Jabberwocky
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aunt_zeldaTitle: Jabberwocky
Rating: PG-13 ... or so …
Genre: Inter-locking poetry, angst, smut, DEATH FIC.
Warnings: If you haven’t watched all of Season 1 of Heroes, you shouldn’t be here, you should be at nbc.com catching up!
Disclaimer: Uh … obviously I don’t own Heroes, because if I did, I’d have Mylar making out on screen instead of in slash fics or my twisted mind … and Lewis Carroll wrote 'Jabberwocky.'
Summary: Mylar with Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘Jabberwocky’ in between. Damn Peter …
My Thoughts: I love this poem more than life itself. This is just something you should all know. It came to me when I was writing the Evil!Mohinder fic (yes, I’m random and weird!) And this took a rather depressing turn, I’m afraid … then again, I always pictured the Jabberwock kinda like a dragon, and I hate it when dragons are killed, so …
(I get a kick out of picturing Peter resting by the Tumtum Tree – it makes me giggle.)
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
It was rainy, cold, and misty in NYC that night. But inside the apartment, tangled up with Sylar in bed, Mohinder had never felt so warm and alive.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
Sylar could kill him at any time, Mohinder was aware of that. But did it really matter if death was seconds away so long as he could feel like this until the end?
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
Peter took Hiro’s katana and teleported to Mohinder’s apartment. He paused outside the door, using enhanced hearing to figure out if Mohinder was still alive.
Panting, gasping, moaning.
Peter staggered and felt sick: Mohinder was alive, but he was probably wishing he wasn’t.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
They were so locked together, so amerced in each other, that even Sylar’s hearing didn’t pick up Peter creeping inside, drawing the katana, striking immediately.
Hiro would not have done it; he would say that to attack an enemy when his back is turned is cowardly.
Peter doesn’t care, so long as Sylar is dead.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
Blood. Everywhere. Blood.
Peter wipes the katana on the bed, sheaths it, and drags Mohinder away from the body.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
Mohinder stared at Peter. Peter averted his eyes.
“I’m sorry I didn’t get here fast enough, I could have stopped …” his voice trailed off.
Mohinder is silent, staring at the corpse and all the blood on his bed.
“Um … why don’t you uh … take a shower,” Peter’s not sure how to deal with rape victims. He’s no psychologist. “I’ll take care of … that.”
Mohinder nods dully and flees to the bathroom.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
It was rainy, cold, and misty in NYC that night. Mohinder had never felt so frozen and dead.
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Date: 2007-07-31 10:53 pm (UTC)And the poem really helped bring out the irony in the moods and tone.
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Date: 2007-08-01 12:06 am (UTC)It just ... FIT ... especially towards the end, where it was all twisted.
Gah! Urgh! That made me so sick with queasy happiness! Hehehe. Good job!
I'll take that as a compliment. *gives you healing vibes*
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Date: 2007-07-31 10:55 pm (UTC)Jabberwocky ftw!!!
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Date: 2007-07-31 10:58 pm (UTC)This was so good
Jabberwocky!
When I was little and went to harry Potter camp my name was Caelin Bandersnatch
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Date: 2007-08-01 12:08 am (UTC)Yeah, Peter is seldom treated well in my fics, I'm afraid ...
When I was little and went to harry Potter camp my name was Caelin Bandersnatch
Whoa. You're too cool! I doodled around a copy of the poem once and had a clawed, fuzzy arm grabbing a banana-like thing, the rest of it was hidden behind the Tumtum tree. I labeled it 'Bandersnatch.'
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Date: 2007-08-01 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 12:23 am (UTC)I have a cloak. An emerald green one I wear to Renaissance Fairs. I wore it over my 'Werewolves Need Hugs' shirt at the HP 7 party.
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Date: 2007-08-01 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 12:20 am (UTC)Thanks! What made you go wow?
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Date: 2007-08-01 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 12:22 am (UTC)I love that poem more than ... well, anything, I'm afraid. If I ever get married, I'll love the poem slightly more than my spouse.
poor Mohinder, wonder if he'll ever tell Peter the truth.
I don't think so ... what would you say? 'Um, Peter, Sylar wasn't forcing me at all! I loved him!'
(What's your icon from?)
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Date: 2007-08-01 12:39 am (UTC)That's Ianto Jones from Torchwood, the adult spin-off of Doctor Who. If you've never seen give it try, it's starts on BBC America in Sept I think. And it's already playing in a lot of other countries. I personally love it because the Slash is actually CANON!(granted it only a few kisses, a dance and inuendos but that's more than we usally get). The icon was created by gemstar69.
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:09 am (UTC)Interesting idea ... but there's no sequel I'm afraid ...
That's Ianto Jones from Torchwood, the adult spin-off of Doctor Who. If you've never seen give it try, it's starts on BBC America in Sept I think. And it's already playing in a lot of other countries. I personally love it because the Slash is actually CANON!(granted it only a few kisses, a dance and inuendos but that's more than we usally get).
I've heard of that ... I plan on watching it because it's on Supernatural Saturday on BBC America and that's when I have access to cable. Slash is CANON?! *jumps for joy*
That icon is hot. Who are they? (Isn't that guy Jack - who had Ten's hand in a jar ... that was just weird - in Torchwood?)
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:27 am (UTC)Won't spoil to much but my favorite episode is 12, which a slashy version of those classic world war 2 romance movies. That's what this icon is from.
*sighs* yeah I'm obessed with DrWho and Torchwood, that's how I got pulled into Heroes in the first place, cause of the actor who played Claude plays the Ninth Doc.
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:57 am (UTC)but the guy who came up with needs mental help :)
Then again, so do most slashers. Myself included.
Won't spoil to much but my favorite episode is 12, which a slashy version of those classic world war 2 romance movies.
Oh I can't WAIT for September! Heroes, Doctor Who, and Torchwood! I may die of sci-fi happiness!
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Date: 2007-08-01 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 02:20 am (UTC)Ack Mohinder!
;-; Poor Sylar wtf. Just trying to get his groove on. :/
Seriously though, well done. xD The juxtaposition of the poem was a neat idea and contrasted well.
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:54 am (UTC)Yeah, I guess so ... it's just kinda funny when you put it like that!
Arg Peter!
I don't like Peter much, in case you hadn't noticed ...
Ack Mohinder!
Poor guy. He's got such a rough life ... born to save his sister, deserted by his father for a watchmaker, fooled into loving his father's murderer ...
Seriously though, well done. xD The juxtaposition of the poem was a neat idea and contrasted well.
Thanks! That poem's been on my mind since last night. I love it beyond belief. I also love Mylar. It was meant to be.
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Date: 2007-08-01 03:24 am (UTC)I have a serious soft spot for that poem and those creatures, mostly because I wrote a story with a friend about them. One character was a Jaberwocky (who was able to take human form) and his lover was human.. well only partly so, Dorian sort of sliced his head open once to try and fuse it with a computer and he messed up, nearly killing himself but he attracted the attention of a being made of pure magic, called Karrde. Karrde is like a symbiotic being that latched onto Dorian and kept him alive, he's a genius but he has his drawbacks of no common sense and some fuctional disorders due to his 'brain-hacking'. And well, he fianlly is getting along with the Jaberwocky person who I forget his name cause this was written so long ago.. and well, a Bandersnatch shows up and starts fucking everything up big time.
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Date: 2007-08-01 04:43 am (UTC)That sentence would sound so weird if it weren't here ...
Sounds like an interesting, complex story!
a Bandersnatch shows up and starts fucking everything up big time.
Heh. Those Bandersnatchers ... Bandersantches ... you know what I mean! I drew a Bandersnatch once, but it was just a clawed, fuzzy arm poking around the Tumtum Tree, holding what looks like a banana.
Also, did you know that:
Toves – A combination of a badger, a lizard, and a corkscrew. They are very curious looking creatures which make their nests under sundials. They live on cheese.
I'm so ECSTATIC about that. Go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky for more info ...
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Date: 2007-08-01 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 01:48 am (UTC)"Jubjub – A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion"
Sounds like Mohinder to me....
♥
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Date: 2007-08-02 03:20 am (UTC)But yeah, Mohinder could be the Jubjub Bird ...
But who's the Bandersnatch?
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Date: 2007-08-02 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 06:20 pm (UTC)Mohinder is SO the Jubjub Bird though (a passage from 'The Hunting of the Snark')
"As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird,
Since it lives in perpetual passion:
Its taste in costume is entirely absurd--
It is ages ahead of the fashion:
Can anyone spell 'M-O-H-I-N-D-E-R'?! Seriously ... that's kinda creepy ...
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Date: 2007-08-01 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 05:48 pm (UTC)I made Peter an evil git without honor. Hiro would not kill a person with their back turned, or while they're helpless. It's a Bushido thing.
Ouch. Poor... Everyone?
Yeah, I didn't mean for this to get all depressing and then the son with the vorpal blade went snicker-snack without my permission ...
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Date: 2007-08-01 04:20 pm (UTC)I love how you opened and closed with the same line... amazing!
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Date: 2007-08-01 05:55 pm (UTC)I love how you opened and closed with the same line... amazing!
That's how the poem goes ... have you never read it?! You deprived person!
Here's a link ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky
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Date: 2007-08-02 01:54 am (UTC)This is so beautifully done, the story really matches the poem (which I love by-the-way, I use to know it and 'You Are Old, Father William' by heart). You have the pacing and flow down cold and because of that the emotion really comes through (I cried a little, which for something so short is amazing).
I love how the first and last lines are the nearly the same and yet, opposite; it adds that last perfect squeeze to the heart.
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Date: 2007-08-02 03:28 am (UTC)I use to know it and 'You Are Old, Father William' by heart
Didn't we all? I could do most of 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' right now ... and 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat' is so CUTE - I was in the play Alice in Wonderland in theater in the round. BEST FRAKIN' TIME I'VE EVER HAD IN THEATER.
(I cried a little, which for something so short is amazing).
Oooo, sorry! *hands tissue*
I love how the first and last lines are the nearly the same and yet, opposite; it adds that last perfect squeeze to the heart.
I've always loved that about the poem. It begins slowly and almost creepily, then after all the bloodshed and joy and stuff, it goes back to the lull.
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Date: 2007-08-06 04:53 pm (UTC)*wibbles*
stupid Peter..... *kicks him*
this was brilliant!!!!!!!!
XD
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Date: 2007-08-06 08:22 pm (UTC)There there dear ...
stupid Peter..... *kicks him*
Yay! Kicking Peter Party! (I REALLY don't like Peter ... you've probably heard that by now ...)
this was brilliant!!!!!!!!
Thank you! I rather adore this fic ...