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[pyracies]

TITLE: Never Shall We Die (aka, the last chapter of 11 Years Later)
PAIRING: Sparrabeth, naturally.
RATING: R (for sexy stuff, and heavy life&death stuff)
A/N: This can be two things. A: it can be the last chapter of my "11 Years Later" series (which can be seen here if you haven't read it/have the inclination), or b: it can stand alone. I've

Comments

[erinya]

I really, really like this. Very powerful stuff.

[fried_flamingo]

I found this really chilling, but also really powerful and evocative. I was especially taken by Elizabeth's thought on the gallows that somewhere in the crowd stood a man and his daughter - a very poignant callback.

I love this section too - The beating of her heart defies the execution itself, always hitting on the off note, as though deliberate. She does not flinch, or stir as the drum beats louder, only steps out of the situation, and manages instead to hide in some precious slur of a memory, and in the space between, there is nothing.

And the sex scene was just beautiful. Scant detail given but all the more sensuous because of it. Especially this line - she breathes wasted breath, gasping in time with the heavy staccato of his thrusts, and in desperate sync with the caress of cellos, singing a choking, wordless aria of flight. That's gorgeous.

Lovely work.

[cmgacrux]

Beautiful work. I loved it.

[hereswith]

Compelling and very well done. Wonderful, haunting work.

[unnamed_paradox]

So this is what I've been breathlessly awaiting for so long now?

Well done, woman.