Story 207: "Vehicle and Tenor" by Suture

[amyhit.livejournal.com]

There aren’t that many season nine fics out there, and for me "Vehicle and Tenor" is literally the only one that springs readily and fondly to mind. It’s quite short, as all of Suture's fics are, but it clearly demonstrates Suture’s almost signature knack for writing from secondary character’s POVs. In this case, we’re seeing Mulder through the eyes of Gibson Praise, as well as seeing Gibson’s life – the isolation of a boy who can read minds.

Read Vehicle and Tenor.

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Comments

[bmerb.livejournal.com]

Damn I REALLY liked this one. Loved getting insight into Gibson and Mulder-through-Gibson, loved the various scenes, the deliberate sketched out quality of "where has Gibson been and how did he get there," and I love love loved the lessons in simile and metaphor, tenor and vehicle, relationship and family. And having watched all of Buffy and nearly all of Angel, I both felt the emotional impact of that scene in this story and felt it coming just a moment before it slammed home (and ouch so much heartbreak), AND I enjoyed the Mulder mental/verbal bitching going on as I had similar frustrations. Gah, so much success in those shows, why no voice coaching? It was atrocious.