opalmatrix: Portrait of Inami, an older female character (Yuletide flame)
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Title: He Who Waits
Author: opalmatrix
Fandom: Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff
Warnings: Rating should be a "hard R"
Rating: R
Word count: 6,821
Pairing(s): Alexios/OFC, Alexios/Hilarion
Spoilers: For the end of the book
Notes: For calliope85, who wanted "the obsession with the dynamics of friendship, and how closely they shade into love" and said " I'd be overjoyed if you addressed the difficulties of equal free males engaging in a sexual relationship, but if you'd rather side-step and write blanketfic that'd be lovely too." I'm hoping I did a bit of both. Beta by smillaraaq and carmarthen
Summary: A winter hunting expedition changes everything.

On a bright afternoon early in the autumn, the Commander of Castra Cugerna strode out of his quarters and across the parade ground ...

Date: 2012-01-04 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] animaven.livejournal.com
You pictured it so well, I could see scenes flow before me. Their relationship rang true, also. Stories and gossip abound in the military, and if a man was different from his cohorts, it would be noticed. This was a really good story.

Date: 2012-01-27 12:12 am (UTC)
ext_63690: Inami (Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden) (Doa reads)
From: [identity profile] opalmatrix.livejournal.com

Eeek, sorry not to have answered you here!

I'm really glad you liked it! If you are a Sutcliff fan, there are a couple of communities for fic about her books now: [livejournal.com profile] sutcliff_fics and [livejournal.com profile] ninth_eagle.

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