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Afternoon Fic: Mac/Danny – Still Breathing (Part 19)
Author’s Note: For the next two weeks, you’ll be getting posts 3 times a week.
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Sylum Inspiration: Arthur
Sanguen: Hunter
Arthur is from California. He can’t surf, hates wine, loves bacon, and adores coffee. He was raised Jewish –the bacon-thing was problematic. Though, thankfully not looked unkindly upon in Reform Judaism. He slowly stopped attending synagogue during college; and even less throughout his time in the Army. Though, he has still managed to keep his faith.
Throughout middle and high school, Arthur took varying martial arts from Tai Chi to Aikido to Escrima.
He started college before his seventeenth birthday on scholarships earned both by his grades and through JROTC. In college he stays with ROTC and graduates with honors and two Masters degrees –one in Mathematics and the other in Research and Data Analytics.
He specialized in hand to hand combat, information gathering and mission planning (he’s very good at organizing chaos), and field operations. He has excellent legal and illegal computer skills; and while he’s pretty good with a rifle, he prefers his Glock 17. He’s sent through Special Forces training and then straight into an international team charged with among other things, fighting terrorism. Somewhere along the way he developed a taste for well tailored suits –if it fit well he could move and fight better and if the tailor knew he was going to carry a gun it hid it better while giving easy access.
His identity was scrubbed when he became part of the international team. He liked the work, he was good at it. Too bad politics, blackmail, the death of two team members, and a loon left in charge caused it crumbled. The team was compromised and they were left to fend for themselves.
Arthur took the excellently forged documents from the only team member he truly trusted and disappeared.
He dies in Geneva at the age of 28.
Seven Days of Summer 2019: Day 7
Author’s Note: The first part of the story was posted during McFassii Fortnight, the second part was showcased during Advent: 2018. This is the full story … it’s a bit longer than anticipated and spanned at least two more stories *sigh*
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Seven Days of Summer 2019: Day 6
Thank yous to: The Writing Muses and I guess to Bj who sent the bunny that multiplied and then wouldn’t take any of them back.
Summary: One day your military, the next day your part of an international counter-terrorism unit, and the next you wake up dead. Or, how Eames got to where he is now.
Sylum Timeline: 1977 – 2009
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Seven Days of Summer 2019: Day 4 (Bonus)
Artist: Gil Grissom
Artwork: Gabriel Van Helsing & John Winchester
Seven Days of Summer 2019: Day 4
Characters/Pairings: Lucien LaCroix, Nicholas Brabant, Original Characters;
Rating: PG
Summary: Lucien LaCroix meets an honorable man. Nicholas has always done as honor dictated, but after his experiences in the Holy Lands, he begins to think he needs to loosen the reins. Is LaCroix the person to teach him to walk the line between black and white.
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Seven Days of Summer 2019: Day 2
Thank yous to: The Writing Muses and I guess to Bj who sent the bunny and then wouldn’t take it back.
Summary: One day your military, the next day your part of an international counter-terrorism unit, and the next you wake up dead. Or, how Arthur got to where he is now.
Sylum Timeline: 1981 – 2009
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Sylum Inspiration: Oenone
Sanguen: Spy Liaison
Oenone was a mountain nymph (an oread) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele, alternatively Rhea. Her gift of prophecy was learned from Rhea. Her father was either the river-gods, Cebren or Oeneus. Her very name links her to the gift of wine.
Paris, son of the king Priam and the queen Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida, having been exposed in infancy (owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy) but rescued by the herdsman Agelaus. The couple married, and Oenone gave birth to a son, Corythus.
When Paris later abandoned her to return to Troy and sail across the Aegean to kidnap Helen, the queen of Sparta, Oenone predicted the Trojan War. Out of revenge for Paris’ betrayal, she sent Corythus to guide the Greeks to Troy. Another version has it that she used her son to drive a rift between Paris and Helen, but Paris, not recognizing his own son, killed him.
The only extensive surviving narration of Oenone and Paris is Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica, book X.259-489, which tells the return of wounded Paris to Oenone. Mortally wounded by Philoctetes’ arrow, he begged Oenone to heal him with her herbal arts, but she refused and cast him out with scorn, to return to Helen’s bed, and Paris died on the lower slopes of Ida. Then, overcome with remorse, Oenone, the one whole-hearted mourner of Paris, threw herself onto his burning funeral pyre, which the shepherds had raised. A fragment of Bacchylides suggests that she threw herself off a cliff, in Bibliotheke it is noted “when she found him dead she hanged herself,” and Lycophron imagined her hurtling head first from the towering walls of Troy. Her tragic story makes one of the Love Romances of Parthenius of Nicaea.
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