JE Fanfic: First Contact

[rheasilvia]

Disclaimer: This is pure fiction.
Pairing: Taguchi Junnosuke / Nishikido Ryo
Rating: NC-17 for explicit m/m sex. Also, bondage.
Story notes: AU, slightly more than 31,000 words. Various other JE characters – as well as two non-JE ones – appear in supporting roles.
Betaed by: diamondsofsix, k_julia and solo____ – all of whom helped immeasurably. Thank you very much! This story would be very different – and much worse – without you. solo____ deserves special thanks for going above and beyond.

Summary:
Detectives Nishikido Ryo and Taguchi Junnosuke go undercover in a gay BDSM club run by the mob. Ryo is not happy about this, though not for the reasons you might expect.


First Contact


As always, feedback of all kinds – positive and negative – is very much appreciated!

Comments

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It's a very unusual pairing; I'm not surprised it doesn't exactly top anyone's reading list. (Well, it would most definitely top mine, if anyone except me were writing it - but I do know I'm a weird one. *g*) I'm all the more glad that you gave it a try even though you didn't expect to like it! :-)

I am also very glad that Ryo's characterization worked so well for you - not only how he is presented at the start, but also how he changes and develops during the course of the fic, as a response to events and to how his relationship with Junno changes and develops. Characterization is a very big issue for me - the biggest one, in fact - and I always love it when I find a story that delivers on that score. That's also why I give priority to characterization in my own stories, even when there's also a lot of sex. *g* So I am very happy indeed that my Ryo succeeded so well here; it was important to me to get it right! :-)

We see how Ryo has changed and we are happy for him. Relieved for him. I can imagine him walking through those doors into a place that should be repulsive and nerve-wracking and dangerous to him and yet knowing that it's the only place where he can truly have what he wants and needs at that moment.

Yes. :-) It outweighs all the other factors at that moment...

Usually I can't read a fic this long without my mind wandering and leaving and coming back to it, but I read this one straight though.

That's a wonderful compliment!

I don't usually read kink fics, either

Writing this has also been new ground for me. *g* It's a good thing if that wasn't obvious, though!

I'm sorry to hear that you don't usually like Junno - it probably doesn't come as a great surprise that I do, rather a lot. :-) But it's wonderful that this story made you appreciate him at least for the length of the fic! And who knows, maybe you'll be able to see him with slightly different eyes in future. *g*

I hate writing smut because I feel like I'm using the same words and phrases over and over, telling something that has been told so many times that the shine has worn thin. But your writing isn't like that at all - it's fluid and graceful and beautiful and I'm so happy that people recced this because otherwise I would have missed it.

Thank you so much, I'm very happy and flattered that you think so! I also find writing sex a challenge, simply because it needs to work at such a visceral level in order to work at all; sex scenes are always among those that take longest for me to edit. And in the case of this story, which has the highest sex-to-plot quotient of anything I've written so far, this meant that the editing phase took half an eternity. But if the result turned out so well, it's definitely been worth it! :-)

Thank you for sharing it.

You are very welcome - thank *you* for your lovely, detailed and thoughtful feedback! I feel quite spoiled, and am very happy to know that my story worked so well for you.