"Sometimes, I wonder if you aren't the first person that I've stayed myself for. You haven't flinched at my worse crimes, or my heinous sins. You know what I've done, even if not the whole extent, but you don't burden me with pity." His fingers slide over Daniel's chest, resting over his heart.

He'd turned Daniel selfishly, but he's so grateful he did, and grateful he waited, so Daniel could hear everything and choose him still -- the first who ever has.

"Oh dear," Armand muses, his smile growing with every second, gleeful with the hunt ahead. "Well, they're going to be very disappointed to find us, then. I have been quite peckish, I haven't eaten a thing to prepare for our date."