one night, after Daniel has exhausted himself by running away to the point he can’t move and is too tired to care about anything other than the sweet release of d— sleep, Armand finds him, and Daniel is past caring, but this time it's Armand who says "not today" because it's too dull if Daniel can’t even crawl away from him so he lays down beside Daniel on the crappy motel bed and Daniel knows, once he wakes up again, Armand will be right there, ready to pounce, and Daniel will have to run again. But right now he doesn’t care about that, can’t even be bothered to feel scared, but it is kind of nice to fall asleep beside someone who does care, in some twisted way, someone who is warm and solid and real and will maybe even allow him to shift closer in his sleep
