[dollhouse] in this hollow valley

[ghostly_images]

Title: In this Hollow Valley
Author: aaronlisa
Fandom: Dollhouse
Pairing/Characters: Topher/Bennett, Alpha/Echo, Echo/Paul (mentions of other characters from the series.)
Rating: FR13
Disclaimer: Dollhouse belongs to Joss Whedon and company. I’ve also used T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” in this fic and for the title.
Prompts: Written for dollficathon for mikatastic.

Comments

[otahyoni]

Loved seeing your take on various events, and your speculation on others. Very nice!

Alpha's so fascinating, isn't he? :)

[ghostly_images]

Thank you.

I love writing Alpha.

[staringiscaring]

I like how disjointed and vivid this was. It reminded me of the two epitaph episodes in its style. Your grasp on Echo's voice is fabulous.

This passage was particularly lovely and in character.

"Yet Topher can barely remember that Claire, his Claire that he made, had once said of the danger of repeat engagements. In his arrogance, he had written it off, pushed it aside, after all by that point she had been Claire for so long without a fault or flaw or problem. But what if she was right, what if she had seen something that he hadn’t, what if his own arrogance had created those flaws and faults that had led to that terrible moment when Claire had entered his office and had raised her gun and… "

Thanks for participating in the dollhouse ficathon.

[ghostly_images]

Thank you.

I had a lot of fun.

[duh_i_read]

You are a rock star, you know that? Just one fantastic story after another. I love this take on E2, and that there is so much Alpha. The very end is fucking perfect, because I wonder just how much of the Alpha thing was planned.

I've also kind of been waiting for someone to weave in some TS Elliott into a Dollhouse fic, and I've love how you've used it here. Bravo.

Can we be friends? can we collaborate on dollhouse fic stuff?

[ghostly_images]

Thank you. The series, in particular the glimpses of the past and future the two Epitaph episodes have been eating my brain.

And sure we can be friends.

[snogged]

This was really quite fabulous.

Loved your characterizations! of Alpha and Topher.

[ghostly_images]

Thank you.

I think this is probably one of my favourite fics that I've written.