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A Little Darkness by Jackie Thomas (G)
Fandom: Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Author on LJ: not that I know of.
Author Website: Wayfinding
Why this must be read:
Napoleon is a college student who comes across a group of drunk bullies laying into another student. After fighting them off, he takes their victim - on study leave from the Soviet Union - to hospital and later to his home for the night. The Russian leaves the next day, but it is the start of a friendship that kindles amid adversity into something much more.
This is an atypical UNCLE fanfic. There are no explosions or life-or-death dramatics here - simply two people trying to reach each other against the tide of prejudice and Cold War politics. Rest assured, Illya is no victim. He knows how to hold his own - which is partly how their problems start. Napoleon is generous and courageous to the point of recklessness...just like canon.
Purists may frown at the college setting, but they will be entertained by clever use of dialogue from eps and the Return movie, plus some familiar names from the series.
This pre-UNCLE AU is understated and restrained, bereft of overwrought hand-wringing or needless angst, and yet it builds to a powerful emotional finale. Just mind the odd grammar confusion between 'its' and 'it's'.
A Little Darkness
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Author on LJ: not that I know of.
Author Website: Wayfinding
Why this must be read:
Napoleon is a college student who comes across a group of drunk bullies laying into another student. After fighting them off, he takes their victim - on study leave from the Soviet Union - to hospital and later to his home for the night. The Russian leaves the next day, but it is the start of a friendship that kindles amid adversity into something much more.
This is an atypical UNCLE fanfic. There are no explosions or life-or-death dramatics here - simply two people trying to reach each other against the tide of prejudice and Cold War politics. Rest assured, Illya is no victim. He knows how to hold his own - which is partly how their problems start. Napoleon is generous and courageous to the point of recklessness...just like canon.
Purists may frown at the college setting, but they will be entertained by clever use of dialogue from eps and the Return movie, plus some familiar names from the series.
This pre-UNCLE AU is understated and restrained, bereft of overwrought hand-wringing or needless angst, and yet it builds to a powerful emotional finale. Just mind the odd grammar confusion between 'its' and 'it's'.
A Little Darkness