A year later I'm having a tough fandom night and am in desperate need of denial!fic, so here I am again, grateful that lj allows repeat reviewing. Because the story looks different now. I think I'm more able to stomach the J/D, so I can see both how well it works and how disconnected it makes Delenn. But I just love the flashback memory scene.

He was hers, and he had no right to be gone; his life was hers, and she had never given up her right to it.

That is so absolutely Delenn, and even years later the arrogance of that thought utterly escapes her. She's insisting on having everything, and on not paying any of the price for it, and on not noticing how much the men in her life are paying on her behalf. And Sheridan is paying as well, even if he doesn't know it. I do feel for him here.

But, I just don't care. I'll forgive her, and let her go on lying and cheating and 'forgetting' to mention the most important facts of her life to the people who have the most right to know them as long as it means that Lennier can be alive and that he can keep his vow to her. And I can't think of any other character in any fandom that I'd let mistreat his or her partner like this, but Lennier just consents to it so absolutely that it feels right.

Sigh. I miss this 'ship.