New Fic: Appointed Hours (Alias)

[vaznetti]

First and foremost, Happy Birthday SEP! I hope you feel well soon.

Next, a new Alias story. I was bound to start writing about Sloane sooner or later, since he's my new secret boyfriend. Three drabbles over three years.

Comments

[ms_pie]

SloaneFic by you? My day simply cannot get any better *g*

These are beautiful. I was just reading an older story (S1) that touched on Sloane's love for Emily, and since I know you had been thinking about the subject... well, I am just overjoyed to see this. And to see his grief so artfully drawn.

I think this might be my favorite part:

Emily would see its beauty and dream of ways to improve on that beauty; he sees only a weed-choked ruin, peaceful as an empty tomb. It has been a dry spring, in Italy. A lizard runs along a cracked paving-stone, a hawk wheels overhead.

She is not here.

Not only does it read beautifully and create an incredible image, it also brings the truth of their relationship to life. Arvin saw in Emily, hope, redemption and love. She was the one who tended to living things, and he... well, that isn't quite his world view or experience.

The entire piece is just incredibly poignant and lovely.

[vaznetti]

Thank you!

Sloane is growing on me--I like his human side. I'm not ordinarily a great fan of the redemption-by-love theme, and I know that Arvin's love for Emily doesn't outweigh all those years in SD-6, but it does make him an interesting character to think about. He's not all black and white.

(I tear up during their scene together in the S1 finale, when he tells her the truth. Their such wonderful actors, both of them.)

[dagnylilytable]

Amazing. Lovely, and amazing. The first segment is my favorite, if only because I'm a sucker for Sloane and Irina's silent battles with each other.

It's hard not to want to write post "Phase One" Arvin/Emily tenderness, with his much darker internal thoughts as a contrast... because I so loved seeing their relationship.

And now I want to try a similar format with other characters-- Syd, or Irina. Particularly Irina.

[vaznetti]

It's hard not to want to write post "Phase One" Arvin/Emily tenderness, with his much darker internal thoughts as a contrast... because I so loved seeing their relationship.

Yes. Although by then I think Emily understood quite a lot of Arvin's darkness by that point--that was the important thing for him, I suspect, that she knew what he was, what he'd done, and loved her anyway.

[k2daisy]

Oh, nice. Tight and sad and lovely.

This is the couple you'd thought would most appeal to me, isn't it? Well, you were right. They're fascinating even though one is gone.

<--holding on fast to my determination not to watch Alias, despite your Evil Machinations ;-)

[vaznetti]

They're wonderful, really. Watching some of the S2 DVDs has only increased my appreciation for them. It's Arvin's love for Emily that makes him such an interesting character--it makes him human.

(I'm still insanely pleased whenever you read one of these.)

[themoonbar]

Ooh. Very, very nice job. This is probably the best Sloane POV I've read.

[vaznetti]

Thank you!

It's a cliche, I guess, to say that Sloane doesn't think of himself as evil--but I think more to the point is that his feelings for Emily are perhaps the one thing in his life not part of the big Rambaldi plan.

[ossiannic]

She has asked little of him since they left Tuscany, and he of her, but he is aware of Irina's growing impatience. Time has not, in fact, stopped for everyone else.

Absolutely wonderful. I love the whole mood and flow of this piece, but those are my favorite lines. You just had to go and make me feel sorry for the twisted little weasel, didn't you? *g*

[vaznetti]

You just had to go and make me feel sorry for the twisted little weasel, didn't you? *g*

I exist to spread the Sloane love! Really!

Seriously, though, there's a lot of tragedy in Arvin Sloane's story, and he fascinates me.