No Longer A Child - HPStrangelove - Prompt: Fireworks and Explosions

[hpstrangelove]

This story is dedicated to annephoenix , who introduced me to the Alex Rider universe. I can't thank you enough for sharing your love of abusing  Alex with me!

Title: No Longer a Child

Author: hpstrangelove

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Alex has lived a lifetime in the sixteen months since he started working for MI6. He’s no longer a child.

Word Count: 1228

Warning: Implies

Comments

[tigertrapped]

Wow. This packs a dark and powerful punch. Without telling us exactly what happened in the desert (I've not read the books - is this a reference to something AH wrote, or something else?), you conjure a vividly painful sense of Alex's despair and emptiness. Masterfully done.

[hpstrangelove]

The desert scene takes place in the last book, Scorpia Rising. It's very traumatic for Alex (and me too, I might add). I'm not sure how my son is going to react to it when he reads it.

I'm glad I could still get Alex's emotional state across to someone who's not familiar with the stories, too.

[mieka_writes]

ghaa..

I don't want Yassen to really be dead... but WOW... you can really feel the isolation. no one can understand who hasn't been there..

[hpstrangelove]

I clearly remember contemplating suicide back when I was starting high school (obviously I only contemplated it) and how lonely and alone I felt back then. I figure Alex has been though so much more, and events in this last book have been horrific.

[mieka_writes]

and MI6 is NOT helping.. just going he's a kid he'll bounce back.. yeah.. with a load of high yield explosives under their building if they keep at it. take them with him...

[hpstrangelove]

(Your icon always makes me smile!)

I tried to capture the feeling from the book without giving too much away. This was pretty easy to write, given how traumatic I found the book to be. Plus I'm very sad now that there are no more books to look forward to. I hope that there'll be a Yassen book still, but I don't want to get my hopes up.

I just emailed my SF fic off yesterday, so you're doing fine. I can't wait to read yours.

[jusmine984]

My kindle tells me I"m 60% through Scorpia Rising - I WILL READ THIS AS SOON AS I FINISH!!!!!! :P

(Also, so happy for Alex! He finally gets to be 15! lol. Thought the poor bean wouldn't make it that long :P)

[hpstrangelove]

I'm happy and sad both - I enjoyed the book, but I'm sad that there won't be any more.

[kennahijja]

Just to say how much it *pains* me to pass this up!!! But I'm trying to remain virginally unspoiled until I hold the book in my hand (and *then* until my Spyfest fic is done...).

So after much squinting away from fic and comments, just hugs and thanks and I'll read it as soon as I can :).

BTW, how do you do it!?!?! The book only comes out in two days hereabouts - are you more lucky in your parts?

[hpstrangelove]

My fic will be that much more meaningful after reading Scorpia Rising, so read it whenever you have time. I just had to write this - it wouldn't leave me alone until I got it out of my system. I'm very sad that there won't be any more Alex Rider books to look forward to - hopefully AH will still write the Yassen book.

For some strange reason, the book came out here in the States last week, on the 22nd. I'd preordered from Amazon and got my copy last Thursday. Anthony Horowitz is a British author and I don't think it's right that the book's been delayed over there. It should have come out on the same day at least, if not before.

And SpyFest! Can't wait!!!

[hpstrangelove]

Sadly, the villian that was brought back was not Yassen.

I haven't seen any ebook shares yet; if I do, I'll let you know. Do you like audiobooks? I received my shipping notice from Amazon.uk that my audiobook shipped this morning, so I should have it in a few weeks. Shipping from Britain is unpredictable - sometimes it takes a week, other times it takes a month, I just never know.