Chances Change

Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title:	Chances Change
Author(s):	PFL
Date(s):	2001
Length:	12,750 words
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	The Professionals
External Links:	online here
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Chances Change is a Bodie/Doyle story by PFL.

It was published in Roses and Lavender #5 and is online.

A companion piece is Waking from Dreams.

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This story is a companion piece to the author's Waking from Dreams (see my comments here), which in turn was written as one possible sequel to Meg Lewtan's circuit story There Has to be a Morning After (on the Proslib CD). This later story, almost four times longer, details the off-screen interaction that's elided in the more simplistic--beautifully so!--Waking from Dreams. More complex in both style and content, this story gets down to the nitty-gritty of the emotional upheaval both Bodie and Doyle undergo as their relationship is stood on its head. Told in Doyle's pov, the story showcases PFL's skills: emotional nuances are ruthlessly speared and exposed; action abounds; and Bodie and Doyle are the tough, strong, and difficult sods I know and love. They fight, they fuck, they love--and they manage to do it all at the same time and conveyed with PFL's wonderful, controlled style.

This story is a companion to the author's "Waking from Dreams", which first appeared in Roses and Lavender 1 and is now on the Proslib CD. 'Waking from Dreams' was written as one possible sequel to Meg Lewtan's 'There Has to be a Morning After' (on the CD), in which Bodie and Murphy are lovers. 'Waking from Dreams' outines a crucial shift as Murphy, acknowledging in the wake of the events of 'The Ojuka Situation' that Bodie loves Doyle, offers Doyle the opportunity to claim Bodie as his lover. The story ends with the new B/D relationship established, but the events that prompt the changeover occur off- screen as the story is told from Murphy's pov. 'Chances Change' details the off-screen interaction that establishes Bodies and Doyle's relationship, told from Doyle's pov. 'Waking from Dreams' is a compact narrative, beautifully simplistic in its approach and language. In contrast. 'Chances Change' is three times longer and more complex both in its style and content, a difference that suits the complicated matter this text addresses. The story gets down to the nitty-gritty of the emotional upheaval that both Bodie and Doyle undergo as their relationship is stood on its head and turned inside-out. This story puts PFL's strengths on display: the characters' psychology is pried into minutely; emotional nuances are ruthlessly speared and exposed; action abounds; and Bodie and Doyle are the tough, strong, and difficult sods I know and love. They fight, they fuck, they love - and they manage to do it all at the same time.

This story is a companion to the author's Waking from Dreams which was published in Roses and Lavender 1. Waking from Dreams was written as one possible sequel to Meg Lewtan's There Has to be a Morning After (on the Proslib CD), in which Bodie and Murphy are lovers. Waking from Dreams outlines a crucial shift as Murphy, acknowledging in the wake of the events of The Ojuka Situation that Bodie loves Doyle, offers Doyle the opportunity to claim Bodie as his lover. The story ends with the new B/D relationship established, but the events that prompt the changeover occur off-screen as the story is told from Murphy's pov.

Chances Change details the off-screen interaction that establishes Bodie's and Doyle's relationship, told from Doyle's pov. Waking from Dreams is a compact narrative, beautifully simplistic in its approach and language. In contrast, Chances Change is three times longer and far more complex both in its style and content, a difference that suits the complicated matter this text addresses. The story gets down to the nitty-gritty of the emotional upheaval both Bodie and Doyle undergo as their relationship is stood on its head and turned inside-out.

This story showcases PFL's skills: the characters' psychology is pried into minutely; emotional nuances are ruthlessly speared and exposed; action abounds; and Bodie and Doyle are the tough, strong, and difficult sods I know and love. They fight, they fuck, they love--and they manage to do it all at the same time and conveyed with PFL's wonderful, controlled style.