Scarlet City
Title: Scarlet City
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gangsters!
Characters: Preston Burke, Addison Montgomery, Derek Shepherd, Cristina Yang, Mark Sloan, Denny Duquette, Erica Hahn. And, really, just about everyone who’s showed up for at least two episodes in either Grey’s Anatomy or Private Practice makes an appearance.
Warnings: Character death. It’s all offscreen and nobody that’s been introduced as a major character, but this is a crime story. People die.
Summary: September, 1939. As Europe marches off to war, Seattle has its own problems. A crime boss running circles around the police threatens to undermine what little stability still exists. Detective Preston Burke will have to fight his way through a dangerous tangle of gambling, prostitution, and suspected murder in order to unearth the truth and take down Addison Montgomery. Plus, there’s the matter of working girls who keep showing up on the coroner’s slab…
Thanks to: nursebadass, who beta’ed, fanmixed and did some fabulous art for this; she put up with me ignoring it for months in favor of another big bang (which, incidentally, she also beta’ed and fanmixed). Also thanks to: Wikipedia, Google, But He Was Good to His Mother by Robert A. Rockaway, the fabulous Australian series “Underbelly Razor,” Dashiell Hammett in general, “Kansas City Confidential,” “The Asphalt Jungle,” and the 2010 AAA guide to Oregon and Washington.
Notes: Written for the 2011 inaugural ga_fanfic Big Bang. This is a noir crime story set in 1939; as such, 98% of the cast had to be reassigned. Some of them ended up as hookers, some of them ended up dead, some of them became cops, and the rest became gangsters. If the idea of your favorite character turning tricks - even off the page - is going to bug you in any way, turn back.
Enhanced content:
Artwork and fanmix by nursebadass
Navigation:
prologue: city streets
chapter one: king of the underworld
chapter two: dead end
chapter three: angels with dirty faces
chapter four: bordertown
epilogue: midnight
Or, read on AO3.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gangsters!
Characters: Preston Burke, Addison Montgomery, Derek Shepherd, Cristina Yang, Mark Sloan, Denny Duquette, Erica Hahn. And, really, just about everyone who’s showed up for at least two episodes in either Grey’s Anatomy or Private Practice makes an appearance.
Warnings: Character death. It’s all offscreen and nobody that’s been introduced as a major character, but this is a crime story. People die.
Summary: September, 1939. As Europe marches off to war, Seattle has its own problems. A crime boss running circles around the police threatens to undermine what little stability still exists. Detective Preston Burke will have to fight his way through a dangerous tangle of gambling, prostitution, and suspected murder in order to unearth the truth and take down Addison Montgomery. Plus, there’s the matter of working girls who keep showing up on the coroner’s slab…
Thanks to: nursebadass, who beta’ed, fanmixed and did some fabulous art for this; she put up with me ignoring it for months in favor of another big bang (which, incidentally, she also beta’ed and fanmixed). Also thanks to: Wikipedia, Google, But He Was Good to His Mother by Robert A. Rockaway, the fabulous Australian series “Underbelly Razor,” Dashiell Hammett in general, “Kansas City Confidential,” “The Asphalt Jungle,” and the 2010 AAA guide to Oregon and Washington.
Notes: Written for the 2011 inaugural ga_fanfic Big Bang. This is a noir crime story set in 1939; as such, 98% of the cast had to be reassigned. Some of them ended up as hookers, some of them ended up dead, some of them became cops, and the rest became gangsters. If the idea of your favorite character turning tricks - even off the page - is going to bug you in any way, turn back.
Enhanced content:
Artwork and fanmix by nursebadass
Navigation:
prologue: city streets
chapter one: king of the underworld
chapter two: dead end
chapter three: angels with dirty faces
chapter four: bordertown
epilogue: midnight
Or, read on AO3.