Remember Babylon? (8)

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title: Remember Babylon? (8)
rating: PG-13 to hard R/NC-17 in later chapters
summary: "She had to grow up sometime". When Charles Widmore attempts an island coup, the only safe place for Alex Linus is far, far away. With Richard Alpert overseeing her safety, everything should have been fine, but nothing Ben wants ever works out precisely as he had planned, and even for Richard, things do not stay entirely the same. Alex/Richard romance, along with a few other pairings, island history and Richard back-story. AU, utterly.
pairings: Richard/Alex mainly, mentions of several others, particularly rare pairings
author's note: Inspired by any number of Godless things, among them possessiveness and Nabokov, fickle weather, Oscar Wilde, Radiohead, world history and the Marquis de Sade.
author's note for this chapter:
A few notes this time, actually.
1. The line "A hundred voices call his name in Hell" is inspired directly from a line of angeldylan628's amazing Richard/Alex!fic "Chasing Our Tails", which I highly recommend.
2. I wasn't 100% certain about the Cure quote used in the beginning, but I decided to go ahead and include it anyway, since that was what was playing when I wrote most of this.
3. Please keep in mind, this chapter is set 4-6 months later than the previous one. If time seems strange to you, that's why. :)
warnings: semi-graphic sexuality in later chapters soon, some violence and character deaths throughout.
previous: part one | part two | part three | part four | part five | part six | part seven


Months stream by, punctuated with Widmore sightings, news both bad and good, travel, constant scares.