The Heart Still Aching to Seek by Laura McEwan (NC-17)
Fandom:STARSKY and HUTCH
Pairing:Starsky/Hutch
Length:16985 words
Author on LJ:LauraMcEwan
Author Website:http://www.starskyhutcharchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=892
Why this must be read:
This story is the second half of a wonderful series written by the amazing Laura McEwan. The first half is Ages of Day http://www.starskyhutcharchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=140. Her world begins with young teens David Starsky and Kenny Hutchinson meeting at summer camp, where they begin to establishment their famous bond that will carry them through growing up, defining love, and making life-changing decisions.
The Heart Still Aching to Seek picks up with Hutch married to Vanessa, she's pregnant and they are living in her childhood room at her parents house with his lover, Starsky, a thousand miles away fighting in the war.
Hutch inhaled.
The gentle scent and rhythmic rush of the sea’s tide calmed him, centered him in a way his home life could not. Here he lived, body and soul, temporarily free of the ever-tightening noose Vanessa held around him.
Meditation had never been something he’d done - it was for the odd folks who did odd things, but out of desperation he’d read a book and decided that he had to do something, anything, to escape the sense of entrapment.
The ocean chanted a mantra for him and he slipped away, back to a time of innocent play, laughter and joy.
Only one person ever joined him in that quiet, hopeful place. A man thousands of miles away, fighting a stupid war.
Hutch opened his eyes, gazing beyond the starlit dusk, over the ocean waves as if he could project himself into the jungle and bring Starsky home.
Reluctantly he checked his wrist for the time, the watch his wedding gift from Starsky. With that, the spell broke.
Significant reality returned, and with it the weight of his responsibility, perhaps lessened by his time with the sea, but no less true.
Maybe tomorrow there’d be a letter. Starsky had promised, after all.
The Heart Still Aching to Seek
Pairing:Starsky/Hutch
Length:16985 words
Author on LJ:LauraMcEwan
Author Website:http://www.starskyhutcharchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=892
Why this must be read:
This story is the second half of a wonderful series written by the amazing Laura McEwan. The first half is Ages of Day http://www.starskyhutcharchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=140. Her world begins with young teens David Starsky and Kenny Hutchinson meeting at summer camp, where they begin to establishment their famous bond that will carry them through growing up, defining love, and making life-changing decisions.
The Heart Still Aching to Seek picks up with Hutch married to Vanessa, she's pregnant and they are living in her childhood room at her parents house with his lover, Starsky, a thousand miles away fighting in the war.
Hutch inhaled.
The gentle scent and rhythmic rush of the sea’s tide calmed him, centered him in a way his home life could not. Here he lived, body and soul, temporarily free of the ever-tightening noose Vanessa held around him.
Meditation had never been something he’d done - it was for the odd folks who did odd things, but out of desperation he’d read a book and decided that he had to do something, anything, to escape the sense of entrapment.
The ocean chanted a mantra for him and he slipped away, back to a time of innocent play, laughter and joy.
Only one person ever joined him in that quiet, hopeful place. A man thousands of miles away, fighting a stupid war.
Hutch opened his eyes, gazing beyond the starlit dusk, over the ocean waves as if he could project himself into the jungle and bring Starsky home.
Reluctantly he checked his wrist for the time, the watch his wedding gift from Starsky. With that, the spell broke.
Significant reality returned, and with it the weight of his responsibility, perhaps lessened by his time with the sea, but no less true.
Maybe tomorrow there’d be a letter. Starsky had promised, after all.
The Heart Still Aching to Seek