crack_van | How to Bind a Strain by Utopian Trunks (NC-17)

Fandom: MAN FROM UNCLE
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Length: 4,160 words
Author on LJ:

utopiantrunks
Author Website: East of Sanity

Why this must be read:

I want to make one more stop at "The Gurnius Affair": another amazing aftermath story, this time slash.

Illya is a hard man. In San Rico he did what he had to do. He will not, he cannot apologize, but he knows what Napoleon saw in Colonel Nexor's eyes. Napoleon remembers too, he doesn't want to, a little distance is what he's looking for. But Illya is pushing him, and keeps on pushing him, until finally his rage at what happened is exposed...

Theirs is a tough, complicated relationship: partners, friends, occasional lovers--the need that draws them together unacknowledged.

utopiantrunks has written a fierce, gut-wrenching story of Napoleon and Illya caught in a personal battle made desperate by the unvoiced fear that something vital to them has already been irrevocably broken.

Illya wrenched his face to the side and gasped for breath. "Stop," he said, when Napoleon's mouth moved to his throat and his hands slid down Illya's sides. "Napoleon--" He pushed his partner to arm's length. For a moment, they looked at each other, breathing heavily. Illya scowled. "You looked like a fool on that table. No control. No hint of your training. Whining for my help like a rank amateur."

Napoleon knocked Illya's hands aside and slammed his forearms into the wall either side of Illya's head, pinning the smaller man with the full length of his body.

Illya sneered and turned his head away. "You're not worth touching."

How to Bind a Strain

How to Bind a Strain by Utopian Trunks (NC-17)

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