recthething | [fic rec] Bible slash: Jesus/Judas (Reply)

In case some of you are inclined to indulge in this kind of delight during Passion Week, I've got an absolute treat for you:

Six More Miles (to Zion) (2024 words) by liriaen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bible (New Testament)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Judas/Jesus Christ
Characters: Jeshua, Judas
Additional Tags: Bibleslash
Summary: What now, should my lion have turned into a quivering lamb?

(Zook says: The warning for Major Character Death shouldn't surprise anyone, right?)

Personally, I think this can be read being either a Christian or an agnostic-- but if the very thought of Jesus having relationships is not up your alley, you maybe shouldn't read this. Which means you'd miss out on paragraphs like the opening:

To this day I wonder. I think of you, and I wonder.

You're nowhere to be found and my thoughts touch you not. Mankind still invokes your name for every sort of treachery, even now, when all that is left of you is a Juda-shaped absence. A hole in the cloth of creation. I would reach out and mend it - mend you - but you are gone from me. And to this day, I mourn you.

Believe me when I say that I never meant to break you. But I did, asking the impossible, first reining you in, then setting you free, and when all was said and done you went and knotted a noose from your zeal, tightened it with hope and slung it over the love you bore me. All that was needed was a little push.

I remember it well. You balked and wailed like a maiden, clutching the hem of my garment. What now, I whispered, running fingers through your hair, should my lion have turned into a quivering lamb?

liriaen 's writing here is brilliant, haunting and tasteful; the POV is alternating between first and second person. If you're not fumbling for a hanky by the end of the story I don't know what would. Enjoy! :D