Love in a Faithless Country ; The Two Trees

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Claim: The Professionals ~ Bodie/Doyle 
Title: Love in a Faithless Country
Author: Alexandra 
Prompt: 37: Make-up
Rating: NC-17 
Length: Epic 
Brief summary: A very long and interesting story about love and partnership and fear. My favorite story by this writer. Ray and Bodie are having a sort-of-relationship, until something happens and they end it. When they get together again, it is one of my favorite moments. I love this fic not only because of the love and the suffering, but also because there's action, and missions and normal life.

Bodie sat in the armchair opposite and sipped his coffee. Doyle watched him. They had been through so much together. Did it really have to end? Surely there was something worth saving, something of the friendship left. He honestly didn't know. He had asked--no--demanded something more from Bodie, had asked for too much. That had been his greatest mistake--wanting love too strongly, wanting Bodie's love more than anything else, unwilling to give Bodie a choice in the matter. In that sense, he had started the whole mess. He was hardly the only one at fault, though.

Link to the story: Love in a Faithless Country 

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Claim: The Professionals ~ Bodie/Doyle 
Title: The Two Trees 
Author: Morgan Dawn
Prompt: 39: Break-up
Rating: NC-17 
Length: Epic
Brief summary: An AU. Bodie and Ray are in prison for murder. Something happens to Doyle right before he is released, and the guilt and fear follow him since. I'm a happy-ending kind of reader, so it's weird how I love this story so much, but sometimes a break-up isn't final, and an end can sometimes be a beginning... 

Driving loosely with one hand, Bodie realized that it had been several months since he'd thought about prison. Doyle never would talk about it, of course. Neither would he, but he still thought and dreamed of it. It was one of Ross' most frequent complaints to Cowley--she was convinced that they couldn't be proper men until they had a weepy fit while she took notes. Not bloody likely, he thought. No, Doyle and me, we're doing all right.

He no longer felt wary of the future. Whatever had been Doyle's problem, it seemed to have worked itself out. And as prison receded, so did the memories. And working for CI5 had ended Bodie's uncomfortable moods. He was no longer the man that had landed them in prison. He was in control. And if the sex was still a bit off, well, it was better than his right hand. Or prison. Yeah, Doyle and he were doing fine.

Link to the story: The Two Trees