fic: one day we'll be reborn (a little ripped and torn)

Sep 25, 2009 23:13

title: one day we'll be reborn (a little ripped and torn)
fandom, pairing, count, rating: lost, richard/alex, 2119, r
notes: written for slybrunette, prompt youth
there's something about alex that refuses to be broken )

fanfic: lost, !fanfic

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workswithwords September 26 2009, 15:22:34 UTC
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. First of all, YAY MONTREAL. It's one of my favorite cities in all of Canada, and I liked the tiny little subtleties that made it really feel like there.

I also love this part:

She doesn't remember not looking exactly like this in the past two years, maybe longer. But she's young and change is subtle, so she wasn't sure until last night.

"When were you going to tell me?" she asks him, and Richard looks up at her, his hands going to her shoulders. "That I'm like you now?"

He sees the tears in her eyes, looks down, exhales.

"I didn't have to, Alex," he tells her. "You already knew. You just... hadn't realized it yet. You needed the time. I wanted to give you that."

She turns to him, presses her forehead to his. He kisses her eyes, tasting her salty tears on his lips. Alex wants to kick and scream, to call him a bastard, to push him away when he wraps his arms around her. But she doesn't. Instead she feels relief, wants to ask him what it was like for him, wants him to tell her what this all means.

But, she suspects, as he leads her to the bedroom, he doesn't have all the answers.

When Alex admits to what she is, that she's like Richard, it's heartbreaking and lovely all in the same moment.

Thank you so much for writing this, I really loved it, and I totally want to imagine this is what happened to Alex instead of the OTHER option!

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crickets September 26 2009, 15:29:12 UTC
I'm glad the setting worked, it just seemed like the perfect place to do this. I'm glad it worked. Someday I'll have to go there, lol.

This show killing off/writing off all my favorite people blows. I have to make my own fun. Alex being alive = good. Alex being immortal, just cooler. (And especially with Richard, now he's not so alone, poor guy, lol.)

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