fic: no stranger to you and me (ashes to ashes)

[grenadine]

Posting fic on a Friday, because that's how I roll.

TITLE: no stranger to you and me
FANDOM: Ashes to Ashes
SPOILERS: Brief mention of something from 2x01.
RATING: G, *sigh*.
SUMMARY: Here's the thing, they're kind of going crazy.

Notes: Comment fic for daygloparker that got a little bit long. Read the one she wrote for me first, since it IS BRILLIANT AND ATE MY

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[daygloparker]

SO UNTIL RIGHT NOW, I FEEL REALLY STUPID THAT I FORGOT ANNIE HAD A DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY.

Which is to say:

THIS.

[grenadine]

UH, NO LIE, I ALSO FORGOT ABOUT THAT UNTIL I WROTE THE END OF THIS.

(This is what I worked out writing this: What's the only occasion on each show when a "past" event is specifically shown to have changed b/c of one of the characters? LoM: Sam saves the woman in the red dress from his childhood, who turns out to be Annie. A2A: Gene, not Evan, saves little!Alex, who is chasing a red balloon.)

[baggers]

This makes me want to watch LoM.

(I have been working on the theory that nothing was actually changed, and Gene was always there. Alex as an unreliable narrator is far more interesting. Plus, I still believe it is all fundamentally real.)

[grenadine]

I'm starting to think it might all actually be one big story. I mean, the first series of A2A pretty much stands alone, but with all the callbacks this season...I don't know.

(I think that is definitely plausible!)

[daygloparker]

Considering that the sole purpose that A2A exists is because Kudos wanted a third series of Life on Mars and John Simm was not hip to that game? This would not surprise me at all.

(I'm rewatching the last episode of LoM. Frank Morgan tells Sam that all he has to do is take down Gene Hunt and his entire corrupt department, and then he can come home. JESUS H CHRIST)