I was a little hesitant to provide a link because I said it's not a very good fic, but okay. ;) It was Dogs of War by aflightoffancy, sequel to Loose the Hounds, which I found from musesfool's rec list.
It's kind of a chocolate cake fic--I know it's bad but it made me happy. I loved seeing Alec at the center of the narrative and seeing Max appreciate him, and I adored the Logan-bashing (it's not even that mean, it's just having the characters react to his passive-aggressive whiny bullshit as if it's bullshit instead of ~long suffering herodom~). The h/c is also a bit gratuitous (but I kind of like that). The only thing I actually didn't like was the portrayal of Max as inferior to Alec--she was still kickass but secondary and did too much groveling to the awesome of Alec for my taste (and the elevation of the male to the heroic role in a canon driven by a female hero is obviously problematic). But the characterization of Alec is good (if a bit too heroic), the Max/Alec banter is great, and the adventure plot is excellent.
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It's kind of a chocolate cake fic--I know it's bad but it made me happy. I loved seeing Alec at the center of the narrative and seeing Max appreciate him, and I adored the Logan-bashing (it's not even that mean, it's just having the characters react to his passive-aggressive whiny bullshit as if it's bullshit instead of ~long suffering herodom~). The h/c is also a bit gratuitous (but I kind of like that). The only thing I actually didn't like was the portrayal of Max as inferior to Alec--she was still kickass but secondary and did too much groveling to the awesome of Alec for my taste (and the elevation of the male to the heroic role in a canon driven by a female hero is obviously problematic). But the characterization of Alec is good (if a bit too heroic), the Max/Alec banter is great, and the adventure plot is excellent.