To Opportunity by Sue Beck (PG-13)

[nickygabriel]

Hallo, my name is Nicky and I will drive the Torino this month. It's not my first time here, so you know what to expect. If you want to rec for that fandom in the future, please go here and apply. And you know you want it :)

Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH
Pairing: none
Length: not long
Author on LJ: dipslikeramon
Author Website: HERE
Why this must be read: Why? Because her supporting characters are always real, because her style is excellent, because she feels the main characters and most importantly – she can make the reader be in her stories. It's like watching another episode. Sometimes even better.
Here we have everything I like the most – action/adventure, just partnered and me&thee against the rest of the world. What else can you ask for? :)

Way back when the world was new and Starsky and I had first met, he used to tell me—when he wanted to push me out of the gilded cage of my birth and upbringing—that life-changing opportunities weren’t handed to you on a silver platter, all wrapped in expensive paper and tied up with a silver bow.

Those kinds of opportunities, he said, almost always came at the bottom of a cesspool, and only the ones who were willing to slog through the shit had a chance in hell of finding the prize hidden at the very bottom.

The first time I can remember that little homily-ala-Starsky coming true was two months into our partnership, on a Friday night that didn’t seem any more suited to life-changing opportunities than the eight or so that had come before it. I remember it was hot as hell that night. Almost nine o’clock and the temperature was still over the century mark. We’d been filling the last minutes before clock-out with listless discussion over whether we wanted to go to Sammy’s for a couple cold ones or just head home to the heat sinks masquerading as our apartments, bury our heads, and pretend that Bay City—or at least the part of it we patrolled—had dropped off the map until Monday morning.

part I
part II
part III
part IV