Midnight in the Holy City, by researchminion (PG)

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Fandom: ALIAS
Pairing: Lauren Reed/Julian Sark
Author on LJ: researchminion
Author’s Website: Unkown
Why this must be read:

Being a Lauren fan is painful--so few stories! even less symathetic ones!--so I’m ever so grateful for the Lauren Reed Ficathon and stories like this one. This is a lovely, wistful and painful look at Lauren, who she is, and what matters to her.

iv. Moonlight in the holy city / So thick it warms the air

She visits the city at night.

Revels in becoming, for one evening, just another tourist. Wanders through the ghost tours and revels in the humidity. Enjoys the sensation of pressure on her chest. She forgets about missions and Rambaldi and government husbands.

It doesn’t last long enough, it never does. But for just one moment she appreciates how her life might have been. Married, children, a home on East Battery Street. Calm and peaceful. Everything she has been taught to distrust, to despise.

Midnight in the Holy City