Life on Mars Drabble: Assurance

[kat_lair]

First of phemie’s three drabbles, the rest later.

Life on Mars – Gen – G

Assurance
(prompt: the car)

 

“Looking for these?”

Sam knocks his head painfully on the underside of the desk, straightening gingerly.

Phyllis is standing on the other side of the reception, eyebrow cocked, a set of car keys dangling from one sturdy finger.

“Oh thank God,” Sam says. “I must've dropped them somewhere. I thought you might have a spare.”

“You didn’t drop them. The Guv took the car to the shop.”

“Why?” Sam frowns. “There was nothing wrong with it.”

Phyllis shrugs. “He muttered something about loose brakes and stupid DIs getting themselves killed.” She tosses the keys to Sam. “Apparently it’s fixed now.”

 

Comments

[phemie.livejournal.com]

Aaww, that is absolutely lovely! Thank you so much! :)

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

*gg* You're very welcome, glad you liked hun.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Nice. Pedantic note: brakes, I think?

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And oops! *headdesk*

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

*hugs Sam*

Very nice!

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Sam is in need of hugs even if he doesn't know it. Thank you!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Awwww!
See, AtoA isn't going to inspire posts like this. (Watched it after you'd gone and don't think I'll bother with next week).

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I needed something to console myself with. The whole Sam plot was pretty heart-breaking... I will definitely watch rest of A2A but doubt I'll get very fannish about it. Still, there is the promise of Chris is full 80s Adam Ant type make-up...

[culf.livejournal.com]

*cries*
Some part of me can't help think that this is just a fantasy of Gene's, in the way everyone who's ever lost someone fantasises about going back and stopping it from happening somehow.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

*offers tissues*
I know what you mean. That scene in A2A with the newspaper clipping on the wall and Gene downing a drink... I may have almost cried there.

[claudia-writes.livejournal.com]

now I've been maning to ask this for a while, and as you are the go-to person on my flist:

Can you rec me some Life on Mars slash?

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I am going to cheat and point you toward other people's recs.

m31andy recced LOM on crack_van not too long ago. All recs in comm's memories here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=crack_van&keyword=Life+on+Mars+Fanfic+Recs&filter=all)

A while back lozenger8 ran a recommendations fortnight (http://community.livejournal.com/lifein1973/tag/recommendations+fortnight) over on lifein1973

Enjoy!

[smiley-nat.livejournal.com]

Color me sad. :( Also, I must see that part of A2A with Gene looking at the Sam picture. Is there anywhere I can find it on the net?

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Awww. *offers tissues* I have no idea about the clip... Try checking the youtube or asking at a2ashes or possibly genehunt