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Till Touchdown Brings Me Round Again by Halotolerant (PG)
Fandom: LIFE ON MARS
Pairing: Sam/Mara, Sam/Gene
Length: 16 513
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halotolerant
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:
A couple month ago one of my cousins sent me an email that basically read: "OMG! OMG! TINTIN FIC KT! TINTIN FIC!!! Eeeeeeeeee!!11!!1!...... *Insert incoherent keyboard mashing here.*" In fact she sent me 14 875 words extolling the virtues of a 1 551 word long fic it was just that good.
This rec is not about the awesome Tintin fic she discovered. Instead it's about the awesome Life on Mars Fic by the same author.
Written as a 2011 Big Bang Plot Fixer, Till touchdown Brings Me Round Again, has managed to transport all the 1973 characters we know and love into 2006. Annie's a nurse, Ray's hiding in the background, and Gene's a DS in traffic.
A DS in TRAFFIC.
It shouldn't work but oh god does it ever.
There's even awesome art byfern_tree.
Excerpt:
"There are some questions for which there is never any bloody hope of an answer, but we ask them anyway, because believing an answer exists is maybe the closest we can get to finding it. Gene would have ample opportunity to interrogate himself afterwards, but the way things turned out, luck or fate or the god that was caffeine was with him – or maybe he really had been fine, maybe his blithe judgement of himself as fit to drive had been correct.
That day, in a few hours time, a man called DCI Sam Tyler was going to be run down by a car, left lying in the middle of the road. When Gene drove past, minutes later, he didn’t kill the man, didn’t hit his head with the nearside wheel of his Audi, didn’t end it once and for all, only almost, only nearly.
Only inches away."
Till Touchdown Brings Me Round Again by Halotolerant on AO3 or the Livejournal announcement page
Pairing: Sam/Mara, Sam/Gene
Length: 16 513
Author on LJ:
halotolerantAuthor Website: AO3
Why this must be read:
A couple month ago one of my cousins sent me an email that basically read: "OMG! OMG! TINTIN FIC KT! TINTIN FIC!!! Eeeeeeeeee!!11!!1!...... *Insert incoherent keyboard mashing here.*" In fact she sent me 14 875 words extolling the virtues of a 1 551 word long fic it was just that good.
This rec is not about the awesome Tintin fic she discovered. Instead it's about the awesome Life on Mars Fic by the same author.
Written as a 2011 Big Bang Plot Fixer, Till touchdown Brings Me Round Again, has managed to transport all the 1973 characters we know and love into 2006. Annie's a nurse, Ray's hiding in the background, and Gene's a DS in traffic.
A DS in TRAFFIC.
It shouldn't work but oh god does it ever.
There's even awesome art by
fern_tree.Excerpt:
"There are some questions for which there is never any bloody hope of an answer, but we ask them anyway, because believing an answer exists is maybe the closest we can get to finding it. Gene would have ample opportunity to interrogate himself afterwards, but the way things turned out, luck or fate or the god that was caffeine was with him – or maybe he really had been fine, maybe his blithe judgement of himself as fit to drive had been correct.
That day, in a few hours time, a man called DCI Sam Tyler was going to be run down by a car, left lying in the middle of the road. When Gene drove past, minutes later, he didn’t kill the man, didn’t hit his head with the nearside wheel of his Audi, didn’t end it once and for all, only almost, only nearly.
Only inches away."
Till Touchdown Brings Me Round Again by Halotolerant on AO3 or the Livejournal announcement page