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The Fugue by cgb (PG-13)
Hey, I'll be your XF driver for this month. Good old MSR, although I've been known to branch out towards the minor characters.
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Krycek/Marita
Author's Website: Mind Games
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mandysbitch
Why this must be read: The Fugue is a seminal Krycek story, one that fills in some of the blanks regarding Alex's past and beautifully tying it into his present - Marita. cgb, with her gorgeous and haunting writing style, gives us small glimpses into his childhood and his college years, which all contribute to the man he becomes. Never has Alex been so thoughtfully drawn out as this, with more range and emotion and substance than the show ever gave him.
The Fugue is about Alex, and how he came to be what he is.
The Russian doctor who fitted Alex for his arm told him he was likely to experience phantom feelings in his left arm but Alex had yet to really understand what that meant. From time to time he would reach for an object out of instinct only to find that he had nothing to reach with, but he could not distinguish the absence of his arm from the feeling of his a body as a whole.
It made him think of something that his father had said about a fugue. He instructed the young Alex to isolate a single voice from the fugue and to listen to its traverse throughout the piece. Then he told him to listen to the whole and the voices that combined to produce a single sound. A sum of all the parts.
His father pointed out that there was no way to listen to both a single voice and the sum of all the voices at once. The two methods of listening mutually excluded each other.
"You Alexei," he would say, "are the sum of your parts. All your family, all who have gone before you. Or you are alone. But you are never both."
The Fugue
Prequel: Pas de Deux
What The Fugue does for Alex, Pas de Deux does for Marita. Absolutely gorgeous.
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Krycek/Marita
Author's Website: Mind Games
Author on LJ:
mandysbitchWhy this must be read: The Fugue is a seminal Krycek story, one that fills in some of the blanks regarding Alex's past and beautifully tying it into his present - Marita. cgb, with her gorgeous and haunting writing style, gives us small glimpses into his childhood and his college years, which all contribute to the man he becomes. Never has Alex been so thoughtfully drawn out as this, with more range and emotion and substance than the show ever gave him.
The Fugue is about Alex, and how he came to be what he is.
The Russian doctor who fitted Alex for his arm told him he was likely to experience phantom feelings in his left arm but Alex had yet to really understand what that meant. From time to time he would reach for an object out of instinct only to find that he had nothing to reach with, but he could not distinguish the absence of his arm from the feeling of his a body as a whole.
It made him think of something that his father had said about a fugue. He instructed the young Alex to isolate a single voice from the fugue and to listen to its traverse throughout the piece. Then he told him to listen to the whole and the voices that combined to produce a single sound. A sum of all the parts.
His father pointed out that there was no way to listen to both a single voice and the sum of all the voices at once. The two methods of listening mutually excluded each other.
"You Alexei," he would say, "are the sum of your parts. All your family, all who have gone before you. Or you are alone. But you are never both."
The Fugue
Prequel: Pas de Deux
What The Fugue does for Alex, Pas de Deux does for Marita. Absolutely gorgeous.