katikat | Fic rec: Houston Knights

"Not a Place" by Allaire. Lundy/LaFiamma. Summary: Set after the episode "Bad Girl", Joe LaFiamma discovers he can't deal with the loneliness anymore, because home is not a place - it's people, and that's the connection he's been missing desperately. Length: 6100 words.

His decision to join the police had come as a total shock to all of them. During his whole training, he and uncle Mickey hadn't exchanged a single word, and the atmosphere at home had been icy, to say the least. After they'd appointed him patrolman, Szabo had razzed him the whole time to break all contact with the family, taking the same line his mother had taken all those years ago, asking him how in God's name he could accept presents for his birthday or Christmas, how he could accept anything that had most likely tears or even blood sticking to it... he hadn't had an answer back then, and he still didn't have one now. //But I love them!//, he had screamed at his partner back then, //they are my family!//

Even though LaFiamma is too much of a woobie for my liking in this one, I still enjoyed the fic a lot. And it made me realize just how much I miss this show. Why can't they bring it out on DVD? *pouts*