Life on Mars/Doctor Who (NC-17)
Title:And What Art
Pairing: Gen
Author on LJ: Draegonhawke
Author Website: n/a
Why this must be read:
Oh, I promised myself faithfully that I wouldn't rec a Life on Mars/Doctor Who cross-over. That's because since John Simm (Sam Tyler in Life on Mars) played the Master in the last series of Doctor Who, the fandom has been swamped by such things, some of them very good, some of them just good.
Unfortunately, I just had to rec this fic. It isn't (unlike most cross-overs in the fandom) cracky. Instead it's deeply horrifying and terrifying and so, so easy to see as a conclusion to Sam's story. Draegonhawke has done a superb job here of melding both series together seamlessly, with a stark narrative style as Sam starts to fall apart for, apparently, no reason.
Excerpt
Sam drags himself into CID and sits at his desk, staring at the paperwork no one would care if he didn't do, and tries to clear his head. For the past few days there's been a low interference humming along underneath his thoughts, and whether it's stress or the future he hasn't been able to tell.
In CID he goes through his duties with the measured pace of one who's given up escape as a fool's dream. He asks himself why--what difference he can make here, when he's dreaming it all up from a bed somewhere thirty years away, and every day he comes up with another answer. All of them are desperate, and none of them ring true.
He's been working here a year now. And despite, or because of, the fact that he's spent so long trying to pull things together, he desperately wants to see it fall apart.
And What Art
Pairing: Gen
Author on LJ: Draegonhawke
Author Website: n/a
Why this must be read:
Oh, I promised myself faithfully that I wouldn't rec a Life on Mars/Doctor Who cross-over. That's because since John Simm (Sam Tyler in Life on Mars) played the Master in the last series of Doctor Who, the fandom has been swamped by such things, some of them very good, some of them just good.
Unfortunately, I just had to rec this fic. It isn't (unlike most cross-overs in the fandom) cracky. Instead it's deeply horrifying and terrifying and so, so easy to see as a conclusion to Sam's story. Draegonhawke has done a superb job here of melding both series together seamlessly, with a stark narrative style as Sam starts to fall apart for, apparently, no reason.
Excerpt
Sam drags himself into CID and sits at his desk, staring at the paperwork no one would care if he didn't do, and tries to clear his head. For the past few days there's been a low interference humming along underneath his thoughts, and whether it's stress or the future he hasn't been able to tell.
In CID he goes through his duties with the measured pace of one who's given up escape as a fool's dream. He asks himself why--what difference he can make here, when he's dreaming it all up from a bed somewhere thirty years away, and every day he comes up with another answer. All of them are desperate, and none of them ring true.
He's been working here a year now. And despite, or because of, the fact that he's spent so long trying to pull things together, he desperately wants to see it fall apart.
And What Art