Being Human: Ausencia [Hal/Eve, sequel to Lonely Rivers] 1/3

[istne_pieklo]

Title: “Ausencia”
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: NC-17
Timeline: AU!future as shown in episodes 4.01, 4.07, 4.08.
Summary: To save humanity the War Child must die. Eve found a loophole but humanity isn’t as grateful as it should be. Sequel to Lonely Rivers. [Hal/Eve, side Hal/Cutler]
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC. Title

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[shirogiku]

Gorgeous<333 Well-worth all the writer's frustration ;)

(Eve's struggle with make-up is eerily cute)

I can't decide who stole the spotlight - Regus with his stories and doodling, bc

the grey-faced, big-headed, malicious Mr Drizzle and the bipolar Heinrich Redshield whose enemies die of boredom while he is counting them LMAO!!! Regus wins the spotlight for once :D

or Cutler saving Eve's face (in both senses ;) love the irony)

“Who do you think you are?” she spits. She didn’t even know she could manage to look so dignified under such circumstances.

Cutler squares his shoulders, puffing up with assumed importance.

“Hal’s PR representative.”

She remembers a stupid joke Hal made shortly after her recruitment. Something about Cutler and Fergus being her big brothers now.

“This is what the whole peace with the Cylons business was about, wasn’t it?” Cutler says. Half the time she has no idea what he’s talking about and neither do most of the Old Ones. “So go back there and… Well, insert something motivational here.”

Eve & Cutler's interactions in this series are priceless :)))

Eve begins her days by exercising. Press-ups, sit-ups, jogging, anything to take her mind off her situation. <3

She catches herself thinking like Hal. It disgusts her that she is not nearly as disturbed by it as she should be. I like this progression: from being afraid of seeing Hal in the mirror to this :)

“Wouldn’t be much of a War Child if there wasn’t a war going on around me.” <3

When Hal is reading, his face adopts a strange expression, as if he both judges every character in the book and envies them. Most of the books in his personal collection look like they are older than Cutler. :)

Hal’s eyes glimmer. For a moment, he is almost like the Hal she used to know. She doesn’t know what to do with him when he succumbs to silent melancholy. The look on his face becomes almost human, and it’s worse than any torture he could inflict upon her. She will take his cruel games, his savage temper, his inhumane jokes - anything but the sorrowful, resigned tranquility of a man reading a book because there is nothing else to do. It reminds her too strongly of how she feels.

“I didn’t say ‘truth’,” he remarks playfully.

I loved the Truth and Dare scene, dazzling Hal <3

“You know, the body count you’re leaving is really something.” He takes a deep breath through the nose to clear it and winces in pain. “But one of these days, when the shit hits the fan, you’ll have to decide once and for all who your people are.” badass sheriff!Fergus :)

I don't know why you think you can't write action scenes, Lucas's trap was pretty adrenaline-inducing.

she ordered him to leave and she took a few hours to think and she returned to the palace and offered herself to Hal. ah, so that's how it happened here.

The last scene <333 Eve's spiralling down.

She used to think growing fangs was supposed to hurt. But it’s not like that. She doesn’t even notice them until she feels a burning desire to sink them into something. They are as much a part of her as her nails or her skin or her limbs.

The very process of clenching and unclenching your jaws around somebody’s flesh can be cathartic. She learns it from him and she makes holes in his body and fills them up with her pain until she can’t feel it anymore.

[istne_pieklo]

Thaaank you! Glad you enjoyed it. <333 I think I'm having more fun with this depressing world than I should. ;)))
I have no idea how vampire girls apply make-up! I often can't get it right even when I look in the mirror. Having no reflection must be a nightmare! T_T
I think Eve has a tiny shallow side)))) Any girl would, having grown up as a refugee and then being introduced to pretty dresses and jewelry and make-up)))
Regus is darling! I tried to keep at least some of the creepiness (b/c he's a vampire after all) but I just love him too much! He should be Squishy))))
Cutler is just hoping to get more bonus points from Hal. XDDD Poor hung-up cutie))
Eve = Hal. It's an axiom!)))
I think the Truth or Dare scene is largely your fault))) I loved the game scenes in FF and In Camera, so I thought I'd make a tribute to them)))
Haha, I've discovered that I like writing Fergus. He's not easy to write but he's badass.
B/c they're evil and difficult to write and while I'm writing them, they look like utter drivel)))
Well... let's face it))) Living with Hal and not sleeping with him is not the way to go. ;))) Eve realized it)))))