The Jeweled Carpet

The Jeweled Carpet is an explicit Starsky/Hutch 96-page (47286 words) story by loannia and jat sapphire.
It takes place post-Sweet Revenge, and features an established relationship between Starsky and Hutch. It includes spanking.
The story features the character Tommy Marlowe, the bat-wielding man from the episode "Vendetta" who admitted to killing his family earlier in Indiana, and had become a hired killer and rapist who worked for one of the most repulsive bad guys on the show, Artie Solkin. It was Tommy who broke Hutch's girlfriend's arm and attempted to rape her, causing Abby to leave Hutch.
The fic was allegedly submitted to an issue of Dangerous Lives, Dangerous Visions, a print zine that published controversial Starsky & Hutch stories, but was not accepted, supposedly due to editorial differences.
The story was possibly online for a short time, but exists now only as drawerfic.
==If the Story Had Warnings...==
The fic was written before fans routinely requested warnings. 
There are many, many boundaries crossed regarding Tommy and Hutch's relationship, including elements of psychological age play, consent, child abuse, discussions of sexual abuse of a minor, past-rape, jealously issues, inappropriate psychological boundaries, and extreme violence. The fic has so many triggers, it could be a gun show.
 
==Tommy's Age==
Tommy Marlowe was portrayed by actor Gary Sandy who, two years later, went on to star in WKRP Cincinnati. The actor was 31 years old at the time. 
Tommy's age in the show appeared to have been early-twenties. It is unclear how long Tommy was in the psychiatric hospital but it would have to have been at at least three years, as there is still mention of Starsky having physical therapy from being shot in the last episode of the aired show. 
Hutch treats him as one would a nine-year old, and Tommy's own behavior and speech is that of someone with the mental age of someone under ten. Hutch tousles Tommy's hair, dresses him, bathes him, and tucks him into bed. 
Tommy's age in the story is never mentioned, however, and he is often referred to as a boy, a child, and Hutch calls Tommy "baby." At the very end of the story, Hutch states that Tommy was "a lot older" than nineteen.
==Some Story Elements==
In "The Jeweled Carpet," Tommy is released from the psychiatric hospital and has nowhere to go. He calls Hutch, and Hutch, without asking Starsky, brings Tommy to the home to where he and Starsky live. Hutch becomes Tommy's babysitter and father-figure (Tommy alternately calls Hutch by his last name, and "Daddy"), something that Starsky is very angry about.
Starsky develops an odd relationship with Tommy as well, and is brutally blunt about Tommy's intentions and mental state. He physically assaults Tommy when Tommy refuses to wash the dishes, yet the two of them watch Daffy Duck on television, eat pizza, and play Monopoly like a couple of little kids on a sleepover. Starsky starts to teach Tommy how to fix the Torino. 
From the very beginning, Tommy displays many outwardly disturbing moods and statements; he doesn't remember where he is, he has flashbacks to the night his whole family was murdered, he is intensely jealous of the relationship between Hutch and Starsky, asks explicit inappropriate questions about their sexual habits (which Hutch inappropriately answers), offers himself sexually to Hutch, and more. Yet Hutch perseveres in being Tommy's advocate, much to the detriment of his relationship with Starsky.
Some plot tidbits:
* Hutch lies to a psychiatrist and tells him Tommy is his nephew in order to procure a large amout of powerful drugs for Tommy's paranoid schizophrenia. 
* Hutch dresses up in a flamenco dancer's costume (one he has kept a secret from Starsky), and does a dance in front of both of them, singing: "Un, dos, tres! Ole! Ole! Ole! Tu y yo! Baile! Baile! Baile!"
*Hutch is shown to have a secret prescription to Valium, which he takes along with chugs of Jack Daniels.
*Hutch builds a fire in the oft-mentioned library, wraps Tommy in a comforter so the man would feel safe, and then reads Dickens to him. The Dickens is a bit of metaphor -- Tommy's horrendous pimp in the episode "Vendetta" had been compared to the Dicken's character, Fagin, something that is discussed in the story. Hutch, thank goodness, passed up reading "Lord of the Flies" (Tommy's favorite book) to Tommy.
* Starsky and Hutch have increasingly violent fights, some in front of Tommy. At one point, Starsky moves into a motel and watches gay porn on cable. Sadly, this is not very satisfying as he has to put six quarters in the television every few minutes, and soon runs out of coins and ends up leaving to buy potato chips. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Hutch and Tommy nearly have sex. 
*Starsky returns home from the motel, and he and Hutch have a lot more sex. This makes Tommy so mad he rubs dog poop on Starsky's clothes. Starsky can't figure out what smell is and thinks its fish emulsion. This leads to nakedness, and more sex that is not with Tommy, something which makes Tommy madder.
*Tommy often hides in a shed in the backyard for hours at a time. Starsky and Hutch utilize this time by having more sex, often with lots of spanking.
*Tommy thinks about cutting Starsky with a razor blade and thinks of Starsky as a "hairy ape." He may or may not attempt to poison a health drink.
*In the end, Tommy attacks Starsky with a baseball bat giving him a broken arm and skull fracture, attacks Hutch with a baseball bat breaking his femur, three ribs gives him internal injuries, and rapes him. Hutch hits Tommy with a chair, breaking his back. Starsky has a near death experience and floats around the living room, seeing the bloody bodies of all three men on the floor. 
 
* In the end, Tommy, now a quadriplegic, pleads guilty to two accounts of attempted murder, and goes to a fancy, private mental institution for 25 years, with Hutch picking up the bill. Hutch tells Tommy, "No, I won't visit you." 
* At the end, Hutch finds a box in the attic, and hugs Ollie, a canon teddy bear.
==Some Excerpts==
Tommy is clearly mentally ill, something that is immediately obvious. From a scene during the first twenty-four hours Tommy is in Starsky and Hutch's home: 
 
Hutch tucks Tommy into bed at night:
Yes, there is an actual jeweled carpet in the story: 
At one point, Tommy listens to Starsky and Hutch having noisy, consensual, violent sex: 
When Tommy is stung by a bee, Starsky and Hutch frantically strip him naked and put him in the bathtub, then rub Tommy down, put him to bed, and nearly have sex on the floor next to the sleeping man: 
Some interpersonal relations: 
Hutch carelessly, and slyly, self-medicates:
One of several scenes in "library": 
Tommy offers himself sexually to Hutch: 
Hutch tries to explain some things to Tommy: 
All this talk about sex and love and boundaries is for naught, however: 
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==References==
Category:Starsky & Hutch FanfictionCategory:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2007 Fanfiction‎