Agh, your comment doesn't fit on my laptop screen!! *huge grin*
I'm so glad you liked this, I can't tell you! *wipes sweat off forehead* No, seriously, for some reason writing this felt like such a headlong rush - partly because I was trying to hurry, but even more because the story just kept coming and coming - that in the end I really wasn't sure anymore if it was any good or even the slightest bit coherent. So I'm very relieved now! :) It was a lovely prompt to write a story for, even if some parts broke my heart just a little. *sniffles*
About Vir's wife, and them living in Paris: well, I sort of broke my head over what kind of event would be important enough to Londo that he'd defy the Drakh for it in order to get to Earth. Vir's wedding was the only think I could think of that fit the bill... And apart from the fact it suited the story, it actually made sense to me that Vir would be living (and marrying - he's more of a romantic than your regular Centauri, I daresay :) ) on Earth. When not staying on Babylon 5 to act as ambassador, that is. He's always been a bit of an outsider among his own people, and judging by how he enthusiastic he was about visiting Minbar in the show, I could easily see him being happy living on a world other than his own. Though Minbari, in the end, might be a bit too ethereal for his tastes. :) Pairing him up with a human wife might have been on the adventurous side for him, so I imagined his wife to be a Centauri he'd met on Earth - an exchange student maybe, or someone working at the Centauri embassy. In any case someone who'd stayed on Earth for the same reason he did: because she felt more accepted there than among her own people. I didn't quite dare to make her more explicit in the story, because she's so perfect in my head and I didn't want to risk spoiling that image - if that makes sense. *sheepish grin*
Writing from G'Kar's POV was, I think, the best choice I could have made. I originally did so because it saved me from having to show how Londo convinced the Drakh to let him go to Earth - though I do believe he threatened them with a sword, the sweet darling. :) *pats Londo* But also because, yes, we know so much more than G'Kar does at that point, and seeing the realization dawn on him slowly really is - ouch. I pitied him so much while writing... more than Londo, even, who is in a way still in control of things, knowing the price (angry Keeper! Argh!) in advance and deciding to pay it.
I actually didn't know Roman Holiday (classic movies aren't my specialty, I'm ashamed to say) but reading the plot on Wikipedia, yes, I can see your point! Even the "escaping through the window" part of the plot is a match, it seems. :)
About the ending: ah, well, one of my big fanfic writer's dreams (which I'm quite sure will remain a dream *g*) is to write the story between Fall of Centauri Prime and War Without End as I think it should be. I know it's been written in the novels by Peter David, but his version of the story doesn't quite match mine. This fic is - well, I'd like to think that the ending at least gives a hint at how Vir and G'Kar came to be on Centauri Prime on the day of Londo's death - they knew, because Londo had told them. And who knows, maybe someone sometime will connect the dots between this fic's ending and the day the Drakh are defeated... One can dream, no? :)
And - of course Londo and G'Kar were intimate before... That's canon, isn't it? *g*
Anyway, thank you again, so much, for your bid and donation, for the lovely prompt, and equally lovely feedback!
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I'm so glad you liked this, I can't tell you! *wipes sweat off forehead* No, seriously, for some reason writing this felt like such a headlong rush - partly because I was trying to hurry, but even more because the story just kept coming and coming - that in the end I really wasn't sure anymore if it was any good or even the slightest bit coherent. So I'm very relieved now! :) It was a lovely prompt to write a story for, even if some parts broke my heart just a little. *sniffles*
About Vir's wife, and them living in Paris: well, I sort of broke my head over what kind of event would be important enough to Londo that he'd defy the Drakh for it in order to get to Earth. Vir's wedding was the only think I could think of that fit the bill... And apart from the fact it suited the story, it actually made sense to me that Vir would be living (and marrying - he's more of a romantic than your regular Centauri, I daresay :) ) on Earth. When not staying on Babylon 5 to act as ambassador, that is. He's always been a bit of an outsider among his own people, and judging by how he enthusiastic he was about visiting Minbar in the show, I could easily see him being happy living on a world other than his own. Though Minbari, in the end, might be a bit too ethereal for his tastes. :) Pairing him up with a human wife might have been on the adventurous side for him, so I imagined his wife to be a Centauri he'd met on Earth - an exchange student maybe, or someone working at the Centauri embassy. In any case someone who'd stayed on Earth for the same reason he did: because she felt more accepted there than among her own people. I didn't quite dare to make her more explicit in the story, because she's so perfect in my head and I didn't want to risk spoiling that image - if that makes sense. *sheepish grin*
Writing from G'Kar's POV was, I think, the best choice I could have made. I originally did so because it saved me from having to show how Londo convinced the Drakh to let him go to Earth - though I do believe he threatened them with a sword, the sweet darling. :) *pats Londo* But also because, yes, we know so much more than G'Kar does at that point, and seeing the realization dawn on him slowly really is - ouch. I pitied him so much while writing... more than Londo, even, who is in a way still in control of things, knowing the price (angry Keeper! Argh!) in advance and deciding to pay it.
I actually didn't know Roman Holiday (classic movies aren't my specialty, I'm ashamed to say) but reading the plot on Wikipedia, yes, I can see your point! Even the "escaping through the window" part of the plot is a match, it seems. :)
About the ending: ah, well, one of my big fanfic writer's dreams (which I'm quite sure will remain a dream *g*) is to write the story between Fall of Centauri Prime and War Without End as I think it should be. I know it's been written in the novels by Peter David, but his version of the story doesn't quite match mine. This fic is - well, I'd like to think that the ending at least gives a hint at how Vir and G'Kar came to be on Centauri Prime on the day of Londo's death - they knew, because Londo had told them. And who knows, maybe someone sometime will connect the dots between this fic's ending and the day the Drakh are defeated... One can dream, no? :)
And - of course Londo and G'Kar were intimate before... That's canon, isn't it? *g*
Anyway, thank you again, so much, for your bid and donation, for the lovely prompt, and equally lovely feedback!