Title: Bargain at Any Price & Balance Due
Author: Rosemary/Tira Nog
Fandom: Starsky and Hutch
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch, mention of Hutch/OMC
Categories: hurt/comfort, angst, romance
Length: long (in total)
Warnings: n/a
Author on LJ: tiranog
Website: http://tiranog.southroad.com/

Review:
The basic premise: Starsky, who is secretly in love with Hutch, and has sex with Hutch one night. In the sequel some years later, things finally get resolved.

Rosemary writes some of the best relationship angst - heartbreaking enough to really tug at your emotions but not so overwhelming that you lose the satisfaction and credibility of a fluffy happy ending. Bargain at Any Price and Balance Due are classic pining stories, gorgeous and deft in their execution. Told from Starsky's point of view, the stories do a marvelous job of demonstrating his longing but simultaneously leave you in little doubt that Hutch is in much the same position. Starsky does go through some mental rationalizations that make you want to smack him (and Hutch) upside the head but while it's clear to the reader what's going on, Starsky's obliviousness is not unbelievable either. Rosemary walks a fine balance in that regard but pulls it off with graceful ease.

Angsty, sweet, and plenty schmoopy at the end. A favorite of mine in the pining genre.

A Bargain at Any Price
Balance Due