Looking at Loki, Part Seventeen: Whose Side Are You On, Anyway? -http://sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=2333
Dragon*Con 2012, Part Five: Fairytales and Dancing with Lokis (this includes a Once Upon a Time panel) - http://sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=2322
Review of Once Upon a Time: Tallahassee - http://sequentialtart.com/reports.php?ID=8439
Rating: PG-13
Genres/Themes: Character Study (Nasir and Agron), Drama, Romance, Angst, Hurt/Comfort (emotional), Introspection, Fluffy, Missing Scenes
Relationships Featured: Romantic: Agron/Nasir, light Crixus/Naevia and Spartacus/Mira; Friends: Nasir/Chadara, Agron/Spartacus/Nasir, and Agron/Nasir/Germans; light Agron/Nasir/Naevia, Nasir/Oenomaus, and Nasir/Mira
Spoilers: All the Spartacus episodes up through Spartacus: Vengeance, ep 7, “Sacramentum”
Length: almost 5500 words
Notes: Agron has brought some “wild dogs” into the fold of the rebellion; when his motives are questioned, a certain other wild dog leaps to his defence. Takes place before and concurrently with the events of ep 7, “Sacramentum”. Sequel to my fic, “Across a Crowded Temple”. See deviation description after fic a link to the previous fic, and for acknowledgements.
PREVIEW:
Nasir didn’t want to say goodbye, so he didn’t. He didn’t tell Agron to return to him, either — anything even remotely suggesting that there might not be a reunion between them felt like it would be tempting the Fates’ crueler sides. But just in case, he had taken the ghost of Chadara’s advice, making the most of every moment in the two-week wait before Agron’s mission to Neapolis, not taking a single second for granted. If the Fates proved unkind, he would have no regrets.
Well, save for that his wound had, by both Agron’s insistence and that of the Medicus, prohibited anything more intimate than a kiss or a caress; the Medicus had only just released him from sleeping under her watch! But that wound had reunited another pair of lovers, and Nasir would not regret that. He only hoped that the Fates would bear that in mind ….
So he hugged his beloved, and kissed him, trailing fingers and eyes across Agron’s skin and committing everything about the man to memory.
It seemed Agron was trying to do the same.
“I will miss scent of you nearly as much as feel and sight,” Agron complained, burying his nose in the crook of Nasir’s neck and breathing deeply.
“And I, yours,” Nasir agreed, breathing in as well.
“I have notion!” Agron suddenly announced, pulling away. Nasir lamented the absence for all of half a second, until Agron then ordered, “Take off vest.”
Nasir obeyed, half afraid that his heart was about to burst as he did so. Were they going to throw caution to the wind, and risk the ire of the Medicus? Nasir did feel better ….
<B>DISCLAIMER:</b> One line in the fic is from “Sacramentum”: Nasir’s “Your people, they lift spirits!” Agron, Nasir, Chadara, Naevia, Mira, Lugo, Sedullus, and the depiction of Spartacus, Oenomaus, and Crixus, as in the <I>Spartacus</i> series, all © Starz. This is just fanfiction, not an official story for the series, and no profit is being made by the author.
It’s one of those little things, but can we talk about how Agron and Nasir apparently switched clothes before Agron went away to free his kinsmen in Neapolis? Nasir is wearing Agron’s sleeveless coat and it’s way too long for him (but he still trains in it) and in turn Agron has Nasir’s vest on under all those layers.
They switched letterman jackets, people.Officially the high school couple of this show.
Later in the episode Nasir has his vest back.
Oh, I totally have a plot bunny to include in my next fic now, thank you! I’m betting they traded so they could keep the scents of one another near while they were apart. So adorable, especially how Argon’s tunic is like a longcoat on Nasir! I think it makes him look bad-ass! <3
“Re: The complaints that the German was hard to understand. Were they speaking Modern German? I would have thought Old German, which *shouldn’t* really be all that intelligible, unless you’re an expert in ancient languages! XD”Well, yeah. They were. There were a few terms here and there that aren’t colloquial, but other than that… “Bei dem Gedanken geht mir einer ab”, translation in subtitles “Cock hardens at the thought”, is about as colloquial and modern as can be. XD
It was a bit like everyone was mumbling into an epic beard or something.
Ah! Thanks for elaborating! :) So it’s kinda like when I hear Americans saying Japanese stuff and they’re totally saying it wrong. XD (I’m not fluent, but I’ve watch enough anime in the original language over the last twenty years to know a few things, mostly the really common words, and cringe when they get messed up by a non-native speaker — especially in a movie or TV show, where you’d think there would be some adviser around to tell them how to say it correctly and stop misinforming the public. XD)
(Source: wolfenm)
*EDIT* Er, I mean “Sacramentum”. *facepalm* /EDIT
Warning: Spoilers!
I secretly ship Kurt/Magnus
I do too, but at the same time, Kurt can be pretty bitchy to Magnus! XD (Also, there needs to be *much* more Magnus in the episodes. Just sayin’.)
