Story 8: "Five Years and One Night" by Shalimar

[wendelah1]

This week's story, nominated by finisterre, is "Five Years and One Night" by Shalimar. This is from the author's website:

"This story was originally a short post-Kitsunegari vignette. Then, at the request of a couple people who'd read it, I started adding parts. The result was posted in 26 parts as a serial. Summer/Fall '98."

Rating: NC17 This story contains adult language and sexual situations that are inappropriate for those under seventeen years of age and may be inappropriate for some adults.

Genres: AU, MSR, Angst, Myth-arc. "This starts post "Kitsunegari" and is full of spoilers including all of US 5. It deals with the events in "Emily".

This is one of the first stories I read in The X-Files fandom, after I read everything by cofax7, and everything recced at crack_van. I remember not being able to sleep until I finished it. I can't imagine what it would have been like to read as a WIP.

Although, the rest of her site is intact, this story is not. I am linking you to her Author's Page at Gossamer, where you can find the story in three parts.

Five Years and One Night

This is a long one, and I haven't read it in a couple of years, so I will be back later with more detailed comments. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Comments

[wendelah1]

I am so glad you enjoyed it. I certainly did, both times through. I guess I had better go over to the "Blood and Breath" post and explain why I loved it so much as well.

[memento1.livejournal.com]

I think it's a personal call on "Blood and Breath". I personally don't like overwhelming angst, pain, and breakdown without a healthy dose of hope and happiness thrown in. Where they break down the characters and end in ruins with a hint of hope. It's too depressing for me. But I see why it is an impressive character study.

[wendelah1]

Where they break down the characters and
end in ruins with a hint of hope. It's too depressing for me. But I see
why it is an impressive character study.

I admit I love pain and angst, with just a bit of hope at the end. I thought there was plenty of that in this fic as well, in between the hot sex. I was crying my eyes out, so convinced was I that they wouldn't end up together at the end.

[memento1.livejournal.com]

Oh, there was certainly plenty of that in this one! But there was also a healthy dose of good times, so it all evened out to a delicious angst-and-sex pie. *LOL* I think it helped that having read it before, I knew it didn't end in ruin.