crack_van | Enterprise/Horatio Hornblower (NC17)

Title: Parenthetical by Cimmerian Willow
Pairing: Trip/Malcolm, Horatio/Archie
Author on LJ:

cimmerianwillow
Author Website: Vinegar and Sugar
Why this must be read:

Admittedly I know nothing about the Horatio Hornblower fandom. The sum of my knowledge of the characters is the twenty minutes I watched of the latest movie on A&E last week. However, I had no problems following this story at all, and given that it's part of Cimmerian's much larger (unfinished) The Laurel and the Rose HH universe, that's saying a lot for her ability to craft a story that stands on its own merits.

What we've got here is time travel, lives snatched back from the jaws of death, and lots of unapologetic romance. I could live without the pet names, but given the tenor of Enterprise it actually isn't that unbelievable that the characters might use them. I can't speak for the HH characterization, of course, but Cimmerian does a good job with Trip and Malcolm, I really enjoyed her Phlox and her T'Pol, and, of course, she does a wonderful job of capturing Captain Archer's earnestness as well as his temper.

This is a long story, so you'll want to settle into it when you have time to let the action pull you along. Given how few ENT crossovers there are out there, it's nice to find one that does the characters and the universes justice. Thanks go to

ealgylden for pointing me toward this one.

Parenthetical