Redo twilight but Daniel is Bella and Armand is Edward.
I hope you'll forgive me for swapping the roles. I think you will see that it was not solely because I want to get Armand pregnant.
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“Fareed,” I said through my teeth, very slowly and precisely. “Take Alex.”
Fareed held his hands out, and Lestat handed my son to him at once. Both of them backed away from me.
“Daniel, I don’t want to hurt you, so please let go of me.”
He hesitated.
“Go stand in front of Alex,” I suggested.
He deliberated, and then let me go.
I leaned into my hunting crouch and took two slow steps forward toward Lestat.
“You didn’t,” I snarled at him.
He backed away, palms up, trying to reason with me. “You know it’s not something I can control.”
“You stupid mutt. How could you? My baby!”
He backed out the front door now as I stalked him, half-running backward down the stairs. “It wasn’t my idea, Armand!”
“I’ve held him all of one time, and already you think you have some moronic wolfy claim to him? He’s mine!”
“I can share,” he said pleadingly as he retreated across the lawn.
“Pay up,” I heard Claudia say behind me. A small part of my brain wondered who had bet against this outcome. I didn’t waste much attention on it. I was too furious.
“How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost your mind?”
“It was involuntary!” he insisted, backing into the trees.
Then he wasn’t alone. The two huge wolves reappeared, flanking him on either side. Louis snapped at me.
A fearsome snarl ripped through my teeth back at him. The sound disturbed me, but not enough to stop my advance.
“Armand, would you try to listen for just a second? Please?” Lestat begged. “Louis, back off,” he added.
Louis curled his lip at me and didn’t move.
“Why should I listen?” I hissed. Fury reigned in my head. It clouded everything else out.
“Because you’re the one who told me this. Do you remember? You said we belonged in each other’s lives, right? That we were family. You said that was how you and I were supposed to be. So... now we are. It’s what you wanted.”
I glared ferociously. I did dimly remember those words. But my new quick brain was two steps ahead of his nonsense.
“You think you’ll be part of my family as my son-in-law?” I screeched. My bell voice ripped through two octaves and still came out sounding like music.
Claudia laughed.
“Stop him, Daniel,” Marius murmured. “He’ll be unhappy if he hurts him.”
But I felt no pursuit behind me.
“No!” Lestat was insisting at the same time. “How can you even look at it that way? He’s just a baby, for crying out loud!”
“That’s my point!” I yelled.
“You know I don’t think of him that way! Do you think Daniel would have let me live this long if I did? All I want is for him to be safe and happy— is that so bad? So different from what you want?” He was shouting right back at me.
Beyond words, I shrieked a growl at him.
“Amazing, isn’t he?” I heard Daniel murmur.
“He hasn’t gone for his throat even once,” Pandora agreed, sounding stunned.
“Fine, you win this one,” Claudia said grudgingly.
“You’re going to stay away from him,” I hissed up at Lestat.
“I can’t do that!”
Through my teeth: “Try. Starting now.”
“It’s not possible. Do you remember how much you wanted me around three days ago? How hard it was to be apart from each other? That’s gone for you now, isn’t it?”
I glared, not sure what he was implying.
“That was him,” he told me. “From the very beginning. We had to be together, even then.”
I remembered, and then I understood; a tiny part of me was relieved to have the madness explained. But that relief somehow only made me angrier. Was he expecting that to be enough for me? That one little clarification would make me okay with this?
“Run away while you still can,” I threatened.
“C’mon, Mand! Al likes me, too,” he insisted.
I froze. My breathing stopped. Behind me, I heard the lack of sound that was their anxious reaction.
“What... did you call him?”
Lestat took a step farther back, managing to look sheepish. “Well,” he mumbled, “that name you came up with is kind of a mouthful and—”
“You nicknamed my son after Weird Al Yankovic?” I screeched.
And then I lunged for his throat.
