A Lost Boy, Chapter 36/39

[angiepen]

Title: A Lost Boy
Author: AngiePen
Pairing: Liam Neeson/Orlando Bloom, minor Liam/Johnny Depp, plus a few other pair-ups among the supporting characters.
Rating: NC-17 overall
Summary: Slave Orlando's been taken and the kidnappers aren't interested in ransom. And of course Master Liam's thundering rage is only at the personal insult, that

Comments

[vambrace]

I love this 'verse and I really like your take on Liam. He's complex and fully detailed as a character. Please write more!!

[angiepen]

I'm actually not writing any more -- the story is finished and I'm posting a chapter a day until it's done. Three more days! :) I'm glad you're enjoying, though -- thank you!

Angie

[heidi8]

I'm not normally a fan of gratuitous violence but this isn't gratuitous, but rather completely necessary and very deserved violence. Excited and nervous for the next few chapters!

[angiepen]

Liam definitely considered it to be completely necessary and very deserved violence -- glad you agree. :) Thanks!

Angie

[ireth06]

Liam neesn is a perfect business man... a little human, stern when he needs to be, protective of what belongs to him and partly SHARK! *g*

Darling I am enjoying Marton getting what's coming to him... Just hope Liam won't get into trouvble over it and miss the ending of his boy's training days...

Wonderful chapter hun!
See you tomorrow!

[angiepen]

This whole situation has driven Liam a few steps around the bend. There was that one time he beat up the guy who (tried to) orchestrate a nasty, under-the-table takeover of one of Liam's businesses, but Liam only broke the guy's nose. And ruined him. And made sure he'd end up enslaved. But that's, you know, all legal. Except the nose breaking part, and he did get a talking-to for that. [cough]

But seriously, the whole beating-a-guy-to-death is something he'd never have considered before. It's so far beyond the pale that it would've been unthinkable. But knowing what Orlando is going through This Very Minute, and knowing that he's helpless to do anything about it, has... well, if you want to imagine Liam's eyes with a bit of that insane-red glow in them, you probably wouldn't be too far off. :P

Glad you enjoyed it. :D

Angie, who has a really good pissed-off icon, even if it's not Liam

[ireth06]

Is Liam still thinking he doesn't love his boy... He's going to admit to something sometime...

*hugs*
Mar

haven't got a pissed off icon, this (points up) is as close as it gets.

[angiepen]

I think Liam's mainly avoiding the question. [eyedart]

Angie

[veveri]

Liam is like a hurricane but a controllrd one; he shocked even Nick who obviously underestimated him.
I suppose that thoughts about what Orlando has to endure now brakes every moral barrier away. Hopefully his plan works and he can leave home without troubles after he is finished with Marton!

[angiepen]

I suppose that thoughts about what Orlando has to endure now brakes every moral barrier away.

Exactly. [nod] For Nick it was about abstract principles, which lets him view the situation rationally and from some distance. He's angry, yes, but it's not personal. For Liam it's very personal, and very specifically about one particular person; he left rationality and distance behind a few miles back.

Angie

[wanderlost]

I'm worried for Liam. He's doing all these 'bad' things (and well, it's relative to what Marton & co. did to Orlando, but it's still bad for Liam) and what if Orlando's too broken when Liam arrives?

I worry for the both of them, actually. Part of me just wants to skip to Chapter 39 and hope that you've written a 'happily ever after'.

[angiepen]

I think in this case, Marton is in his own category of Evil Bastard in Liam's mind, to the point where killing him doesn't seem to be at all wrong. If that's othering a dehumanizing, well, if there's any exception to those being bad things, Marton is it.

If anything, Liam will probably be depressed afterward because killing Marton didn't make him feel any better. The old, "Won't fix what's wrong" thing, which is correct. But one can still make an argument for Marton having needed killing, if anyone ever has.

I don't know, it'll probably be a while before the full impact of what he's done here hits Liam. He definitely doesn't give a shit right now.

About the ending, it's as happy as I could make it, considering I wasn't willing to go on for another twenty chapters to show a realistic recovery. :/

Angie