Dark Angel BigBang: When the World Made Sense
Title: When the World Made Sense
Author: hunters_retreat
Artist: sillie82
Word Count: 26,000+
Pairing(s): Alec/Logan, mentions of past Logan/Max
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: pre-story off-screen death of a secondary character, post-series, PTSDs.
Summary: Once upon a time, Logan Cale's life made sense. Maybe not to anyone else, but it did to him. That was before he'd ever heard of Manticore, or X-5's, and certainly before he found himself the head of the Trans-normal movement that had sparked after the explosive outing of transgenics in Terminal City. Two years of fighting for the cause had taken its toll though, and not just on Logan. Anti-trans groups put a price on their heads and none more so than for Alec McDowell.
Alec tried to act like none of it bothered him but Logan knew different. They were co-conspirators and stood shoulder to shoulder leading the movement. An offhanded comment has Logan thinking it's time for a change, for the movement and for himself. Will Logan's grand experiment - a self-sustaining farming community for humans and transgenics alike - give them the chance to make peace with the world or will it fail? Will it give Alec the chance to finally heal from his emotional scars that a life as a Manticore assassin left him? And will they both finally realize what they’ve been fighting for all along?
Artist Notes: Here's my entry for the darkangel_bb. Loved working on this, 'cause I love me some troubled Alec. hunters_retreat, thanks for your awesome story. I hope you liked working with me. :)
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'He felt the warmth of Logan against his back and looked up in the mirror to see Logan right behind him, eyes boring into his with an expression he wished he didn’t know.'
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