Prison Break Gen Fiction: "Holding Reality At Bay" (Lincoln, Michael, PG)

[halfshellvenus]

Title: Holding Reality At Bay
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Lincoln, Michael (Gen)
Rating: PG
Summary: At first, the words were always true.
Author's Notes: For Day 10 of the Bleeding Cuticles Roadkill Challenge.
Also for prisonbreak100 ("Deny") and writers_choice ("Truth").

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Comments

[msgenevieve]

Gah.

*pats them both*

Very good indeed!

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you! It's funny how long it took me to write that particular prompt, but suddenly it just seemed perfect. ♥

[tuesdaeschild]

This is the personification of Season 1 when it was all gritty and compelling and all about the brothers with none of that Scylla nonsense.

And sad, of course. But I still loved it.

[halfshellvenus]

I so miss Season 1! The focus on the brothers, the audacity of Michael's plan, the fascinating secondary characters... *sigh*

Thank goodness we can still visit it in fanfic!

[clair_de_lune]

So sad how step by step, Lincoln is crushed until he loses all hope. There is some hope in his first statements, even if it's wishful thinking. By the end, even this has been taken from him.

And what Foxy said about S1 *nods*

[halfshellvenus]

Given what he's been through, giving up home is almost a way to keep his sanity-- even though it's usually the opposite for most people.

And finally, the one thing he should hope for is so utterly impossible (he thinks) that he just can't. :(

[beascarpetta]

This time you had me crying with the first sentence already(*vision still blurred*).I love this gritty kind of prose that truly packs a punch.&hearts

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you!

That first sentence really sets the tone for the whole story: all those things he hopes will never get worse, but somehow they do. And denying it doesn't change any of it. *sigh*