ficinabottle

title: Remember Babylon? (12)
rating: NC-17
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: OMG, almost three weeks since last post. I am so so sorry! I hope this one is satisfactory, I know it's a bit sappy and odd but it's necessary for a later part to make sense, so...plus it's like three times longer than ordinary chappies.
warnings: ~~semi-~~ graphic sexuality, some violence and character deaths throughout.
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One morning, Alex does not wake up.