Title: A Fine Romance by Irmelin
Fandom: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Pairing: Tick/Adam
Categories: Humour, romance, songfic
Length: Medium - 3,220 words
Warning: None
Rating: PG-13


Author on LJ: The girl who just watches

Website: Here on AO3


Summary:The drive back to Sydney is rather different.

Review: I'll start off by saying that I wish this wasn't songfic because I feel the story is plenty strong enough to stand without the lyrics and in fact they seem utterly superfluous. With that out of the way, however, what we have here is a light, sweet sequel to the movie; as I think most viewers would have expected, the relationship between Tick (Hugo Weaving) and Adam (Guy Pearce) begins to develop on the drive home to Sydney as they start to bond into a family unit with Tick's precocious son Benji.

There are a lot of delightful little touches - phoning Bernadette from a run-down gas station, bypassing Coober Pedy, repainting the bus yet again, Tick stealing a fire extinguisher from the hotel - and all the characters are beautifully delineated. It seems, however, as if Adam has done just the smallest amount of growing up during the journey, and he is now desperately keen to protect and support Tick wherever he can; it certainly seems to help, too, that the pair of them have the welfare of young Benji to focus on rather than their own, and there are signs that they might eventually turn into an effective parental unit.

On the whole this is an undemanding feelgood story which doesn't exactly go deep and nor does it contain anything sexually explicit. It merely holds out the hope that there can be a future for Tick, Adam and Benji together as long as they are prepared to reach for it, and that scenario matches beautifully with the vague but ultimately hopeful conclusion of the movie itself.

Link: A Fine Romance