I found a treasure!

Fandom: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Type: Fanfic
Title: La Canción de los Pistolas
Author: Auburn
Pairing: Sands/El
Warnings/Rating: NC-17
Where to find more by this author: Author's Website, "Allusions"
Link: La Canción de los Pistolas
Why should people click?

A classic example of an El-Comes-Back-For-Sands story, and a wonderfully well written one, too. This is the most believable version of that setup that I've read, and the story goes on into a gripping plot and character driven tale. Auburn opens and closes with versions of the "legend" surrounding these two, which sets the tone nicely for the story in between. I should mention, this story also has really hot hurt/comfort sex.

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La Canción de los Pistolas

Fandom: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Type: Fanfic
Title: Darkness Bound
Author: Vanillafluffy
Pairing: none
Warnings/Rating: R for pain
Where to find more by this author: Vanillafluffy at fanfiction.net
Link: Darkness Bound
Why should people click?

This story has the most realistic portrayal I've read of Sands dealing medically (and painfully) with his own wounds. It's all from his POV, so we get a lovely glimpse into our beautiful psychotic's twisted mind. Vanillafluffy's writing is always fresh and creative.

It's almost a fandom cliche, now, to start OUaTiM stories from the end of the movie where the wounded Sands is propped against a wall in the streets of Culiacan. It's rare though that an author can believably pull off Sands caring for himself, considering what bad shape the movie left him in. In Darkness Bound, Sands gets a little help from the kid, but most of his medical problems, including pain and infection, he deals with alone. Then, Vanillafluffy introduces RC, a mysterious colleague of Sands's, who helps him get revenge on the remains of the Barillo cartel, and offers him an independent position outside the CIA. This sets up the situation for others of Vanillafluffy's exciting stories. The sequel to this one is Clockwork Mexico followed by Taking Care of Business.
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Fandom: Once Upon A Time in Mexico
Type: Fiction
Title: Show Biz
Author:Hippediva
Pairing: consensually? none
Warnings/Rating: NC-17 with prison and rapefic
Where to find more by this author: Crow-Witch's Croft
Link: Show Biz and the Show Tunes series
Why should people click?
There are those writers who are so good their stories are sublime, and Hippediva is one. She also has a very dark and disturbed muse, and you can see the results in this story. Set well before the events of the movie, CIA Agent Sands is in a Paraguayan prison. Hippediva lays out her story in brutal scenes punctuated by Sands's own dreams/hallucinations/delusions of performing musicals on stage. Yes, musicals. It's a surreal escape and a bizarre backdrop to the violence. This story may establish the origin of Sands's psychotic break, or his insanity may have already been there. Hippediva is too good to be explicit; infer what you will. This is the first story in her "Show Tunes" series, but you can read them all at the link above.

Fandom:Once Upon A Time in Mexico
Type:Fiction
Title:After the Dust Has Cleared
Author:Miss Becky
Pairing:none
Warnings/Rating:PG-13
Where to find more by this author:Miss Becky's fanfiction.net profile
Link: After the Dust Has Cleared
Why should people click?
Once Upon A Time in Mexico (OUaTiM) is a small fandom of the movie sequel to "Desperado." The movie stars Johnny Depp as a corrupt CIA agent (Agent Sands), and Antonio Banderas as the guitar-playing gunfighter Sands tries to manipulate (known as "El").

Miss Becky's first OUaTiM trilogy, called "Still Standing" is an absolute classic in the fandom, and I can think of nothing better to rec first in order to introduce people to OUaTiM. After the Dust Has Cleared is followed by When All is Said and Done and finally, by Que Queires en La Vida. The first two stories are action-adventure, but not slash, though the relationship between El Mariachi and Sands is angsty and intense. In the third story (which is in English, despite the Spanish title) Miss Becky satisfyingly gives us a slash relationship. I guess you could refer to the first two as pre-slash. I have a friend who has trouble believing in many slash relationships, but she totally accepted this one because of the intense build-up to it in the first two stories.

In After the Dust has Cleared, which, like many OUaTiM stories, begins right at the end of the movie, El Mariachi, a man who often operates more on instinct than on reason, kidnaps the injured Agent Sands from the home of Jorge Ramirez, for reasons even he isn't entirely clear about. Sands slowly heals while El drives them aimlessly from town to town, telling the blind Sands nothing about where they are going or why. For some reason, one of my favorite moments in all of Miss Becky's stories is the scene where they eventually try to kill each other, and reach some kind of understanding.
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