Affirmation Series by Kaye Austen Michaels (PG13)
This week, I'm going for the series fics. That's right, those stories that have sequels (sometimes more than one).
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/twindolphinproductions/KayeAustenMichaels.html
Why this must be read: The year is 1985. Starsky and Hutch are together, so very together, and in totally different careers than when we last left them. Starsky's at the Academy and Hutch? Well, Hutch went back to med school. Yep, at his age;) It's Christmas Eve and Starsky just wants them to have a quiet night at home, just the two of them. Hutch, however, is on-call and sick on top of it. Starsky's come to take his lover home and get him well again. Yet Hutch can never leave the job totally behind. He's constantly worrying about the choices he's made and constantly questioning why he made them or if they were sane to begin with.
"I graduated from medical school nineteen months ago exactly," Hutch said as if Starsky hadn't been along for the whole ride. "Almost two years. What the hell am I doing, Starsk? I'm forty-years old, in the first real year of residency. I was a thirty-nine-year old intern, for God's sake, and it damn near killed me."
"What're you saying?" Starsky asked sharply, cruising past concern at full speed toward worry.
"I'm saying the odds are stacked against me. I'm a forty-year old, burned-out ex-cop trying to do the work of fresh-faced twenty-six year olds bursting with idealism and boundless energy. And I have to watch my step, because a doctor widely known to be in a same-sex relationship would have a hell of a time making it in Emergency Medicine in this current climate. With all my time spent swimming upstream and trying to avoid rocks, what the hell good am I to my patients?"
He does alot of good, but sometimes the situation seems to overwhelming that Hutch forgets. It's up to Starsky to try to explain things to him. And just when things are semi-calm again, the phone rings and Hutch is called in on a case that affects them both. Dobey's having a heart episode. It's up to Hutch to save their former captain, their friend. And even when one crisis ends, another begins. Added to the situation is the fact that Hutch's immediate supervisor was Starsky's doctor during Gunther. Hutch both appreciates him for saving Starsky's life and resents him for making his own miserable. It's a constant fight to keep his head above water and sometimes Hutch may feel like he's drowning, but Starsky's there beside him always.
Affirmation
Affirmation II: Life and Death
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/twindolphinproductions/KayeAustenMichaels.html
Why this must be read: The year is 1985. Starsky and Hutch are together, so very together, and in totally different careers than when we last left them. Starsky's at the Academy and Hutch? Well, Hutch went back to med school. Yep, at his age;) It's Christmas Eve and Starsky just wants them to have a quiet night at home, just the two of them. Hutch, however, is on-call and sick on top of it. Starsky's come to take his lover home and get him well again. Yet Hutch can never leave the job totally behind. He's constantly worrying about the choices he's made and constantly questioning why he made them or if they were sane to begin with.
"I graduated from medical school nineteen months ago exactly," Hutch said as if Starsky hadn't been along for the whole ride. "Almost two years. What the hell am I doing, Starsk? I'm forty-years old, in the first real year of residency. I was a thirty-nine-year old intern, for God's sake, and it damn near killed me."
"What're you saying?" Starsky asked sharply, cruising past concern at full speed toward worry.
"I'm saying the odds are stacked against me. I'm a forty-year old, burned-out ex-cop trying to do the work of fresh-faced twenty-six year olds bursting with idealism and boundless energy. And I have to watch my step, because a doctor widely known to be in a same-sex relationship would have a hell of a time making it in Emergency Medicine in this current climate. With all my time spent swimming upstream and trying to avoid rocks, what the hell good am I to my patients?"
He does alot of good, but sometimes the situation seems to overwhelming that Hutch forgets. It's up to Starsky to try to explain things to him. And just when things are semi-calm again, the phone rings and Hutch is called in on a case that affects them both. Dobey's having a heart episode. It's up to Hutch to save their former captain, their friend. And even when one crisis ends, another begins. Added to the situation is the fact that Hutch's immediate supervisor was Starsky's doctor during Gunther. Hutch both appreciates him for saving Starsky's life and resents him for making his own miserable. It's a constant fight to keep his head above water and sometimes Hutch may feel like he's drowning, but Starsky's there beside him always.
Affirmation
Affirmation II: Life and Death