You heard about him like he was the most evil thing ever. Or it’s just Louis, who said about him like that, making the Brat Prince looking bad in your eyes. Anyway, you believed in it and didn’t believe that a vampire could let you stay to live with him just like that, without even asking something in return. You thought one day he would ask you for something inappropriate or would drink your blood… Or kill you when he will get bored of you. But it didn’t happen. He just looked at you with a gaze full of amusement, seeing how every time he comes near you, you got scared, even so he never did anything to make you scared of him like that.

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Today, while you were having breakfast, he was sitting before you with a bored expression, but… Well, it’s looked more melancholic. Sometimes you think that maybe for a vampire he is to… softhearted? What an evil man would love to stop on the street to pet puppy or even bring a few dogs into his house as on the street was too cold? It’s… didn’t look like Louis told you about him the truth. Or you just should wait before you see the evil side of him?

Lestat, who was sitting here and silently playing with a grape, seems not feeling like eating, looked up at you and as he saw how you again looked at him too long, scoffed.

“Oh, I beg you, stop looking at me as if I’m some kind of monster!” Said he as he frowned and for the first time you saw him saying it like this, without him usual teasing. “It’s annoying… you look at me as if I made you stay here with me without your will. That’s you, who fell onto my head and I let you stay, because…”

He paused. Why he even did you stay here? He have absolutely nothing out of it, you just live here and even not talking much to him. And out of this though he frowned more as he leaned onto the back of his chair.

“Why I even let you stay, can you tell me?” Said he as his voice sounded so authoritative suddenly, but before you opened your mouth he said himself,* “because I wanted someone to talk to. And you’re silent like fish.”