Fic - "Discombobulate"

[colonel_bastard]

Title: Discombobulate
Author: colonel_bastard
Characters/Fandom: Basil, Ratigan. The Great Mouse Detective.
Word Count: 2,975
Rating: NC-17
Summary: When a trap snaps shut, Ratigan gets flustered.
Warnings: Violence, sexual assault, general desecration of beloved Disney characters.
Notes: Fourth in the Basil/Ratigan series, and if you haven't read

Comments

[unsettledink]

I gotta say, I love fics where I read the end and have to go back immediately and reread so I can point at things and go "the layers! The layers! The deciet! GAH!".

Because you totally had me fooled right up until the end. It's strange, but when the trap slammed shut on his tail, my first thought was relief because I felt sure that there would be a way out of it - idk, like you've gone dark but you haven't gone to the edge, and this was so close that it felt like it could be the darkest point of this one, so of course there's a wa out? - but then, maybe it was Ratigan's disapointment in Basil (LOVE. He's so bummed about it!) that turned it around and made me hold my breath, because I suddenly believed that it wasn't going to end well, that there were going to be bodies at the end.

And then they weren't, and I was so glad. (Not that wouldn't have been cool with me, but now there's more, and the ending…)

The ending! Just, yes, of course, my mind is sqealing over him having the knife all along, and I am firmly of the thought that he didn't use it not only because it would have given him away, but because some part of him that he doesn't want to admit to wanted it. Ratigan's grin! YAY!

[colonel_bastard]

I have to admit, this is my favorite installment of the series so far, and I'm so glad it merited a reread for you. :D

And I'm so glad I was able to fool you! It's weird writing a fic with a twist ending, since I already know what happens, and I assume that everyone else will be able to tell right away. When I hear that people were surprised, it just thrills me. I'm thrilled, I tell you! <3

Yeah, Basil's neck-deep in ten different kinds of denial. Poor thing. XD