Heaven Doesn't Want Us by Betty Ragan (gen)

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Fandom: Blakes 7
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: yes, but not under that name
Author Website: here
Why this must be read:

This is one perverse fandom.... Most B7 authors, Betty among them, could set a story anywhere on earth or in heaven and turn it angsty. So what happens when you actually set one in hell? Why, almost a semblance of a happy ending, or at least a positive one! This is one of those short fics that lose too much by quoting, but I will... ignore if you want things in order:

"I'm sorry." A thoroughly inadequate, not to mention banal, way to apologize to someone he had murdered, but what else was there to say? He felt a bizarre urge to cry, but that particular emotional release was denied to the damned, and he had lost the ability himself long before he had physically entered this place, in any case. But if anything he had experienced here deserved tears from him, it was the loss of his one remaining consolation: that at least he had sent Blake to a better place than this. Foolish of him to expect, against all that experience had taught him, that there would be even that much justice in the universe

This fic depends on Blake's character being what it is, and the strange scenario is both convincing and curiously likeable.

Heaven Doesn't Want Us