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Nighttime Coming by Mars00135 for TheCrampReturns, tastethesetears
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
11 Feb 2026
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Summary
"'Cause it's cold outside. When you coming home? 'Cause it's hot inside. Isn't that enough?"
Daniel Molloy Jr. is in his senior year of undergrad and just trying to survive the last 12 units that stand between him and self-actualization. Chain smoking, over-stressed, and on the brink of a crashout, he emerges from last nights recklessness with the haze of coffee-cardamom-vanilla sambac caught in his nose and a face cast in shadows taunting him with the ghost of a smile.
The wisp of teeth grazing his skin.
Fire simmering in his veins.
And a lie given for a name.
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Armand can't take another minute of the claustrophobia. The latex tight constriction of immortality in a world so condescendingly regulated--so stale yet manic in its paranoia. But this practiced ritual of monotony is necessary. A means of survival that keeps him and his kind concealed and secret. And after the last brush with oblivion decades prior, he's happy to play the human, Rashid.
But for this peace, he had to let go.
Let go of his one before they could be taken.
But fate is cruel. And rarely is she fair.
Series
- Part 1 of Vampires Can't Hurt You series