Fire Sale (all fic must go)

[kangeiko]

I can't sign up for any challenges other than yuletide . This is for my sanity. BUT. wingsmith is trying to make sure I write something every week, as this will help with the not!crazy. So, ficlets are on offer for those who fancy something. No real fandom preference, so try your luck with anything I've written before, or any new fandom you'd like me to have a go

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[bluerosefairy]

I'm on a total Alias kick - watched some of S3 and am attempting to convert carla_scribbles with pretty pictures of Lena Olin (has begun to work mwahahaha).

So, could I please have Jack/Irina, with the prompt "queen"?

Alias ficlet: Ode to Normalcy

[kangeiko]

More Irina than Irina/Jack, and it's been a while since I wrote them, but, anyway -

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Ode to Normalcy

When you were a child, you lived on the fourth floor of a ten-storey apartment block in one of the newer areas of the city, above an incontinent woman and a man with only one leg. You think that perhaps the first floor was occupied by the caretaker and his family, but you don't really remember ever actually seeing the caretaker around. Like most of the men, he was present only through photographs on immaculately clean shelves and tables and a toddler eating warm bread on the block steps. His wife - caretaker in all but name - was the one that took care of the communal garden and of the stairways, and she was the one that organised all the block's children into a team of caterpillar-exterminators. At that tender age, you did not yet know about caterpillars and butterflies; all you knew was that the prized magnolia tree was being devoured by an infestation and so you - like all the rest - would have to shimmy up and across the thin

Re: Alias ficlet: Ode to Normalcy

[bluerosefairy]

*flails* Oh, thank you! This is gorgeous, the layers you've given Irina here. Caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, stomped into the ground by a child without the slightest idea of what would happen.

Absolutely lovely.

Shall use my icon of another dangerous Russian named Irina, as do not have an Irina Derevko icon. Hmm, must remedy that.

Re: Alias ficlet: Ode to Normalcy

[kangeiko]

I'm so glad you liked it! I haven't written Irina for so long, so it was a bit of a challenge. And my Soviet history isn't what it used to be, so I'm plundering my own upbringing for source material harder than ever.

Shall use my icon of another dangerous Russian named Irina, as do not have an Irina Derevko icon. Hmm, must remedy that.

Yes, you must! There are a squillion brilliant icons of Irina out there, although I warn you that quite a few are spoilery if you haven't seen past S3. How are you liking it, btw? S2 and S4 are my favourite. :)

Re: Alias ficlet: Ode to Normalcy

[bluerosefairy]

Well, you managed beautifully. I adored it!

I warn you that quite a few are spoilery if you haven't seen past S3. How are you liking it, btw? S2 and S4 are my favourite.

Oh, don't worry, I've seen the entire thing. I watched it when it first aired - I was SUCH an Alias fangirl. I shipped Syd/Sark and Jack/Irina like no one's business, and I lurked around SD-1.net a lot. S2 and S4 were my faves, too. I'm in the middle of attempting to convert Em by tempting her with pretty Lena pics.

Re: Alias ficlet: Ode to Normalcy

[kangeiko]

I shipped Syd/Sark and Jack/Irina like no one's business, and I lurked around SD-1.net a lot.

queenspanky wrote lots of Syd/Sark, I am given to understand, should you still feel that way inclined. *g* I liked Jack/Irina myself, and also Jack/Sloane and Jack/Sloane/Irina. And Syd&Francie gen makes me ridiculously happy. Which is why I also like S1 quite a bit, before we lose Francie. The only ones I didn't like are Sark and Vaughn, really. :)

I'm in the middle of attempting to convert Em by tempting her with pretty Lena pics.

A sound strategy!