B7 Drabble: And Even Revenge Has No Sweetness

[thisbluespirit]

You can tell I'm procrastinating on my Yuletide fic by my amazing productivity on random ficlets over the last few days. Just wrote this, instead of what I was supposed to be doing. (And remember I'm still a B7 newbie - I'm sure this has been done in fic before, because it must have been, but I haven't read it.)

Post Gauda Prime, so SPOILERS. Or AU. Or whatever. (c.f. Things B7 Has In Common With Press Gang)
(PG, Drabble, Kerr Avon, Servalan. The final meeting.)


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And Even Revenge Has No Sweetness

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“Bring the prisoner,” said Servalan, standing as her guards escorted Kerr Avon into the room.

He looked across at her without surprise, or interest.

“Dismissed,” she instructed the men. “He’s secured, and unarmed. I shan’t need you.”

“Unwise,” said Avon, as the guards left. “Do you think anything could prevent me from killing you now?”

Servalan smiled slowly, moving nearer; unflinching. “What else have I been waiting for?” she asked, reaching him. “What say we die together, Avon?”

There was a wry twist to his mouth - an acknowledgement that she was stealing all he had left: the pleasure of revenge.

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Comments

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, that's good. I don't remember reading anything like this before, but then it's been a while since I read much B7 and I never read that much post-GP stuff.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! Yeah, that's the thing with B7 fic - so much of it is slash and so much (understandably) post GP stuff. And given that's a Choose Your Own Ending situation, it depends on how much the author's speculation sits well with your own... and whether it still has graphic slash as well. :-D

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes, Those Two. Yeah, there were loads of Avon/Servalan stories in the old print fanzines, some of them quite explicit, but some of them surprisingly good. This drabble reminds me of the kinkiest of my fanfic desires -- that A/S please each other in all ways imaginable, then kill each other (or one kills the other and escapes it being mutual, preferably Avon offing Servalan). Yuck, I know, but they each had a lovely, twisted darkness to them, both of them being compelling sociopaths. Oh dear...

[thisbluespirit]

That was what I thought. :-)

And, you're right. With most fandoms, and fic, wanting that sort of stuff would be OOC... with Servalan and Avon, they probably would. (I'm still a squeamish person who wouldn't particularly want to read it, of course, but it wouldn't be OOC. They're just disturbing, anyway!) Whatever is or isn't going on between them is probably about as dark and twisted as actual TV rleationships get. Two compelling sociopaths probably about sums it up, especially by S4.