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greekhoop. (I started it over Yuletide and got *this close* to finishing it, but ran out of time, and it got finished as part of this big fic push.)
( [Prompt from greekhoop:] )
Title: Water Crusade
Fandom: Dune (Frank Herbert)
Rating: PG-13 (for violence)
Characters: Paul Atreides, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
Word count: 3152
Warnings: Major character death; same warnings for violence as for Dune itself.
Spoilers: Dune only.
Summary: AU: Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen meet five times before the events of Dune.
Notes: Thanks to ollipop for a lightning-fast beta! Nonconsensual/underage sex is referred to obliquely, but nothing is shown explicitly. Several paragraphs from the last scene are partially or wholly taken from the text of Dune. I have not read the prequels.
AO3 link here.
( 'I think that's why I'm comfortable with you,' Feyd said. 'Because we both know that we are enemies. Because we both know one of us will be killing the other.' )
It really seems odd that Irulan isn't in this (in the sense of, if this had occurred in the Dune universe she should really have been there), and if I had written this for a non-prompt, I might have tried harder to figure out how to get her in. Well, perhaps that's for another day, and perhaps another fic that isn't quite so fatalistic :)
greekhoop. (I started it over Yuletide and got *this close* to finishing it, but ran out of time, and it got finished as part of this big fic push.)( [Prompt from greekhoop:] )
Title: Water Crusade
Fandom: Dune (Frank Herbert)
Rating: PG-13 (for violence)
Characters: Paul Atreides, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
Word count: 3152
Warnings: Major character death; same warnings for violence as for Dune itself.
Spoilers: Dune only.
Summary: AU: Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen meet five times before the events of Dune.
Notes: Thanks to ollipop for a lightning-fast beta! Nonconsensual/underage sex is referred to obliquely, but nothing is shown explicitly. Several paragraphs from the last scene are partially or wholly taken from the text of Dune. I have not read the prequels.
AO3 link here.
( 'I think that's why I'm comfortable with you,' Feyd said. 'Because we both know that we are enemies. Because we both know one of us will be killing the other.' )
It really seems odd that Irulan isn't in this (in the sense of, if this had occurred in the Dune universe she should really have been there), and if I had written this for a non-prompt, I might have tried harder to figure out how to get her in. Well, perhaps that's for another day, and perhaps another fic that isn't quite so fatalistic :)
