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Festival of Lights by Dorinda (PG)
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Dorinda's Bare Bones Page
Why this must be read:
Keeping with the holiday theme, we're moving on to specific winter holidays and a few looks at how our pair of CI5 agents might spend them. Dorinda's story is the only Pros Chanukkah story I'm aware of. Not a theme one might readily think of in connection with these two characters, but it works because of the delightfully apropos "festival of lights" the agents have to deal with. In this case, candles aren't lit day by day, but, rather, lights switch off in an ominous count-down. During the tense procedure, while perched between life and possible instantaneous death, Bodie and Doyle come to an understanding about their feelings.
The story takes one of my favourite approaches, presenting the action through a third-party viewpoint. We see everything that happens through Cowley's eyes. Dorinda does a lovely Cowley, which isn't all that common in Pros fiction. Cowley is often either entirely neglected or distorted out of recognition to serve a story's purpose. Not in Dorinda's takes on him, though. Her affection for the wily old Cow shines through.
Festival of Lights
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Dorinda's Bare Bones Page
Why this must be read:
Keeping with the holiday theme, we're moving on to specific winter holidays and a few looks at how our pair of CI5 agents might spend them. Dorinda's story is the only Pros Chanukkah story I'm aware of. Not a theme one might readily think of in connection with these two characters, but it works because of the delightfully apropos "festival of lights" the agents have to deal with. In this case, candles aren't lit day by day, but, rather, lights switch off in an ominous count-down. During the tense procedure, while perched between life and possible instantaneous death, Bodie and Doyle come to an understanding about their feelings.
The story takes one of my favourite approaches, presenting the action through a third-party viewpoint. We see everything that happens through Cowley's eyes. Dorinda does a lovely Cowley, which isn't all that common in Pros fiction. Cowley is often either entirely neglected or distorted out of recognition to serve a story's purpose. Not in Dorinda's takes on him, though. Her affection for the wily old Cow shines through.
Festival of Lights
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