Comments | vice_fic: Fic: Come Talk to Me (Switek/Zito, PG)

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Fic: Come Talk to Me (Switek/Zito, PG)

Oct 22, 2009 20:21

Title:Come Talk to Me
Rating, genre: PG, slash
Pairing: Switek/Zito
Spoilers/Warnings: For major event in Season 3
Author's Notes: Written as part of a conversation with tinx_r and romankate.
Summary: A few years after the events of Season 5, Stan Switek takes stock of his life. With his best friend's help.

( When Trudy'd made lieutenant, she hadn't come right out and said it, but-- )

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Comments 14

little_tristan October 23 2009, 01:50:54 UTC

Wow, older and dead. This is really heartbreaking and I don't even know the couple. I have to start watching this show.:)

oddmonster October 23 2009, 02:00:24 UTC

Thanks! I do love this pairing so very much. Conventionally unattractive, older, and completely tragic, I adore them so entirely. Go for the show!

romankate October 23 2009, 02:45:37 UTC

Good story! It's not a show I've watched much, but I love your treatment of these guys.

*hugs*

oddmonster October 23 2009, 02:51:08 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you liked this! And I highly encourage you to watch the show. I'm biased, of course, but really, it's so lovely.

tinx_r October 23 2009, 03:22:26 UTC

No no, Kate, it's *Riptide* we want to encourage you towards... :D Come on in, the water's fine!

(And it's a nice fic, beloved Odd. Go you! I do enjoy your Vice, even though I've never seen more than maybe 3 eps...)

Nice subtle icon there. oddmonster October 23 2009, 03:27:06 UTC

I do enjoy your Vice, even though I've never seen more than maybe 3 eps...

Thanks! And I can fix the latter part of that statement. Just hold still....

Thread 5

valis2 October 23 2009, 02:57:18 UTC

Damn, this will never stop being a Damned Tragic Love Story. I remember bawling my eyes out when I saw the s3 ep, and even now it makes me sad.

What really gets to me is watching the later eps--where things happen, and even though Stan's still cracking wise and stuff, there are a few moments where you just go, oh wow, what he's thinking about right now is killer, and watching the other partners go about their business, and...and...yeah. You know what I mean. It's like taking small sips from the bottle of heartache. I love being able to watch the show now and see more layers of it.

The story, of course, is great. You are a fantastic writer, and this is so evocative and...um...haunting. Sorry, it had to be said.

And it's long-hair Larry, too, which fascinates me. heh. The whole story fascinates me. I love how you pack so much into your writing. Even when it's spare it speaks volumes.

oddmonster October 23 2009, 03:33:14 UTC

Thank you! I'm always chuffed you like these guys, because I know this isn't one of your fandoms usually.

Dude, I still cry every time I watch that S3 ep. There's an S5 ep where basically, all of Stan's compulsive alcoholism and gambling's come to light, and Crockett takes his hair over to Stan's house to try to talk to him about it. He says basically, we all love you and we're here for you, we're your partners. And at the word "partner", Stan loses it, just curls up in Crockett's lap and sobs, so apparently that's his trigger word. WHO KNEW?

Thanks very much for the kind words! I'm always excited when you like pieces. Much as I love Riptide, these boys will always be close to my heart.

valis2 October 23 2009, 03:35:54 UTC

Oooh, I haven't seen that ep yet. I just finished the season opener, the two-parter, and it looks like Stan's seen better days. Rico losing Sonny apparently ripped open a few old wounds for him. Poor guy. I really feel for him.

amonitrate October 23 2009, 03:11:35 UTC

I love how you write this pairing. They're so goofball and tragic.

"I can't hear you, I can't hear you!"

"Let me know when that works," Larry called from the living room.

"Will do, buddy." Stan called back, then glared in his partner's direction.

Spot on, spot on.

The lonely feel to the end, the parallels between Stan's fear of sex with Larry at first when he's alive and when he's dead... Larry's shirt... I always say it when you write Stan/Larry, but I love the domesticity of it all.

oddmonster October 23 2009, 03:35:25 UTC

Goofball and tragic is the perfect term for the two of them. They're just so. And a whole ton of that is wound up in--say it with me--THE META. That they have a complicated way of being brought to a home, so to speak: the destruction of Larry's single guy life, the utter wrongness of Darlene, and how the two of them fit together so well in that space.

Domesticity is very much them.

I'm so glad you liked this!

hardboiledbaby October 23 2009, 14:03:00 UTC

One doesn't need to know the fandom to appreciate your writing. Lovely work, very poignant. Great job!

oddmonster October 25 2009, 04:29:31 UTC

(Eek! The comm didn't notify me of your comment! Sorry!)

Thank you very very much. I'm really flattered that you read this story without knowing the fandom. And even more pleased that you enjoyed it. *hugs*