Happy birthday, Altariel!
Title: The quiet on the western front
Author: Dwimordene
Summary: In the unreal city, desire and memory.
Characters: Halbarad, Faramir
Warnings: AU, prequel, probably confusing, possibly disturbing.
Dedication: For Una, on her birthday. Happy birthday, altariel! (Can you believe we’ve been reading each other’s stories since 2002?)
The quiet on the western front
The healers at length have mercy - the Houses are his.
Rumor haunts their hallways, merging with his dreams, where another - not Elessar, but a shadow, like dark-shrouded memory - reigns. Then he doubts: had he dreamt...?
The man the healers show him one day is certain enough. Battered life, he may die, they say; body and soul war-rent, even Elessar doubts his standard-bearer.
Uneasy days pass, where peace palls, startling a wounded man awake. Faramir turns from the window. Eyes thick-clouded with deadly desire meet his, and memory quickens suddenly…
Faramir, shaken, takes a hand - and closes a door: “Not yet!”
Note: In a bid to be slightly more helpful, here's how Faramir dealt in the immediate aftermath with his post-pyre trauma in my fanverse.
Author: Dwimordene
Summary: In the unreal city, desire and memory.
Characters: Halbarad, Faramir
Warnings: AU, prequel, probably confusing, possibly disturbing.
Dedication: For Una, on her birthday. Happy birthday, altariel! (Can you believe we’ve been reading each other’s stories since 2002?)
The quiet on the western front
The healers at length have mercy - the Houses are his.
Rumor haunts their hallways, merging with his dreams, where another - not Elessar, but a shadow, like dark-shrouded memory - reigns. Then he doubts: had he dreamt...?
The man the healers show him one day is certain enough. Battered life, he may die, they say; body and soul war-rent, even Elessar doubts his standard-bearer.
Uneasy days pass, where peace palls, startling a wounded man awake. Faramir turns from the window. Eyes thick-clouded with deadly desire meet his, and memory quickens suddenly…
Faramir, shaken, takes a hand - and closes a door: “Not yet!”
Note: In a bid to be slightly more helpful, here's how Faramir dealt in the immediate aftermath with his post-pyre trauma in my fanverse.