This is just amazing. Truly. I'd highlighted one line to comment on, early in the story, then found another five or so more scattered throughout. Your Hutch just makes my heart ache. First in sympathy and then later with joy. It's wonderful stuff. Here are some of the parts that really resonated for me:
Fought the urge to push him back into the car and drive somewhere that didn’t smell like piss and death and talcum powder. (Talcum powder! Brilliant.)
“Don’t disappear on me, Hutch. You’re not alone. No matter what you’re brain is telling you right now, you’re not alone. I’m here. You wanna go get drunk, we get drunk. You wanna quit, toss our badges in the sea, drive to Mexico, we’re gone. You wanna burn the cottage to the ground, I got a match. But you’re not doing this alone. You got it?” (Starsky as methodone. Well of course.)
“You oughta take a couple of days off.” Starsky fidgeted with his keys, didn’t look up. “Do you good. Do us good. I can’t keep doing this, you know.” The last part trailed off into a whisper and Hutch didn’t look up again until he heard the Torino escape into the future. (I had been planning to highlight Hutch catching a glimpse of his past out of the corner of his eye. Then this came along and just destroyed that line. In the best possible way. *g*)
“And if anything could show you how much I love you, this reincarnation of my nightmare should do it.” (The Skittles line is choice. But this made me laugh and repeat the line outloud. I love it. All of it.)
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Date: 2008-01-06 04:23 pm (UTC)Fought the urge to push him back into the car and drive somewhere that didn’t smell like piss and death and talcum powder. (Talcum powder! Brilliant.)
“Don’t disappear on me, Hutch. You’re not alone. No matter what you’re brain is telling you right now, you’re not alone. I’m here. You wanna go get drunk, we get drunk. You wanna quit, toss our badges in the sea, drive to Mexico, we’re gone. You wanna burn the cottage to the ground, I got a match. But you’re not doing this alone. You got it?” (Starsky as methodone. Well of course.)
“You oughta take a couple of days off.” Starsky fidgeted with his keys, didn’t look up. “Do you good. Do us good. I can’t keep doing this, you know.” The last part trailed off into a whisper and Hutch didn’t look up again until he heard the Torino escape into the future. (I had been planning to highlight Hutch catching a glimpse of his past out of the corner of his eye. Then this came along and just destroyed that line. In the best possible way. *g*)
“And if anything could show you how much I love you, this reincarnation of my nightmare should do it.” (The Skittles line is choice. But this made me laugh and repeat the line outloud. I love it. All of it.)
Thank you.