JOYCE CAROL OATES ( Read more... )

Title: The Scales and the Sword
Fandom: The Hitcher (1986)
Pairing: John Ryder/Jim Halsey, secondary Nash/OMC
Length: ~40K
Note: Accompanying fanart by mandraco. Endless thanks to missaffliction for the beta.
Warnings: Dubious consent, canon-typical violence, unhealthy relationship
Summary: Jim loves how law is the scales of justice instead of the sword, but John Ryder ( Read more... )

I'm watching The Hitcher again, and I know that the film is supposed to be a little stylised and require some suspension of disbelief, but I wonder at how John is somehow in all the places Jim runs away to, and after watching the film a few times in the past, I wonder if Jim is dead, since all the events of the film happen after he falls asleep at ( Read more... )