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The X-Files/Highlander (NC-17)
Title: Rapture by Wombat
Pairing: Mulder/Methos
Author on LJ: Not to my knowledge.
Author Webpage: Wombat's fanfiction
Why this must be read:
One of the great masterpieces of fanfiction literature. It's as simple as that.
There are a lot of incredibly talented writers in fandom, but it's a small number among them who truly master the art of building a plot. It's rare to come across a fic that has the full power of a first class suspense novel, where every detail fits perfectly in the puzzle of the whole and unpredictable events unfold with seeming inevitability to pull you deeper and deeper into the story, marvelling at the pattern that emerges, hanging on by the skin of your teeth as the rollercoaster ride of the adventure drags you towards a spectacular finale. In short, a page-turner, keeping you spellbound not with steaming sex scenes or the woes of a starcrossed romance, but through the sheer force of the evolving plotline. Wombat's Rapture is just such a rare story.
Not that it's in any way lacking in the areas of hot, writhe-inducing sex or gripping romance - how could it be, considering the pairing? - but it's just so much more than that. Most crossover fics simply transplant a single character from one show to another, but here the entire universes of both Highlander and The X-Files are made to interact, the full cast of both shows playing vital roles to the development of the plot. Everyone, from Amanda to Frohike, is perfectly in character, their dialogue spot on and oftentimes hilarious, and every relationship is treated with insight and depth. Riddles out of long-lost history meet modern science and theories of alien invasion, and it all merges seemlessly. As the story takes the protagonists around the world, characters from other fandoms turn up as well, providing unexpected moments of brilliance as icing on the cake, and if you're in this for the Mulder/Krycek interaction, just hang in there till chapter six, when the two enemies get to take a trip together that might be among the funniest sequences ever put down in fic. That part alone would be worth the whole novel, but this story is riveting from first to last.
In San Francisco, the brutal murder of a woman he once was acquainted with forces Mulder to remember a period in his life long past, his last summer before university, when an unusual man taught him how to have faith in himself. He doesn't want to see a connection, but the evidence leads only in one direction - towards Paris and the long lost friend calling himself Adam Pierson.
In the Mediterranean, a mysterious group of people are preparing themselves for the end of the world. They have already acquired a virus that could bring about the destruction of humanity, but what would armageddon be without the last surviving horseman of the apocalypse? They have a use for the Immortal who once went by the name of Death, and they intend to find him.
What ensues is a race against the clock, across large parts of Europe and America, involving powerful forces that our heroes have never expected to face. Who will be left standing in the end is anybody's guess, but I doubt you will be able to stop reading until you know.
In three words central to the story: "Come and see." I guarantee that you won't regret it.
Rapture
Pairing: Mulder/Methos
Author on LJ: Not to my knowledge.
Author Webpage: Wombat's fanfiction
Why this must be read:
One of the great masterpieces of fanfiction literature. It's as simple as that.
There are a lot of incredibly talented writers in fandom, but it's a small number among them who truly master the art of building a plot. It's rare to come across a fic that has the full power of a first class suspense novel, where every detail fits perfectly in the puzzle of the whole and unpredictable events unfold with seeming inevitability to pull you deeper and deeper into the story, marvelling at the pattern that emerges, hanging on by the skin of your teeth as the rollercoaster ride of the adventure drags you towards a spectacular finale. In short, a page-turner, keeping you spellbound not with steaming sex scenes or the woes of a starcrossed romance, but through the sheer force of the evolving plotline. Wombat's Rapture is just such a rare story.
Not that it's in any way lacking in the areas of hot, writhe-inducing sex or gripping romance - how could it be, considering the pairing? - but it's just so much more than that. Most crossover fics simply transplant a single character from one show to another, but here the entire universes of both Highlander and The X-Files are made to interact, the full cast of both shows playing vital roles to the development of the plot. Everyone, from Amanda to Frohike, is perfectly in character, their dialogue spot on and oftentimes hilarious, and every relationship is treated with insight and depth. Riddles out of long-lost history meet modern science and theories of alien invasion, and it all merges seemlessly. As the story takes the protagonists around the world, characters from other fandoms turn up as well, providing unexpected moments of brilliance as icing on the cake, and if you're in this for the Mulder/Krycek interaction, just hang in there till chapter six, when the two enemies get to take a trip together that might be among the funniest sequences ever put down in fic. That part alone would be worth the whole novel, but this story is riveting from first to last.
In San Francisco, the brutal murder of a woman he once was acquainted with forces Mulder to remember a period in his life long past, his last summer before university, when an unusual man taught him how to have faith in himself. He doesn't want to see a connection, but the evidence leads only in one direction - towards Paris and the long lost friend calling himself Adam Pierson.
In the Mediterranean, a mysterious group of people are preparing themselves for the end of the world. They have already acquired a virus that could bring about the destruction of humanity, but what would armageddon be without the last surviving horseman of the apocalypse? They have a use for the Immortal who once went by the name of Death, and they intend to find him.
What ensues is a race against the clock, across large parts of Europe and America, involving powerful forces that our heroes have never expected to face. Who will be left standing in the end is anybody's guess, but I doubt you will be able to stop reading until you know.
In three words central to the story: "Come and see." I guarantee that you won't regret it.
Rapture