crack_van | Seven Virtues by Selena (PG)

Fandom: BABYLON 5
Pairing: Bester
Author on LJ:

selenak
Author Website: Selena's Fanfiction
Why this must be read:

Selena is known far and wide as the champion of characters most people think are jerks. Not the villains, but the philanderers, gamblers and folks whose agendas don't necessarily match up with the show's hero -- and in Babylon 5, that means Londo Mollari. Selena (who, in her spare time, can be seen as the voice of

londo_mollari on

theatrical_muse) has written heaps of marvelous Londo and Londo/G'Kar fic -- among my favorites are Truth or Dare and her recent Lost in Translation -- and even so, I'm rec'ing Seven Virtues, which isn't about Londo at all.

This is a set of vignettes that shows the private side of Alfred Bester, listed to the tune of seven virtues contrary to the seven deadly sins. They consider canon from the B5 published novels telepath trilogy, but I've never read those and I still love this fic.

1. Abstinence

"Come with me, Al," Carolyn said, and he nearly laughed, not just because it was so unthinkable but because he realized only now how his life had come full circle. He had just spent hours trying to persuade her, again, to join the Corps. Their time together was drawing to a close, at least for now; he couldn't stay at the re-education camp much longer before serious questions were asked, and his position within the Corps was still far from secure.

She stopped talking and 'cast a picture at him, with ever bolder colours. They would be together, as they both wanted; they would have more than a headstart before anyone took up the chase precisely because the idea was so impossible. Alfred Bester, one of the most feared Psi Cops in the Corps, going rogue? Inconceivable.

Seven Virtues