Title: Infinite Jest
Author: chamekke
Rating: Green Cortina
Word count: 6,000
Notes: Written for
nepthys_uk, as part of the
Ficathon 2010 on
lifein1973, using her prompts 'ensemble, humour, DCI Litton's game of one-upmanship'. Huge thanks to
draycevixen for her encouragement and suggestions.
Summary: Two DCIs. Two egos. One station.
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The problem with a prank war is that you can't trust ANYONE. )
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(It's just a fancy of mine, but I like to think that Jonesy is the WPC in 1.05 who said "Kinky" :-)
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Also have to admit that the bit with Sam and Gene putting on lipstick and kissing all of Litton's certificates will be making me giggle the rest of the day. And nice work on the parallel Litton/Litton's DI sexual tension. ;)
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I have to admit, I was thinking of Father Ted and his strangely similar rivals on Rugged Island when I wrote those parallel bits. Not that there's any slash in Father Ted, of course. Erm...
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And I'm especially glad that the hall of mirrors approach worked for you. Once I realised that Gene's team and Litton's mob probably have far more in common than they'd ever admit, it pretty much wrote itself :-)
*hugs back happily*
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I loved the way you drew out the similarities between the teams, and the pranks themselves were a delight - especially the lipstick (and the lovely slashy overtones *g*). You've got the voices (Gene in particular) off pat, and I LOVE that the culprit turned out to be Annie!
I've been sporfling away here, and this is going straight into mems where I shall pull it out and re-read whenever I need a bit of a laugh. Thank you again for this super treat :D
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BTW, I did start with one of your other prompts (Sam/Gene, taking a risk, "It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it"), but that one's currently at the 6,000 word mark and looks like it'll require at least 25,000 words to tell properly. So, some day you'll be getting another fic :-)
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