Fandom: KING ARTHUR (2004)
Pairing: Arthur/Lancelot
Author on LJ:
dea_liberty or
tigers_prowlAuthor Website:
tigers_prowlWhy this must be read: Although Dea writes mostly in the Supernatural fandom now, she was the first person that I ever wrote slash with in the King Arthur universe.
She's young and very, very talented. She was one of the more actively posting writers in this fandom, and I'd never read slash that was so poetic and poignant and absolutely something that will suck you in and grab a hold of your throat only to never let you go until her stories have wrung the life out of you.
I'd never read stories written about men who were still men but loved strongly and with every breath in their bodies. Her Arthur and Lancelot are almost like Romeo and Juliet to me - fighting as long as they can against the constraints of their situation, until reality intervenes and crushes them.
I'm an h/c addict, can you tell? *laughs*
Here is
Sign, Symbol, Token, a multi part fic that was written originally for a challenge issued on the King Arthur group I run.
Footsteps on the battlements - and he recognises them before the voice he's come to know so well has even called his name.
Lancelot. The young boy who'd grown up to be his best knight - one he'd have to inevitably send out because of the orders (had the most chance of coming back - but so small Arthur can't even imagine it) - and the one he doesn't want to lose the most. He hates the fact that he's come to care for this one particular knight more than the others - his second in command, in friendship - but he knows he can't deny it; to lose Lancelot would be like losing his soul.
And the other man doesn't even know it.