1 x Life on Mars Fic

[delphi]

Paterfamilias by severinne
Fandom: Life on Mars
Ship: Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler
Medium: Fic
Length: 3919 words
Rating: Explicit
My Tags: drama, happy ending, established relationship, jealousy/possessiveness, bdsm, daddy kink, dirty talk, rough sex, altered state
Author's Summary: Gene misinterprets Sam’s daddy issues in the most inappropriate way possible.


Excerpt:

He gripped the kitchen counter at his back, still wobbly at the knees in spite of a rapidly killed buzz, and wondered if this is what Gene had felt, back in the woods.

Seeing Gene properly for the first time since the start of this uneven conversation, Sam could recognize the effects of too much whisky in his stance, in the unrestrained flashing of his eyes. Yet even pissed, Gene had remarkable control, the gun in his hand held steady and sure, the muzzle lightly touching the hollow of his throat without the slightest tremor.

‘Not nice, is it, Sam?’ The barrel traveled slowly up his neck to his jaw, almost caressing in time to Gene’s languid speech. ‘Not nice when someone you trust points a gun at you…’

‘Gene…’

‘But do you trust me? Do you?’

This is a hot, twisty, and feelings-ful story in which Gene mistakes Sam's strange behaviour around Vic Tyler as daddy kink instead of time travel daddy issues and shows up at his flat drunk and emotionally compromised to prove that he can give Sam what he needs. This is the platonic of a character-driven PWP for me, where the smut is compelling and interesting to read on its own but also establishes something equally compelling about each character involved and moves them together from one place at the start of the story to somewhere else entirely by the end of it.

Comments

[corvidology]

It's so lovely to see Sev's name again the wild. Thank you!

[delphi]

I really need to check out more of their work, given how much I love this fic.

[corvidology]

The Life on Mars (UK) fandom produced a lot of excellent fan works, including Sev's. Due to the canon, it was a fandom not afraid to take chances.

You can find most of their work on the old Lifein1973 site on LJ but a lot of it was also saved to the single fandom archive, The Collators' Den, that was imported to AO3 a while ago, here.

Sev also wrote a lot of ST:AOS work that was very well received.

[delphi]

Thanks for the info! I read a fair bit on lifein1973 and the archive back in the day, but it was before I really got into bookmarking. Sam/Gene was one of the handful of times I've ended up on the biggest ship in the fandom and there was just such a wealth of great fanworks that I hardly knew what to do with myself. I'm really glad the Collators' Den ended up going through Open Doors—I think an expedition is in my immediate future. :D

[corvidology]

Enjoy exploring! Given this type of story rec, you might particularly enjoy M31Andy, Darthfi and Mikesgrrl and there's lots more Sev!

It sounds like perhaps you weren't 'active' on the the old LJ com but if you were, I 'used to be' draycevixen back then. *waves*

There's also a LoM com on DW that's pretty inactive except for now and again lovely fan art gets posted there.

[delphi]

draycevixen! I don't think our paths formally crossed in the Life on Mars fandom, but I know I've gushed to you about your Pros fic before! ❤️

[corvidology]

Thank you! That's very kind of you. ♥