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Till a Bullet Stopped his Song by Callisto (PG)
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 1133 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
callistosh65
Author Website: Stories archived here, here and here.
Why this must be read:
When I was thinking of what I wanted to rec this month this story immediately leapt to mind... and then I tried to talk myself in to one of Callisto’s other stories instead. After all, all of her stories are a pleasure to read (look at those links up there) because her sense of the lads, the way they think, speak and act is always spot on. I went, I read again and I still kept coming back to this story.
Logically the odds on both the lads surviving CI5 weren’t very good and here Callisto imagines, in a deceptively simple story, Bodie’s response to being the one left behind.
“The wind gusted, biting its way through the jacket he’d left unzipped. Bodie turned the collar up and hunched into it. His eyes were resolutely on the headstone in front of him as a drop of mist made its way slowly down his nose. Typical. Couldn’t have managed this in spring, could you, sunshine?”
Till a Bullet Stopped his Song
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Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 1133 words
Author on LJ:
callistosh65Author Website: Stories archived here, here and here.
Why this must be read:
When I was thinking of what I wanted to rec this month this story immediately leapt to mind... and then I tried to talk myself in to one of Callisto’s other stories instead. After all, all of her stories are a pleasure to read (look at those links up there) because her sense of the lads, the way they think, speak and act is always spot on. I went, I read again and I still kept coming back to this story.
Logically the odds on both the lads surviving CI5 weren’t very good and here Callisto imagines, in a deceptively simple story, Bodie’s response to being the one left behind.
“The wind gusted, biting its way through the jacket he’d left unzipped. Bodie turned the collar up and hunched into it. His eyes were resolutely on the headstone in front of him as a drop of mist made its way slowly down his nose. Typical. Couldn’t have managed this in spring, could you, sunshine?”
Till a Bullet Stopped his Song
.
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I'm not usually much of one for character death stories but this one just got to me and I had to rec it.
Did you see my last rec for Halo's Sighting? I think it's a story that might appeal to you.
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It really was one of the first stories I thought of when I sat down to think about what I wanted to rec this month.
I was actually just comment chatting with ND over at T&SR about this rec and wrote this: A large part of the reason why I tend to avoid character death stories is they often read as manipulative to me, "oh I'm going to make you cry now" and this one doesn't feel like that at all. This feels more like *real* grief, the pain of loss accompanied by the love you'll always have for that person.