THE LAST VAMPIRE | Lestat | Interview with the Vampire

A Madi Gras to Remember pt 2: The Death Day

When Louis and Claudia saw me enter the room Louis stumbled backwards, dropping Lestats arm, and Claudia just stared up at me from the floor.

I looked between them as I stood still.

"It's hard to describe the scene which greeted me when I opened the door" I say to Molloy as we sit back on my couch "I forced myself to forget the details long ago... but it was a blood bath. Bodies littered the room, some of which I was expecting, but one in particular that absolutely broke me..." I hesitate

"Lestats body" Molloy helps

I nod as I let out a sigh

"He wasn't dead... not then. He was bleeding out, however, and his blood smelt toxic- it was poison, I instantly recognised the smell of chemicals" I say "yet his throat was slit as he lay back on the floor in Claudia and Louis's arms and that told me their plan had gone wrong, maybe he had figured it out- their plan to get one of the humans to unknowingly ingest the poison and then for Lestat to drink it... either way it took my breath away as I saw Claudia clutching a bloodied knife"

...

"Vic-" she started, while dropping her support for Lestat and standing, after a moment of silence held by all of us in the room.

"I.. why would you... how could you... I don't understand" I breathed as my body moved backwards, causing my feet to stumble to keep me upright "we gave you a place in our home, in our family- why would you do this?" I managed to stutter out as the anger built in me with each word.

As Claudia made her way across to Louis, I rushed over to Lestats side. He continued spluttering and choking on his own blood and I didn't know how to help him.

Not knowing what else to do I stood from him and changed my focus towards Claudia who had since dropped the knife she had used to cut his throat and it now lay in between us.

The Four of us were in a triangle.

Lestat on my left

Me in the middle of the two sides

Louis on my right stood next to where Claudia once was- she was walking slowly towards me from my right as I spun and faced her.

"I did it for you- you didn't see it- the way his temper worsened when you were grieving and the way he took up a mistress- he was never going to change Mama, he would never be the one you deserved" She finished as she took cautious steps towards me

My eyes snapped between her and my dying lover not sure what to do.

Lestat sat on the floor, supported only by his hand out behind him as he clutched at his throat.

"A lover? He would never- he wouldn't... he wouldn't do that to me" I shouted at Claudia "tell her- tell me you didn't" I shouted as I swung myself around to look at Lestat

He just continued making choking sounds. His own blood from the gash on his neck choking him as his eyes widened more and more in panic.

My eyes flew between my family before i realised something- there was one other vampire in the room- I had been too angry to sense it before but now I could smell it.

Looking at all the dead bodies i scanned them before i came to a female lying a few feet away from the rest.

"It was her- You were with her weren't you?" I seethed as I noticed a blondish lady and I walked over to the woman. I flipped her body over with little care.

A piece of wood sat in her chest- one of the only ways to ensure a vampires death.

Taking a step back i placed a hand over my mouth "it was her wasn't it, that's why she's a vampire- you fucked her and then you turned her! What did you expect Lestat- that she would be accepted into our family as well- the one that you kept on adding to without even consulting me?" My anger poured out of me like a stream of water.