Brown Study
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| The Professionals Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Brown Study |
| Author(s): | Lainie Stone |
| Date(s): | 1985 or earlier circuit story[1] |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | available only on the ProsLib CD |
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Brown Study is a Professionals slash story by Lainie Stone.
It is a story on The 1985 Hatstand Express Top Ten Lists.
In 1993, the story was held up as an example of angst filled hurt/comfort fan fiction that gives the characters permanent and disabling physical injuries.[2]
A sample from the story:
"A side door opened, and he held his breath waiting. Ray Doyle, the man he'd never stopped considering his partner, stepped out of the tiny house and walked to a shed to one side. Bodie had steeled himself against Ray's appearance, but it wasn't enough. The stiff right leg, immobile from the shot out knee that had retired Doyle, swung almost rhythmically with the cane that supported Ray's weight, and Bodie remembered the lithe, cocky swagger. It was worse that Ray didn't seem to have changed in any other way. There was still the slim, athletic body, the unruly mass of curls, the grace of movement that even the damaged leg couldn't take away."
Summaries
In 2000, two fans Cassie Ingaben and Dagger compiled an index of many of the circuit stories. They also wrote brief summaries:
- Dagger: It's been three years since Doyle was forced to leave CI5 due to injury and now Cowley's dead, leaving Bodie free to follow his heart... right to Doyle's doorstep.
- Cassie: After C's death B leaves CI5 and goes to the crippled in action D. They get together."
Reactions/Reviews
1985
One of those 'lump in the throat' stories. A LOT was dealt with here—what WOULD B & D do if they were no longer in CIS (Bodie by eventual choice, Doyle due to disabling Injury?) We get to see how Doyle DID cope with his permanent injury — and how he and Bodie reunited (and discovered their love for each other) after a rather long period of 'estrangement.' Cowley had died — Doyle had even been married, for a while — lots of heavy-duty stuff going on here.[3]
... good characterization and the autor does a difficult trick neatly...she has Bodie looking back, and looking back from there, and... not easy, but well done. Happy endings, good sex and plot.[4]
1990
A nice, gentle story where Doyle has been forced into retirement after injury. He has become an attics. One of the first-time stories I really believe. [5]
References
- ^ The story was listed in the 1985 issue of The Hatstand Express #6.
- ^ Morgan Dawn's personal notes of Virgule-L mailing lists discussions in 1993, quoted with permission.
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #6
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #6
- ^ from a fan in Short Circuit #3 (October 1990)