Comments | indyhat: Caesar's Wife

indyhat

Caesar's Wife

Oct 18, 2007 16:14

Characters: Claude, Bennet (Claude/Bennet if you squint)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Through 1.17 ("Company Man")
Word count: 5,700.
Summary: Bennet's never woken him at five in the morning just to ask him to come to the office.
A/N: The story takes place around 1997 (9 years before S1) and was written for fantasticpants, in response to the prompt: Claude/Bennet, " ( Read more... )

brave_new_slash, heroes_fic, heroes, paper_pwns_all, one_offs, claude, angst, rare_heroes, fic, bennet, morallygrayfic

Comments 70

liritarofrohan October 18 2007, 17:44:13 UTC

Wow. That's bloody amazing.

indyhat October 18 2007, 19:14:14 UTC

Thank you! :)

*collapses in heap of post-writing wibble*

liritarofrohan October 18 2007, 19:17:11 UTC

Ouch. Post writing wibble is draining. *Pets*

indyhat October 18 2007, 19:32:45 UTC

Thanks. *snuggles*

fantasticpants October 18 2007, 18:08:36 UTC

I IZ LUV U. ;_;

This is fantastic, and I'm so very happy to have given you the inability-to-write-short plague, because this is so worth it. The angst and the tension building (zomg!) and the whole Special web of conspiracy - it meshes wonderfully into canon. And I'm glad you didn't go all-out-slash (though gay fight is very appreciated, and Claude's great with the straight-and-narrow *nods*) with it, because this fic doesn't really need it.

The MUSH sessions add a lot of authenticity to it (so nostalgic!) - HEE on the Bester. Bester so definitely = Thompson... Which makes Nakabester even more canon! Loved the Western-ish themes (Bennet <3s clichés), and the testing-of-trust, and did I mention the Gay Fight? :D The dialogue is great, with the Caesar's Wife bit being especially brilliant. And eeeek Linderman involvement! @_ ( ... )

indyhat October 18 2007, 19:21:00 UTC

Oh, I'm so pleased you like it! I had big "is the plot comprehensible?" and "is any of this plausible?" angsts and entangled now brought me down and said sensible things ... ;)

And I'm really really pleased you think it meshes well with canon (until I get totally jossed by further S2 revelations about what the oldies all used to get up to, anyway) ... that just kind of emerged as the story grew.

Big Gay Fight FTW! I hope it was suitably ... I don't know, real. And nowhere at any point in this fic did I think "gosh, you know, what this really needs is some slash."

Glad you like the Caesar's Wife bit, which is definitely my favourite part.

Thank you so much! So pleased you like! If nobody else comments (it's long, after all), I won't mind, because I wrote it for you and you liked it :)

fantasticpants October 18 2007, 19:55:57 UTC

It's totally plausible, and who cares if it gets Kringed, anyway? xP

People better comment though, or I'll taser their ass personally. I'll rec it later (maybe in a day or two), when my brain is less on the fried side...

indyhat October 18 2007, 20:34:44 UTC

(Krung? Krang? Who the hell knows?!)

And hee, you don't have to rec it, or taser anyone. But thank you.

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veetvoojagig October 18 2007, 19:35:13 UTC

Duuuuuuude. Is awesome.

indyhat October 18 2007, 20:33:26 UTC

Thank you! :)

*sags*

veetvoojagig October 18 2007, 20:34:03 UTC

*pets*

indyhat October 18 2007, 20:51:34 UTC

*sighs and lets you scratch her behind the ears*

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visiblemarket October 18 2007, 21:21:52 UTC

Heh. Well, it wasn't happy...but it was quite good.

The Good, the Bad, and the bloody Ugly. Even assuming he's the ugly one - and he has no particular illusions about that -

Oh, Claude. Self esteem issues much?

> You have quit EVOLVEMUSH. STAY SPECIAL! :-)

Okay, that was wonderful. Hilarious.

Very interesting, and well executed. Even if I had to read it twice to figure everything out. Because I'm slow...

indyhat October 18 2007, 22:14:55 UTC

it was quite good.

Quite good? Quite good?! I don't know, I sweat my guts out on this for weeks/months, and ... ;) Seriously, I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I'm actually sort of glad in a weird way that you had to go back through it, because I was really worried that it was all much too obvious.

visiblemarket October 18 2007, 22:20:18 UTC

I don't know, I sweat my guts out on this for weeks/months, and ... ;)

Oh, well in that case, it sucked...;P

And I'm actually sort of glad in a weird way that you had to go back through it, because I was really worried that it was all much too obvious)

Well, seeing as I'm a complete ditze there's no such thing as too obvious...

indyhat October 19 2007, 05:56:08 UTC

You're not a ditz - are you?

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curtainpull October 18 2007, 21:36:45 UTC

Oooh, brilliant! Loving the way Claude totally knows how Bennet feels about his family! And that password? Hee! Claude= \o/

indyhat October 18 2007, 22:16:40 UTC

Thank you :) Very glad you liked!