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Chapters: 2/4 Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (2022) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Daniel Molloy/Armand Additional Tags: Vampire Daniel Molloy, Armand being Armand, Discussions of Armand’s Past, Spoilers for The Vampire Armand, Catharsis through Ruin, Daniel is a Damn Good Journalist, Post Season 2 Canon, Attempted Sexual Assault
Summary:
Daniel won his first Pulitzer with an article that he wrote over one feverish week, high on the best cocaine he’d ever hit. Half-starved, and angry about it. Wholly out of his mind with fire. Three months behind on rent and desperate for a break. He didn’t remember the day it was published, let alone screaming at his editor for altering his headline. The article that won his second Pulitzer took him ten years of blood, sweat, and tears. He had brawled for that story, facing off against unremitting skepticism, a vicious divorce, a back alley beatdown, a dozen failed leads, being fired, being rehired, and six broken ribs so he could keep going. Every sentence had been suffering like nothing he’d ever experienced. White-knuckled determination alone crafted that pain onto two thousand perfect lines. Publishing that one ingrained a permanent pleasure spot in his brain, one he shamelessly hit when cocaine just wouldn’t cut it. Louis had been a fever week. Brawling with Armand was gonna take him a lot longer than ten years.
