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1. Old Habits Die Screaming by youstupidplonk

   Fandoms: Life on Mars (UK), Life on Mars & Related Fandoms, Ashes to Ashes (UK TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   28 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler
   • Annie Cartwright/Sam Tyler
   • Alex Drake/Gene Hunt
   • Alex Drake & Sam Tyler
   • Gene Hunt
   • Sam Tyler
   • Annie Cartwright
   • Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes)
   • Time Period: 1973-1981 (Life on Mars)
   • Slight Canon Divergence
   • set during life on mars and ashes to ashes
   • Situationships
   • Gene hunt needs to get it together I can't lie
   • sam tyler x gene hunt
   • gene hunt x alex drake
   • annie cartwright x sam tyler
   • Hurt
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Heartbreak
   • Misunderstandings
   • Unhappy Ending
   • Well - Freeform
   • Ambiguity
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Intimacy
   • Gene and Sam don't understand each other
   • Alex doesn't understand Gene but he understands her
   • and still fucks it up
   • we love to see it
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending
   • this was going to be a one shot but I'm tired and need a break
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • This might be ooc but I don't care
   • the inherent tragedy of this dynamic is like crack to me what can I say

   Summary

   Gene Hunt has been guardian of lost coppers long enough to know you don't fall in love with your dead DI.

   That doesn't stop him from doing it twice.

    

   A slight canon divergence with spoilers for the whole of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes following Gene's complicated relationships with the love(s) of his life

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