Complete Confidence by Nickovetch (NC-17)

[georgiesmith.livejournal.com]

Fandom: THE MAN FROM UNCLE
Pairing: Napoleon/Illya
Length: 13,500 words
Author on LJ: nickovetch
Author Website: A lot of her stuff can be found at U.N.C.L.E. File 40
Why this must be read: In the television program, Solo's dark side emerges only occasionally, but always with the same intense, barely controlled fury. I love it when Napoleon allows his dark self to come out to play. Here, Napoleon finds that Illya has been beaten, whipped and raped and as he nurses his partner back on the road to recovery, he is also preparing to stalk his prey. To find the man who has done this unspeakable thing to his partner, his best friend. And to exact his revenge.

You can't have darkness without the light and Nickovetch gives us a happy ending (with incredibly hot sex to boot) that is utterly believable. I love this story to bits and hope you do too.

Solo looked into those expressive eyes and lied. Easily. Completely. He knew Illya too well. Knew he would feel the responsibility and remorse for Solo’s actions. Napoleon took full responsibility gladly. He had looked into the soulless eyes of the man he’d called ‘Jim,’ and known him for the monster he was; known he couldn’t let that creature loose on unsuspecting citizens ever again. Deep down inside, Napoleon had his own sort of monster. He didn’t dare let it out unless he had to. Tonight had been one of those times. Napoleon had a strength that Jim hadn’t. He could loose his monster, look it in the eye, admit that it was a part of him and still send it back and bury it deeply again. Part of him feared the day when he would call his beast back and it wouldn’t come. Tonight it had heeled. He knew one night it wouldn’t.


Complete Confidence

Comments

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

A fantastic choice.
If you look at my database, you'll see Nickovetch also has a lot of stories on geocities. You have to follow the links from here:
http://www.geocities.com/spwhelchel/mfuauthors3topost.html

The site index doesn't seem to bring all of them up.

[georgiesmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was surprised it hadn't been rec'd before, actually.

I had noticed that the site index hadn't brought up nearly any of Nickovetch's stories. I hadn't even thought of just linking to your fabulous and extremely handy database.

[ashley-pitt.livejournal.com]

Wow!

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

If you look at the site index it's from something like 2001. It may not be current.
I think a lot of the stories are on both sites anyway.

[elijahwildchild.livejournal.com]

Good rec, dear. It's one of my regular reads and is intensely satisfying.

[georgiesmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's a story that I seem to read on regular rotation as well.