Part one of the All Your Sins trilogy.

[aleathiel]

What? You thought I could resist?

Title: A Candle Left Burning
Pairing: Godfrey/Balian of Ibelin (Liam Neeson/Orlando Bloom)
Rating: NC17
Summary: Rome is a candle left burning in a skull. And so am I.
(the relevant bit of the script…)
Warning: Incest. Spoilers for Kingdom of Heaven

Disclaimer: What do you mean this scene won’t be in the film?
Extracts of the dialogue come from the pre-production script and so are not mine. They may never make it into the edited film. They may never even be filmed. Other bits are entirely me: I’m afraid Godfrey of Ibelin will not say “I will forgive you any sin,” or “I wish to see you naked in the daylight,” to his son in Kingdom of Heaven. If you cannot tell which bits are me and which are extract then I have done my job well enough :P

A/N: I was going to put a detailed scientific justification explaining the syndrome under which parents and children separated for a long period occasionally, when reunited, do experience an unusual sexual attraction born from a mutation of the natural pull between them. Then I thought Fuck it, I’m not justifying anything. Read it or don’t: your choice.

I haven’t given any background because everything important can be inferred from the fic itself, I believe.

For perseph2hades for more reasons than I can count, especially The Great Enabling, her beta skills and her patience while I faffed around and didn’t actually get it written.

A Candle Left Burning