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Trial Run by Ellis Ward (R)
Fandom:THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 239k
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Ellis Ward at the Circuit Archive
Why this must be read:
Because she takes a premise that really shouldn’t work at all, but does like gangbusters. Bodie has a confessions to make, and despite everything Doyle thinks he knows about his own sexual orientation, he cannot give up the partnership. So he proposes a ‘trail run’ at a romantic entanglement with his partner.
A truly fascinating read, Ellis Ward handles the emotions with her usual flair for heart minus the dramatics, and keeps the tension and interest up as the lads wrestle with both the change in their relationship and the usual chaotic pace of life at CI5.
He and Bodie had stood shoulder-to-shoulder against all the mayhem the world chose to offer, their own mortality at the whim of grisly-humoured Fate. They'd learnt to live with that, and to make do with the snatched comfort of faceless warm bodies and ephemeral affection, with the not inconsiderable support of their friendship underlying all else.
But Doyle had come to want more, even though he was pragmatic enough to see that he could never have it -- not and be who he was. He'd tried it once and failed humiliatingly. There was simply no one who could understand the demands of their job and the paradoxical emotions it gave birth to -- a need for absolution and approbation.
Except Bodie.
Trial Run
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 239k
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Ellis Ward at the Circuit Archive
Why this must be read:
Because she takes a premise that really shouldn’t work at all, but does like gangbusters. Bodie has a confessions to make, and despite everything Doyle thinks he knows about his own sexual orientation, he cannot give up the partnership. So he proposes a ‘trail run’ at a romantic entanglement with his partner.
A truly fascinating read, Ellis Ward handles the emotions with her usual flair for heart minus the dramatics, and keeps the tension and interest up as the lads wrestle with both the change in their relationship and the usual chaotic pace of life at CI5.
He and Bodie had stood shoulder-to-shoulder against all the mayhem the world chose to offer, their own mortality at the whim of grisly-humoured Fate. They'd learnt to live with that, and to make do with the snatched comfort of faceless warm bodies and ephemeral affection, with the not inconsiderable support of their friendship underlying all else.
But Doyle had come to want more, even though he was pragmatic enough to see that he could never have it -- not and be who he was. He'd tried it once and failed humiliatingly. There was simply no one who could understand the demands of their job and the paradoxical emotions it gave birth to -- a need for absolution and approbation.
Except Bodie.
Trial Run