Fade to Black by calathea (PG-13)

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Fandom: Hot Fuzz
Pairing: Nicholas/Danny
Length: ~2500 words
Author on LJ: calathea
Author Website: plant fiction
Why this must be read:

I really wish calathea would write more in this fandom because she has a fantastic ear for Danny-voice. She also brings that touch of whimsy that the movie employed, but did not exploit. I mean, one would never guess that a flame thrower and man-eating plant would fit so well in Fuzz-verse (well, perhaps the flame thrower), but fit they do, and seamlessly. This is also the first story I'm featuring which contains the other members of the Sandford Police Service, and here she surprises by fitting in all their quirks without becoming cartoonish in her depiction of them.


Danny had often thought that the most disappointing thing about Real Life, as opposed to films, was that very rarely did you get any warning that everything was about to go pearshaped. In the flicks, there were always all these omens, right, and if nothing else the dramatic soundtrack would be a dead give-away. Personally, if Danny ever heard lots of high pitched violins squeaking in the background of his life, he'd go straight home, lock all the doors and hide under his duvet until it stopped. He'd definitely not go wandering around in some dark and lonely car park like a plonker.

Unfortunately, since Sandford was part of Real Life and not the movies, he got no real warning at all that his day would end up heading rapidly towards doom and destruction of property with a really big flame-thrower. In fact, all the warning he got was the phone ringing on and on in the background at the station while everyone was busy arguing over the god-awful pong in the break room.

(To be fair, if he'd known about the flame-thrower, he'd probably have picked the phone up sooner, no matter how much doom came with it, because, well, a flame-thrower. Wicked!)

Go, enjoy, ignore the rising pitch of the flugelhorns as you near...
Fade to Black