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In the Pale Moonlight by Selena (PG)
Fandom: BABYLON 5
Pairing: None
Length: Short
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak
Author Website: Fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:
The problem with insane characters is that the very thing that makes them so compelling makes them almost impossible to write. Selena succeeds wonderfully here, with a mad, capricious Cartagia summoning Londo in the middle of the night.
But even here, at the Royal Court where scruples were a thing to be abandoned and ruthlessness was the only way to survival, there had to be some things he would not do. There had to be a line he would not cross. Playing the whore for Cartagia was beyond that line.
For a second, he imagined his wife Timov, who would undoubtedly tell him that he had done far worse things already, and that it would serve him right to get a taste of what was expected of many, if not most, Centauri women in their marriages. He could almost hear her sharp voice. Well, Timov was far from Centauri Prime now. He had ordered her to leave soon after his arrival, together with Urza’s family. There would be no hostages given to fortune this time - no one who would pay the price for him.
But Vir was still here. And that confounded Narn who had chosen the most breathtakingly inconvenient time for a sojourn to Centauri Prime. If Londo took a wrong step now, both of them would burn in the fire the Vorlons had unleashed, together with the rest of the population and the entire planet.
In the Pale Moonlight
Pairing: None
Length: Short
Author on LJ:
selenakAuthor Website: Fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:
The problem with insane characters is that the very thing that makes them so compelling makes them almost impossible to write. Selena succeeds wonderfully here, with a mad, capricious Cartagia summoning Londo in the middle of the night.
But even here, at the Royal Court where scruples were a thing to be abandoned and ruthlessness was the only way to survival, there had to be some things he would not do. There had to be a line he would not cross. Playing the whore for Cartagia was beyond that line.
For a second, he imagined his wife Timov, who would undoubtedly tell him that he had done far worse things already, and that it would serve him right to get a taste of what was expected of many, if not most, Centauri women in their marriages. He could almost hear her sharp voice. Well, Timov was far from Centauri Prime now. He had ordered her to leave soon after his arrival, together with Urza’s family. There would be no hostages given to fortune this time - no one who would pay the price for him.
But Vir was still here. And that confounded Narn who had chosen the most breathtakingly inconvenient time for a sojourn to Centauri Prime. If Londo took a wrong step now, both of them would burn in the fire the Vorlons had unleashed, together with the rest of the population and the entire planet.
In the Pale Moonlight