Woof! by Taliesin (PG)

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Fandom: MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Pairing: Napoleon/Illya, Mark/April
Author LJ: N/A
Author website: Taliesin's Reach
Why this must be read:

As Taliesin says in the short fore-word of the fic: "This story contains a completely impossible crossover, given the respective time periods of the shows involved. But then, given the basic premise of the story, I'm not sure anyone complaining about realism has a leg to stand on, now do they?"

It was enough to get me reading. And I was trying to find out with what show this fic would cross-over and yet she managed to surprise me.

I'm not giving away the surprise though. I want you to be as pleaseantly surprised as I was while reading this fic.

She has the "Illya voice" right and even though this is an unusual situation our agents find themselves in, they're not out of character.



Excerpt:

My name's Illya Kuryakin. I'm a spy.

I work for the U.N.C.L.E., which actually makes me more of a high-rent policeman than a spy. But it's easier just to say I'm a spy. With the accent, if I tell people I'm an international policeman, they think I'm a spy and turn me in to the authorities. If I say I'm a spy, they think I'm merely touched in the head. Saves a lot of time and effort, especially my boss's. He was getting tired of bailing me out of jail. Actually, bailing Napoleon and me out of jail -- Napoleon takes the bit about 'wither thou goest' a little too literally. Then there's the partnership bit of keeping me out of trouble, which generally just means we're in the drink together. Partnership, partner, Napoleon -- there, you've got it now. Yes, Napoleon is his real name -- if he was born anytime this decade, I'd suspect drug use; as it is, his parents have no excuse -- and no, people don't believe that any more than they believe I'm really a spy.



Woof!