Christmas Spirit

Fanfiction
Title:	Christmas Spirit
Author(s):	Pamela Dale
Date(s):
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	The Professionals
Relationship(s):	Bodie/Doyle
External Links:	on AO3
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Christmas Spirit is a 15-page Professionals story by Pamela Dale.

Fan Comments

Bodie and Doyle are at Ray's family home for Christmas, playing with his younger niece and nephew. Ray is worried about the older boy, who has got in with a bad crowd. They get him to admit to being supposed to help in the robbery of a shop.

B & D foil the robbers and hand them over to the police. Later, in Doyle's childhood room, a drunken Bodie reveals that from the age of six (because of his step-father) he was a battered child. When he has a nightmare later on, Doyle comforts him and they share a bed. Waking aroused, they have sex and realise they love one another.

There is not a very Christmassy feel to this story, although the domestic scene at the start is cosy enough. I got the feeling that the robbery plot was mere padding, and didn't have much point- to it.

This story does have Doyle worrying in case he is gay, and Bodie reassuring him that he's not, as he only fancies Bodie it's not just sex but love. I know some readers will cringe at this, but I've already made my opinion known 'and it's okay by me.