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Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major by thingswithwings (Explicit/NC-17)
Fandom: BABYLON 5
Pairing: Stephen Franklin/Michael Garibaldi, Michael Garibaldi/Lise Hampton (open relationship), Vir Cotto/Lennier, Delenn/Susan Ivanova
Length: 3665 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thingswithwings
Author Website: thingswithwings at An Archive Of Our Own
Why this must be read:
"Three relationships. Allegro, Largo, Rondo alla Polacca."
Love: from an easygoing, yet still passionate, relationship of decades (Stephen/Michael), to a friendship (and perhaps more) forged in trying times (Vir/Lennier), to love after loss (Susan/Delenn), this fic explores the B5 universe from perspectives we perhaps don’t see much. My favourite section is probably the last—it convinced me of the Susan/Delenn ship (which I now hold as canon post-Sleeping In Light), for one thing—but the whole thing is simply gorgeous. Canon-compliant, yet adding to what we think we know about the characters, which I love.
It’s well worth it as well to check out other works bythingswithwings, who writes for a staggering number of fandoms with consistent brilliance.
Excerpt:
In the hours before dawn, they lie together in the dark, and Delenn covers Susan's body with her hands: over the still-hard slopes of her shoulders and down her arms, across the curve of her hips to cup firmly at her ass, just nudging the lower slope of her breast to soothe the place where her belly is softening into middle age. Delenn doesn't tease or tickle; her touch is firm and whole, her palms and fingers moving evenly, calmly, as if taking the measure of Susan's body. Even after years of this, Susan still shivers at the deliberateness of Delenn's hands on her. She wonders, sometimes, if all Minbari love like this, with this same steady stillness.
Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major
Pairing: Stephen Franklin/Michael Garibaldi, Michael Garibaldi/Lise Hampton (open relationship), Vir Cotto/Lennier, Delenn/Susan Ivanova
Length: 3665 words
Author on LJ:
thingswithwingsAuthor Website: thingswithwings at An Archive Of Our Own
Why this must be read:
"Three relationships. Allegro, Largo, Rondo alla Polacca."
Love: from an easygoing, yet still passionate, relationship of decades (Stephen/Michael), to a friendship (and perhaps more) forged in trying times (Vir/Lennier), to love after loss (Susan/Delenn), this fic explores the B5 universe from perspectives we perhaps don’t see much. My favourite section is probably the last—it convinced me of the Susan/Delenn ship (which I now hold as canon post-Sleeping In Light), for one thing—but the whole thing is simply gorgeous. Canon-compliant, yet adding to what we think we know about the characters, which I love.
It’s well worth it as well to check out other works by
thingswithwings, who writes for a staggering number of fandoms with consistent brilliance. Excerpt:
In the hours before dawn, they lie together in the dark, and Delenn covers Susan's body with her hands: over the still-hard slopes of her shoulders and down her arms, across the curve of her hips to cup firmly at her ass, just nudging the lower slope of her breast to soothe the place where her belly is softening into middle age. Delenn doesn't tease or tickle; her touch is firm and whole, her palms and fingers moving evenly, calmly, as if taking the measure of Susan's body. Even after years of this, Susan still shivers at the deliberateness of Delenn's hands on her. She wonders, sometimes, if all Minbari love like this, with this same steady stillness.
Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major