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A set of two 100-word pieces, the second of which is, in all honesty, only wish-fulfillment. Jack comes home, twice.


Title: Double Nostos
Author: Vanzetti (vanzetti @ populli.net)
Rating: R
Spoilers: Alias 3x01, The Two
Summary: Jack comes home.
Disclaimer: JJ, Bad Robot, ABC.

1.

They don't tell Jack Bristow what has happened. They don't need to. He knows what Sydney's done the moment they leave him alone in the shower: he submits to the barber and accepts the suit, too large after the last year. After that there's a journey by car, shorter than he expected, and nothing else is real until his daughter is in his arms. Thinner, harder than he remembers.

All through Dixon's reserved welcome--and why not? Jack had the man's job, once--and those of his other colleagues, he has to stop himself from reaching out to her again.

2.

And then another homecoming. She waits until he's out of CIA-owned property and in his own apartment, but that very night, once Sydney has arranged his meager furniture and left, he hears a window slide open. He might have done more to secure his quarters, he supposes.

"You shouldn't be here," he says.

He doesn't need light to see her eyes slant as she smiles. "You aren't compromised." He knows how careful she is, how careful they both are--in everything but this one thing, the feel of muscle sliding under skin, the press of his wife's mouth against his.

End

(Author's note: "Nostos" is the ancient Greek word for "return home.")

Date: 2003-09-30 08:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resmin.livejournal.com
*claps*
Wishful thinking or not, I loved them both.
Thanks for sharing!

Date: 2003-09-30 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resmin.livejournal.com
I've been a sucker since Vincent Garber went down with the ship in Titanic. Plus, the whole 'Vaughn's not good enough for you' bit from last night.

*basks in the glow of Daddy-love*

Date: 2003-09-30 09:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
Oooh. I like, especially the second one. Well done.

You can never have too much SpyParents.

Date: 2003-09-30 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themoonbar.livejournal.com
Very nice. I love when you write these two-- it's always perfect. If we can't get LO, then I expect spy mommy in fanfic, dammit. *g*

Date: 2003-09-30 09:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] celli
Wow, I love 'em both.

...he has to stop himself from reaching out to her again.

awwwwww!

Date: 2003-09-30 10:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassandre.livejournal.com
He knows how careful she is, how careful they both are--in everything but this one thing...

So cool. (sighs with pleasure) This reminds me of Odysseus and Penelope, both of them eternally wary... but how could I not think of them when you name the story "nostos"!

Date: 2003-09-30 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elishavah.livejournal.com
Very, very nice. I really love the first one.

Date: 2003-09-30 10:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagnylilytable.livejournal.com
You know, of course, that the second one is what made me grin and my heart beat faster. So much happier than the missing scenes I'm working on, but that's what wish-fulfillment is for.

Thanks so much for the bit of rest from a very stressful day.

Date: 2003-09-30 10:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fourteenlines.livejournal.com
Eeee! Reunions all over the place!

mmm. sneaky SpyMommy.

Date: 2003-09-30 11:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cofax7
Those are very good. You've got Jack's weary voice down.

Date: 2003-09-30 12:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rez-lo.livejournal.com
I'm sighing with love for both of these and also bristling--well, okay, not bristling, but maybe feeling a little defensive--about this notion that the second isn't somehow in character. I think you're right: Jack and Irina couldn't work together for too long without showing a bit of human nature, could they? And what better way to mark Sydney's return and Jack's freedom? Not to mention how completely characteristic Irina's entrance is, and her first words to Jack.

Lovely, both of them.

Date: 2003-09-30 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rez-lo.livejournal.com
(Did I mention that you were in my dream a few nights ago? You had red hair and a faintly French accent.)

Now *that's* funny! Though the red hair was true at one point and may be again, in the way of these things. There was math grad student from the Savoie at one point, but that didn't last...

this second piece is so close to my own wishes for the characters that it counts as wish-fulfillment

Ah! I'm in the midst of a long meandering letter on all of the things you mentioned in your last several. Unfortunately I have no way of transferring data from my laptop to the public internet computer, so it's in longhand. Will probably send tomorrow. Today's cash is exhausted...

Vacation is lovely, thanks. Beautiful place, interesting things to do and see. Good food!

PS: Am enjoying Tacitus very much.

Date: 2003-10-01 02:58 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lizbee.livejournal.com
Oh. I like, I like very much indeed. It's precise and succinct, and you've said exactly what needs to be said. Nothing more.

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