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crack_van2012-08-01 04:29 pm
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Stop the Pigeon, by PFL
Hello, the crackvan!
Whilst all eyes have been focussed elsewhere, I have been hotwiring the crackvan again and am heading off into the twisty turns of 1970s-1980s London, veering wildly to throw off any pursuit by mercenaries, ostensibly friendly fellow agencies, or criminals bent on vengeance. The consequent swerves make a definite itinerary rather difficult to predict, but I am hoping that flailing abruptly round obscure clubs, dodgy alleyways and a seminary, taking in sights from suburban marriage to surreptitious cruising, will keep the thing running throughout the month.
My carefully-arranged themes were thrown off by unexpected events last time (honestly, the traffic reports can be so misleading) so this time all I'm going to commit to is that I shall try to make sure we are in the vicinity of the longer stories in time for the weekends, so look out for them on Thursdays and Fridays.
We begin by idling outside the headquarters of CI5 and eavesdropping...
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: Just under 2000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
msmoat
Author Website: PFL on AO3
Why this must be read:...
...because there are so many stories going on here. We have Charlie's account of Bodie and Doyle's initial meeting. We have the old army comradeship of Cowley and Charlie. And there is Charlie's own story peeping out from underneath, too.
We meet Charlie in the episode Look After Annie, as someone who could, if he chose, have a lot to tell the lads about Cowley's history. Here we learn more about how they knew each other, and Charlie demonstrates how much he notices about what goes on at CI5.
Charlie nodded. “As I was saying, sir, there was a pigeon in the rest room.”
“How the devil did a pigeon get in the rest room?”
“A window had been left open. You remember it was a hot night? I walked in, starting my day, and found Doyle there, drinking tea. ‘Watch out, there’s a bird in here,’ he says, sipping his tea. Didn’t even look up from the paper he was reading. ‘Not again,’ says I, used to the routine. ‘Fraid so,’ he says. ‘I opened the window wide, but he doesn’t seem interested.’
I located the pigeon. He had got into a package of biscuits. Chocolate digestives, I think they were.”
Cowley took a bite of cake. “Doyle hadn’t seen fit to take the biscuits away?”
“They weren’t his, you see.”
“I see. Please continue. When does Master Bodie come into this?”
PFL shifts the dialogue from Charlie reporting the speech of Bodie and Doyle, to Charlie commenting directly to Cowley, without any confusion. It's possible to see both scenes, the scrambling about in the rest room, and the quiet, almost wistful, conversation over the tea-tray recalling it. Similarly, the balance between the farce of the bird-scaring and the subsequent reflection is just right.
Stop the Pigeon, by PFL
Whilst all eyes have been focussed elsewhere, I have been hotwiring the crackvan again and am heading off into the twisty turns of 1970s-1980s London, veering wildly to throw off any pursuit by mercenaries, ostensibly friendly fellow agencies, or criminals bent on vengeance. The consequent swerves make a definite itinerary rather difficult to predict, but I am hoping that flailing abruptly round obscure clubs, dodgy alleyways and a seminary, taking in sights from suburban marriage to surreptitious cruising, will keep the thing running throughout the month.
My carefully-arranged themes were thrown off by unexpected events last time (honestly, the traffic reports can be so misleading) so this time all I'm going to commit to is that I shall try to make sure we are in the vicinity of the longer stories in time for the weekends, so look out for them on Thursdays and Fridays.
We begin by idling outside the headquarters of CI5 and eavesdropping...
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: Just under 2000 words
Author on LJ:
msmoatAuthor Website: PFL on AO3
Why this must be read:...
...because there are so many stories going on here. We have Charlie's account of Bodie and Doyle's initial meeting. We have the old army comradeship of Cowley and Charlie. And there is Charlie's own story peeping out from underneath, too.
We meet Charlie in the episode Look After Annie, as someone who could, if he chose, have a lot to tell the lads about Cowley's history. Here we learn more about how they knew each other, and Charlie demonstrates how much he notices about what goes on at CI5.
Charlie nodded. “As I was saying, sir, there was a pigeon in the rest room.”
“How the devil did a pigeon get in the rest room?”
“A window had been left open. You remember it was a hot night? I walked in, starting my day, and found Doyle there, drinking tea. ‘Watch out, there’s a bird in here,’ he says, sipping his tea. Didn’t even look up from the paper he was reading. ‘Not again,’ says I, used to the routine. ‘Fraid so,’ he says. ‘I opened the window wide, but he doesn’t seem interested.’
I located the pigeon. He had got into a package of biscuits. Chocolate digestives, I think they were.”
Cowley took a bite of cake. “Doyle hadn’t seen fit to take the biscuits away?”
“They weren’t his, you see.”
“I see. Please continue. When does Master Bodie come into this?”
PFL shifts the dialogue from Charlie reporting the speech of Bodie and Doyle, to Charlie commenting directly to Cowley, without any confusion. It's possible to see both scenes, the scrambling about in the rest room, and the quiet, almost wistful, conversation over the tea-tray recalling it. Similarly, the balance between the farce of the bird-scaring and the subsequent reflection is just right.
Stop the Pigeon, by PFL