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crack_van2004-11-28 04:30 pm
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Trip Through Your Wire, by Garnet (NC-17)
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
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copper_rose
Author's Website: No
Why this must be read:
I'm going to end my November tenure with three of my very favorite Pros fics.... Today it's Trip Through Your Wire by Garnet, an author who sadly is not currently writing in Pros (though she is writing good PotC Sparrington fic!). I wish she were, because I adore this story.
I have a thing for Pros stories that play up the slightly damaged, slightly dysfunctional side of Bodie and Doyle - the barriers they've had to put up in order to be able to survive the life they've chosen, the violence and grittiness of it; the way they live always on the edge, and how that inevitably affects their ability to connect with others; how affection is such a scarce commodity in their violent lives. I like stories in which they get together - i.e., start sleeping together - before they're able or willing to admit they love each other; I like when an author keeps the surface toughness while letting us see the slow letting-down of the barriers, giving us glimpses of the vulnerability and longing that are so closely guarded. I love the whole dynamic of them being too tough, but also too gun-shy, to acknowledge or trust those softer feelings readily.
Trip Through Your Wire pushes all of these buttons for me. Ray's close brush with death unsettles Bodie enough that he reveals his feelings, and Ray finds that he really wants Bodie too, but despite the obvious (to us) depth of their feelings as they come together in what is really a gorgeous blaze of lust and love and tenderness, neither is willing to make any sort of promise or declaration - even though we know, reading, that that is in fact what they're doing, however reluctant they might be to put a name to it. And Ray, looking back, knows it too, and, fearing that he might not get another chance, wishes he'd had the guts to say it.
It's a wonderful story, capturing the best of the characters, the things I love most about them, and it's slash the way I like it - great, solid voices and characterization, the guys being guys, with a bit of angst, a bit of hurt/comfort, tenderness that hesitantly shows itself despite the characters' natural wariness, some fairly hot sex, and a touching, satisfying ending.
Trip Through Your Wire
(Originally published in the zine Secret Agent Men 2, Devious Developments Press, 2003)
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ:
copper_roseAuthor's Website: No
Why this must be read:
I'm going to end my November tenure with three of my very favorite Pros fics.... Today it's Trip Through Your Wire by Garnet, an author who sadly is not currently writing in Pros (though she is writing good PotC Sparrington fic!). I wish she were, because I adore this story.
I have a thing for Pros stories that play up the slightly damaged, slightly dysfunctional side of Bodie and Doyle - the barriers they've had to put up in order to be able to survive the life they've chosen, the violence and grittiness of it; the way they live always on the edge, and how that inevitably affects their ability to connect with others; how affection is such a scarce commodity in their violent lives. I like stories in which they get together - i.e., start sleeping together - before they're able or willing to admit they love each other; I like when an author keeps the surface toughness while letting us see the slow letting-down of the barriers, giving us glimpses of the vulnerability and longing that are so closely guarded. I love the whole dynamic of them being too tough, but also too gun-shy, to acknowledge or trust those softer feelings readily.
Trip Through Your Wire pushes all of these buttons for me. Ray's close brush with death unsettles Bodie enough that he reveals his feelings, and Ray finds that he really wants Bodie too, but despite the obvious (to us) depth of their feelings as they come together in what is really a gorgeous blaze of lust and love and tenderness, neither is willing to make any sort of promise or declaration - even though we know, reading, that that is in fact what they're doing, however reluctant they might be to put a name to it. And Ray, looking back, knows it too, and, fearing that he might not get another chance, wishes he'd had the guts to say it.
It's a wonderful story, capturing the best of the characters, the things I love most about them, and it's slash the way I like it - great, solid voices and characterization, the guys being guys, with a bit of angst, a bit of hurt/comfort, tenderness that hesitantly shows itself despite the characters' natural wariness, some fairly hot sex, and a touching, satisfying ending.
Trip Through Your Wire
(Originally published in the zine Secret Agent Men 2, Devious Developments Press, 2003)
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And I'm very glad you liked it - this one has always hit me just right; I love everything about it.
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