(... or, what happens when DS Justin Ripley snogs a senior officer in front of about half the London constabulary.) John steps out of the back of a lorry punched open with bullet holes with something broken in his eyes and petrol soaked into his coat, dripping from his eyelashes, his fingers. And Justin doesn't know if he hates him or loves him. (Except, he kind of does.)

To look at the family unit, one wouldn't suspect much. You had the loving mum and dad and the reluctant teenager. Look closer though and a whole twisted story develops.

"What exactly did you do?" He was frowning, and there was no smile hiding his questions now. Luther, post-Series 2. Luther/Ripley pre-slash. Oneshot.

All the lonely souls wind up in Paradiso. - A meeting of the minds. Jalice if you squint.

Ian Reed had been on a downward slide ever since the abduction but there had been that one moment, back in the hotel room, where it seemed like he might not be a lost cause after all. If the maid had sensibly stayed hidden until the clearly unstable man who killed the room's occupant had left, would Luther have been able to reach him and prevent the tragedy that followed?

Sowohl Justin, als auch Luther überlegen, ob sie das, was sie haben, reicht, um glücklich zu werden.

It was an ends and means thing, calling Alice. The world span on. - Jalice but nothing heavy. Just my thoughts on how that convo went.

Season 2 Drama: John loved Zoe first and Mark loved her last, and only the two of them really knew what the other had lost.

"Alice pulled the trigger, and as the sound echoed through the house she once again watched the most perfect thing she thought a person could ever see. A moment of pure, unadulterated evil."

She was fiction. She was a really good novel that he couldn't put down. Well-defined, excellently thought out and a thriller from start to finish, he picked her up and read her through over and over again, dog-earing the pages of the parts he liked best..

On a scale of Henry Madsen to Zoe Luther, John spins the wheel and Alice lands somewhere in between. - Madman w/a gun threatens Alice. Some introspect. Def. Alice/John

When Luther is framed for murder he goes to an unlikely saviour, Alice. Can she leave her killer past behind, can John ever see past it, and will they ever act on their chemistery.