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crack_van2007-04-26 10:42 am
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Like the Berlin Wall by Lyra_Wing (R)
Fandom: HEROES
Pairing: None. Gen.
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyra_wing
Author Website: None.
Why this must be read: "Six Months Ago" was a great episode for the fandom at large, canonically expanding what we know about the characters and giving us plenty of room to construct fanon.lyra_wing takes full advantage of that room, combining it with her amazing gift for character voice.
lyra_wing takes the gap between those six months and "the present" and creates a character study that sounds and feels like something that could be from the show itself; Nathan coming to terms with (and rationalizing) the changes and people in his life. And really, because I can't emphasize it enough, the voices are just spectacular; Lyra has a gift for both dialogue in general and in intuiting the cadences of her particular characters in specific.
Nathan finds Peter on a Sunday morning in the last place he'd expect Peter to be.
"He couldn't even be buried like a normal person," says Peter conversationally when Nathan comes to stand beside him. Peter's got his hands shoved in the pockets of his black pea coat, and his nose is pink from the chill in the early morning air.
"We've always had a family crypt," Nathan feels obligated to point out. He fights the strange urge to shove his own hands in his pockets, copy Peter's stance.
Neither of them brought flowers.
It's been a week since their father's funeral. Three weeks since the doctors released Heidi from the hospital.
"Because we have to be better than everyone else," says Peter bitterly, "even in the afterlife."
"Shut your mouth," says Nathan, but without any real anger. Christ, their father is dead, after all.
The crypt is somber gray, all cold stone and marble. Nathan used to hate to come here when he was little, to pay his respects to his great-grandfather, his grandfather.
Without taking his eyes off the crypt, Peter says suddenly, "I never want to be buried in there."
And Nathan is startled, because he was just thinking the exact same thing.
Like the Berlin Wall
Pairing: None. Gen.
Author on LJ:
lyra_wingAuthor Website: None.
Why this must be read: "Six Months Ago" was a great episode for the fandom at large, canonically expanding what we know about the characters and giving us plenty of room to construct fanon.
lyra_wing takes full advantage of that room, combining it with her amazing gift for character voice.lyra_wing takes the gap between those six months and "the present" and creates a character study that sounds and feels like something that could be from the show itself; Nathan coming to terms with (and rationalizing) the changes and people in his life. And really, because I can't emphasize it enough, the voices are just spectacular; Lyra has a gift for both dialogue in general and in intuiting the cadences of her particular characters in specific.Nathan finds Peter on a Sunday morning in the last place he'd expect Peter to be.
"He couldn't even be buried like a normal person," says Peter conversationally when Nathan comes to stand beside him. Peter's got his hands shoved in the pockets of his black pea coat, and his nose is pink from the chill in the early morning air.
"We've always had a family crypt," Nathan feels obligated to point out. He fights the strange urge to shove his own hands in his pockets, copy Peter's stance.
Neither of them brought flowers.
It's been a week since their father's funeral. Three weeks since the doctors released Heidi from the hospital.
"Because we have to be better than everyone else," says Peter bitterly, "even in the afterlife."
"Shut your mouth," says Nathan, but without any real anger. Christ, their father is dead, after all.
The crypt is somber gray, all cold stone and marble. Nathan used to hate to come here when he was little, to pay his respects to his great-grandfather, his grandfather.
Without taking his eyes off the crypt, Peter says suddenly, "I never want to be buried in there."
And Nathan is startled, because he was just thinking the exact same thing.
Like the Berlin Wall