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Mar. 6th, 2003 10:10 pm
rj_anderson: (Jack Irina Not)
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You heard right, I've actually got some writing done these last few days. It's slow going, but I'm enjoying it, and the story seems to be coming together rather well, I think.


From the opening scene:
"So our intel was right," said Vaughn, sounding stunned. "But that's insane, it's crazy. How could Rambaldi, or even just one of his followers, have gone to Australia in the fifteenth century?"

"I don't know," said Sydney. She crouched and began running her hands over the carving, feeling the oily smoothness of the limestone beneath her fingers. "Wait, I've got something. The center of the eye symbol -- it's loose. There's something under it --"

"Thank you," said a cool, British-accented voice from behind her. "That will be quite sufficient."

Sark. Sydney leaped to her feet and whirled, ready to fight, but her reaction came a second too late. ...

Some time later:
Irina stopped short and looked back. Her mouth was set, and her eyes smoldered. "You were right to come to me with this," she said in a low voice. "But I can only tell you a little, a very little."

"You mean you don't know, or you can't say?"

"I gave my word that I would not speak about -- what I know. Not to anyone, not under any circumstances. But I can give you a name. A man who knows about these kinds of Rambaldi artifacts, and who may be able to help you get it back from Sloane." ...

And:
Sydney's trained eyes sized him up in a glance: mid-to-late forties, tall and wiry, with aquiline features and a complexion that suggested he spent most of his time indoors. He wore a closely fitted, oddly archaic-looking suit in unrelenting black, and his dark hair nearly brushed his shoulders. For little more than a second his eyes raked the room; then his gaze locked on hers and the thin lips flattened. A waitress approached him timidly, but he dismissed the girl with an brusque wave and stepped over to Sydney's table.

"You are not Irina Derevko," he said, in a silky voice that nonetheless managed to convey a significant amount of menace.

"I never said I was," replied Sydney, returning his cool appraising look with one of her own. He had buttoned his high-collared frock coat all the way to the top, which made it impossible for him to be carrying a gun anywhere above his ankle. And the slight bulge in his right sleeve was too long and thin to suggest any conventional weapon. But even so, her muscles were tensed and ready: if he made any sudden movements, one kick would bring the table over on top of him, and another would take him down. He had been an agent once, after all. ...


Yes, I know I'm insane.
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Oh dear...

Date: 2003-03-06 08:07 pm (UTC)
ymfaery: animated Avengers movie logo (sleepface)
From: [personal profile] ymfaery
...is a significant amount of knowledge/familiarity of Alias required to be able to make sense of this story? Or will it be self-explanatory?

Re: Oh dear...

Date: 2003-03-07 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
Hopefully it will be fairly self-explanatory. I mean, none of the HP archives are going to want it because it's so ALIAScentric -- I figured I'd just post it to FF.net and Cover Me (smashed-peaches.net/cover/) -- but hopefully my HP readers can still follow the story, thanks to Sydney having to explain everything to Snape Soames.

Date: 2003-03-06 09:17 pm (UTC)
ext_2858: Meilin from Cardcaptor Sakura (Queen of Genki)
From: [identity profile] meril.livejournal.com
I am glad to see your life back to the point where you can write...

No, you're not insane. Then again, I am the one who posted the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Sphinx intro speech to Usenet, so it's relative here.

Date: 2003-03-07 12:20 am (UTC)
ext_6531: (NSP Severus)
From: [identity profile] lizbee.livejournal.com
You're not insane. I might be, though, from waiting for this fic. (I tender my Remix-Redux draft as evidence.) But I think we've established that this fic makes me wibble.

::wibbles::

Ooooh...

Date: 2003-03-07 10:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taiamu.livejournal.com
I love crossovers! But I admit, I never would have thought of this as a crossover idea. Yet you make it plausible. I can't wait to read it!

Re: Ooooh...

Date: 2003-03-07 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
I'm glad you like the idea! I hope I can make it work. :)

Date: 2003-03-08 01:06 pm (UTC)
ext_54943: (Default)
From: [identity profile] shellebelle93.livejournal.com
Oh, good heavens! I just cottoned on! See what happens when I eat sugar? My brain stops functioning completely! Okay, now I can't wait, even though I've only ever watched two eps of Alias...the show looked cool, by the way, I just can't be bothered to watch TV regularly...hope they put it out on video or something... interesting, interesting!

Re:

Date: 2003-03-08 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
They're bringing Season One out on DVD in September, I think. Dunno about video.

Date: 2003-03-09 05:38 pm (UTC)
ext_54943: (Default)
From: [identity profile] shellebelle93.livejournal.com
Oh, DVD...good, very good! I can deal with that...

Date: 2003-04-06 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thegreenquill.livejournal.com
oh no, you're not insane!

thank you, thank you, thank you!

yay

Re:

Date: 2003-04-06 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
*grin*

Glad you approve!

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