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Living Among The Breakage, by Demon Faith (PG13)
Fandom: CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
Pairing: Nick Stokes/Greg Sanders
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
demon_faith
Author Website: Faith of the Heart
Why this must be read:
Another product of the A Thousand Whispers: The CSI T.S. Eliot Challenge, which produced some very good stories. This story is all about Nick, through four major scenes in his life, and is absolutely heartbreaking, but in such a good way. So often Nick and Greg fic seems to focus on Nick's issues being around being with a man instead of rooted in his experiences, but this was a wonderful examination of the alternatives and and when I first read it reduced me to tears.
Nick's characterisation is believably extrapolated from the show, touching on the insecurity that George Eads often brings to the character, and roots that trait in canon revelations. And yet Nick still shines through - still the good guy, still retaining enough compassion for others in spite of what he sees every day and in spite of the horrors he has lived through.
He had never before realised how quiet his house could be. How the silence echoed, as if waiting to be filled by screams, tears, endings.
Today, the waiting was over.
‘I just get a little confused about what's yours and what's mine.’
Nick sat with his back to the wall, staring at where crumbling plaster met the black. If he kept staring, he could just make out beams in the darkness, imagine someone nesting in there, carving a part of Nick away to make himself.
Living Among the Breakage
Contains spoilers for Overload, Who Are You?, Stalker and Play with Fire.
Pairing: Nick Stokes/Greg Sanders
Author on LJ:
demon_faithAuthor Website: Faith of the Heart
Why this must be read:
Another product of the A Thousand Whispers: The CSI T.S. Eliot Challenge, which produced some very good stories. This story is all about Nick, through four major scenes in his life, and is absolutely heartbreaking, but in such a good way. So often Nick and Greg fic seems to focus on Nick's issues being around being with a man instead of rooted in his experiences, but this was a wonderful examination of the alternatives and and when I first read it reduced me to tears.
Nick's characterisation is believably extrapolated from the show, touching on the insecurity that George Eads often brings to the character, and roots that trait in canon revelations. And yet Nick still shines through - still the good guy, still retaining enough compassion for others in spite of what he sees every day and in spite of the horrors he has lived through.
He had never before realised how quiet his house could be. How the silence echoed, as if waiting to be filled by screams, tears, endings.
Today, the waiting was over.
‘I just get a little confused about what's yours and what's mine.’
Nick sat with his back to the wall, staring at where crumbling plaster met the black. If he kept staring, he could just make out beams in the darkness, imagine someone nesting in there, carving a part of Nick away to make himself.
Living Among the Breakage
Contains spoilers for Overload, Who Are You?, Stalker and Play with Fire.