sunday six is cheating

[fiachairecht]

Supposed to be things you've written this week, hm? I've managed probably about 100 words, all exchange fic, so —

Anyway, I'm in my Law & Order feelings these days, so have a bit of Eames/Barek s9 angst from 2015 that is ... actually not terrible and probably finish-able?

Alex is thinner and paler than she remembers, always-sharp cheekbones now painfully so, hard eyes sunken behind bruised-tight skin. She looks awful. She looks, Barek thinks, exactly like you would expect a woman who had just been robbed of captain and partner and job to look. Except of all of them, Alex had never been the one to wear the stress of their life physically.

But the leather jacket is the same, the toss of her head as she flips stray bangs out of her eyes and over her collar is the same. Somewhere in the brittle icy shell of a woman before her is Alex, and that's not nothing.

Alex Eames deserved better dot life.

Comments

[echoslam]

!! This melancholy is beautiful and its weightiness is so perfectly fitting for the devastation that was Eames' exit. I loved Barek's voice here, and her sharp-eyed attention to detail mixed with quiet admiration was just aughhh feelings! Alex is such a rock of a character and someone taking a close look at her worn edges is extremely yes and good for so many reasons.

Goren/Eames CI was the Law & Order that I lived for, and you suddenly deciding to write about my fave was the shot in the arm I totally did not expect but very much needed.

[fiachairecht]

Oh man, yeah, early Law & Orders of all kinds are definitely my comfort telly - back when it was a little more academic, and about the brittle quiet of being together in the middle of the justice system. And Alex deserves the world, especially at this point in canon.

Thank you for the kind words <3 I am definitely gonna move this up my to-finish list!