Title: Nothing Else Matters
Author: Gairid
Fandom: VampChron
Pairing: LdPdL/LdL
Rating: NC:17 (just to be on the safe side)
Disclaimer: Not mine, AR's. Hush up about this, I don't need the lawyers after my ass!

Notes: Lestat ruminates on life and lyrics. Done in 25 minutes. For the Contrel a Montre background song challenge fic.


I never opened myself this way,
Life is ours, we live it our way
Oh these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters."

Funny, when I heard these lyrics, in that particular song, how it rang through me. It was the clearest and truest of bells, with absolutely no dissonance. Been a Metallica fan ever since. I'm old in human terms, and I've seen and done a great deal, but there is something in me that loves the simplified and direct world of lyric and poetry. When I hear this song, I feel like I could have written it myself,

Giving myself to Louis was the hardest battle I have fought, the very epitome of fighting against ones own self. I had a hard time trusting, you see. Anyone I had ever loved made it known to me that what I felt was not so very important in the scheme of their lives. I had grown suspicious, and as drawn as I was to him, I was certain that in the end I would be rejected. That was a good deal of our problem for years and years. Bitter words...and unforgivable mistakes.

Only...he *did* forgive me. He loved me then and he loves me still.

"Trust I seek, and I find in you."

And that took me long enough, too. How much I put him through, to prove to me that I could trust him.

"Are you listening to that again, Mon Lion?"

His voice is softly teasing as he leans so nonchalantly against the door frame.

"I like this song." I tell him His eyes gleam, because he knows.

"Nice with the orchestral touches." He says, sidling to me and slipping his arms about my waist. Louis is quite fond of the 'S&M' CD.

"These words I don't just say." I murmur.

"And nothing else matters." He answers.

FIN