Prison Break Gen Fiction: No Ease Or Absolution

[halfshellvenus]

Title: No Ease Or Absolution
Author: HalfshellVenus
Character: Lincoln (Gen, Angst, Deathfic, AU)
Rating: PG-13 (subject matter)
Summary: After dark, this is where Lincoln's thoughts turn…
Author's Notes: Some Season 3 spoilers, an AU ending stemming from the current known canon. For Round 6 of pbficsurvivor, which required that either Lincoln or Michael die

Comments

[mooyoo]

I have some a lot of PB fic to catch up on. I miss the gen fic, especially yours.

Mostly, Lincoln remembers Michael at SONA, how scared and desperate he looked when he tried to tell Lincoln that the place was a death sentence. After that, the images of tattoos and bullet holes take over until Lincoln can't blot them out without the aid of enough whiskey to lay him flat until morning comes.

Ouch. This part kills me, and probably the most telling part of the fic, for both Michael and Lincoln. I'm generally not a big fan of deathfics, and when it comes to PB I find that I can read or write Lincoln dying but not so much Michael, for this reason exactly - we've seen Lincoln come to terms with his possible death and make peace with it a few times throughout the series, but Michael has pretty much always believed that they would make it to freedom, even when things have come very close. And to see him so afraid - and then have him not make it after all - is heartbreaking.

Even more so is that these are the last memories Lincoln has of him.

And now I have to go find some "Michael, Linc, and LJ live happily ever after on a beach somewhere together" fic...

[thelana]

Glad that you decided to check it out :)

BTW, there's a new Prison Break preview clip on fox.com that might interest you. It's about something we've been talking about.