Fandom: LEWIS
Pairing: Robbie Lewis/James Hathaway
Length: 3k
Author on LJ:
halotolerantAuthor Website: halotolerant at AO3Why this must be read:Such a complicated thing, the relationship between Inspector and Sergeant. Probably seeing more of each other than the average person did a spouse, and yet within that the range for intimacy was... wide.This deceptively gentle story begins with Hathaway helping Lewis clear out his mother-in-law's house. It calls back to Morse, and back to Lewis's wife Val, and made me feel the ordinariness of grief. I felt a strange pleasure of shock and sadness coming upon lines like:
A TV Times lay open on a coffee table, pen put down in the act of circling programmes for the coming week. The story moves from that universality into a beautifully specific coming together of Lewis and Hathaway that could only be written about them.
I'm explaining it all wrong. Please go read.
Every Purpose Under Heaven