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Jigsaw Puzzle by HG (R)
Fandom: PROS (THE PROFESSIONALS)
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 900k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: HG at The Hatstand and HG at The Circuit (there are slightly different story lists at each archive)
Why this must be read: Because the time has come to put meat on some classic Pros bones. One of the things I love about Pros is how many long stories there are out there, especially in zines. And a maestro of the form is HG. For years HG has been zine only (and you’re really not a Pros fan, btw, unless you’ve got some in your collection:)). However, over the last year some of her stories have finally started coming online, so I thought I’d rec this novel, one of my favourites of hers.
The idea is to strap yourself in with HG, because her thing is emotional rollercoasters. She’ll bring the lads together, then separate them spectacularly, then bring them back inch by painful emotionally satisfying inch, as she does here. In Jigsaw they spend more than a year apart and out of CI5, only brought back into the fold with screaming reluctance. She teases their reunion and its aftermath out perfectly - the buried pain and missteps of their past, the world of CI5 and its new agents, the case they’re assigned – all must be worked out if something new is to evolve between them. And it’s all wrapped round her familiar gift for angst, hurt/comfort, great dialogue, warm, spiky humour, and characters you’re right there with, willing to succeed.
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But his mind was inexorably set on escape. He had to leave--and not just because of Doyle. The job had long since turned sour, his respect for Cowley tainted by each increasingly dirty job. The fault wasn't Cowley's for being who he was--or what the job made him--any more than Bodie thought it was his own. It was just that he'd had enough. He'd seen too many people die in his time, his pragmatism eroded with each death until there seemed no point or end to it. More than that, and the fact he didn't want to die because his mind was on other than his job, he was afraid--of how much Doyle meant to him, and of the violence of his own feelings, which had found expression in his possessive take-over just now. Doyle would carry bruises from tonight, some of them in painful places. Not what he had intended, but a final warning, had any been needed.
"Bodie?"
His back to his partner, Bodie remained on his side, feigning sleep. The second time he heard the soft query he closed his eyes, his facial muscles tense as he willed Doyle to give up.
When it was quiet, Doyle motionless beside him, Bodie lay staring out into the darkness, more unhappy than he could ever remember feeling in his life.
******
Jigsaw Puzzle, Part One ( links to 2-6)
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 900k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: HG at The Hatstand and HG at The Circuit (there are slightly different story lists at each archive)
Why this must be read: Because the time has come to put meat on some classic Pros bones. One of the things I love about Pros is how many long stories there are out there, especially in zines. And a maestro of the form is HG. For years HG has been zine only (and you’re really not a Pros fan, btw, unless you’ve got some in your collection:)). However, over the last year some of her stories have finally started coming online, so I thought I’d rec this novel, one of my favourites of hers.
The idea is to strap yourself in with HG, because her thing is emotional rollercoasters. She’ll bring the lads together, then separate them spectacularly, then bring them back inch by painful emotionally satisfying inch, as she does here. In Jigsaw they spend more than a year apart and out of CI5, only brought back into the fold with screaming reluctance. She teases their reunion and its aftermath out perfectly - the buried pain and missteps of their past, the world of CI5 and its new agents, the case they’re assigned – all must be worked out if something new is to evolve between them. And it’s all wrapped round her familiar gift for angst, hurt/comfort, great dialogue, warm, spiky humour, and characters you’re right there with, willing to succeed.
******
But his mind was inexorably set on escape. He had to leave--and not just because of Doyle. The job had long since turned sour, his respect for Cowley tainted by each increasingly dirty job. The fault wasn't Cowley's for being who he was--or what the job made him--any more than Bodie thought it was his own. It was just that he'd had enough. He'd seen too many people die in his time, his pragmatism eroded with each death until there seemed no point or end to it. More than that, and the fact he didn't want to die because his mind was on other than his job, he was afraid--of how much Doyle meant to him, and of the violence of his own feelings, which had found expression in his possessive take-over just now. Doyle would carry bruises from tonight, some of them in painful places. Not what he had intended, but a final warning, had any been needed.
"Bodie?"
His back to his partner, Bodie remained on his side, feigning sleep. The second time he heard the soft query he closed his eyes, his facial muscles tense as he willed Doyle to give up.
When it was quiet, Doyle motionless beside him, Bodie lay staring out into the darkness, more unhappy than he could ever remember feeling in his life.
******
Jigsaw Puzzle, Part One ( links to 2-6)