Fic: Not Waving But Drowning

[fiandyfic]

TITLE: Not Waving But Drowning
AUTHOR: Andromeda
FANDOM: Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars
SUMMARY: Nobody heard him, the dead man, but still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.
RATING: Blue Cortina, Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler
WORD COUNT: 550 words
EMAIL: fiandyfic@livejournal.com
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Are at the

Comments

[angeweeks]

Achingly beautiful. I can't say much more than that right now. *sniffles*

[m31andy]

*hugs*

*hands tissues*

Didn't mean to make you cry, hon!

Glad you liked, even if it did make you sniffle.

[space_oddity_75]

I love the way you have portrayed Gene, so lost and lonely and yet still struggling to stay alive. The Alice/Alex parallel is also very interesting. Well done, as usual! :)

[m31andy]

Thank you!

I know it's only fanon that we have Alice, the Test Card Girl, but the similiarities in name did make me boggle slightly!

[marah_sarie]

Oh, I'd also been so hoping that someone would write fic based around temporalgrace's theory, and this was absolutely wonderful. This line in particular gave me chills: "The walls run wet and there is a rushing sound in his head." This whole fic was just beautiful.

[m31andy]

Thanks! It really is a thought-provoking theory and one that does make sense. I'm eternally grateful to temoporalgrace for coming up with it.

[saintvic]

This is beautiful and poetic and almost painful to read. I agree with other that this line is perfect and heart breaking: They left in the wrong order, you see. Sam and the Missus.

[m31andy]

Thank you! Sorry if it was too heart-rending...

[hugglewolf]

This is all kinds of awesome. I've steered well clear of A2A, partly in defiance of anyone taking Sam's place, and partly because I've read it infers Sam's dead, but I had to read this. Poor Gene, now faced with his own choosing to do. Stay or go. And a lovely twist that Alex now has him doubting who is real or imagined.

I especially loved: Sometimes Gene thinks that he's living underwater. The walls run wet and there is a rushing sound in his head. It drowns out conversations, dims sight, slows actions. He struggles to break through this, but the current is so strong, pulling him down into its seductive embrace. because the power of that first paragraph just sets the pace for the rest of it, leaves you in no doubt to how close Gene is to drowning.

[m31andy]

Thanks for reading, especially as you're steering clear of A2A (and I don't blame you for that!)