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Yesterday, I wrote:

"I have a strange desire to write fic where Sirius, Remus and James go to a Brian Slade concert and meet Giles and Ethan and a young Daniel Jackson who help them gatecrash a party hosted by Anthony J. Crowley, at which point they all get arrested by Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt for indecent exposure and the Doctor and Rose have to save the day."

And not only did you agree, you bunch of crack-addled lunatics, you ENCOURAGED ME.

Ficlet:: Momentary Seizure of Love
by Raven
PG, gen, HP/BtVS/Velvet Goldmine/Good Omens/Stargate SG-1/Doctor Who/Life On Mars (ohgod)

“Put ‘em all under arrest,” Hunt had said, so Sam was putting them all under arrest. It seemed like the easiest thing to do. With a feeling this wasn’t going to help his own head, he marched to the door and flicked on the light switch.

There was a collective heartfelt groan. Seven people shaded their eyes at once and stared very resolutely at the carpet or at the ceiling or at anything else in the room that wasn’t naked or covered in glitter. Sam wondered vaguely if being naked and covered in glitter qualified as resisting arrest.

Closest to the door, and possibly with the most clothes, were three teenage boys of about the same age, wearing clunky, black leather boots, ripped t-shirts and smudged eyeliner. Two of them had dog collars. Despite his approaching presence, they were busy having a heated argument.

“No, we can’t! It doesn’t matter if we get arrested...”

“Moony, you’re gonna have to run that by me again, because I think you just said that it doesn’t matter if we get arrested. My parents are going to hit the roof.”

“So are mine.” The third speaker, with the long black hair and surprisingly long eyelashes, was the most louche of the three. “Let’s do it.”

“Not all of us have the luxury of pissing off our families, Sirius!” The middle one was getting angrier. “Moony...”

“You interrupted me.” The first speaker – pale, thin, with long, shaggy brown hair that seemed to be permanently hanging in his eyes – had dropped his voice, but made it clear he expected to be listened to. “It doesn’t matter if we get arrested if you compare it to getting expelled! We’re not of age yet. Two months off, I grant you, but we still can’t do magic outside of school!”

Sam, who had been momentarily transfixed by the idea of a school that allowed magic mushrooms on its premises only, moved forwards. “I’m arresting you,” he said clearly, “on grounds of indecent exposure and possession with intent to supply of Class A…”

“Tyler!” came an approaching voice from outside the door. “Get the fuck on with it!”

Sam gave up. “You’re nicked. Are you going to make this easy for me, or will there have to be gratuitous violence?”

The three submitted with little resistance, and only the slightest bit of melodrama from the one with the dark hair, as his pale wrists were encircled by cuffs. “None of that,” Sam warned, as he whimpered in mock-pain. With a glance at his dog-collared friend, also resolutely cuffed, he murmured, “You’re probably used to it by now, anyway…”

The next lot, Sam decided, definitely qualified as resisting arrest. There were two of them, a well-entangled pair, and while one was fully dressed, with flared jeans and a leather jacket not unlike Sam’s own, the other was stark bloody naked and didn’t seem to have noticed. “Hello, officer,” he purred, from his altogether too comfortable position sprawled out on the floor. “Are you here to tell us we’ve been naughty?”

“Shut up, Ethan,” said the other, brow furrowed. He stood up. “Listen, mate, I think I ought to warn you: you’re going to find it very difficult to arrest me.”

It was a sixth sense coppers had, that something was about to kick off, but Sam reckoned you didn’t need ESP to know this bloke was trouble. But before he could do anything about it, the door burst open and DCI Gene Hunt strode in. “Right, boys and girls and boys what look like girls! You’d better have a bloody good explanation for this, if you don’t want to be sharing cells down the station with blokes who haven’t had girlfriends in a while, know what I’m saying? Come on! Up you get!”

“What,” said Sam’s newest friend, “the fuck is that?”

Sam lost his patience. “That,” he hissed, lifting the man up by the collar and pushing him against the wall, “is my superior officer. And I tell you something: he’s not a nice man when he’s pissed off and believe me he is extremely pissed off. Now, are you going to come quietly?”

His face two inches from Sam’s, the man nodded.

“Right. Give us your name and address, make your mate put some clothes on and we can finish up this whole sorry situation.”

“Rupert Giles.” He smirked. “Balliol College, Oxford. And that’s Ethan down there. Now I’d appreciate it if you’d let me down, officer.”

Sam cuffed him and let him go, deciding not to worry about the issue of the man’s wildly mutating accent, and turned him over to Hunt. Before he could get to the next set of people to wave handcuffs at, he was distracted by a movement in a corner. Something – or someone – was there, hidden by the darker shadows close to the wall. As Sam watched, someone emerged from under a pile of blankets. He moved closer.

It was a boy. On Sam’s reckoning, he couldn’t be more than fifteen, and was probably closer to twelve. He was wearing glasses over large, frightened blue eyes. Sam took a deep breath. “Listen, kid,” he said softly, “What’s your name?”

“Daniel.” His accent wasn’t local, either.

“Right.” Sam nodded. “Well, listen to this, Daniel: I don’t know why or how you’ve ended up here, or what you’re planning to do now or what, but I’m not in the habit of arresting little ones. Get out of here, now, before there’s trouble. Scram.”

After a long pause spent blankly staring, the kid came to his senses. He nodded his thanks and ran for it.

Sam sighed, again, and moved on. And stopped. “Guv,” he said softly.

“What is it, Tyler?” Gene drifted to his side from where he had been shepherding people towards the landing.

“That one, there,” Sam said, pointing to one of the detainees Gene had been handcuffing. “That’s Brian Slade!”

It didn’t quite have the effect he’d been expecting. “Who?”

“Brian Slade! He disappeared… I mean, he’s going to disappear, and I was only a kid but I remember it…”

“Tyler.” Gene stared at him. “I don’t know if you’re aware, but you are a fucking lunatic. Get ‘em all cuffed up and downstairs, now.”

He stormed out. Undaunted, Sam approached the man with the blue hair and bored expression. “I’m a big fan,” he said quietly. “And look, there’s this concert, Death of Glitter, and just… you know. Don’t fake your own death, it isn’t a good idea.”

“Don’t waste your time,” said a voice from behind him, and Sam turned to see a man dressed all in black, wearing sunglasses despite the dimness of the room. “He’s out of it. Been high as a kite for a couple of days now. Yes, even when on stage. Oh, are you a policeman? Was I not supposed to tell you that? Oops.”

Sam blinked. “We’ll be taking statements down at the station, Mr.…”

“Crowley.”

“Crowley, yeah. In the meantime, you’re nicked.”

It was surprisingly difficult to restrain him – although he didn’t resist, so to speak, the handcuffs insisted on coming spontaneously unlocked and bouncing across the room - but at length, it was done. Brian Slade was almost catatonic, and Sam didn’t actually believe it was worth the effort of adding him to the increasing pile of handcuffed people.

“SAM!” yelled a voice from below. “Have you got ‘em all?”

Sam nodded to himself, taking a moment to look at the three glittery glam rockers, the leather-jacket-wearing man with the mutating accent (who had handed over his jacket to his formerly naked friend), the space where the kid had been, Brian Slade and his sunglassed keeper, and tried for a long, desperate moment, to wake up. He could do with some TLC at this moment, he decided; a nice white room, no windows, lots of liquid food and tranquilisers. It might do him some good.

But it didn’t happen. Sighing, he took a step out of the door and called, “Got them!” He was waiting for Gene to get back upstairs when something very close at hand went vworp. Then it went thud. Then it went vworp again.

After a few confused seconds, a blue police box materialised with a further thump in the middle of the room. There was dead silence for about a minute. Then the door opened, and out stepped a girl in a pink hoodie and a man in pinstripes. “Hello,” he said cheerfully. “I’m the Doctor. Are you Sam Tyler?”

Wordlessly, Sam nodded.

“I’ve come to take you home. Oh, hello, Remus. What are you doing here?”

The boy who answered to the name was the one with the dog collar and the shaggy hair. “Um… who are you?” he asked. “What’s going on?”

The Doctor smacked his head, comically. “Oh, I am sorry, I’m jumping the gun a bit. You are Remus Lupin?”

Remus nodded. He seemed as gobsmacked as everyone else.

“Yes, well, I haven’t met you yet. And you, Mr. Giles – haven’t met you either, though I rather think this is that phase you keep telling me about. Daniel, what are you doing so far from home?”

The kid – who had reappeared from somewhere, Sam was displeased to note – didn’t seem as nervous, this time. “Won a radio phone-in contest,” he whispered. “Concert tickets.”

“Ah, I see. And this is the...”

“After-show party,” Crowley finished. There was something very unsettling about his smile. “Or debauch. Or bacchanalia. I lose track of the terminology.”

The Doctor nodded. “Ah,” he said again, and seemed ready to say something else before he froze, transfixed, as though having just received an electric shock. “Is that,” he whispered, “is that Brian Slade?”

When no one replied, Sam felt called upon to answer. “I think it is,” he said. “He’s a little out of things right now.”

“I was such a fan...” The Doctor carried on staring for a few moments more before putting himself back together. “Right. Where was I? Sam, yes. I’m here to help you. You haven’t asked me to help you yet, but it’ll work out in the end. Now, where do you want to go? March 2006, isn’t it?”

Before Sam could reply, Giles stood up, looking calculating. “If you’re providing transportation, sir, I would be very much interested.”

“What?” The Doctor looked up. “Oh, of course, why not. Come on in. Don’t worry, she’s bigger on the inside than the outside.”

As everyone’s eyes turned to the police box, the girl spoke for the first time. “Doctor, they’re all in handcuffs. Are you sure this is such a good...”

“Rose, you don’t have to be so suspicious. I’m sure they’re all lovely people.”

“I’m sure,” she said, weakly, but no-one moved towards the door. Instead, they all turned to look at Sam.

Sam blinked. “Don’t ask me, I’m in a coma.”

“Yes,” said the Doctor patiently, “but you have the keys to their handcuffs.”

Five minutes later, DCI Hunt came storming back upstairs, but the room was empty. Five minutes after that Remus Lupin woke up in a rosebush in Oxford.

“Moony,” called a voice. “Moony, if you don’t get me out of these nettles I will cry.”

“And why?” demanded someone else, “am I in a tree?”

Remus decided, almost absent-mindedly, that it was time he did some magic.

At about the same time Rupert Giles realised he was alone in a strange, bleak, alien-looking city with bizarre ornate designs on the sides of buildings. “Where...” he began.

“Fucking hell,” came Ethan’s voice from somewhere behind. “Fucking poncy southerners never been north of Watford Junction...”

Coming from a man naked except for a leather jacket, Giles thought this was a little much, but he followed.

Daniel woke up in bed in New York. He was pretty sure it had all been a dream, but he never did manage to explain the dog collar and lead.

“Aziraphale!” Crowley called into the bookshop. “Aziraphale, is it all right if I put a smashed glam rocker to bed in your kitchen?”

Aziraphale appeared, yawning sleepily and wearing a nightcap. “Of course it is, my dear. Does he want a cup of tea?”

Sam Tyler woke up in 2039.

“You see,” said the Doctor, rubbing his hands together, “there’s nothing like a job well done.”

Rose smiled and said nothing.

finis

Anyone want to write about what happened before or after, I'm all for it!
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on 2006-03-22 08:55 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] hathy-col.livejournal.com
I may, in fact, love you.

You have just made the Islamic Conquest of Al-Andalus much more interesting, with what may be the side effect of me howling wih laughter for no good reason throughout my presentation tomorrow. Brilliance!

on 2006-03-22 09:11 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Hee, thanks! *g* I won't ask what the Islamic Conquest of Al-Andalus is. I shall revel in my ignorance.

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on 2006-03-22 09:05 pm (UTC)
jessikast: (Authority slut)
Posted by [personal profile] jessikast
This. is. brilliant. It's cross-over heaven! I've never seen Life on Mars, but I love all the other fandoms, so this is entirely squee. :-)

(The only thing I find odd is your Daniel, simply because I've read Dr Jackson's Diary by Anais rather too many times, in which everybody spends a few weeks getting younger, and teenage Daniel is....um....leather jackets, safety pins as earrings, swearing in too many languages and a right little shit. It's hilarious, and now I simply can't buy teenage Daniel as a good boy. :-) )

on 2006-03-22 09:08 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Glad you like. *g* I've read it too, many times, and Anais' teenage Daniel is a joy to read. Actually, my Daniel here is based on the [livejournal.com profile] pegasus_b young Daniel, who is a shy, benignly misanthropic teenager who eventually ends up in Oxford.

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on 2006-03-22 09:14 pm (UTC)
ext_8938: (Life on Mars - Sam BBC Love)
Posted by [identity profile] versaphile.livejournal.com
Holy christ. *dies*

Sam gave up. “You’re nicked."

Sam cuffed him and let him go, deciding not to worry about the issue of the man’s wildly mutating accent, and turned him over to Hunt.

“Tyler.” Gene stared at him. “I don’t know if you’re aware, but you are a fucking lunatic. Get ‘em all cuffed up and downstairs, now.”

It was surprisingly difficult to restrain him – although he didn’t resist, so to speak, the handcuffs insisted on coming spontaneously unlocked and bouncing across the room - but at length, it was done.

Sam blinked. “Don’t ask me, I’m in a coma.”

“Yes,” said the Doctor patiently, “but you have the keys to their handcuffs.”

Sam Tyler woke up in 2039.

“You see,” said the Doctor, rubbing his hands together, “there’s nothing like a job well done.”


You are INSANE.

on 2006-03-22 09:30 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
So I've been told before. *g* Thanks.

on 2006-03-22 09:17 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com
I tried to come up with a review here. Mostly I just burst out laughing a lot, in an incoherent and overwhelmed sort of way. That might have to do. :)

on 2006-03-22 09:21 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com
(And I'm even not all the way through Life on Mars yet, but I love how you echoed that way everyone seems to have of sidling around the truth of this coma business....)

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on 2006-03-22 09:26 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rosariotijeras.livejournal.com
This is just...oh, goodness. *dies* Fantastic job.

on 2006-03-22 09:32 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thanks! *g* I seem to have killed a few people.

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on 2006-03-22 09:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sarah531.livejournal.com
A couple of those fandoms I don't know, but SO MUCH LOVE. XD

on 2006-03-22 10:05 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*g* Glad you liked! Also, icon LOVE.

Brilliant!

on 2006-03-22 09:50 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] anidada.livejournal.com
I adore this, it's such gorgeous crack. *glee*

Re: Brilliant!

on 2006-03-22 10:07 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Crack is the word. Thank you!

on 2006-03-22 10:02 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] minttown1.livejournal.com
Hee. I love it, all the tiny but telling details.

on 2006-03-22 10:07 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*g* Thankee kindly.

on 2006-03-22 10:16 pm (UTC)
cedara: (Doctor_Who:TEN-freshly_regenerated)
Posted by [personal profile] cedara
*snort*

Oh, this is hilarious. I like it.

on 2006-03-22 10:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Glad to hear it. :)

on 2006-03-22 10:21 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com
Great fun:)

on 2006-03-22 10:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thank you! :)

on 2006-03-22 10:25 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] dallin.livejournal.com
My god, it's like the best fandom crack ever. Brilliance.

on 2006-03-22 10:37 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*blushes* Thanks!

on 2006-03-22 10:50 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] poptyping.livejournal.com
Haha, great stuff. I don't think you could get a weirder bunch than that lot! Lol.

“You see,” said the Doctor, rubbing his hands together, “there’s nothing like a job well done."

That line just made it for me! :)

on 2006-03-22 10:57 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Hee, glad you liked it!

It's the time period that gets me. They were all knocking about at about the same time, so it was sort of inevitable they'd all meet, or aybe I need to look at that crack problem everyone says I have. *g*

on 2006-03-22 10:52 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] emerald-embers.livejournal.com
*wants some of the crack you've been smoking*

Darling, that was inspired. *Soooooooooooo* much love for Crowley's handcuffs XD, and just... yay :). And the doctor, woot!

on 2006-03-22 10:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*hands it over before she does something else silly*

So glad you liked it!

on 2006-03-23 01:00 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gr8t-gatsby.livejournal.com
omg, emhen you maniacal genius!!! only you could whip up something so wild...hmmm...whip...

on 2006-03-23 01:11 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] purple-smurf.livejournal.com
You are insane and wonderful. And I think I may love it a little more than I should.

on 2006-03-23 02:33 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*laughs* Thank you. I may well have turned in my certificate of sanity with this.

on 2006-03-23 02:33 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] drakyndra.livejournal.com
That...is fabulous. I'm not particularly familiar with Velvet Goldmine or Life on Mars, but even so, the crack is all fantabulous!

*wants more*

on 2006-03-23 02:34 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*g* Thank you! I am waiting for someone else to write the next bit, or possibly the prequel. I'm keeping my own sanity for now, I might need it later.

on 2006-03-23 02:36 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] ra-sar.livejournal.com
I only know 4 of the 7 fandoms represented in this fic but what I did understand leads me to believe you're a genius. *applauds the insanity*

on 2006-03-23 02:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*laughs* Thank you! I am insane, I know.

on 2006-03-23 10:11 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] amchau.livejournal.com
You appear to be on the good crack, my dear. *uses icon from an unrepresented fandom*

I adore the idea that the Doctor was a Brian Slade fan. Can we please make the Master a Curt Wild fan?

on 2006-03-23 02:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Yes, yes we can, for that would finally explain the rift between them! They had a tiff in the early seventies at Death of Glitter and nothing's ever been the same since!

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on 2006-03-23 11:37 am (UTC)
tau_sigma: (Boggling Four)
Posted by [personal profile] tau_sigma
“It doesn’t matter if we get arrested if you compare it to getting expelled! We’re not of age yet. Two months off, I grant you, but we still can’t do magic outside of school!”

Sam, who had been momentarily transfixed by the idea of a school that allowed magic mushrooms on its premises only, moved forwards.


Glee! Wonderful, absolutely insane, even though I haven't seen Life on Mars and have probably missed things. (And, btw, from what you've said about Life on Mars I'm going to have to end up watching it sometime.)

on 2006-03-23 02:37 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Life On Mars can be summed up thus: seventies cop show in which main protagonist is in a coma. I doubt you missed a thing.

Am v. pleased you liked it, though not so sure I'm doing my rep any good... *g*

on 2006-03-23 12:32 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] ex-artbox613.livejournal.com
Right, boys and girls and boys what look like girls!

So.Gene.Hunt. *applauds*

on 2006-03-23 02:37 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Gleee! Thank you!

on 2006-03-23 05:07 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] emiloy.livejournal.com
ohh that's bloody wonderful that is!!! Couldn't stop laughing! Glad I just finished reading Good Omens today ^^ all the better!
bloody brilliant!!!
w00t!

on 2006-03-23 08:55 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it. And Good Omens should be required reading for everyone. *g*

on 2006-03-23 08:21 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] chains-of-irony.livejournal.com
Oh God, I love you to death. And beyond.

"HP/BtVS/Velvet Goldmine/Good Omens/Stargate SG-1/Doctor Who/Life On Mars" Just says it all, really, doesn't it?

Things I love: Crowley's handcuffs, ickle!Daniel, the dog collars, Sirius wanting to annoy his parents (Shoeboxlove!), 'debauch', Ethan naked on the floor, oh, everything!!

Bit that made me laugh the most: "He was waiting for Gene to get back upstairs when something very close at hand went vworp. Then it went thud. Then it went vworp again."

Why did it make me laugh the most? I don't know. O_o I'm in a strange mood.

There is TOO MUCH SQUEE in this fic. It's a physical impossibility. I think you may just cause doomsday, or something.

xxx

P.S. But which fandom icon to use? Oh, the choices!

on 2006-03-23 08:57 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Gleee! I'm so glad you liked it. I probably wouldn't have written it if you hadn't been so persuasive.

I have decided to play safe and use one of my few non-fandom icons. :)

on 2006-03-23 08:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] flurblewig.livejournal.com
OMG that was glorious! Fantastic stuff!

on 2006-03-23 08:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thanks! *g*

(and I love your icon!)

STILL stalking your LJ

on 2006-03-23 08:56 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] tmpe5t.livejournal.com
Serves you right for writing about girl!doctors... :-D
That was fun, write more stuff!! :-P

Re: STILL stalking your LJ

on 2006-03-23 08:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thank you. :)

on 2006-03-24 01:35 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] the-acrobat.livejournal.com
I love this fic. Love it, love it, love it. Congratulations you for managing to fit everyone in and making it work! You are my favourite writer ever.

I would have responded right away with squee, but I wanted to make you this. Comment fic:

At four a.m., the city was as still and quiet as it ever could be, the day's roar lulled to a dull hum. Daniel couldn't sleep so he was lying, glasses off, on his back on the hardwood floor, listening to the radio turned so low he could barely hear it, trying not to wake up anyone else in the house. It wasn't that he thought they'd be overly concerned that he was awake, but that they were likely to be irate about his having woken them up. He didn't want to draw attention to himself.

It was a program of contemporary music, hosted by Rufus Finkelman, who had a voice like velvet ("une voix de velours," Daniel whispered to himself), slow and smooth and clear, and was a bottomless source musical knowledge. Rufus, it seemed, had been present at every significant moment in rock music, and he told stories about it on his radio show. Daniel listened to him whenever he couldn't sleep, which was almost too often to be healthy.

Daniel had seen photographs of Rufus in magazines - a thin man with sharp features, always dressed in tight jeans and a leather jacket, black eyeliner, glitter, leanging against a wall smoking a cigarette, conveying grace even in stillness, or sitting on a park bench reading. Reading.

Yes, Daniel had a bit of a crush.

"Eine Stimme mögen Samt," Daniel whispered. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Sometimes at weekends or when he was at home alone he would smear on eyeliner, and sprinkle himself with glitter, trying to be as beautiful as that voice.

"And that was Brian Slade with The Ballad of Maxwell Demon," Rufus purred into the microphone. Daniel smiled, his ear next to the speaker. "And I have tickets for an all-expenses paid trip to see Brian in England for the first person to call in and tell me what his first band was called."

Before he knew it, Daniel was on his feet, rushing to the kitchen, dialing the phone.

"Come on, come on, come on," he thought, as it rang.

"We have Daniel Jackson on the line," said Rufus, "Daniel is going to tell us what Brian Slade's first band was called. Go ahead, Mr. Jackson."

Daniel's throat was dry. Suddenly, he found himself unable to speak.

"Mr. Jackson?"

"The answer to your question," said Daniel, barely above a whispher, "Is The Venus in Furs."

"What was that?" asked Rufus, "I think we have a bad connection, Mr. Jackson. Could you repeat that a little louder?" Oh, that voice, that voice was like honey.

"The answer to your question," said Daniel, louder now, "Is the Venus in Furs. It's a book by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and a Velvet Underground song..."

"Congratulations, Mr. Jackson! You have just won a trip to England."

"Thanks," said Daniel, "Thank you, Rufus."

And then Rufus said, "Up next, "Life on Mars" by David Bowie," and the technician took down Daniel's contact information, and he was let go. But oh, oh, he ws going to England to see a rock concert, and he had talked to Rufus Finkelman on the phone, and could life possibly get any better?

"Merci Rufus, voix de velours," Daniel whispered, then he crawled into his bed, curled up with his portable radio on his pillow next to his ear, and fell asleep.

on 2006-03-24 05:54 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thank you! For your lovely words, and your beautiful, beautiful fic! Oh, Daniel. I love him here. Poor, baby orphaned Daniel! And his talent for languages and his sweet baby crush and omg Venus in Furs and Velvet Goldmine and the LoM reference... how can there be so much brilliance into such a tiny space? I loved it so much.

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