The High Road by M. Fae Glasgow (NC-17)

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Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: no, but all stories at Oblique Publications

Why this must be read:

My recs of how Bodie and Doyle spend holidays end--surprise!--with the final holiday of the year, Hogmonay--or New Year's, as we non-Scots know it. When we join them, Cowley is heading home to Scotland for a brief leave of his own. Because of a security threat, he's been forced to take Bodie and Doyle with him as bodyguards. Neither Cowley nor his agents are happy with this arrangement, but it's particularly bad timing for Bodie and Doyle, who are caught on a cusp of change. Their fraught and angsty situation plays out under the sharp eyes of not only the Cow but the one person in the world even sharper than he is: his mother.

Getting to meet Cowley's wholly delightful mum--done justice to as only a writer who's a Glaswegian herself could--is one of the reasons why this story is a must-read. The other is the overt omniscient narrator M. Fae Glasgow employs. In her skilled hands, this narrative device embues an already wonderful story with distinctiveness and flair.

So, it was a journey then, of physical distance and emotional vastness. A journey, then, for us to watch.

And there they are, making their way along a motorway, their car a red blur on the tarmac, rigid steel cutting them off from the flow of the world around them. But this is a tale, a story, so unlike everyone else in their world, we can see them, the softness inside the hardness. We can come in closer and closer and closer, circling them like hawks with a rabbit, until we are near enough to see their every detail, and nearer yet, until we are amongst them, until we are a part of them: until, at last, we can see through Bodie's bright blue eyes...

The High Road

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