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Another Dawn Patrol by Jat Sapphire (NC-17)
Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Jat_Sapphire's Story Pages
Why this must be read:
In our show, Starsky wonders "what if" they'd had different names?
Well, how 'bout we ask another "what if" question? A BIG one?
Stop.
No, listen. Come back.
I know, I know. It's an AU. And, I know, AUs can be scary sometimes. Lord knows I'm not their biggest fan. But, seriously? This one's a gem. Jat's a brilliant enough writer that she could probably make me invest my time and emotion into Starsky and Hutch as a pair of gay trout (although I'd really rather she not try), so believably setting them up as a couple of WWI fighter pilots is a cakewalk. She describes the story (first published in the all-AU SH zine Timeless) as a remix of the old Errol Flynn film The Dawn Patrol, but you don't have to know anything about that movie to fall in love with the story she tells. It's grand, and epic, and makes you viscerally ache for the boys, for them being them, for being what they are, for being in love and stuck in the middle of a war. It made me laugh, and it made me cry, and when it was over I didn't *want* it to be over - which is enough for me to add it to my own personal favorites list. I think it could do the same for you.
Excerpt:
This afternoon, at the end of a very official captain's inspection of the A-flight planes (and then a very unofficial session sharing a flask with Richardson, the head mechanic, and talking about letters from home), Hutch came in to find Starsky and Watkins in the farmhouse kitchen nursing a pot on the fire. The smell caught him at the door and absolutely mesmerised him. Smooth and rough, sweet and bitter as Starsky's tongue had been, when they'd kissed in the field. Hutch's mouth filled with saliva until he could hardly ask, "Starsk? Chocolate?"
go! go now! read more! about the chocolate! and...other things. (WINKWINKNUDGENUDGE)
Another Dawn Patrol (link is to Chapters 1&2 of 9)
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Jat_Sapphire's Story Pages
Why this must be read:
In our show, Starsky wonders "what if" they'd had different names?
Well, how 'bout we ask another "what if" question? A BIG one?
Stop.
No, listen. Come back.
I know, I know. It's an AU. And, I know, AUs can be scary sometimes. Lord knows I'm not their biggest fan. But, seriously? This one's a gem. Jat's a brilliant enough writer that she could probably make me invest my time and emotion into Starsky and Hutch as a pair of gay trout (although I'd really rather she not try), so believably setting them up as a couple of WWI fighter pilots is a cakewalk. She describes the story (first published in the all-AU SH zine Timeless) as a remix of the old Errol Flynn film The Dawn Patrol, but you don't have to know anything about that movie to fall in love with the story she tells. It's grand, and epic, and makes you viscerally ache for the boys, for them being them, for being what they are, for being in love and stuck in the middle of a war. It made me laugh, and it made me cry, and when it was over I didn't *want* it to be over - which is enough for me to add it to my own personal favorites list. I think it could do the same for you.
Excerpt:
This afternoon, at the end of a very official captain's inspection of the A-flight planes (and then a very unofficial session sharing a flask with Richardson, the head mechanic, and talking about letters from home), Hutch came in to find Starsky and Watkins in the farmhouse kitchen nursing a pot on the fire. The smell caught him at the door and absolutely mesmerised him. Smooth and rough, sweet and bitter as Starsky's tongue had been, when they'd kissed in the field. Hutch's mouth filled with saliva until he could hardly ask, "Starsk? Chocolate?"
go! go now! read more! about the chocolate! and...other things. (WINKWINKNUDGENUDGE)
Another Dawn Patrol (link is to Chapters 1&2 of 9)
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