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crack_van2013-06-18 11:15 pm
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Been Thinking by Kate Roman (PG)
Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH
Pairing: pre-slash Starsky/Hutch
Length: 900 words
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romankate
Author Website: Kate Roman's SH fic on LJ
Why this must be read:
The next two stories I plan to rec are almost mirror-images of each other in theme. The first, Been Thinking by Kate Roman, gives us a tightly crafted moment in time, a critical juncture where things can go exactly right or totally wrong. Hutch seems to know this, but can't figure out how to play it. We're plunged into the moment immediately: " Hutch stays, when he can. When the mood's good enough, when it's not weird, when Starsky's not giving him those half-frowning looks, the ones that see too deep, and see too much. The couch is a bitch for his back, but leaving Starsky is a bitch for his heart, and Hutch knows which hurts more." How can you stop reading after an opening like that?
Hutch can't stay away, telling himself he needs to spend the night at Starsky's for Starsky's sake, to wake Starsky from bad dreams, to be there just in case he's needed. All the while, waiting for the inevitable, for Starsky to push him away, to find someone else, to find a woman.... Hutch aches over Starsky's past pain, but the reader aches even more for Hutch's palpable longing for something just out of reach, something he doesn't believe he deserves, something he's convinced he'll never have. It's a moment in time, just a moment, but we're lucky enough to be there for it, and to be in the hands of a writer like this, who can bring us all to the brink of wanting.
Been Thinking by Kate Roman
Pairing: pre-slash Starsky/Hutch
Length: 900 words
Author on LJ:
romankateAuthor Website: Kate Roman's SH fic on LJ
Why this must be read:
The next two stories I plan to rec are almost mirror-images of each other in theme. The first, Been Thinking by Kate Roman, gives us a tightly crafted moment in time, a critical juncture where things can go exactly right or totally wrong. Hutch seems to know this, but can't figure out how to play it. We're plunged into the moment immediately: " Hutch stays, when he can. When the mood's good enough, when it's not weird, when Starsky's not giving him those half-frowning looks, the ones that see too deep, and see too much. The couch is a bitch for his back, but leaving Starsky is a bitch for his heart, and Hutch knows which hurts more." How can you stop reading after an opening like that?
Hutch can't stay away, telling himself he needs to spend the night at Starsky's for Starsky's sake, to wake Starsky from bad dreams, to be there just in case he's needed. All the while, waiting for the inevitable, for Starsky to push him away, to find someone else, to find a woman.... Hutch aches over Starsky's past pain, but the reader aches even more for Hutch's palpable longing for something just out of reach, something he doesn't believe he deserves, something he's convinced he'll never have. It's a moment in time, just a moment, but we're lucky enough to be there for it, and to be in the hands of a writer like this, who can bring us all to the brink of wanting.
Been Thinking by Kate Roman