Billy loves Martha, and Martha loves Billy. Their relationship is one of the best things about Silk; a genuine friendship between two polar opposites who are perhaps more alike than they may care to admit, even to themselves. The story opens when Billy first learns that he is not well: what will happen when he finally tells Martha? BBC own what's theirs, the rest is my own work.
Based on the preview clip of the first episode of series three. Clive finally tells Martha the truth, but will they both be making a big mistake if they act on their feelings again, when they've already been torn apart by love in the past?
After an incident at Shoe Lane, Martha Costello tries to break down the barriers of one Caroline Warwick. Martha/CW pairing.
An antidote to the hot weather. MC and CW.
Post-Silk party in 301. Clive and Martha and champagne. A little love and a little smut. (I'm hopeless at rating, I hope M is right!)
Conversations between Martha and Clive following on from the end of Series 3. Because there is so much more left to say. And with Martha and Clive there is so much left unsaid.
Takes place after the finale. Martha returns to Shoe Lane two years later.
"Well I didn't mean to do it, but there's no escaping your love". Because sometimes, it is an accident. A group of one-shots under the same roof.
A new QC ruffles Clive's feathers. Short one-shot.
This is a series of 'What if' AU scenarios. They are not linked to each other but each looks at how things might have been under difference circumstances.
Set after series 3. Martha has disappeared and Clive is broken hearted. He bonds with a dying Billy over their mutual grief. Will they ever see Martha again? One-shot.
A short post-series one-shot about Clive and Martha. Will their friendship survive?
Missing and extended scenes from series two onwards.
Working late over a bottle of Scotch, Clive and Martha revisit the past. Spoilers for all 3 series.
Series of drabbles of Martha and Clive through the years. Rated T for mild smut.
'I wasn't expecting ever to see you again and and I'd only just got my head around that when you come back again.' Life has a funny habit of doing exactly the opposite of what you expect it to. The reappearance of an old friend in Clive Reader's life turns everything he though he knew on its head. - Post 3x06.
A really rather fluffy fic where Martha finally allows herself to fall in love.
'There's a man in the dark sky looking d.o.w.n on you telling you to go He's shining b-r-i-g-h-t and leading you /h o m e\ You stand by the R I V E R alone with your t/h/o/u/g/h/t/s and for the first time in your e - n - t - i – r - e ((entire)) life you want to go back home Your heart aches for it -except you don't know where home is-' - Freeverse - set post 3x06
My attempt to salvage something from the finale.
It was the end. That day. 'The end of an era. Alan gone, Billy dead and Martha's god knows where, and I am the only one left. It isn't the same, not at all. Shoe Lane still has the same name and is doing better than it was with Alan and Billy at the helm, but… and that's where I fall down, why isn't the fact that it's doing better enough' Clive muses about the past.
'You grow older - yearbyyear daybyday hourbyhour momentbymoment - and every time c o m m i t m e n t comes calling you escape into the dark run run run running away because you only want one woman and she w-a-l-k-e-d away' - freeverse - Martha/Clive
This the story of a girl. This girl F E L L in love with a boy. ((I warn you now this story does not have a H a p p y ending.)) Freeverse Martha/Clive
'You always get E{V}E{R}Y{T}H{I}N{G} you want All you have to DO is put in a little more E/F/F/O/R/T And she's no different Except that theonetime you don't want it to be a one-time-thing it is' - Freeverse - Martha/Clive
'That's why Because of how CONVINCED you are that he d/o/e/s/n'/t care when he says those threelittlewords to you for the first time YOU DON'T BELIEVE HIM' - Freeverse - Martha/Clive
'Not a person ((Clive)) Not an abstract emotion ((Love)) Not the future ((and the hope that one day things will be okay again)) No, you c-l-i-n-g to your job because it can't l/e/t you down can't h/\u/\r/\t you can't turn around .and. .stab. .you. .in. .the. .back.' Freeverse. Set post 1x06
The day Martha finally leaves Shoe Lane is a day filled with memories of the past. It wasn't the first time someone had begged her not to leave – it wasn't the first time she hadn't listened.
(...and one time it really wasn't necessary). Kissing Caroline was intoxicating, and she didn't seem able to stop. Set late in season two; Martha/Caroline.
After the ruling in the Henderson case, Martha calls Fatima Henderson to break the bad news. Billy is there to help with the aftermath, just like he always is. Follow-on from the scene in 2x05 exploring Billy and Martha's friendship. One shot.
Everyone has a secret. Martha's is small and unexpected. CHAPTER TWO FIXED AND NOW UP!
I needed an alternative ending so I wrote one myself.