Comments | halfshellvenus: Prison Break Slash Fiction: "Need Like Burning" (Michael/Lincoln, PG-13)

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Prison Break Slash Fiction: "Need Like Burning" (Michael/Lincoln, PG-13)

Jan 09, 2009 11:20

Title: Need Like Burning
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Michael/Lincoln (Slash)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 200
Summary (pre-Series): There's never enough time when it's like this…
Author's Notes: This interlude in the "Icicle Palace" setting was written for the pbhiatus_fic challenge on sex (again), and for fanfic100 ("Lunch").

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( Desperation makes them creative )

pb_slash, ml_slash, my_fic, fanfic100

Comments 8

dragontatt January 9 2009, 19:30:47 UTC

Lovely as usual...sad and lonely too.

halfshellvenus January 9 2009, 19:56:19 UTC

It IS lonely, you're right. All this sneaking around (from the world, from their 'other' lives) while just needing each other so desperately... what an impossible position to be in.

Thanks for reading!

clair_de_lune January 9 2009, 21:55:40 UTC

I really enjoyed this. I loved the yearny and desperate feel you created in "Icicle Palace" and I love it here too. Thank you for a lovely drabble.

halfshellvenus January 10 2009, 20:11:35 UTC

There's always the question of whether you'll undermine a favorite longer story or enhance the mood it created, and I hope this did the latter.

This is like a slice of that impossible, intertwined life from "Icicle Palace," where it can never be enough and yet they can't give up any part of what they have. Still drawn back together, again and again, no matter how difficult or desperate it becomes...

fiery_fox2 January 12 2009, 16:12:15 UTC

Is it me, or does this fic have sad and lonely mixed in with the hot and sexy? It feels so right, and yet it's so hard for the both of them.
Yu got the emotions in this down perfectly. And, as usual, as always, as FOREVER!, I'm saving.
*hugs*
:>

halfshellvenus January 12 2009, 16:33:55 UTC

Is it me, or does this fic have sad and lonely mixed in with the hot and sexy? It feels so right, and yet it's so hard for the both of them.
It's not just you-- that's very much a part of the other story ( Icicle Palace) that drives the mood of this interlude. There's so much need and desperation and such a feeling of hopelessness in the original, and I'd hoped to carry that over here. It's all about something you just have to have, even when you can never really have all of it.

I'm so glad you liked this snippet (it's thrilling to get someone hooked on another pairing!), and I think you'd like the original too. :)

amodalie January 14 2009, 12:58:01 UTC

Thanks for leading me to this fic in your other comment. I had bookmarked it already (I am so behind with reading... sigh).

This line is my favourite: "Then they settle their kisses, their clothes, their secrets and step outside like ordinary men."

Ah damn, I think I could quote the whole thing because you are great at choosing the right words! They are so desperate, take what they can get, and it's sad because it'S not permanent. I want to hug them now!!!

halfshellvenus January 14 2009, 17:33:55 UTC

:D That was my favorite line as well, for the affection in it transitioning to the practical and the preparation to hide everything from the world all over again.

and it's sad because it'S not permanent.
All their other obligations pull them in different directions, and it's as if they imagine they'll get past this someday and then lose out to that need again and again.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this! And what a great challenge this was-- I wrote a Michael/Sucre too, and I have a Lincoln/Veronica that I'm still finishing. Really good word length for getting just enough plot/background in. :)