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Detour and Where The Road Ends by Sloane Bennett (PG)
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 17k, 28k
Author on LJ: None
Author Website: Sloane Bennett on The Starsky & Hutch Archive
Why this must be read:
I love reading about the early years of the boys' partnership,and "Detour" starts there, graduating from the academy and talking about an event that happened just a few days before. While there's no clear POV, the writing is still done well enough that it doesn't matter so much - the love and the intensity is clear.
Follow that with the sequel "Where the Road Ends" and we come full circle, back to that early event, and ready to take that detour again when they realize no woman is ever able to come between them or mean more to them than they do to each other.
Detour: "I--" Starsky started, then quieted his voice, taking a swift look around the grounds. "I never in my life--"
"Same here," Hutch told him.
"So why did it happen? How did it happen?"
"I don't know."
Starsky blew out a breath and shrugged his shoulders, noticing how blue-grey the dark sky was above him. Only a few stars were visible.
Hutch tossed his head back, a wisp of blonde hair that had fallen onto his eyelashes going back in place.
"So what if it happens again?" Starsky asked, looking point-blank into Hutch's eyes.
"So what if it does." Ken's gaze was unyielding. Matter of fact. Just like before. It wasn't provocative, but it wasn't tame either. "Starsk, we can say a lot of things... come up with a lot of reasons and rationalizations," he began. "We can say a lot of shit. We can say that it was experimental, or for curiosity's sake or happened because we were drunk... but personally, I don't buy any of it."
Starsky listened, unmoving.
"I think whatever it was -- whatever reason it happened, came out of this," Hutch pointed to himself then Dave. "This closeness between us. This friendship between us that's so," he searched for the right word, "intense."
Hutch mused for a moment. "And I wonder in the long run if it matters -- that you and I got a little physically closer than either one of us expected."
Detour
Where the Road Ends
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 17k, 28k
Author on LJ: None
Author Website: Sloane Bennett on The Starsky & Hutch Archive
Why this must be read:
I love reading about the early years of the boys' partnership,and "Detour" starts there, graduating from the academy and talking about an event that happened just a few days before. While there's no clear POV, the writing is still done well enough that it doesn't matter so much - the love and the intensity is clear.
Follow that with the sequel "Where the Road Ends" and we come full circle, back to that early event, and ready to take that detour again when they realize no woman is ever able to come between them or mean more to them than they do to each other.
Detour: "I--" Starsky started, then quieted his voice, taking a swift look around the grounds. "I never in my life--"
"Same here," Hutch told him.
"So why did it happen? How did it happen?"
"I don't know."
Starsky blew out a breath and shrugged his shoulders, noticing how blue-grey the dark sky was above him. Only a few stars were visible.
Hutch tossed his head back, a wisp of blonde hair that had fallen onto his eyelashes going back in place.
"So what if it happens again?" Starsky asked, looking point-blank into Hutch's eyes.
"So what if it does." Ken's gaze was unyielding. Matter of fact. Just like before. It wasn't provocative, but it wasn't tame either. "Starsk, we can say a lot of things... come up with a lot of reasons and rationalizations," he began. "We can say a lot of shit. We can say that it was experimental, or for curiosity's sake or happened because we were drunk... but personally, I don't buy any of it."
Starsky listened, unmoving.
"I think whatever it was -- whatever reason it happened, came out of this," Hutch pointed to himself then Dave. "This closeness between us. This friendship between us that's so," he searched for the right word, "intense."
Hutch mused for a moment. "And I wonder in the long run if it matters -- that you and I got a little physically closer than either one of us expected."
Detour
Where the Road Ends