This LJ retrospective on my FK fanfiction now comes to "Billets Doux,"
which is one of my few stories that have never yet appeared on FKFic-L, and one
of a handful to which no one has ever responded. I wrote it in the winter of 1996, and a friend kindly recruited it for the zine Tojours Lacroix, which came
out in 1999.
There isn't much
to "Billets Doux," beyond a neglected line of "Fallen Idol"
-- Nick says Fleur wrote to him -- but while
I'm inclined to make light of it, eleven years out, and supposedly long
recovered from my LC phase, well . . . re-reading the story tonight brought
tears to my eyes. If it never pleases anyone else, I'm still I'm glad I
wrote it.
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Title: |
"Billets
Doux" |
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Length: |
~1,200 words |
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Date: |
Published in the charity fanzine Tojours Lacroix (1999) |
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Rating: |
G |
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Summary: |
Lacroix muses on his loss of Fleur and how it led
to his loss of Nick. |
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Setting: |
Indeterminate, looking back at 1229-1247 from many centuries
later |
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Characters: |
Lacroix, Nick, Fleur |
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Quotation: |
"He is what is left to me of her, and his hatred is
what is left to me of himself." |