A Time for Change

Fanfiction
Title:	A Time for Change
Author(s):	Charlotte Frost
Date(s):	1994?
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Starsky & Hutch
External Links:	online here
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A Time for Change is a slash Starsky & Hutch story by Charlotte Frost.

It was published in Playfellows #1 and then online.

The Author Comments

When I was a miserable, depressed teenager in the 70’s, watching Starsky & Hutch was about all I cared about. (No VCRs then, so I could only watch “live”.) In between episodes, I’d run the h/c parts over and over in my mind. Sometimes I’d make up my own. I never wrote them down, because I wanted to be a writer, and writing stories based upon TV characters didn’t make any logical sense. (If I’d only known….)

One fantasy that I ran over and over and over again in my mind – for years – was an intense scenario of Starsky finding a badly injured Hutch in a sewer tunnel. Taking him home, because Hutch was too skittish and scared to be in a hospital. Finding a kindly old doctor to make a house call. Trying to soothe a terrified, naked Hutch on the sofa, and letting the doctor work.

If I hadn’t had that scenario to escape to, who knows what would have happened...

Jump to some dozen years later. My career as a Kirk/Spock writer was winding down. One of my editors – who had published most of my K/S stories – was going to do a multi-media zine. Would I do a S&H story for her?

I didn’t think so. My mind wasn’t there. I had maybe 15 episodes on tape, but I hadn’t watched them in a long time. I hadn’t seen the show in years.

Awe, c’mon, she pleaded.

I then realized I could, finally, get that long-time h/c fantasy out of my mind. It would be written down and I could let it go. So, I agreed.

Immediately, I realized a problem. I had fantasized the story so much, that actually writing it down felt like repeating myself for the hundredth time. The writing was laborious, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the story reads that way (though I’ve haven’t heard much about it in all these years since).

I did add one little twist that wouldn’t have occurred to me as a teenager. I put the barest hint of a slash suggestion in the final sentences.

I like the ending.

As for the rest of it, I’m in the dark as to whether it works or not.

For more comments by the author, see The First SH Story, ^{Archived version} [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]