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crack_van2008-05-07 08:17 pm
"Good Money" by Ashleigh Anpilova (R)
Pairing: Solo/Kuryakin
Length: 29,555 words
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nakeisha Author Website: Partners Forever
Why this must be read:
This isn't your usual first time story. In this one, there's a twist. Illya isn't trying to get Napoleon in bed; he's simply trying to keep Napoleon from tiring of him as a partner. So he decides to change, which creates unforeseen consequences, including Napoleon thinking Illya has been replaced by a double.
[...] he had been sitting in the commissary quietly minding his own business, when the three men had come in and started talking. Until he had heard his partner’s name he hadn’t paid any attention. Small talk wasn’t something with which he tended to waste his time. However once he had heard his friend’s name, his ‘Napoleon Solo sense’ had clicked in and he had listened to everything.
Now he wished he hadn’t.
[...]
So, although he cared little, if anything, for what people thought of him, or of his supposed affair with the senior agent, he did care very much about what people thought of Napoleon, and linked with that, just as importantly, what Napoleon thought about him. He knew that he was respected by just about everyone for whom he had ever worked. He knew that Mr. Waverly regarded him as one of his top agents, but also knew that although the respect of his colleagues was unshakeable few actually liked him. He wasn’t exactly an easy man to like, mainly because he was an almost impossible man to get to know. His American partner was the only person who had truly tried, and apart from a few hints and light-hearted nags, the only person who accepted Illya Nickovetch without trying to change him.
However, now he wondered whether a change was not in fact overdue. Used to being unable to have Napoleon in the way he truly wanted him, he was not, however, prepared to lose him completely. And if only a part of what two of the three men had said was true, then it did indeed seem that the outgoing and gregarious man was, one day soon, going to tire of his introverted, reserved partner.
Good Money
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BTW, I'm surprised you rated it NC-17. I'd go for R personally.
But then I'm as I'm fond of saying ratings mean nothing.
Thank you so much for the rec. From you that's high praise indeed - you really have made my day.
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I am only half-way though (and savoring every mooment)
but I had to comment on how so very good the story is.
Yay!, Nikki.
And thank you to Periwinkle for reccing it.
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But yes, I'd definitely say 'R' after all there are no four-letter words for the sex organs or full graphic sex scenes.
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I'm so pleased you are enjoying this story so much.
Indeed, I'm so touched that she did.
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I actually debated between two stories of
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so...
great...
ear kisses!
*swoons in an un-decorous heap*
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*Offers hand up*
Awww, thank you so much.
I do like ear kisses :-)
Thank you so much. I'm really pleased you enjoyed this story.
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I know that feeling.
I have all 12 + songvid + crossover done by the beginning of the month I'm due to rec in when I do NCIS.
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http://www.partners-forever.co.uk/the_man_from_uncle/fiction/zine/mfu_good_money.htm