OUATIM Fic - Tangled

[tiggymalvern]

Now a trilogy in four parts - it's getting boring linking to the lot, so the previous fics are all here.

Only just over 10,000 words this time, less plot and more smut, which means most of it will make sense even if you can't be bothered ploughing through the previous 126,000. Still all the usual swearing, surprisingly little violence XD

Tangled.

Comments

[jo-lasalle.livejournal.com]

Awww, that was sweet! *g* And hot, and still nicely sociopathic, which should be a disturbing combination, but is really good fun. :-)

I really liked the interlude with the guy Sands doesn't kill, and also that El knows there's going to be guys Sands will not walk away from.

I loved that moment where it becomes clear that Sands not being willing to die for El is a factor in his favour. And when he thinks that Sands isn't about love, but about some elements of love, some of the time, and the whole story feels just like that; I love it.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

and still nicely sociopathic, which should be a disturbing combination, but is really good fun. :-)

I think you just summed up in half a sentence the film, and the fandom, and why I can't stop writing these guys XD

Sands is a very particular kind of killer, because there's always an entire chain of thought behind it, reasons and hassles and consequences. Even when he shoots Belini and the waitress, his first impulse is to cover and BS his way out - I love the way you can see it in him, that snap instant when he realises it can't work and he switches to the killer. There's scope in there for someone to sway him if it was a borderline decision, but only so much.

Poor El. I think it's interesting his response to the murder of the guitar seller, or more the lack of it - he comes out before they can kill any more, but he doesn't ever really react. All I get from him is a feeling of resignation - 'Oh, look, there goes another one.' He's pretty burned out on the whole self-sacrifice thing.

And just generally, thanks! I'm glad you liked the odd little touches of sweetness in there, because you really can't make these guys sweet together - it's all kinds of wrong to try, and Sands would just laugh at the idea of it XD But El's still El, and he has one heck of a romantic streak buried under the enforced cynicism, and I think flashes of that would creep in now and then. They just have to be small ones XD So I'm happy that balance worked for you.