ext_2410: (Partners in Love)
KimberlyFDR ([identity profile] kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2004-03-28 08:57 am
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Compassion's Heart by Charlotte Frost

Fandom: Starsky and Hutch

Pairing: Starsky and Hutch

Fic Link: http://www.squidge.org/~flamingo/starskyhutchslash/HAS2/compaspro.htm

Why this must be read: This is from the zine Heart and Soul 2 and has always stuck with me as being a great read. The story starts off with a letter, written by a drunken Starsky in the Dobey's kitchen late at night. Instructions For Being Hutch's Partner, written by David Starsky. The list is heartfelt in itself, but the path that their lives take them on afterwords makes re-reading the list completely changed. Starsky makes Dobey promise to keep the list safe and give it to Hutch's new partner if something should happen to him. A few bad cases and some discoveries on their own lead them into life turns that they hadn't expected. Then, when Hutch receives the letter from Dobey for other reasons, it means so much more than what Starsky originally planned it to. The love, the understanding, the heartfelt concern of one partner for another is felt in those crooked, wandering lines written by Starsky one late night so long ago.