http://nancys_soul.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] nancys-soul.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2013-11-09 02:18 pm
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Enshroud, by Charlotte Frost (R)

Fandom:STARSKY and HUTCH
Pairing:Starsky and Hutch
Length:32.5k
Author on LJ:[livejournal.com profile] charlotte_frost
Author Website:http://www.magicravenranch.com/shmenu.html


Why this must be read:
Enshroud means to blanket and this theme is used so beautifully by Charlotte Frost throughout this story. It takes place at the end of the fourth season. Starsky's girl friend was killed in a freak car accident and he's mourning her death without Hutch for comfort. The guys have been off kilter (as we all know) quite a bit, Hutch with Marianne(going to her when he was beaten instead of Starsky), Starsky with the Blind girl, (closing himself off from Hutch) etc... Hutch tells Starsky he misses him and just wants to comfort him and they both decide to stop acting selfish and to rely on each other again.
They're doing good until Nancy Blake from Terror on the dock comes back into Hutch's life. Things go very bad and now Hutch is in trouble, bad, bad, trouble. Nancy goes from sweet little Nancy to something that the guys never dreamed of. The old saying evil companions corrupts good morals, come true in this case, and Carl's his name.
Starsky comes to the rescue and finds a physically and mentally hurt Hutch.
"And how's your mother?"

Nancy sighed. "Mom moved back to Minnesota."

"Oh." Hutch hadn't been expecting that.

"Yeah," Nancy said with discomfort. "I started seeing this guy, Carl." Her eyes lit up. "He has bright green eyes and sandy-colored hair, down to his neck. He's muscular and very handsome. And, well, I moved in with him. Mom didn't approve. Leaving was her way of expressing how much she disapproved."

Hutch hadn't expected something like living together before marriage from a simple girl like Nancy. He shrugged. "More and more young couples are living together first. Sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't have married Vanessa, if I'd known what we were like together under the same roof." She seemed to relax at his lack of judgment. "How long ago did your mother leave?"

"It's been a few months. It's felt odd, her not being around," Nancy smiled gently, "but I think it was way past time for me to have my own life. I needed to grow up."

Hutch looked her over. "I'd say the change has done you well." Still, something seemed a bit "off" to him.

She gazed back at him, while running her finger along the rim of her glass of iced tea. "So, what about you? Anybody special in your life?"

Just Starsky. "No, I haven't had anybody serious in a while." They all turn out badly -- for me and Starsk both.


Enshroud

[identity profile] charlotte-frost.livejournal.com 2013-11-09 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
That's very much for the rec!

But the links need to be corrected. The story is available here: http://www.magicravenranch.com/enshroud.html (The link in the post has " at the end of it.)

The main SH menu for my SH website is here:
http://www.magicravenranch.com/shmenu.html

(The link in the post has .ht instead of .html)

[identity profile] rlm-stable.livejournal.com 2013-11-09 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That's very much for the rec!

But the links need to be corrected. The story is available here: http://www.magicravenranch.com/enshroud.html
(The link in the post has " at the end of it.)

The main SH menu for the CF website is here: http://www.magicravenranch.com/shmenu.html
(The link in the post has .ht instead of .html)

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2013-11-10 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds good! Thanks for the rec/review.

Word count is 32.5k - and yes, that's important to me, because it tells me whether to go through the process of downloading it and converting for my Kindle, or just read it online. This is definitely going on the Kindle, but I had to copy paste it to OpenOffice to find out and if it had just been 3k or so, I'd have felt annoyed! If you aren't sure of a wordcount, copy paste to Word, OpenOffice, etc. and use the tools menu to find out.

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2013-11-10 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I am probably older but have a Kindle - I travel a lot, being retired... I'm not sure what a flip phone is - my mobile (cell phone in American?) is a clamshell I bought in 2005 and it doesn't take photographs or anything - just makes phone calls and acts as an alarm clock. But yes, wordcounts are important. I find it hard to read online for any length of time, and of course there are those times when I'm offline anyway. Anything much over 5000 words goes onto my Kindle. Good luck with finding all the wordcounts - stories on AO3 and some other sites kindly give them to you!!