Julé! 07/31 - LoM Fic: Year of the Cat

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Title: Year of the Cat
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Life of Mars
Pairing:  Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler, Gene Hunt & Sam Tyler
Tags: Gen or Pre-Slash, Cats, Subtext 
Rating: G 
Word count: 2,111

Summary: Tyler,” Gene said, in tones that told Sam he’d already guessed the answer. “Did you adopt some flea-ridden moggy?”

Author notes: Written as a thank you for a beta smallhobbit did for me! The title is borrowed from the song by Al Stewart published in 1976. It has the same dreamlike quality of getting lost 'where they turn back time' and feeling your life 'like a river running through' as the show. The setting of the song (Vietnam) is rather different from 1970s Manchester but the last two verses resonate strongly, just swap the pronouns...

"Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay" © Alistair Ian Stewart, Peter John Wood

Year of the Cat on AO3

( Year of the Cat )

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