Comments | halfshellvenus: Prison Break Slash Fic: "None So Blind" (Michael/Lincoln, PG-13)

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Prison Break Slash Fic: "None So Blind" (Michael/Lincoln, PG-13)

Apr 28, 2011 11:06

Title: None So Blind
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Michael/Lincoln (Slash)
Rating: PG-13
Summary (Pre-Series to S2): Someone might be getting used, but which of them is it?
Author's Notes: An Australian Flood Auction story for clair_de_lune. This one's a little dark and tortured, but I hope that's okay.
Also for fanfic100, this is Dark

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( If Lincoln was fire, then Michael was the river that soothed him... )

pb_slash, ml_slash, my_fic, fanfic100, flood_auction_fic

Comments 5

tuesdaeschild April 29 2011, 17:23:47 UTC

I love the thread of manupilative Michael running through this fic but it seems to be countered by his neediness.

Poor Lincoln. If only he could have opened his eyes and seen that there was no need to feel guilty.

It sounded so much better than bending your brother over the table and fucking him so hard that you both finally forgot the quadrant of the rising sun.

Um...well, maybe only slightly better!! ;)

Love it, anyway! ♥

halfshellvenus April 29 2011, 21:55:16 UTC

but it seems to be countered by his neediness.
Yes-- and that's why I consider this one kind of dark. Michael wants what Lincoln thinks he's forcing on him, and he'll take it anyway he can get it.

When he gets desperate enough, Michael will even stoop to tricking Lincoln into it.

So wrong, so fucked up, and yet... still our boys. ;)

tuesdaeschild April 30 2011, 16:25:19 UTC

Michael will even stoop to tricking Lincoln into it.

Manipulative but needy Michael at his very best!

Yes, wrong, fucked up...definitely still our boys! ;)

clair_de_lune April 30 2011, 14:45:42 UTC

I can't help feeling sorry for both of them. For Michael because we can sense his need and insecurities, his desperation, and his fear to see Lincoln walk away. But above all for Lincoln for obvious reasons - he's used and feels guilty for what he wants and does.

Morally grey Michael is very true to the show - the real show, from seasons 1 and 2, anyway /rant. He had (almost) no qualms using Sara, Sucre or Pope, and I've always felt that there was a good dose of selfishness in his drive to save Lincoln. He stepped in partly out of guilt and, incestuous overtones or not, wanted to keep him for himself: I'm not sure the 'diving shop in Panama' plan was meant to take Veronica or LJ into consideration. But of course, it was also for those flaws that I found the character interesting, and I find them here again.

As for Lincoln... add the initial guilt to the one caused by Michael throwing his life away to save him, and it's either a recipe for disaster on short term, or for Michael to get pretty much anything he wants ( ... )

halfshellvenus May 3 2011, 18:20:23 UTC

Yay, I'm so glad you liked it!

I feel sorry for both of them too-- Lincoln for his regrets, and Michael for the fact that he wants so much more and yet Lincoln doesn't.

Michael's manipulativeness will always be part of the character for me (in his adult life, anyway). It's one of the reasons I have trouble with Michael/Sara, and why I still feel heartbroken over how things ended with Pope. And poor Sucre, I think, still has no idea.

I also agree with you about Michael's Panama plans. I don't think he ever intended for anyone but the two of them to be involved in that Ever After. What Lincoln would have wanted didn't really seem to enter into Michael's head at all. He'd have been free, and that should have been enough.

These imperfections in the characters are so interesting that it's hard to leave them alone, and every once in awhile it's fun to run with an idea where both of them are victims of their flaws at the same time. :)