I am so happy you're requesting fic in these fandoms! And pleased to know that you dig Alesha Phillips/James Steel too. I recall liking them rather a lot when I watched series 1, but all the 'shippy talk I met with online seemed to pair her with Jamie Bamber's character. :( I get the attraction of two young, beautiful people hooking up, but Alesha/James just has so much more going on! And Bamer's character should totally hook up with his older female DI played by the sexy and formidable Harriet Walter, darnit ;)
I {heart} Alesha/James. Largely b/c, while I find Bamber totally hot, I don't always find the character sympathetic, although I wouldn't say no to some Alesha/James/Matt. But I *loved* the James Steel actor in The State Within, and of course loved Martha in New Who, so it was easy to just transfer those. And the characters have such quiet but intense respect for each other and confidence in each other. I kept waiting for the show to do something with them that would upset me - James treating her as a subordinate or diminishing her contributions - but no! They are partners for serious. And how fantastic is that!
(I never even thought about Bamber and Walters' characters - but you may have something there)
I loved Harriet Walters when she played Ms. Vane in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, so I was very happy to see her. And I secretly craved Roslin/Lee in BSG, so my brain was already wired to think of him with a female authority figure. And I got to thinking about how hot and wrong it could be. Because they'd both be afraid of how sleeping together would make them look--her thinking it would look like an abuse of power and very aware that, while older men with younger women look virile, older women with younger men just get thought pathetic, and him both somewhat satisfied at the idea of giving his female boss a good seeing to, but worried about coming across like a punk who sleeps with his boss to get ahead--and the trajectory of a thing that starts out as lust and both people unexpectedly find comfort in it too but end up having to let go of it because of their fears totally turned my head
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I {heart} Alesha/James. Largely b/c, while I find Bamber totally hot, I don't always find the character sympathetic, although I wouldn't say no to some Alesha/James/Matt. But I *loved* the James Steel actor in The State Within, and of course loved Martha in New Who, so it was easy to just transfer those. And the characters have such quiet but intense respect for each other and confidence in each other. I kept waiting for the show to do something with them that would upset me - James treating her as a subordinate or diminishing her contributions - but no! They are partners for serious. And how fantastic is that!
(I never even thought about Bamber and Walters' characters - but you may have something there)
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