New FIc: Alias
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vaznettiA 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.")
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.")
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Date: 2003-09-30 08:47 am (UTC)Wishful thinking or not, I loved them both.
Thanks for sharing!
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 11:31 am (UTC)*basks in the glow of Daddy-love*
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:28 am (UTC)You can never have too much SpyParents.
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:57 am (UTC)I am in complete agreement on this point. Glad you like them: the second is of course dear to my heart.
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 09:51 am (UTC)...he has to stop himself from reaching out to her again.
awwwwww!
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Date: 2003-09-30 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 10:00 am (UTC)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"!
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:35 am (UTC)Yep. If I ever write a big Jack/Irina romance (and this is growing more likely by the day) it will be called "Homophrosyne." Or maybe Ithaka. Anyway, it will have those lines from Odyssey 6 as the intro piece.
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 10:26 am (UTC)Thanks so much for the bit of rest from a very stressful day.
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Date: 2003-09-30 11:15 am (UTC)So much happier than the missing scenes I'm working on, but that's what wish-fulfillment is for.
Yep. I do think that pain and sorrow are a little more in-character for them, but as you know I have a weakness for relationships grounded in betrayal and abandonment.
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:34 am (UTC)mmm. sneaky SpyMommy.
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Date: 2003-09-30 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 11:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 12:33 pm (UTC)Lovely, both of them.
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Date: 2003-09-30 12:50 pm (UTC)And also, thank you--glad you like.
...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, though, that this second piece is so close to my own wishes for the characters that it counts as wish-fulfillment in any case. And I'm not entirely sure that either would allow themselves to be so ruled by their desires: as well, no mention of Sydney here? Of course with only 100 words, there are limits to what you can do.
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Date: 2003-09-30 02:11 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2003-09-30 05:44 pm (UTC)In my dream, you lived in a large greenhouse with a grand piano in it. The house also had a large formal dining room, although I'm not sure how that was attached to the greenhouse.
I'd love to see the letter, but don't let it get in the way of your vacation! I'll still be here when you get back. (Am very jealous, though. We went to the Big Island for our honeymoon, and it was amazing.)
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Date: 2003-10-01 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 10:53 am (UTC)Thank you so much for the feedback--I'm so pleased you liked them.