De prisa, de prisa, rumbo perdido by Sophinisba (PG13)

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Fandom: HEROES
Pairing: Maya/Alejandro
Length: ~2200
Author on LJ: sophinisba
Author Website: Fic indexed here
Why this must be read: Because however tragic the start or how bad an end it came to for both of them, Maya and Alejandro did manage to make that journey. The snippets of backstory, the practicalities and their wider world makes the siblings realer - they're people in their own right as well as an illustration of a pair falling into growing dependence in extremis.

It's a temporary, fragile peace through the story. And takes a good whack at making sense of the really odd route that canon sent them on.

He used to talk to Maya about the trip they'd make around South America. They could fly to Caracas, or maybe straight to Bogotá, and head south along the Panamericana. And whatever detours came their way were adventures they could take together...nothing captured his imagination like the Notas de viaje. A couple of university students striking out on their own, rambling from Buenos Aires down through Patagonia, up the twisted mountain spine of the continent, and across plains and jungles all the way to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. The Caribbean that would become their home years later, the place where they'd become heroes.

That was the only one of Che's books that Alejandro had convinced Maya to read too. "We can go just like them," he said, "see the same places even, only the other way around, to end up in Buenos Aires."

"Sure," Maya teased, "and then someday you'll lead the communist revolution in Argentina."

De prisa, de prisa, rumbo perdido