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A Special Working of Gravity by Jackie Thomas (R)
Fandom:THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 73k
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Stories at The Circuit Archive
Why this must be read: Because she takes the premise of Bodie just out of prison due to a foul up on the job, and spins gold from it. She makes the most of the delicious possibilities for some partner angst, partner worry, and never overplays her hand. And she also delivers an enviable case/intrigue/epsiode-like action, which has Cowley, Ojuka, and a wonderfully enjoyable Murphy with a family. And did I mention that it’s set around Christmas??
A fantastic treat for any Pros fan, she has a great way with humour as well as pathos, and a terrific ear for the rhythms and cadence of CI5 life. The excerpt should be enough to entice you in. It's a scene near the beginning, when Doyle picks Bodie up the day he gets out.
Bodie's smile was warm as he made his way through the parked cars to Ray. His smile even reached his eyes, a place it had deserted these last six months. Ray folded him into his arms as soon as he was within reach.
They held each other in a fiercely tight and, on Ray's part, long-imagined hug. For all of Bodie's wandering hands and his own more guarded expressions of affection, they had never hugged before. Hugging wasn't very CI5, after all. But through these last months when the only decoration on the pistachio green walls of the visitors' room was a sign saying 'no physical contact,' this hug had become a private goal of Ray's. And he didn't care how nancy it was; he was bloody well not letting go if he could help it.
A Special Working of Gravity
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 73k
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Stories at The Circuit Archive
Why this must be read: Because she takes the premise of Bodie just out of prison due to a foul up on the job, and spins gold from it. She makes the most of the delicious possibilities for some partner angst, partner worry, and never overplays her hand. And she also delivers an enviable case/intrigue/epsiode-like action, which has Cowley, Ojuka, and a wonderfully enjoyable Murphy with a family. And did I mention that it’s set around Christmas??
A fantastic treat for any Pros fan, she has a great way with humour as well as pathos, and a terrific ear for the rhythms and cadence of CI5 life. The excerpt should be enough to entice you in. It's a scene near the beginning, when Doyle picks Bodie up the day he gets out.
Bodie's smile was warm as he made his way through the parked cars to Ray. His smile even reached his eyes, a place it had deserted these last six months. Ray folded him into his arms as soon as he was within reach.
They held each other in a fiercely tight and, on Ray's part, long-imagined hug. For all of Bodie's wandering hands and his own more guarded expressions of affection, they had never hugged before. Hugging wasn't very CI5, after all. But through these last months when the only decoration on the pistachio green walls of the visitors' room was a sign saying 'no physical contact,' this hug had become a private goal of Ray's. And he didn't care how nancy it was; he was bloody well not letting go if he could help it.
A Special Working of Gravity