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The Same River by Helen Raven (NC-17)
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 33,000
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helenraven
Author Website: Helen Raven's Website
Why this must be read: Because Helen Raven is a consummate writer of Pros, and because she writes with such atmosphere that you can feel every breath the lads take. The Same River isn't an easy story - none of Raven's are, because she writes for grown ups who live in the real world that's out there with all its teeth (even if it's an AU world of the future, as this is *g*) - but it's a story that will hold on to you. It has teeth too.
Doyle no longer works with a partner - he can't since he was told that Bodie was dead - but he is still with CI5 and still works for Cowley as a trainer of Mechanoids. As the story begins he is collecting the new model he's been assigned - 5024 - but as the days go by he starts to realise that "Grey" reminds him of Bodie for a reason...
Excerpt: They were very subdued for the rest of the evening and Grey was the one who suggested an early night. He apologised once more when they were in the kennel. Doyle said, “No need to go on about it. It’ll be sorted out by tomorrow.”
Random associations. Very neat. Very convenient. Very bloody meaningless.
No one - in Doyle’s experience - had done that mock-posh crap in quite the same way as Bodie. It was infectious, but only when Bodie was around, and since Bodie had died Doyle had never once felt the urge to try out any of those silly voices.
Someone had got to Grey. Somehow.
Maybe Grey really didn’t remember. Doyle was inclined to believe him. Why would he lie?
So did that mean that it was built into his programming, not something he’d been taught?
A machine programmed to behave like Bodie. Absently, he closed his book and pushed it away to the left side of the bed.
The jokes. “I’m in disgrace, aren’t I?” “I feel like a sultan.”
The showy driving.
The way he’d known so much about CI5.
The charm at work on Cowley.
The limits to his patience. “Fuck off, Ray.”
The effortless, near-instant communication.
The thrill of taking on the world together.
The feeling of falling in love. So quick. Almost overnight. So familiar.
Yes. And why had he not seen it before?
The Same River
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 33,000
Author on LJ:
helenravenAuthor Website: Helen Raven's Website
Why this must be read: Because Helen Raven is a consummate writer of Pros, and because she writes with such atmosphere that you can feel every breath the lads take. The Same River isn't an easy story - none of Raven's are, because she writes for grown ups who live in the real world that's out there with all its teeth (even if it's an AU world of the future, as this is *g*) - but it's a story that will hold on to you. It has teeth too.
Doyle no longer works with a partner - he can't since he was told that Bodie was dead - but he is still with CI5 and still works for Cowley as a trainer of Mechanoids. As the story begins he is collecting the new model he's been assigned - 5024 - but as the days go by he starts to realise that "Grey" reminds him of Bodie for a reason...
Excerpt: They were very subdued for the rest of the evening and Grey was the one who suggested an early night. He apologised once more when they were in the kennel. Doyle said, “No need to go on about it. It’ll be sorted out by tomorrow.”
Random associations. Very neat. Very convenient. Very bloody meaningless.
No one - in Doyle’s experience - had done that mock-posh crap in quite the same way as Bodie. It was infectious, but only when Bodie was around, and since Bodie had died Doyle had never once felt the urge to try out any of those silly voices.
Someone had got to Grey. Somehow.
Maybe Grey really didn’t remember. Doyle was inclined to believe him. Why would he lie?
So did that mean that it was built into his programming, not something he’d been taught?
A machine programmed to behave like Bodie. Absently, he closed his book and pushed it away to the left side of the bed.
The jokes. “I’m in disgrace, aren’t I?” “I feel like a sultan.”
The showy driving.
The way he’d known so much about CI5.
The charm at work on Cowley.
The limits to his patience. “Fuck off, Ray.”
The effortless, near-instant communication.
The thrill of taking on the world together.
The feeling of falling in love. So quick. Almost overnight. So familiar.
Yes. And why had he not seen it before?
The Same River
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What is more - I don't like AUs very much, and I hardly read them *g*. I only started to read it because it was something like a "Half AU". She is such a good author!
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