Fic: Why Are We Running, for rebelxxwaltz

[talkingtothesky]

Title: Why Are We Running
Author: talkingtothesky
Recipient: rebelxxwaltz
Rating: Blue/Brown Cortina
Wordcount: 2,958
Prompt: 'May I please have Sam and Gene in a foreign country for any reason-- business or pleasure. Slash is good. Rating up to Brown Cortina. Bonus points if they become physically/romantically involved on the trip (in other words, they are not already in an

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[rebelxxwaltz]

SPAIN. Yes, EXCELLENT! :D

There's something about the equation Gene Hunt + Foreign Country that just screams for an answer of 'Spain,' and his little mystery trip between series 2 and 3 of Ashes has always been a matter of some curiosity for me. What a way to explain it!

The temporal wonkiness doesn't bother me-- I read your explanation and I'm perfectly willing to suspend my disbelief in the name of fic... or to allow the time-travelly/dimensional weirdness to happen. It's harder to believe that Gene would let his coat go in a poker game! I suppose he probably figured it made him a bit too identifiable in any case, eh? That or he was too hot and didn't want to carry the heavy thing around anymore! :P

I really enjoy the interaction of bored-vacationer-Sam and on-the-run-Gene. It's like... Sam needed some spice in his vacation and for someone to show a real interest in him, and Gene needed to feel a sense of trust and connection with another person after so much uncertainty and they just filled the gaps for each other so perfectly and don't I just WISH I had ever had a holiday romance that actually managed to be that meaningful without even trying. *sigh*

Then there was sexiness with perfect banter-y dialogue and yah-- I agree with Sam that I'd let Gene throw my weight around just about any time at all. ;)

And the ending-- there's so many ways to interpret it! Personally I like to think Gene is offering a timey-wimey transfer and Sam subconsciously accepts, gets hit by a car and ends up in 1973 with a version of Gene Hunt who is only too happy to remind him that he 'put in for it'!

Ow, my brain hurts. But in a good way! Thanks so much for using the prompt so creatively and blowing my mind with this fabulousness! <33333333333333

[talkingtothesky]

Gene would let his coat go in a poker game!
Yeah, I wanted to create some sense of what he'd been upto all that time before he ran into Sam, and I imagine it is pretty heavy.

Personally I like to think Gene is offering a timey-wimey transfer and Sam subconsciously accepts, gets hit by a car and ends up in 1973 with a version of Gene Hunt who is only too happy to remind him that he 'put in for it'!
You nailed it! :D

Thanks so much for the wonderful prompt, and this comment :D