darththalia (darththalia) wrote in tpm_flashback, @ 2004-12-20 12:52:00 |
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Original poster: hominysnark
Title: Grounded by Lightning
Author: Wednesday
Rating: R
Pairing: Q/O
Summary: Qui-Gon is left by a lover, and Obi-Wan intends to make sure it never happens again.
Warnings: None
Author's e-mail, web site and/or LJ id: wildestdreams@subdimension.com
Link to story: http://www.masterapprentice.org/arc
Reasons for recommending: I am stunned and amazed this one hasn’t been recced yet--or anything else by Wednesday, whom I consider to be one of the finest Q/O writers out there.
This was one of the first stories I saved to my hard drive, because I knew I’d want to read it again and again, and I have, many times since that first magical reading. It’s the story of what happens when Qui-Gon has his heart broken yet again, and Obi-Wan decides to do something about it once and for all.
The hot man-on-man action isn’t the heart of this story, or even the payoff, really--it’s just a bonus. The joy of this story is watching the very real and very deep friendship between these two men quicken into something more.
Quote from story: "Two weeks ago, Dagan came to me with shadows in his eyes and hesitation in his voice. He didn't want to hurt me, he said, but he'd found someone. Someone else who made his heart sing, someone else who made him dance on the knife-edge of ecstasy in lovemaking. Made him feel all of the things that he had said he'd felt with no one but me. He didn't want to hurt me, but he'd found someone else.
"Someone better? Younger?
""It has nothing to do with your age," Dagan protested, but he would neither meet my eyes nor let me touch him. He stood halfway across the room from me in his quarters. It may as well have been a universe away, with his stance and his distance saying what his words denied.
""It's just that my feelings have changed," he continued softly, in the voice that I'd come to love so well -- the voice that I had made grow rough with passion for too many and not nearly enough nights. Nights that I remembered far too clearly, whose memories seared my heart and made breathing difficult. "I love you, Qui-Gon, but...."
""But you've found someone else to love now," I said, thinking, I have given him everything, but it is not enough. I am not enough."