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Trust, and Loyalty by kethni (18)
Fandom: HEROES
Pairing: Audrey-centric, minor Matt/Mohinder and Sylar/Luke in the background
Length: ~30k in total
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kethni
Author Website: Fic Masterlist
Why This Must Be Read: I was planning on reccing Trust later in the month, but kethni just posted a wonderful sequel, Loyalty, and I had to get this rec out there early before I died from internalising my squee. ;)
Audrey is one of my favourite characters ever on Heroes -- I loved her no-nonsense attitude and her gritty cynicism. In a show that, sadly, doesn't have many strong female characters it's been my not so secret wish since S1 that Tim Kring would find a way to bring her back. Trust, a mostly gen, Audrey-centric epic, is the absolute next best thing until that wish of mine comes true.
This is a fast paced action/adventure style case fic in which Audrey and Matt are working together to solve a string of murders and in the process develop an easy, bantery cop-partner-style friendship. What's so great about it is that not only does kethni have a superb Audrey voice, but she's great at developing real meaty plots that suck you in. The secondary characters in both Trust and the sequel, Loyalty, are really well fleshed out: Luke, Sylar, Flint and Knox all feel very in character, bringing various levels of menace and criminal activity to the table.
Excerpt:
The car is skewed across the road, two doors wide open. The body is sprawled out of the front passenger door. She’s young, maybe twenty, long dark hair fanned out across the tarmac.
Parkman is making notes, pages and pages. I’m still looking at the car when he wanders away, like twenty feet behind the car, looking at a tree with a bemused expression.
“What’re you doing? The body is over here.”
“State line,” Parkman says, nodding at something.
I walk over to where he’s standing. The sign marking the state line is on the tree.
“So what?”
He shakes his head. “It doesn’t seem odd to you: the car abandoned barely twenty feet past the state line?”
“What’re you suggesting?” I ask.
“I don’t know,” he says blowing out his cheeks and shrugging. “It just seems... odd.”
Trust: part 1, part 2, part 3
Loyalty: part 1, part 2, part 3
Pairing: Audrey-centric, minor Matt/Mohinder and Sylar/Luke in the background
Length: ~30k in total
Author on LJ:
kethniAuthor Website: Fic Masterlist
Why This Must Be Read: I was planning on reccing Trust later in the month, but kethni just posted a wonderful sequel, Loyalty, and I had to get this rec out there early before I died from internalising my squee. ;)
Audrey is one of my favourite characters ever on Heroes -- I loved her no-nonsense attitude and her gritty cynicism. In a show that, sadly, doesn't have many strong female characters it's been my not so secret wish since S1 that Tim Kring would find a way to bring her back. Trust, a mostly gen, Audrey-centric epic, is the absolute next best thing until that wish of mine comes true.
This is a fast paced action/adventure style case fic in which Audrey and Matt are working together to solve a string of murders and in the process develop an easy, bantery cop-partner-style friendship. What's so great about it is that not only does kethni have a superb Audrey voice, but she's great at developing real meaty plots that suck you in. The secondary characters in both Trust and the sequel, Loyalty, are really well fleshed out: Luke, Sylar, Flint and Knox all feel very in character, bringing various levels of menace and criminal activity to the table.
Excerpt:
The car is skewed across the road, two doors wide open. The body is sprawled out of the front passenger door. She’s young, maybe twenty, long dark hair fanned out across the tarmac.
Parkman is making notes, pages and pages. I’m still looking at the car when he wanders away, like twenty feet behind the car, looking at a tree with a bemused expression.
“What’re you doing? The body is over here.”
“State line,” Parkman says, nodding at something.
I walk over to where he’s standing. The sign marking the state line is on the tree.
“So what?”
He shakes his head. “It doesn’t seem odd to you: the car abandoned barely twenty feet past the state line?”
“What’re you suggesting?” I ask.
“I don’t know,” he says blowing out his cheeks and shrugging. “It just seems... odd.”
Trust: part 1, part 2, part 3
Loyalty: part 1, part 2, part 3