[Fic] Won't Feel a Thing
Muse: Michael Vaughn
Word count: 431 words
Prompt: "There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." --Victor Hugo for sighofthings
( Where did the monster come from? )
Word count: 431 words
Prompt: "There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." --Victor Hugo for sighofthings
( Where did the monster come from? )
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This broke my heart. Just because I remember watching that story arc and just waiting for the other shoe to drop when it came to Lauren and how it all ended--augh. The way you show his pain is amazing.
And now it was nothing but a poisonous presence, something that sunk into Vaughn's bones until he couldn't move without wanting to be sick all over.
ffff, I loved that line. I loved all of this. Thank you so much for writing it for me. Ai fics always make me happy because they're so damn good. I love you, you talented girl, you. <3 <3 <3
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Thank you. Thank you so much. Every comment on the stories I write for you makes me blush madly and flail like a flaily thing, because I admire you so much as a writer and so to have you say such kind things about my writing... *flails so hard*
That part is my favorite part about Vaughn in the whole five seasons of Alias. Where he's forced to face the fact that he's been PLAYED, that the woman he loved--and he did love her, and (in my personal headcanon) she saved him after Sydney died--never loved him and that every minute of their lives together was a lie. Because it turns him into another person and he's terrified of what that means. At first he's okay with it because he's focused on extracting his revenge on her, but after he kills her he still have to live with himself. That is one of my biggest disappointments in terms of the way the show went, because you can't just fix things with fire. That's the reason that my personal canon ends after the end of season three, with A Man of His Word tacked onto the end somewhere ( ... )
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I definitely think he loved Lauren. He wouldn't have married her no matter how grief-stricken he was, in my opinion, if he didn't love her. I don't think that minimizes what he felt for Sydney at all, and I don't think that it makes their love any less. I know Sydney's the main character, and she's totally awesomesauce and badass but...I dunno, I always gravitate toward the supporting characters a heck of a lot more. And I do love what the storyline did for Vaughn, no matter how many hated Lauren and the bulk of it. I love the dark places it took him to and the flaws that we were allowed to see. I love you show that, btw. It can't be fixed with fire. Something like this can't be fixed at all because of who he is at his core. He'd have to live with it every day of his life and it'd cost him. Definitely.
And I rambled a lot but YES, I am so happy that my prompts were able to inspire this because it's amazing and I always comment on writing that I adore. <3
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