Body Language (Man from U.N.C.L.E. story)
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Body Language |
| Author(s): | Jane Fairfax |
| Date(s): | 2001 |
| Length: | ~ 136 KB |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
| External Links: | online here |
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Body Language is a Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin story by Jane Fairfax.
It is a sequel to Becalmed.
This story was published in Classified Affairs #8 and is online.
Reactions and Reviews
It is almost impossible to stop reading when in the middle of a story by Jane Fairfax, and when finished, one usually wishes for a sequel - often because the author ends her stories on an unhappy note. Thankfully, that is not the case in both stories listed above. Jane's style is subtle, yet pictoral, and she brings across her characters' emotions in a very believable way. Told from Illya's POV, in "Becalmed" Solo is the confident seducer while Kuryakin fluctuates wildly between different moods, afraid of changing the status quo and yet unable to resist his friend. In "Body Language", Napoleon and Illya struggle with the implications of Solo's imminent move up to Section 1.[1]
I can't believe this hasn't been previously recommended. It's a wonderful character study involving Illya's feelings about his longterm affair with Napoleon. Solo is going to be replacing Mr. Waverly sooner than expected and he won't have Illya as a partner anymore. But he finds that he can't leave Illya emotionally. All these years he and Kuryakin have avoided discussing their feelings. Now suddenly, Napoleon finds he needs to let Illya know he loves him, but his partner is insisting that what they had in bed was always fated to end some day.[2]
References
- ^ storyteller's campsite. man from u.n.c.l.e. fan fiction - recommendations by allaire mikháil, Archived version (Accessed 27 March 2015)
- ^ a 2007 comment at Crack Van