crack_van | In Scorching Glass by Meredith Bronwen Mallory (PG-13)

Fandom: BAND OF BROTHERS
Pairing: Lewis Nixon/Dick Winters
Author on LJ:

garnettrees
Author Website: Author's Website
Why this must be read:

I almost wanted to classify this as gen because despite the gorgeous interpretation of the pairing, it’s really a classic character study and probably one of the best I’ve ever seen of Nixon. Certainly it's one of my favorite backstories ever written for him.

The prose is as haunting as it is beautiful but it is Meredith's ability to capture and utilize Nixon's wit in the graver moments that I feel gives this fic its unique texture.

You can't trust memory, Nix knows that. Whenever he thinks of his childhood, it always seems to be raining, gray clouds and the New Jersey skyline. It never seemed to rain at Toccoa, though he can recall once or twice-- always painfully bright sunshine through the window, on clean wood, on Dick Winters' red hair.

"Can I ask why?"
"Why what?"
"Why New Jersey?"
"Well, gee, Dick," Nix's laugh is brittle and too close to hysteric, "it's where I live."

In Scorched Glass