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Out of the Night by Karen M. Davis (PG)
Fandom: THE A-TEAM
Pairing: none (could be read as Face/Murdock pre-slash if you squint hard)
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Karen's Fiction
Why this must be read: In the episode "Lease with an Option to Die," the team goes to Chicago to help out B.A.'s mom when bad guys try to drive the tenants out of her building. One of the key scenes of the episode is B.A. disarming a bomb in the basement, the team refusing to leave although they know if B.A. fails, the bomb will take them all. This story is a quiet resolution to that incident. Face has gone to the rooftop to deal with things in his own way, and B.A. seeks him out. The conversation they have is very much in character, yet reveals an astute side to B.A. that the show rarely allowed him to show. B.A. may not say much, but he knows them all extremely well. How they act, react, and why. The POV in this story is a really interesting look into the way B.A. sees his role on the team, and how he understands the complicated relationships between the four of them.
"You okay, Faceman?"
"I'm fine," he said.
Which meant he didn't want to talk about whatever it was was bothering him. BA sighed silently. The lieutenant had never been an easy man, but it wasn't in BA to walk away and leave him. Never had been, back when he was a little butterbar (what's the most dangerous thing in the army? a second lieutenant with a clipboard) as green as those raggedy palm trees, and wasn't now even when they weren't, not really, lieutenant and sergeant. Second nature gets to be first after a long enough while. BA didn't move.
Read the story: Out of the Night, and let the author know you enjoyed it.
Pairing: none (could be read as Face/Murdock pre-slash if you squint hard)
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Karen's Fiction
Why this must be read: In the episode "Lease with an Option to Die," the team goes to Chicago to help out B.A.'s mom when bad guys try to drive the tenants out of her building. One of the key scenes of the episode is B.A. disarming a bomb in the basement, the team refusing to leave although they know if B.A. fails, the bomb will take them all. This story is a quiet resolution to that incident. Face has gone to the rooftop to deal with things in his own way, and B.A. seeks him out. The conversation they have is very much in character, yet reveals an astute side to B.A. that the show rarely allowed him to show. B.A. may not say much, but he knows them all extremely well. How they act, react, and why. The POV in this story is a really interesting look into the way B.A. sees his role on the team, and how he understands the complicated relationships between the four of them.
"You okay, Faceman?"
"I'm fine," he said.
Which meant he didn't want to talk about whatever it was was bothering him. BA sighed silently. The lieutenant had never been an easy man, but it wasn't in BA to walk away and leave him. Never had been, back when he was a little butterbar (what's the most dangerous thing in the army? a second lieutenant with a clipboard) as green as those raggedy palm trees, and wasn't now even when they weren't, not really, lieutenant and sergeant. Second nature gets to be first after a long enough while. BA didn't move.
Read the story: Out of the Night, and let the author know you enjoyed it.