Impetuous.

Title: There's a Land of Begin Again
Fandom: Life on Mars (UK)
Author: chamekke
Rating: Blue Cortina, PG-13
Word count: 21,660 words.
Warning/s: Secondary character deaths, some violence, but nothing very graphic in either case. Mild medical detail.
Summary: Sam jumps in 2006 — and wakes up as a 12-year-old boy in a 1950 hospital bed.
Notes: Sam & Gene, gen/friendship, AR but not AU. Angst, timey-wimeyness, amnesia. You know: the usual.

Link to story: There's a Land of Begin Again (on AO3)
Link to title song: There's a Land of Begin Again by Vera Lynn (1942)

Many thanks to lozenger8 and draycevixen for their beta'ing and generous encouragement, and to severinne for being a shoulder to cry on ♥ Extra-special gratitude to grassle for editing, proofreading, and Britpicking above and beyond the call of duty. And of course, kisses to hambelandjemima for organising the very first Big Bang challenge so that we can enjoy all these fantastic fics and artwork. Mwah!

Artwork for this fic was furnished by the lovely wolviecat; you can see her illustrations here (note that they do contain spoilers).

And for those who have already read the fic, but wondering about what's "really" going on... here's the DVD commentary :-D

Realised that I never posted my fic to my own LJ. My apologies to everyone who has already seen this posted on the lom_bigbang comm.