Misericordia by Alexa (NC-17)

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Fandom: OZ
Pairing: Alvarez/Mukada
Author on LJ: lexa_c
Author Website: none
Why this must be read: Miguel Alvarez gets a surprising visit from Father Mukada in solitary. Um, I don't want to give too much away because this lovely, lyrical story is quite short. There's an exquisite sense of weariness and desperation here -- from both characters -- as this ever-complicated relationship takes a new turn.

A brief taste:

The padre should have wings, you think, and not the fragile and frayed paper-thin wings of a butterfly. Sometimes you think you felt the brush of his wings when he leant over you as you huddled half-in and half-out of the shower stall, the touch of warm feathers against your face, alive and thrumming with blood, snowy white and shading down to gold like something on a gilded-edged prayer card.

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Comments

[argheva.livejournal.com]

Great rec. I've been itching for some good Alvarez/Mukada fic lately and I can hardly find any. So thank you. ;)

[visionofblue]

Oooh yes. I always liked the interaction between those two, but hadn't ever really found any fic that really nailed slashing them for me. I was so glad to see this one, lexa_c just captured what I liked about the pairing perfectly. Of course, finding a fic with them that I lurved just made me crave more, heh.