Comments | artaxastra: Stealing Fire -- The Night After Gaugamela

artaxastra

Stealing Fire -- The Night After Gaugamela

Mar 12, 2012 07:11

This was my Yuletide story in 2010, written for settiai. Somehow I never posted it over here, though I thought I had. Anyway, it's for Stealing Fire.

Ptolemy/Thais, Artashir, Alexander/Hephaistion

( The Night After Gaugamela )

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artaxastra March 16 2012, 18:32:20 UTC

Ptolemy and Thais are so good. They really are. *hearts them*

ladymouse2 March 12 2012, 17:58:53 UTC

I'm sucking my mental fingers to get every drop of the juices...more Stealing Fire, more Ptolemy and Thais, more Artashir, more Hephaistion and Alexander and yes, by refernce, Lydias...YUMMMM!

artaxastra March 16 2012, 18:32:44 UTC

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Dear old Lydias.

settiai March 13 2012, 00:34:21 UTC

I love this story just as much now as I did when you first wrote it. ♥

artaxastra March 16 2012, 18:33:15 UTC

I'm glad you do! I truly didn't realize I'd forgotten to put it up on lj. A busy holiday season that year, I suppose.

shezan March 25 2012, 21:45:07 UTC

Took me time t get to this, but still as wonderful as ever. I could read a LOT MORE of your Alexander & Hephaistion.

artaxastra April 2 2012, 21:30:22 UTC

Thank you so much! I love writing them.

shezan April 25 2021, 14:44:35 UTC

Have been re-reading Stealing Fire (AS ONE DOES), and this scene never made it to the finished book, or did it?

(And I'd somehow never seen that The Marshal's Lover was out! Shame on me!)

penina_45 January 21 2013, 23:30:21 UTC

I just found this and was happily surprised to find it two weeks after Stealing Fire. I love behind the scenes stories. I was looking for your Bagoas meets Thettalos in Memphis, but can't find it. Did you take it out? Was that in SF? I forgot if you had Thettalos there too, but I lent it out so can't check. I finished Funeral Games. SF gave me the strength to read that again. There is real tragedy - there was hardly any crumb of greatness left by Alexander that wasn't demolished by the fight over the scraps, except for Ptolemy's Egypt. I'm reading Praise Singer now, but will pick up Hands of Isis next for a 30 hour train ride. Best Wishes to you.

artaxastra April 24 2013, 09:25:53 UTC

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

The Bagoas and Thettalos story was for a ficathon, as I remember. I think it was Yuletide? So I think it's on the Yuletide archive. Hummm. I should find it and repost it....

shezan April 25 2021, 14:45:12 UTC

Definitely want to read that one.