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crack_van2009-11-30 09:42 pm
kaydeefalls.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2009-11-30 09:42 pm
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The Green Grass Stretches by falseeyelashes (PG-13)
Last rec of the month! It's been fun, guys. I'm sorry there weren't more BoB recs -- life kinda ate me, and I didn't have time to post as much as I should've. But I hope you've enjoyed the fics here!
Fandom: BAND OF BROTHERS
Pairing: Speirs gen
Length: one-shot
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
falseeyelashes
Author Website: Fic tag on LJ
Why this must be read: Speirs remains an enigma for the entirety of the series -- ruthless, fearless, and extraordinarily proficient as both soldier and leader. This fic highlights the qualities we already know while maintaining that extremely effective distance between the man and the persona he allows to build up around himself. Fantastic character study.
There were prisoners once, but he steps far, he steps wide of denial and does not let himself skirt around its comforting edges.
If he wants to be honest, which, yes, he will insist upon it – and here he might casually light a cigarette, let the smoke drift lazy from his lips, the only action of his granted such latitude – it does not make a difference. The legend has been crafted, mutated, handed down and passed from one private to another. And maybe he killed a drunkard once and maybe he killed a German POW eight times, twenty times, thirty times over. Maybe Foy really happened and he hopped fences and breathed fire and stepped light past ricochet, speed on his side, grace on his side, never luck. There might have been eight, there might have been twenty, thirty, none.
He will let honesty prevail and eventually it all will give way to the complicated and the jobs and the cars and apartments and wives –
He will inhale, exhale, let the smoke dance, he’ll smile with his mouth closed; it’s like this – we’re all prisoners anyway.
It really doesn’t make a difference.
Eight, twenty, thirty, one.
Some men find faith in numbers.
The Green Grass Stretches
Fandom: BAND OF BROTHERS
Pairing: Speirs gen
Length: one-shot
Author on LJ:
falseeyelashesAuthor Website: Fic tag on LJ
Why this must be read: Speirs remains an enigma for the entirety of the series -- ruthless, fearless, and extraordinarily proficient as both soldier and leader. This fic highlights the qualities we already know while maintaining that extremely effective distance between the man and the persona he allows to build up around himself. Fantastic character study.
There were prisoners once, but he steps far, he steps wide of denial and does not let himself skirt around its comforting edges.
If he wants to be honest, which, yes, he will insist upon it – and here he might casually light a cigarette, let the smoke drift lazy from his lips, the only action of his granted such latitude – it does not make a difference. The legend has been crafted, mutated, handed down and passed from one private to another. And maybe he killed a drunkard once and maybe he killed a German POW eight times, twenty times, thirty times over. Maybe Foy really happened and he hopped fences and breathed fire and stepped light past ricochet, speed on his side, grace on his side, never luck. There might have been eight, there might have been twenty, thirty, none.
He will let honesty prevail and eventually it all will give way to the complicated and the jobs and the cars and apartments and wives –
He will inhale, exhale, let the smoke dance, he’ll smile with his mouth closed; it’s like this – we’re all prisoners anyway.
It really doesn’t make a difference.
Eight, twenty, thirty, one.
Some men find faith in numbers.
The Green Grass Stretches