Standing for Something, Falling for Anything

[lozenger8]

Title: Standing for Something, Falling for Anything
Fandom: Life on Mars
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2,000 words.
Notes: Sam/Gene PWP. I hadn't written Sam/Gene PWP in a really long time and my Big Bang fic is utterly devoid of porn, okay? This came about from a discussion with chamekke, in which I tried to reason that "upstairs inside" meant something more

Comments

[lozenger8]

Hee :D ♥

I do sometimes get The Block, but it's been pretty good this past year!

[randomfandom93]

I'm working on breaking this lurking habit, so...

This? Awesome. Just like all your other work.

Eloquent, somehow focusing on the smallest details and the big picture all at once, with the most and least important details mixing perfectly.

Oh, and hot. Really really hot.

I was just hoping you'd pick up writing LOM Smut again...

[lozenger8]

Thank you :D ♥ It means a lot that you've been compelled to comment.

I suspect I shall always come back to LoM smut at some point.

[sandsdream]

This is gorgeous, and so full of insight that calling it PWP hardly even seems right. Wonderful work! :)

[lozenger8]

♥ Thank you!

[petronelle]

If I had to pick one story to illustrate, "Yes, but of all the characters in the world, why are you stuck on *Gene Hunt*?" I would nominate this one as a short-list contender. You do such a lovely job of getting all his maddening contradictions in there in the first part, all the things about him that are terrible but also not the entire truth.

And then there's the visceral encounter when the contradictions stop mattering for a little while. That felt like it was all one sentence when I was reading it, in a good way; there's no space for thought or reflection at all, and both thought and reflection have been going on entirely too long.

Mind, my vote for the "why *GENE*" story might be slightly biased because chivalry and denial that are simultaneously in character and patently out of place are two of my favorite things, which meant I was beaming at a large amount of this story from the get-go. But that's okay.

[lozenger8]

!! :D Thank you so much.

I suspect this is exactly why I love Gene too. You need his other sides for these qualities to be so significant, but they are so significant. At heart, the Gene I love is the one that's all bastard, and yet somehow completely empathetic.

The one sentence thing was totally what I was going for. No pause for breath or, as you say, thought.

Geeeeeene!

[severinne]

Oh, I really enjoyed that, and not because of the sexy bits - though very sexy they most definitely are - but because you've played Gene's chivalrous, gentlemanly side so convincingly here. It's a side of Gene I really enjoy but don't see in fic very often, so all his reluctance and worry over Sam's virtue was great to see, every bit as much as when he decides it doesn't matter anymore. *g*

Thank you!

[lozenger8]

Thank you ♥

I think I almost always write PWP that's more an exercise in character analysis --- as I would say you do too.