Jun. 26th, 2011

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Title: Libertad
Fandom: XMFC
Character: Erik Lehnsherr
Rating: PG (themes of grief and loss)
Warnings/Spoilers: n/a--takes place during the years the movie skips.
Word Count: ~1.5K
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit.

a/n: the Kol Nidre is the opening part of the Yom Kippur evening service. The Aramaic chant is also called “All Vows,” since it begs that the congregants be forgiven for vows they have taken in the past year. It is repeated three times by the cantor; the congregation’s response is also chanted three times. Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, and is observed as a fast day from sundown to sundown.
a/n: The idea for this comes entirely from [livejournal.com profile] linaerys. She didn’t really mean it as a prompt, but was very gracious about letting me write it when I pounced on it snarling and refused to let it go. And then she beta’d it for me. Many thanks, bb!

Summary: Erik knew the look, had seen it his whole life, even before the war. ”You, with your height and blue eyes and straight nose, you can pass. You can be free of us. You are not marked with your difference.” If you only knew, he’d thought then. He thought the same thing now. And it was that thought, as much as anything, that made him move towards the gate.

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