Alias Fic (for monanotlisa)

[vaznetti]

So really, I think that doing one's back major injury is perhaps a bit excessive as a way to get people to continue to write Jack/Nadia. That said, this is a (surprisingly romantic) addition to One MissingTitle: Truth and Silence

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[yahtzee63]

I do think that monanotlisa's methods are a bit extreme, but I cannot decry such bounty.

It is sweet, but in the area where J/N can be believably sweet -- i.e., they love the same people, and though that's usually one of the wedges between them, you show here how it can also bind them together even more tightly.

Above all, I love this line:

She has killed; she has betrayed. Dinner with Jack Bristow is not the worst choice she could make.

So perfect. Yes, it's Wrong and Bad, but on the sliding scale of Wrong and Bad in the Aliasverse -- well, you have to consider.

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[vaznetti]

It is sweet, but in the area where J/N can be believably sweet -- i.e., they love the same people, and though that's usually one of the wedges between them, you show here how it can also bind them together even more tightly.

As I was writing it, I started to think of all the ways in which they would be really, really good for each other. I mean, aside from the bad and wrong stuff which I will just be not thinking about. At all. Nadia is one of the few people with whom Jack can be completely honest, if he wants or needs to be, and the same is true on her side; both of them are conflicted about the same people, after all (Arvin and Irina).

...the sliding scale of Wrong and Bad in the Aliasverse...

Absolutely -- I mean, sleeping with Jack Bristow, of plotting the zombie uprising which will destroy civilization? I know what I'd pick.

[yahtzee63]

Yeah, that's kind of the greatness of the pairing. If you don't look at the quasi-incestual vibe between them, the age gap, the lies sometimes between them and the instant, justified revulsion it would inspire in virtually all their friends and family, Jack and Nadia are perfect for each other. She has a canonical thing for older men in authority -- daddy isues that make an older man appealing -- all the Derevko that draws Jack in -- and yet is a warm, loving person who adores Sydney almost as much as Jack does -- you know, it fits. Except for the zillion ways that it doesn't. And in ways both healthy and unhealthy, zig and zag. Oh, I do love them.