The Vampire Leona - Heavens choir (2024)

Louis pov

That simple taste of Leonas blood had my veins singing. Everything shes ever felt for me, I could taste it. Granted, if Lestat hadn't stopped me I would have killed her that night. "You cling to the girl even more now. I told you louis you must let go any fantasy of remaining tethered to your once human self." I didn't care to hear this speech again from him. I had a taste of her humanity and I wanted more. "-She knows too much already. Her mind..." Adjusting my tie I gazed down at myself. "She wont say nothin." I confidently spoke on her behalf. I read it in her mind, but she was also my Leona. Keeper of all my secrets. I know her as she knows me. Lestat scoffed at my words. "Correct, as if the world of the little church mouse worth anything." Creasing my brow I turned to look at him. He raised his hands in apology. "Right, I am sorry my love.. it's just very dangerous and against vampire law to allow a human to live knowing of our existence."
Looking to my watch, I didn't have time to pick apart Lestats judgments.
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"I don't appreciate what you've put my fiancé through." Henry's words were thought out and carefully picked. I watched him run through different senecios. He had ask to meet with me. The groans of the run down church echoing to the bullfrogs song. "I'm here to stay in her life until she says otherwise." That agreed upon truce between us long gone as Henry was doing what he felt was right. Protecting Leona from me. Problem was I wasnt ready to let her go just yet. My need to cling to my humanity still clear. I needed her. "You see that's gonna be problem for me. Leona and I are engaged to be married soon. And there won't be anymore room for your...influence."

I couldn't help but to scoff. "Oh is that so preacher man? Leo can't have friends after she marries you? You ain't got no money. Barely a job. How you gonna provide for her? Hm? Prayer alone won't give her what she needs. You and I both know that bird needs to fly. And she can't keep a career in opera and be a wife to you." It was wrong of me to tease Henry like this. Using the mind gift to bring his deepest fears to light. "Im the one wiping her tears she spills ova you. She can't be friends with you Louis. Every time you show up evil follows." His voice rose a bit higher than normal. He was genuinely angry. Flicking the cigarette away I blew the smoke out slowly. "You know as well as I she doesn't let anyone on this Earth tell her what to do. Besides I dont think you understand that little church mouse you think she is, is actually a sex kitten just waitin to be played with." My words were cut off by Henry suddenly punching me square in the jaw.

Leona pov

"We cant tell no body." I whispered as I looked down to my hands, covered in his blood. "Why are you protecting him Leo?" The crestfallen man sat upright on the wooden pew. The grown of the wood echoing in the small shack. "Henry. Please understand.." Henry looked away before standing to his feet. "Leona. Hes. A. Monster." He pressed each word out through his teeth. Blood soaked both of our clothes. Hed live but hed need many stitches. When I didn't respond he dropped to his knees before me. "Leona. Look at me. I aint the kind of man to tell you what you can and cant do, but you need to hear me when I say this.." Gathering my hands in his he squeezed them gently. "I love you with all my heart, but if you cant let go of this love you have for that thing were done." My jaw went slightly slacked. His words made it feel as if my heart had dropped out of my chest.

"Such an unfortunate misfortune. Damsel in the cross fire of to loves." Lestat entered the church his blue eye trained on Henry. "Lestat. No." The only words I could manage. "It must be done, Leona. Your knight in glory is going to reveal Louis and I little secret." Fear washed over me as I slowly backed Henry and myself toward the back hall that led to the back door. "You know that wont work Lapin." In the literal blink of an eye Lestats lean form was behind us. His fangs on display. I barely heard the mutterings of Henrys prayers behind me as I worked to steady my racing heart. "Let us hope he hears you before you meet him." My body was flung to the side, pew breaking my fall as Lestat closed in on Henry, his fangs pressing into the open wound. Im not sure where my strength came from but I drove the large wooden crucifix into his back, a pained yell released from him before he dropped henry and turned to me, one hand holding my throat the other pulling the object from him.

My vision began to blur the tighter he squeezed. My bloody screams silenced as he fully crushed my windpipe before biting into the exposed flesh of my neck.