2010-02-23

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2010-02-23 10:15 pm

B5 fic: "Of Wine and Virtue" [Londo/G'Kar]


Title: Of Wine and Virtue
Summary: Years after the events of "The Fall of Centauri Prime", Londo and G'Kar meet again on Earth, thanks to Vir.
Not, in the end, a fix-it story - though some things do get mended that were long overdue.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Owned by JMS and Babylonian Productions, not me, alas.
Author's notes:
1. Written for [livejournal.com profile] mithen, for her very generous donation to UNICEF for the [livejournal.com profile] help_haiti comm. Her request basically being "At an unspecified time in the future, emperor Mollari gets a rare chance to visit Earth and meet G'Kar again." I had a wonderful time writing a story that's neither pure angst, or pure fluff, or pure drama, but somewhere in between. Thank you so much for the lovely prompt!
2. The title refers to a line in a poem by Charles Baudelaire, called "Enivrez-vous!" or "Get drunk!". The line in question is Get drunk on wine, poetry or virtue, whatever (or in the original language, Enivrez-vous de vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise), which is so close to Londo's "Wine, women and song" it gave me chills when I first made the connection. As for the rest of the poem - *sighs*. Oh, Londo.
3. For those who read the Legions of Fire trilogy, I made no attempt to match the events from the novels. This is just a different take on what might have happened.

Fic: Of Wine and Virtue )