Fic - Sword of Damocles (LoM)

[fiandyfic]

TITLE: Sword of Damocles
AUTHOR: Andromeda
FANDOM: Life on Mars
SUMMARY: Five ways in which Sam Tyler didn’t die (in the series), and one which he did - Spoilers for both series
RATING: Red Cortina for Character Death (That's with a capital "C" and capital "D" - I did warn you...)
WORD COUNT: 1,200 words
EMAIL: fiandyfic@livejournal.com
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Comments

[mamishka]

Ummmm, I think what you meant to say is "Five ways in which Sam Tyler dies, and one which he didn't."? Or just "Five ways in which Sam Tyler dies, and one in which he's already dead."? Somehow" Five ways in which Sam Tyler didn’t die, and one which he did" gives one the impression that only one of the stories is going to end in death, so yeah, you did warn us, but it isn't quite sufficient warning really. ;)

That said, powerful stuff, and all reasonable if certain things just happened to go a little differently. Dang, I could go on and on with this theme really. So many times when Sam nearly bit it. ;)

[dracothelizard]

I had the same thought, but it is technically correct. The first five stories are about ways Sam didn't die on the show, and the last one is the way he did die on the show. I expect Andy phrased it this way because she's a bit cruel.

[mamishka]

Doh, you're totally right - I was just parsing it wrong. But I bet I'm not the only one to do so. >;) Fortunately I don't mind death fics, though this was a bit more than I was expecting. *sniff*

[fiandyfic]

Me? Cruel? Never!

(Actually, I'm so used to people flinching when they see "fiandyfic", I completely forgot that the name isn't so much currency now!!)

[fiandyfic]

Eeep! Sorry - I've changed the warnings - hopefully it indicates a bit more that there really *is* a lot of character death in this one...

Thanks.