Heat-Trace ; Flowers in the Snow

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Claim: The Professionals ~ Bodie/Doyle 
Title: Heat-Trace
Author: Helen Raven 
Prompt: 03: Angst
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: An AU, Bodie's in CI5, Ray's a police officer, they have a secret relationship and some secrets of their own. The third Pros fic I happened to read when I discovered the fandom less than a year ago, and really loved it. The story's very deep and angsty and psychological... Sometimes it gets a bit OOC, but mostly it's great.

“OK. We got everything?”

Doyle nodded, abstracted. He’d lain awake most of the night, his brain churning with the problem of Bodie. He was desperate to ask if they were going to see each other again, but had not yet found the necessary courage - scared that the answer might be no, and possibly even more scared that the answer might be yes. But how long did he have before it was too late? The time it would take for them to walk down the gangplank, find a main road, and for Bodie to give him the taxi fare to his police station?

That gangplank, which had seemed like the more-difficult face of Everest when he had struggled up it, supported by Bodie, was now inconveniently short. They headed for the main road. Doyle felt sick. He opened his mouth -

“Ray, I expect you’re keen to get back to your station and let them know that you’re OK...” Doyle, a buzzing in his ears, thought he shook his head, and did not notice the uncertain note in Bodie’s voice. “... but do you mind if we have a talk first? There’s a decent caff down the street. I don’t know about you, but I could murder a cup of tea.”

Link to the story: Heat-Trace

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Claim: The Professionals ~ Bodie/Doyle 
Title: Flowers in the Snow 
Author: Elizabeth O'Shea 
Prompt: 06: Anger 
Rating: PG
Length: Short
Brief summary: After a mission-gone-wrong Doyle is angry, with the world and everything. I really love the way this story's written and especially the imagery of Bodie & Doyle on the roof together.
 
Link to the story: Flowers in the Snow 

Comments

[smirra.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the nice recs!
I like Heat Trace a lot with it's nearly cold matter of factly tone of both pov's and the details of how depressive a secret affair is. Never found it described this way.
I'm perfectly fine with Bodie having a dark past of some kind. But that Bodie is capable of the things he's doing to Murphy is really a hard fact to swallow! I wasn't prepared for that even though you could foresee it at some point.
But I'm not finished with is yet so I'm curious what will happen until the end.

[ereini0n.livejournal.com]

It's a great fic, isn't it? I remember it took me a little over a week (!!!) to read it, but it was worth every minute :)