can we just stay in the here and now?

don't forget all the evidence of past devil's minion now. notice how the earliest date armand brought up for the stalking was 1990? if you didn't want to even confess your love to a man you think hates you until you had made "profound amends", only to do so accidentally because you have such a difficult time keeping your composure around him, would you proceed to tell him something you're certain will make him hate you even more? there's no way armand's expecting daniel to take "we were together and in love for 12 years and then i erased it all from your memory" well, especially after he was so upset about armand erasing just six days. it's much safer to distance himself, to make daniel think he was only watching him from afar. then, after all that, he immediately tries to make himself useful to daniel as both his maker and a source of information. he doesn't trust daniel to want him around, and he already feels like the situation is spiraling out of control. he's just trying to keep one hand on the reigns—the same way he always does