crack_van | The 365th Day by Ioannia (NC-17)

Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH

Pairing: Starsky/Hutch (referenced)

Length: 35 KB

Author on LJ: unknown

Author’s website: unknown

Why this must be read: Ioannia is a wonderful, masterful writer. As far as I can tell, she’s written only a handful of S&H stories, but the ones I’ve read are excellent. Ioannia seems to have been active in the fandom around 2002 - 2005, but I can’t find any trace of her now, and sadly, her stories aren’t easy to find online. I wish she had written more, and that she was still writing.

In The 365th Day, Hutch is separated from his partner and completely lost. Ioannia’s telling of Hutch’s story is beautifully done and moving. As a reader you understand perfectly what Hutch is feeling, even if, like the other characters in the story, you don’t completely understand what is going through his head.

From "The 365th Day":

The breakup had been bad. One heart torn in two and expected to keep beating. Hell, *they* had hemorrhaged. It should have been the other way around; but through the whole thing it was he, the diplomat, who screamed until he started hacking up blood. Well, all relationships fell apart, sooner or later, in the police department. Metro was conspicuous for its high rate. And frequently, one partner wanted it and the other didn't; no difference here. The physical separation had been, as Dobey put it, "taken out of our hands". But the emotional rupture had not been his choice, and dear loving God in Heaven, he had done everything he knew to prevent and deny it when it happened. He pleaded, he manipulated, he expostulated. He felt like Elmer Gantry trying to hawk his love like an evangelist, and he was nothing if not a dogged salesman. In the end, like Gantry, he had watched the whole tent of his passion and commitment burn, sagging, to the ground of reality.

The 365th Day

The 365th Day by Ioannia (NC-17)

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