Cabin Pressure Fic: Harry the Hippo Likes Butter and Cheese

[oxoniensis]

Finally getting around to posting my yuletide stories. Here's my first one (my official one), which I had a blast writing. Even fitting in my recipient's love of handcuffs was oddly easy, thanks to Douglas being Douglas!

Title: Harry the Hippo Likes Butter and Cheese
Fandom: Cabin Pressure
Characters: Douglas, Martin, Arthur, Carolyn
Rating: PG-13
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Comments

[arianedevere]

Excellent! Really IC and funny!

(And there was me thinking it was Jay Kay ...)

[oxoniensis]

Thank you! I had fun writing it, so I'm glad it was fun to read.

Hah, I decided to go with a fictional character, but yes, Jay Kay could have fitted!

[sarah_a67]

Brilliant!

Loved this, it reads like it could be an episode and made me laugh out loud a few times.

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Hehe! Great idea.

[oxoniensis]

Aww, thank you - I'm so glad it made you laugh!

[persiflage_1]

For a horrible minute I thought I'd gone completely mad - or was having really bad deja vu, thinking "I've already read this - weeks ago - surely?"

And, in fact I had - I'd actually *forgotten* I'd beta-read it because work has been so utterly manic!

*bangs head against wall*

[oxoniensis]

Well, in your defense, it's over a month since you read it, and I did change quite a lot since then... *g*

Hope work calms down for you soon!

[persiflage_1]

Heh, okay then - I feel less of an idiot now...

Work should calm down after the weekend (when my boss returns from his FIVE WEEK trip home to Pakistan! I'm taking the week off next week, and then I'll be back to working 13 hours a week, not 9 hours a day!)

[oxoniensis]

Ah, now I'm envious because 9 hour days are my norm! Never enough time for fun stuff.

[melodywilde]

Brilliant! You've made my afternoon--thanks for sharing this wonderful, funny, and so plausible story.

[oxoniensis]

So glad you enjoyed it! And I'm really happy it seemed plausible - I wanted to feel like it could be part of an episode.

[applebeing]

The games are one of my favourite parts of Cabin Pressure, and I love yours, too. Another is their voices, and I can hear those clear as a bell.

There's also something quite appealing about the image in my head of poor Martin in his predicament...

[oxoniensis]

Thank you! I played the episodes a lot in the car in the week I was writing this, to try and get their voices really clear, so I'm ever so pleased it worked!

Hah, poor Martin. But yes, I know what you mean...