crack_van | A Day Less Ordinary by JoJo (PG-13)

Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH

Pairing: none

Length: 25,858 words

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Why this must be read: Last month hardboiledbaby recced JoJo’s This Mission Thing, which the author notes is "probably... a sequel to A Day Less Ordinary, but could also maybe be read as post-Sweet Revenge." Well, A Day Less Ordinary has not yet been recced here, so I thought I would do that right now, since it’s also an excellent story and really should be read.

A Day Less Ordinary is set in a world without James Gunther, but which moves on its own somewhat parallel course. A day that starts out like any other quickly turns into a nightmare when Starsky is gravely injured. It’s full of hurt and comfort, wonderful writing, and all the detail that could never be packed into a one-hour television episode, including the most harrowing emergency transport I’ve ever read. Even though it’s an ever-so-slightly different universe in which Starsky and Hutch exist, in JoJo’s hands they’re warm and familiar and true and so alive, which makes this story all the more frightening and believable.

From "A Day Less Ordinary":

Starsky sank slowly on to his knees as his strength flowed out of him in a rush - he would have fallen forward except he sensed the hilt sticking out from under his ribs and he so got only one hand to the ground. He tried to turn around, to do the only thing that occurred to him, which was to find his partner to sort it all out.

"Oh that's ... fuck, that's .... Hutch, what is that?"

"Don't touch it!" Hutch said commandingly, having reached him by then, grabbing him under the arms and taking the weight of him, the soles of his shoes sliding on the wet ground. "Oh crap will you look at this, Jay? ... Easy, Starsk, don't do that, let us handle it. Stay quiet."

Starsky obeyed for a second, laying his cheek on the soaked concrete. Hutch's agonized face was close to his. Something was pouring into his lungs, he could feel it. There were dark shapes flapping around his face, shutting out the sodden light. There was ten inches of metal inside him, something heavy outside him, just beyond his grasping fingers. Hutch was holding them away. He was trying to get at it, to pull it out because it was killing him but Hutch's hands, slippery with blood, were stronger.

A Day Less Ordinary

A Day Less Ordinary by JoJo (PG-13)

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