"The Centre Cannot Hold" for anisapologist

[almostforgiven]

Title: The Centre Cannot Hold
Rating: NC17
Character/Pairing: Michael/Lincoln
Requested by: anisapologist
Summary: Finally, Lincoln did get it. Everything fell into place. His brother didn’t want him to pay in pain, or hurt, or blood. Michael didn’t want his guilt. He wanted… something else.

Comments

[thelana]

I have to do this quick. A certain someone is coming over. Basically I adored it a lot *especially* the motivations. Love the whole thing about how Lincoln was ok with falling, but the way he falls, with the conspiracy, pissed him off enough for him to be against it.

Love dense!Linc trying to find explanations for the kiss and not getting what Michael wants. Love the whole, almost plotty scene with the first kiss and Michael of course knowing an escape (and Lincoln of course having an indefinitely more stupid idea about how to solve things).

I'm loving roughly a truckload of sentences, especially the underlying motive ones. Darn!

Lincoln would take two lifetimes of falls, and sometimes felt like he had, just to keep his baby brother from ever knowing the pull of gravity.

And:

Linc was insanely proud that the word ‘failure’ didn’t feature in Michael’s vocabulary. He was willing to fail for them both.

And of course random details like:

Lincoln knew how this was done in prison. Bite your pillow and pray for the best. But for Michael? He’d do it right.

I love Lincoln being and staying freaked out pretty much through all of it.

And of course this:

(although, he was sure some might argue that sticking your tongue in your brother’s ass was pretty far gone).

Cracked me up.

[thelana]

Well thanks for such a thought out comment. Those are the best kind. My prompt was Linc feeling guilty that Michael gave up his life for him. With smut.

So, yeah, guilt was kinda word for the day when I wrote it.

Also, I liked the pillow biting bit, myself. It makes me giggle. I don't know why. It just does.

[thelana]

Also, I liked the pillow biting bit, myself. It makes me giggle. I don't know why. It just does.

Maybe it's the mental image of Lincoln doing it ;D It sure cracks me up :D

[thelana]

Big manly Linc. Biting a pillow. That's hot.

Almost as hot as Tweener biting a pillow. Almost.

Now I want to write about pillow biting.

[thelana]

*has odd visions of a pic from the perspective of the pillow(s) as they chat about the different biting methods of the different people they have encountered*

*obviously I'm on crack*

But yeah, pillow biting, that's hot. There should be fic on everybody doing it. Carry on.

[thelana]

I hate you. Or at least the bunny-pushing part of you. The rest is really quite loveable.

[thelana]

*pulls out evil bunnies*

Rrraw, rrrraw!!