In many ways, they were more like each other than they wanted to admit. They both sought out weakness.They reveled in the exploitation of it, and they romped with joy as I played audience to their joyless exchange
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I played three games at once in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and one of my opponents was Johannes Zukertort,
Oh, it's you who lost, Claudia, for the many hundredth time. I admire your steadfast pursuit of a game you clearly have no acumen for.
My massa taught me how to play, but only enough to occupy his time.
Poor massa and his pain. It's an honor just to sleep under massa's roof.
Are we the sum of our worst moments? Can we be forgiven if we do not forgive others ourselves?
She's an affected, self-absorbed, nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is and she is poisoning Louis against me.
You don't need her and you don't need him. They don't appreciate you like I do.
I have given her so many gifts, so many incalculable gifts. And you're right, it is *both* of them. He broods. She snipes. That's why I need you. You fortify me against them.
Louis, I don't know what possessed me that night.
Three years ago. That night three years ago, he means.
I was someone I don't want to be anymore. I've changed. Let me prove it to you. I'm nothing without you. I'm nothing without both of you. If you want me to go away, just say so. I'll obey you. I'll leave your life forever. [Louis doesn't answer]
This silence is cruel. And you were never cruel, Louis.
Let me go, Lestat.
In Louis' hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike.
We're his slaves, and I will free us both.
He picked you over me.
Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state.
Claudia... you left, without saying goodbye. Again. I'm sure it was an oversight, but still. You'd think your creator had earned the courtesy.
You didn't want me. You made me for Louis.
And he needs you now more than ever. He's in a terrible state.
He said I could go. He picked you over me.
Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state. He'd grip it, tug at it, then, weak as he is, the stem would hold.
Is your medicine taking?
It's cold and itchy. Thanks for asking.
Are you still dreaming about our first meeting, Daniel?
I keep waking up just before you ask me back to your shitty apartment.
Hey, Doc, did you know there's a flying vampire apocalypse coming your way?
Most vampires do not possess the Cloud Gift. With few exceptions, only the most ancient of us have it.
You know he's a vampire, right?
I do not discuss my patients with anyone but the patients themselves.
[to the recorder] That's the voice of Dr. Fareer Bhansali...
That is not my voice.
...He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and...
And I am not here.
...the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.
He's officially off the record.
NDAs signed by any and all who cross the threshold, eh?
For six years in all, these raw and desperate mea culpas came like the tide. And for six years, they were greeted with silence or fire. We burned more gifts than bodies in that decade, but they would not stop coming. And Lestat's relentless determination began to crack my considerable armor. Perhaps it was the modesty of the gesture, but in the spring of 1937, one broke through. He had written it himself in the music of the hour. His first composition in a hundred years.
I loved Claudia with all my heart and I loved Lestat with a wounded one. The work would be convincing the two to find room again for each other.
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