for ladyjanelly
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tigriswolfTitle: you’ll someday see the truth from lies
Fandom: “Dark Angel”
Notes: for ladyjanelly, who requested Ben-fic
ladyjanelly, who requested Ben-ficMore notes: title from Plumb
Of all the Outside, Ben liked the south the best. Down in Louisiana, old parts of the state, there were hundreds of thousands of churches with his Lady. They were safe, even the old and falling apart ones. She protected him there. She spoke to him as he slept in her sanctuaries, all along the Gulf Coast.
Ghosts wandered along the pews, telling him their secrets. Ben learned and grew in the Outside. He grew tall and ever-stronger, and his Lady kept speaking to him, telling him what a good soldier he was.
He basked in her glow. She loved him. Of all her children and soldiers and followers, she loved him best of all.
The heat was muggy in the south; it clung to him, enveloped him. After the cold of Manticore, he couldn’t get enough of southern Outside. Whenever he wasn’t in the Lady’s sanctuary, he’d stand in the sunlight or moonlight and soak up the heat, letting it fill him to his bones. Ben listened to the people and the creatures and the world, losing himself in the noise—no rhyme or reason to it, just life going about life. No rigid control, no iron-clad rules… no nomlies, no men with guns, no midnight captures and children never seen again.
No nomlies in his Lady’s sanctuaries there in the south. Only him and the ghosts and the heat.
He was happy there. But then his Lady spoke him and said it was time to go, to start giving her sacrifices.
She had opened her sanctuaries to him. She loved him. He was glad to do as she asked.
She loved him. She loved him best of all.
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Date: 2008-05-01 07:06 pm (UTC)Thank you so much.
This was warming and chilling by turns. Awesome.
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Date: 2008-05-01 08:31 pm (UTC)I love when you write about Ben. I wonder if he ever ran into his other escaped siblings (Zack, Seth, Brin, Syl, Tinga, Krit, Vada, Jondy, Zane, and Kavi) before Max. Remember those Ben-centric ideas I had way back when? Ben/Drusilla, with Ben getting off on being bitten, and Dean as Ben and Alec combined.
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Date: 2008-05-01 10:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-01 11:34 pm (UTC)Coincidence: Jensen Ackles' character in Devour is Jake Gray. Jared Padalecki's character in A Ring of Endless Light is Zachary Gray
Footnote: The character of Zachary Gray originally appeared in the books The Moon By Night, A Ring of Endless Light, A House Like a Lotus, and An Acceptable Time, by Madeleine L'Engle.
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Date: 2008-05-11 02:36 am (UTC)The ideas are in my folder, but I can't write on command.
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Date: 2008-05-11 04:53 am (UTC)The resemblance between Jared and Zachary Gray as pictured on Wikipedia is striking, no? (edit: not rhetorical)
Also, could you please check out the most recent entry on my journal when convenient?
Many thanks.
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Date: 2008-05-11 05:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-01 09:28 pm (UTC)A very beautiful piece.
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