Reading Room VI - The Lads in Other Times: bonus discussion! The Devil's Apprentice, by Kitty Fisher

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Reading Room VI - The Lads in Other Times: a bonus discussion! The Devil's Apprentice, by Kitty Fisher

Title: The Devil's Apprentice
Author: Kitty Fisher
Pairing: B/D
Link to story: Available in Dark Fantasies 4, on the Circuit Archive, on the Hatstand, and on the Proslib CD.

NB: The "real" fic for discussion this week is Kitty Fisher's The Alchemist's Measure, and the discussion proper is over here: discussion of The Alchemist's Measure. I don't want to kill discussion on The Alchemist's Measure: there's plenty more to say on it, so please continue over there, too! This is just by way of being a followup, because it's clear that a couple of us have read The Devil's Apprentice. There's no need to go and skim it hastily: in fact, if you haven't read it, you could go and read Time Out: Past Tense by Pamela Rose instead, because I don't want to steal siskiou's readers for next week's actual scheduled Reading Room, and that's next on the list. :)

The Devil's Apprentice by Kitty Fisher is the sequel to her earlier fic The Alchemist's Measure. I like it very much indeed, but it is unsettling in a way that The Alchemist's Measure is not. And when I say unsettling, I mean it.

( below be spoilers )