Where All The Lost Spooks Go fic

[dweomeroflight]

Title: Where All The Lost Spooks Go
Fandom: Spooks
Characters: Ruth/Tom, set just after 5.5
Word Count: 2155 words
Rating: PG
Notes: Chapter Two- Ruth takes on the second stage of her AU post 5.5 journey

Comments

[lost_spook]

Aw. It continues to be very good! :-)

[dweomeroflight]

Thanks! Still figuring out how to give you an appearance without compromising fic integrity ;)

I love Tom/Ruth!

[lost_spook]

:lol: But I told you - I'd be rubbish in Spooks! *hides*

There's something about Tom/Ruth. One day, I really will have to write an AU apocalypse Tom/Ruth. Someone wrote me a lovely ficlet, but I still have the itch. One day when I rewatch Spooks, who knows?

(Seeing the comments below, that there aren't many Ruth/Tom fics, but there are three on AO3

[dweomeroflight]

Rubbish... maybe. I'll find out, won't I!

Nia, Nightbulbs and I are planning a Spooks 1-7 rewatch, one episode a week from this June/July. Join us!!!

Three is nothing LOL. BUT YAY!

[nightbulbs]

Oh, Tom. So glad you wrote an entire chapter about him. There was never enough Tom fic online :)

She thought back to times sitting next to each other on London benches. Had she imagined his look, that suggestion of something more?
I think I shipped it at some point! Then again I shipped Tom with pretty much everyone.

[dweomeroflight]

I had forgotten until I started ficing and then I remembered that I shipped them in s2.

I actually can't wait to re-watch those early series!

I don't know. In later series they brought Ruth back with this mental melodramatic story to give her angst, but now I write this fic, I realise the angst was always there. Weird. Oh Ruth. I always loved her so.

[nightbulbs]

I saw Ruth's angstier eps (post-Danny and S8) before I saw her early days s2 eps. What breaks my heart is how hopeful and enthusiastic she is at first, and how it keeps getting downhill from there :(

[dweomeroflight]

I know! It's heartbreaking. She was such a wonderful character- such the beating heart, alongside Zoe, imo.

[lillianschild]

I agree with nightbulbs when she says there has never been enough Tom fic. It's really hard to come by, and I still can't figure out why; Matthew did such a great job with him.

Tom's the next-best-thing for a die-hard Lucas fan such as myself, so I hope there will be more of him.

Really enjoyed what you've written so far.

[dweomeroflight]

You are both so right! I went on fanfic.net after nightbulbs said that and the only Ruth/Tom fic is mine! (?) Then again, anyone who doesn't fic ruth/harry is pretty unpopular on spooks ff.net as I often discover. That's why I like lj better.

Who knows who else will turn up. Keep your cool!

Thanks for another lovely comment!!

[lillianschild]

Then again, anyone who doesn't fic ruth/harry is pretty unpopular on spooks ff.net as I often discover. That's why I like lj better.

Oh, yes, I know what you mean! I remember a poster who commented on the first couple of chapters of my Lucas/OC fic "A Voice in the Dark" on ff.net when she assumed Harry might be romantically interested in my OC because of his innocuously describing her as a lovely young woman.

Being a Ruth/Harry shipper, she considered the mere thought of such an interest a capital crime. lol Of course, the pairing she dreaded couldn't be further from my plans.

[dweomeroflight]

I got negative reviews just because I had Ruth dump Harry/because I had Ruth go off with a guy I invented in an Au once. Or there was the time I wrote Elena coming to talk to Ruth and then Ruth quit the service... good times ;)

Believe it or not, I used to be a hardcore Harry/Ruth shipper and then I got kinda annoyed on the forums because every time I tried to discuss other characters, the threads would get hijacked to discuss Harry/Ruth yet again and post 8.1 I kinda disliked Harry. By s9 I outright hated him. Still not sure what I'm going to do with Harry in this au.

It was pretty much the best when I discovered spooky_doings and fics that were actually good ;)