Fic: Two Lions In The Ring

[emeriin]

Title: Two Lions In The Ring
Pairings: Critic/Michaud, lots of Chick/Critic and Chick/Michaud mentioned.
Word Count: 650
Disclaimer: The verse and story is mine, Michaud and Critic really aren't.
A/N: Well, this is my comeback after weeks of a writing lapse and it's the expansion of a drabble I've already written. Yay? Anyway, I hope this lives up to

Comments

[freya_sacksen]

His office has a wall that demands sacrifices?

[keevacaereni]

Yay, you wrote it!

Like Nombre said, I love Chick lurking around in the emotional background in this.It makes so much sense.

Michaud was wonderful, nasty man that he is in this.And Critic is all cocky, and just...Criticy, I love it. :)

[freya_sacksen]

I've tried writing this comment about five times now, and each time it devolved into worshipful babbling, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet:

I love how you've written Michaud here. I love how much he hates everyone. I love the reverie about how Ellis thinks. I love the bit where he felt betrayed by Chick. I love everything in it, and now I badly want to write/see a fic where he tells her he cares about her and gets rebuffed, because that would be fucking awesome. And heartbreaking.

[darkhairedgirl]

I don't think I'll ever get tired of your fics, because they're always so intricate and sad and wonderful to read. I love how you've written the weird power-struggle/love-quadrangle thing Chick and Michaud have got going on with Critic and Ellis, because it is just so strange and hurty and oh-so-very complicated, and I've got to reiterate what nombre and freya said and say how much I love Chick's character in this - she doesn't even show up outside of Michaud's thoughts, but she's still close to being the center of attention.

I'm glad you're writing again, em. I missed it. <3

[theladyisatiger]

OMIGOD MICHAUD/CHICK OTP!!!eleventyone!

*ahem*

^What they said. I really can't add much more (and I've been sitting here ten minutes trying) except to say that

leaving bruises that he didn't want to fade ,

There were few who he trusted and even fewer who he had any kind of affection for and

But he still... needed them

are so beautifully written and completely sum up Michaud. Good to see you back in the sandpit with us again :)

[freya_sacksen]

OMIGOD MICHAUD/CHICK OTP!!!eleventyone!
...You are an evil human being, because now I want to write that in normal!verse. Like crazy.

[theladyisatiger]

...You are an evil human being, because now I want to write that in normal!verse. Like crazy.

Oh no. You can't get cranky with me over that when the following lines have been begging for a story for quite some time:

But Lucy’s his favorite and knows it. She knows she can get away with whining and pouting and being slightly bratty, because for some reason Ellis finds it endearing, and she likes that he does. He’s not wrapped around her finger, but he has a soft spot for her, and in another universe they might have meant the world to one another.

One day I'll get the guts up to tackle that, but for now I'm chasing JewWario around my kitchen with a rolling pin trying to make him behave.

[freya_sacksen]

...okay, point taken. We're all evil, awful, cruel people who egg one another on to be equally evil, awful and cruel. And we are awesome for it.

But if I did write the Michaud/Chick one, it would totally come out as utter fluff. Because goddammit, Michaud deserves a fic where something awful doesn't happen to him.