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Scenes from the Edge by Kate Maclean
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 22,516 words
Author on LJ: Not
Author Website: At the Original Hatstand and the Automated Hatstand
Why this must be read: Because sometimes it's good to be sad, and there's something ever so delicious about the darkest, bitterest chocolate ever... Kate Maclean is a consummate writer - words perfectly chosen, world beautifully built, and the lads... well, the lads are who they might just be sometimes, on those nights when the world is going wrong for them, and they're trying desperately to cope. Which ultimately makes Kate Maclean's Bodie/Doyle one of the best things you'll everput in your mouth read. You just need to appreciate that dark bitter-chocolate tang as it melts your heart away...
Excerpt: He'd always known, hadn't he, what the danger was for him. Known instinctively deep down, that if he ever really let himself fall -- really love someone completely -- he would lose it all. His independence, his dignity, his apartness, his sense of self-preservation. If he ever really let himself love, he wouldn't be able to hold anything back; he'd just ... give himself away. He'd known that.
But Ann'd been for some reason almost irresistible. As if she understood everything about him and what and who he was; as if she were more than just a girl -- a person. Everything he wanted.
And he'd let himself slide, right to the edge.
He moved restlessly, kicking at the duvet with his feet.
Well. He'd learned his lesson hadn't he, and the dragging misery he felt, drove it home.
Didn't pay to want, to need that badly. Was better to stay apart, aloof -- let other people do the wanting. And maybe, someday, he'd find a girl he could care for, who was around at the right time…
He knew one thing though.
He would never allow himself to go over that edge.
Thus it begins...
Scenes from the Edge.
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 22,516 words
Author on LJ: Not
Author Website: At the Original Hatstand and the Automated Hatstand
Why this must be read: Because sometimes it's good to be sad, and there's something ever so delicious about the darkest, bitterest chocolate ever... Kate Maclean is a consummate writer - words perfectly chosen, world beautifully built, and the lads... well, the lads are who they might just be sometimes, on those nights when the world is going wrong for them, and they're trying desperately to cope. Which ultimately makes Kate Maclean's Bodie/Doyle one of the best things you'll ever
Excerpt: He'd always known, hadn't he, what the danger was for him. Known instinctively deep down, that if he ever really let himself fall -- really love someone completely -- he would lose it all. His independence, his dignity, his apartness, his sense of self-preservation. If he ever really let himself love, he wouldn't be able to hold anything back; he'd just ... give himself away. He'd known that.
But Ann'd been for some reason almost irresistible. As if she understood everything about him and what and who he was; as if she were more than just a girl -- a person. Everything he wanted.
And he'd let himself slide, right to the edge.
He moved restlessly, kicking at the duvet with his feet.
Well. He'd learned his lesson hadn't he, and the dragging misery he felt, drove it home.
Didn't pay to want, to need that badly. Was better to stay apart, aloof -- let other people do the wanting. And maybe, someday, he'd find a girl he could care for, who was around at the right time…
He knew one thing though.
He would never allow himself to go over that edge.
Thus it begins...
Scenes from the Edge.