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[pseudy]

Title: Legend (2/2)
Fandom: Alexander the Great
Pairing: Alexander/Hephaistion
Rating: R? maybe
Summary: Near the end of the summer at Ekbatana, Alexander and Hephaistion attempt to close the rift that has opened between them. Follows Alone, aka the bitchslap!fic, so might help to read that first.
Beta: semyaza. Thank you so much for your support all

Comments

[qaddafi]

This was just beautiful. I liked the way that Hephaistion wanted to resist Alexander and at the same time give in to him. And however ever much it's a relief that they're together again, it's sad too because Hephaistion will be dead before autumn is finished.

Very well done. I loved it, as I love every other Alexander piece you've written.

[pseudy]

omg, yes :( they have such a short time left. i think part of what makes their relationship so...desperate in my eyes is that i think they feel their mortality, or at least hephaistions. renault talks about how alexander must have known that achilles did not outlive patroklos by very long, and i think even if he believed himself to be divine and immortal, it must have been so hard to let go of hephaistion for even a brief time, if their hours together were so numbered. or maybe i'm just overly romantic, lol. alexander obviously had other things on his mind...

aaand my comment got too long. thank you so much for reading and commenting! i'm so glad you've enjoyed these, it means a lot to me.

[whoyouinvent]

wah they are so beautiful and painful. i don't really know what to say, but that, and can someone please love *me* that way? sigh.
tis strange, being jealous of alex the great :-)
good stuff, doll.

[pseudy]

omg, i want it too :( wanting it is probably what drives me to try to write it, lol. thanks so much for reading and commenting!! <3

[_hiddenwolf_]

Great writing and (improved, I think) ability of keeping the Renault-style and feeling, like always. You filled the 'missing scene' really nicely :) Noticed some subtle symbolism and foreshadowing (unless I'm wrong ^^;), stuff that are always good to exist in such stories. Yay for convenient patches of grass or whatever useful for such situations. Liked the description of the 'nature' of the A/H sex and it's difference with the A/B one.
Loved it, in a nutshell.

[pseudy]

you noticed it! thank you :) i try to do these things and then feel a bit silly and contrived. even though it was a making-up scene i wanted there to be a bit of looming sadness because of the fact that things would end so soon. thanks so much for reading and commenting! i'm very very glad you enjoyed it and think i'm improving.

[rtms]

Re: Great!

[pseudy]

thank you so much for reading and commenting! hephaistion is my favourite character and it means a lot to me that you feel these stories fit for him.

[florachan]

Eh...You know how much I've been waiting for this story...
And believe me, it couldn't have been any better...
You picked the thread exactly from where you left it with "alone", and added a new emotional dimension to it...
The way Hephaistion struggles with himself, with his wounded pride, and at the same time the way his love for Alexander doesn't allow him to stay away from him...
The way Alexander talks to him, with all his heart and soul...you really made clear he would be lost without Hephaistion...And this line: "That means nothing if you are not by me. They must have us both, or neither" it's just so beautiful...and so true.

Thank you for writing it...

p.s. And yes, Hephaistion cries, God bless him for that...^_-

[pseudy]

thank you for reading! i'm so glad you liked it, i didn't want to disappoint you, and i definitely had you in mind when i was writing it. thanks for being so supportive all along :) it means a lot to me. (nice icon, btw.)

[florachan]

You had me in mind...?
whoa, you make me so happy...^^
And of course you didn't disappont me...You should have seen my face when I saw there was your story on my friends list...I must have looked like an idiot, and even more idiot when I finished the reading, such bliss was painted on my face...^^

[pseudy]

i'm so glad :) you make ME happy.