Comments | lferion: Fic: Drowning (NC-17)

lferion

Fic: Drowning (NC-17)

Feb 19, 2008 14:36

Title: Drowning
Series: Black Water
Author Name: Lferion
Fandom: Highlander
Characters|Pairing: Methos/Byron
Highlander_50 Claim: Methos
Prompt: #30 - Death
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 690
Disclaimer: Panzer/Davis &etc. Not me. No harm, no foul, no money.
Summary: A wake-up call for Dr Benjamin Adams
Warnings: None
Author Notes: Thanks go ( Read more... )

methos, hl, hl50, darkwater, writing, fic

Comments 12

ithildyn February 19 2008, 22:05:05 UTC

Shivery! That was excellent.

lferion February 20 2008, 07:56:29 UTC

Thank you! Very glad you liked it.

aeron_lanart February 19 2008, 22:39:49 UTC

Oooh! creepy-nice-dark. I love the way the spectre of Kronos still hovers over Methos no matter what, and the fact that Death has never left him.

And cos you mentioned proof of immortality I feel a need to use this icon...

lferion February 20 2008, 08:02:08 UTC

Thank you. I am particularly pleased that the shadows of Death and Kronos came through effectively.

Spiffy icon! I was thinking of that scene when I put that in. One of the things that really gets me about that moment is how clearly one can see that it *hurts* to do that -- not just the pain of the cut itself, but the pain of making the cut.

unovis February 19 2008, 23:51:04 UTC

Oh my.
Very nice work. I could feel that shifting featherbed.

lferion February 20 2008, 08:05:40 UTC

Thank you! I am very pleased you liked it. You do such beautifully tactile and sensory work yourself that it is especially happy-making to know that I was able to convey some of the same kind of thing.

ishafel February 20 2008, 01:05:21 UTC

"Twice dead. He didn't count the overturned carriage: that had been an accident in truth, not even the result of Byron's reckless hand on the ribbons. Nor did he count the proof-death it had taken to persuade the poet of their shared Immortality, as he had done that himself. But this was twice now in Byron's bed, at Byron's hand."

Lovely! (In a horrifying kind of way, of course.)

lferion February 20 2008, 08:07:11 UTC

Thank you! I am really really glad that paragraph worked for you, and that the piece was effective.

birggitt February 20 2008, 19:09:43 UTC

Oh, gods! This is creepy, really dark, and I like it a lot.
I always had this thing for Byron, but here you show him tinted by Kronos' shadow. Benjamin Adams and Death are ying and yang, opposites and yet, part of a whole, but here, they're mixing, so that's why Methos need to escape.
Amazing fic!

lferion February 20 2008, 19:55:05 UTC

Thank you! I am very glad it worked for you. Ying and Yang, dark & light, matter/anti-matter. All kinds of interesting dichotomies to play with here.