The Last Vampire on Earth ?? | OC x Lestat | Interview with the Vampire

The First Moments Shared

We have always been close- the only time i have been without her is the past years i moved back to Paris. She believes me to have a fancy job over here, but in reality i have been painting and vampire tracking- day and night.

I need you to help me when the end comes, when i die i need you to turn me so that my sister can continue to live a full life without knowing the pain of her sister dying...but for now i am asking... i am asking if you will endure my company until it happens, because i will need you around when it does" I finish my tornado of words

It's quiet as i stay facing him, i look him in the eyes as saddened, angry tears cloud my own.

"You told me to leave... i thought you had changed your mind on us being companions-" Lestat started

I laughed, despairingly, as a single tear escaped its place- lodged in amongst the others.

"I was scared- am scared. I want to die, i have to..." I swallowed "I have to die- my cancer is making sure i will die. But when i saw where the coven of vampires stayed i realised just how close death has come to me and i... I wanted to push the inevitable away- including any vampires who represent what will happen.. including you" I admitted as the confession tumbled out of me as if it was water. "I should be looking towards my death, i have been searching for a way to extend my life for so long that i hadn't really thought about the fact it will actually have to end. I am not scared of the darkness, but i am scared of the pain"

I looked away from him as i stared at the wall of my art once more- the paintings which held my unspoken feelings. I sucked my lip.

"But you realised...you don't like being alone" Lestat finished for me as he connects my paintings to what i am saying "You no longer want to stay in your apartment, alone, searching for the way to skip death- You want to live before you die- that's why you said you didn't need me to kill you, that's why you left me to rescue Nicky. You realised how close you had come to death and you wanted out even thought you had been searching for it..."

I wavered before i nodded, keeping my eyes on the wall and away from him.

"You've seen my paintings. Every one of them is what i long for, what i know i can't have" I glanced at the 65 paintings of couples i had seen or imagined.

Every one showed a loving glance or two people holding hands.

Every race you could think of, every gender- all genders together... just... together.

"It would be unfair to commit myself to someone knowing that i could die at any minute, whether that be a lover or just a friend... But when we were walking to the cemetery, just talking about your life and how you found Nicky... i realised that maybe you are my chance at that life before death- A companion who knows the score and knows what i am asking for when the time comes- for you to turn me.... That could save me from feeling dead before i have died in reality" I breathed as I realised it for the first time myself

I hadn't realised he had moved until he was stood behind me. He placed his hand on my shoulder and it caused me to jump a touch

"If this is what you want then i am willing to suffer your company until your sand runs out." He spoke, sarcastically, but something told me he was actually quite thrilled with the idea. "I will turn you when you die and we can be... friends until then. However there is a lot you do not know about this life- the life of a vampire. For the time you have left i will teach you... you can decide on your death bed" He said as i swallowed at the thought.

His low voice of warning then suddenly turned and he was back to original, sarcastic, self "Come, let me properly introduce you to Nicky" He said as he held out his hand "If you will be spending a lot of time with me then you must meet him"

I looked from his hand to his face and then to my paintings.

I had never considered myself lonely before that night. I had been painting portraits of couples for years. I was fascinated by the love i saw between two people even as an outsider. I always wanted a human life, but i was scared of committing myself to someone knowing that i would be leaving the earth some day soon.

I hadn't left my apartment in so long.

I needed to find a vampire in order to save my sister, it was never about me. My sister would crumble if i died, if i ended she too would end- she could not survive her best friend being taken from the world and i would not let her join me in darkness. I had to live after death so that she could live on.

Taking Lestat's outstretched hand I realised many things, but the most prevalent was that i had been slowly slipping into an ocean of solitude.

As i was trying to protect my sister from herself, protect everyone else from feeling the bitterness of my own death, i was letting myself die before i needed to. I was resting when i still had the opportunity to fight.

The ocean of solitude was drowning me and i hadn't even realise it. His outstretched hand was pulling me above the waves, giving me a glimmer of hope, and i would have been stupid to have not taken it.

...

"So you did take it, didn't you?" He asks me as i snap my head over to him. "You went with Lestat de Lioncourt to his home" He clarifies as he looks at me with his pen poised in his hand above his notebook resting on the table between us both

I had forgot the man was even in the room with me, recording my every word.

I clear my throat as i sit up straighter.

"Yes... and it set me on the path to why i am sitting here today. Sitting here to put the record straight." I clarify

"Let the recording know Victoria is referring to my previous interviews with Louis" He speaks as he leans closer to the mini microphone he is recording from.

"Yes... The story which Louis de pointe du lac got all wrong" I clarify to the microphone myself