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Before the Wind by Kimberly (PG-13)
This is turning out to be a very busy week so I'm posting my last 2 recs before they get past me. I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed sharing my love for these characters and stories. My ever grateful thanks goes out to the authors. Please feed them well.
Fandom: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN ~ Old West
Pairing: Gen.
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Lady Angel's M7 Library
Why this must be read:
Before the Wind is one of those rare stories that would have made a great episode. It has all of the best elements from the series such as rich, complex characters and a plot that puts them through their paces and then expands on it all to astonishing affect. And much like the series it's the flawed and flinty men that hold it all together. It starts with the unexpected development of Vin falling for a working girl that reminds him of a long lost love. When she is found dead, an assumed suicide, Vin sets out to prove that the powerful businessman the Seven are suppose to protect is actually the killer. It's an arduous task that takes its toll on Vin both physically and emotionally. Running through the entire story is the slow process of Chris realizing what Vin means to him. Kimberly details how as Vin rails against the injustice done to this woman Chris becomes ever more attentive and open, rediscovering a tenderness he seems to have thought that he buried with his wife and son. One of my favorite passages has Chris watching Vin from a distance and knowing that Vin is trying to spare them the danger he brings to their lives and Chris more worried about being without him.
A comfort rising within Chris, happy that Nathan voiced his loyalty to the man, half-afraid Vin would light out on his own, him not wanting to bring trouble for the men, and Chris wanting to shout: "Be worse with you gone!" Never did say it, never could; it was too close, too real to how Chris felt, even though he knew Vin would never want to cause him harm.....Vin, well, Vin claimed it to be the bounty that kept him on the roam, but Chris saw more than that in the man's eyes. A fear, plain as day, fear of finding a home, finding happiness, like a man days in the desert without water, drinking it in, though half-worried and half-overjoyed at the sweetness of it, as well as, the ending of it, needing it, wanting it too badly. Best to go without than having to suffer the loss of it.
Before the Wind
Fandom: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN ~ Old West
Pairing: Gen.
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Lady Angel's M7 Library
Why this must be read:
Before the Wind is one of those rare stories that would have made a great episode. It has all of the best elements from the series such as rich, complex characters and a plot that puts them through their paces and then expands on it all to astonishing affect. And much like the series it's the flawed and flinty men that hold it all together. It starts with the unexpected development of Vin falling for a working girl that reminds him of a long lost love. When she is found dead, an assumed suicide, Vin sets out to prove that the powerful businessman the Seven are suppose to protect is actually the killer. It's an arduous task that takes its toll on Vin both physically and emotionally. Running through the entire story is the slow process of Chris realizing what Vin means to him. Kimberly details how as Vin rails against the injustice done to this woman Chris becomes ever more attentive and open, rediscovering a tenderness he seems to have thought that he buried with his wife and son. One of my favorite passages has Chris watching Vin from a distance and knowing that Vin is trying to spare them the danger he brings to their lives and Chris more worried about being without him.
A comfort rising within Chris, happy that Nathan voiced his loyalty to the man, half-afraid Vin would light out on his own, him not wanting to bring trouble for the men, and Chris wanting to shout: "Be worse with you gone!" Never did say it, never could; it was too close, too real to how Chris felt, even though he knew Vin would never want to cause him harm.....Vin, well, Vin claimed it to be the bounty that kept him on the roam, but Chris saw more than that in the man's eyes. A fear, plain as day, fear of finding a home, finding happiness, like a man days in the desert without water, drinking it in, though half-worried and half-overjoyed at the sweetness of it, as well as, the ending of it, needing it, wanting it too badly. Best to go without than having to suffer the loss of it.
Before the Wind