A World Full of Jokers by Verlaine (adult)

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STARSKY AND HUTCH:
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author on LJ:http://loyseofverlaine.livejournal.com
Author Website: http://shslash.kassidyrae.com (scroll down for Verlaine)
Why this must be read:

This a long and fabulously constructed AU. Verlaine has a beautifully clean and fluent style that carries you off into her universe, and makes you believe every word of it, no matter what your prior expectations and preferences might have been.

In this dark and intense story, Starsky and Hutch respond to a late-night call to a disturbance in a museum, get separated, and suddenly, in a kind of Alice through the Looking Glass way (but that's a terrible analogy, you have to see for yourself) find themselves separated and living completely different lives. In the parallel world that we know, they are both trying to find the other who appears to have vanished. The two worlds are woven together perfectly. I don't really know how she did it!

It's nearly impossible to find a perfect representation of this story without giving anything away, but I'll try.


Hours passed. Huggy called twice, Sweet Alice once, neither with anything to report. Hutch tried to tell himself that no news was good news, that if Huggy and all his connections couldn’t find out who was behind Starsky’s disappearance then maybe there wasn’t anybody behind it. He could imagine Starsky turning up safe and sound any minute, calling to complain about Hutch abandoning him at the museum in the pouring rain, demanding to know where his car was.

Whistling past the graveyard, and he knew it.

And always in the back of his head, the memories of his dreams: Starsky as his lover, Starsky in the wrong place, Starsky through a looking glass—

He couldn’t shake the feeling that despite all the work they were doing, he was missing something.

But an excerpt can't possibly do this story justice.


A World Full of Jokers