Blood, Love & Rhetoric (X-Files story)
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Blood, Love & Rhetoric |
| Author(s): | Sleeps With Coyotes |
| Date(s): | 1999 |
| Length: | 28,081 words |
| Genre: | slash fanfiction |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
| External Links: | http://ciceqi.slashcity.com/BLR.htm (defunct) |
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Blood, Love & Rhetoric is a Mulder/Krycek story by Sleeps With Coyotes. The story was only archived at the author's page of the same name, Blood, Love & Rhetoric, and is no longer online.
Summary: "Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, or we can do you all three, concurrent or consecutive, but we can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory, they're all blood, you see."
The story won the 1999 Lisa e Krysa Awards in the category "Best Angst".
Recs and Reviews
Warnings: Yeah, there are some. Definite violence warning. Some rough sex, sub/dom stuff. [...]
This story is kindof complicated. I don't think I could adequately summarize it, it's not easy to do so. Things aren't what they seem though. You think they are one thing and it turns out your wrong. The end will shock you, trust me, but its a good ending. The story is basically about giving someone what they need even if it isn't necessarily what you want or need. Doing so because that is what they want and you love them too much to say no. That is what is at the heart of it and makes it the saddest. Ladonna has a way of jerking tears out of me, some of her best Highlander stuff has me weeping through a good chunk of it. I didn't actually cry during this, but I felt them prickling in the back there through most of this story. Giving people what they want isn't always easy and sometimes we fool ourselves into thinking someone is something they aren't. We make people in our minds up into what we need and in reaction they become it, even if they don't want to. That is the best way I can some this up without giving anything away. At least I hope I didn't.[1]
Again, one of the classics! Dom!Alex and Sub!Mulder. Two thumbs up![2]
A compelling tale of a disfunctional relationship, complete with an intriguing motto: "Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, or we can do you all three, concurrent or consecutive, but we can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory, they're all blood, you see."[3]
Teetering on the edge of consent, or maybe as close to consent as some of these guys can get ## XF: Just because sex with Krycek seems inevitable, doesn’t mean he can let himself want it, in Blood, Love and Rhetoric, by Ladonna King. ("Someone trained you up good for me, didn’t they? And you’re just a dog in heat, aren’t you, Fox?" Krycek smiled tightly. "Why don’t you show me," he purred, dragging Mulder’s cheek over his thigh, using Mulder’s hair for a handle. "Show me how much you want it.")[4]
References
- ^ The Slash Slut's Recs: X-Files Recs. (Accessed 02 June 2013)
- ^ Flesh Wounds: Mulder/Krycek Recommended Fics. (Accessed 23 March 2015)
- ^ Worlds Enough. Sylvia's X-Files Slash Recs. (Accessed 03 April 2015)
- ^ Sandy Herrold. Issues of Consent: Sandy’s mostly "Slash Without Consent" link page, via Wayback. (Accessed 21 October 2019)