"day in the life"

[vixys]

Title: day in the life
Fandom: The Eagle.
Characters: Marcus&Esca.
Word Count: 2301.
Rating: 15
Summary: Another day, another murder. Marcus/Esca, sort of.
Warnings: violent/disturbing imagery; minor character death; discussion of suicide.
Notes: Written for the Fanmedia Challenge over on ninth_eagle, based on the image of the bathtub: an unashamed love

Comments

[ladytiferet]

Wow, this fic is amazing, all the layers in such a short story, all the things hinted at but not explained ♥
I hope they'll be OK!

[vixys]

I kinda wanted to write a longer story, with the fullness of the case and whatnot, but I thought it was more interesting, in the end, to just have this snapshot. Or, alternatively, I ran out of time for the challenge: both are true. :D Thank you! ♥

[ladytiferet]

I think it's a perfect fill for the challenge - if you ever feel like coming back to them, you can do it, but it works great as it is :)

[poziomeczka]

ladytiferet and I shared a little squee on the IM the moment you've posted it and to quote my darling friend:
"vixys has done it again"

And you indeed have. Everything about it is perfect, absolutely perfect. I think the only disadvantage your works have is the fact that I want infinitely more after reading them!!

(also Lewis te hehehehe! I love it)

[vixys]

See, I'm still a little perturbed by the fact that I seem to have a pair of ardent fans here. It's disturbing, really. ;D You flatter me and make me all squiggly inside. Dude. ♥♥ And Lewis is just utterly fabulous: I watch it for the Oxford-spotting. :D THANK YOU. ♥

[poziomeczka]

ahahahha you probably should, we are rather dangerous!
Yes, I know, it's like a hot choco every episode, there's something so cushy about it.

♥

[ladytiferet]

We are disturbing. Meg, for example, is disturbingly cute :P

[coeurdesoleil]

Ooo this was a really original and different take on the prompt and on Marcus/Esca. I love how understated their burgeoning relationship is, and how much that is happening in the space between the lines. Beautifully written and very clever!

[vixys]

really original and different take on the prompt I saw that image, and (morbid person that I apparently am), the only thing I could think was that image of a redheaded girl dead in a bathtub - and Marcus&Esca/Lewis&Hathaway just kinda slotted in around that. :D Thank you! ♥

[elzed]

Some great images there (the blood spiderwebbing down the tub got me); love the writing. And the awkwardness between them, and Marcus, uncertain, uncomfortable, still hopeful, a little.

[vixys]

Thank you. :D ♥

[figletofvenice]

goddamn this is awesome. just - goddamn. I'm a huge lover of crime dramas (give me luther, and thorne, and should I figure out what lewis is?) so this just cuts right into everything that I love - both the horror and the banality of murder, the stress, the exhaustion, the taking-affection-as-it-comes. I would read another 10,000 words of this and not even pause for breath. ♥

[vixys]

I was half on the cusp of making this an epic, but I have so much to do atm that I didn't think losing myself in another 10000 words would be sensible - but thank you. ♥♥ And if you're into crime dramas, definitely check out Lewis: it's the successor to Morse, and features murder-solving in Oxford, complete with shady dons and academic backstabbery. And beautiful scenery, obvs, because it's set in Oxford.

[figletofvenice]

belatedly, I've mainlined all of series one and two of lewis, and I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon. I just love it. thank you so much for pointing me in this direction! ♥

[vixys]

Haha fantastic! It's glorious, isn't it? Hathaway = ♥