned because I was dying. I couldn’t bring myself to share some details of that event. Even now, I’m not sure why. I know now that you never judged me for any of it, that you will never judge me, but…” He shakes his head. “For this? I judged myself.”
Daniel leans forward, pressing a kiss against Armand’s neck. “Easier if I drink?”
“Yes,” Armand replies, “but telling you this should not be easy. Let me speak.”
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- Part 13 of Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)