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[korilian]

Got a fic in the works!!!
Got a fic in the works It'll be Doctor who/Life on mars, since that's whats being thrown around on the lifein1973 board and quite frankly it looks like to much fun to sit this one out! :) 
Arranged a beta and everything so I have good hope the damn thing will actually get finished!

Life on Mars is finished for the year! Are you shitting me?!?! We only got eight episodes! The coolest show since Buffy and we only got EIGHT episodes!!! *head desk*.

Okay, I'm good. I'll live. *snif* 

Here's a little Life on Mars fic until then.  It's short, it's crap, but it's posted! (do I know how to sell myself of what?!) For those who haven't had the chance to see it yet (I pity you) here's what you need to know;

Modern Manchester cop Sam Tyler has a accident and wakes up in 1973. Everyone beliefs he's the new guy on the force under the Guv,  DCI Gene Hunt. People drink, smoke, curse, beat up suspects and jump over desks. 
Poor Sam suffers from culture shock, misses his I-pod and talks to the telly cuz the telly talks to him. He also solves crimes and flirts with Annie, who we like even though he's clearly meant for his Guv. Presumably he's in a coma...

THIS SHOW IS SLASHERS HEAVEN! To quote the line that will launch a thousand fics:  

Gene: "I think you've forgotten who you're talking to."
Sam: "An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding."
Gene: "You made that sound like a bad thing." 

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Summary: and then one day Sam opened his eyes.
Rating: PG13
Warnings: none

He kept seeing Annie in the faces of Manchester's many brunettes whenever they passed him in their retro get-ups. Sometimes he caught himself staring at the office wall where he knew Gene's latest poster should have been. 

He told himself to get a grip. Waking up in that hospital bed, trapped in tubes and wires should have proven without a doubt that the Manchester police squad from '73 never existed. 
He didn't acknowledge how much that really bothered him.

So it was quite a shock when he woke up on the couch in front of his flat screen tv and found her sitting next to him, as if she'd always been there.

"You were right." She said and smiled that special smile that could light up any room, "A factory does make a nice home."

Annie.

"Don't know if I care for the colours though. It's a little bright don't you think?"

Don't talk back, he thought. You're dreaming and it's high time you got over this.

"Cat got your tongue?"

"You're not here." You're not real." He whispered.

"Not that again Sam." She sounded exasperated. Exactly like the Annie he had come to adore. "When are you gonna let that go? And anyway, I've visited your place lots of time."

When he dared to open his eyes ten minutes later she was gone and he was dismayed to find that above all he felt regret.

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They send him back to the hospital to get checked out after he went off at Phyllis on the police radio.

More tests and scans and sober doctors explaining how an impact with a speeding car may cause lasting brain damage and hallucinations and exactly what his options were.

He'd really had his fill of hospitals between the three months in a coma and then another recovering and then the counseling to help him deal with the fact that the scar on his back meant that he was now short a kidney and oh yes your girlfriend left you and it may be a while till your fit for duty, so he started lying.

He learned to ignore Gene's 'helpful' comments out of nothingness when he had to fight to remain icily civil to some punk they'd picked up from the streets. Acted as if he didn't see Chris in the bathroom mirrors or sweet Annie when she visited at the most  inopportune moments.

Eventually they let him back on the job full time and he also learned to ignore the office gossip that the boss sure had changed. Followed hunches and gut feeling now. 

They stopped as his succes rate went up and anyway, everyone knew that people often came out of a coma with personality changes.

Sam had a pretty good idea why that was.

Only in the privacy of his own home he allowed himself to be what the accident had made him.

A man out of time.

It was easy really.

You just had to leave the telly on. 


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