Ill Met By Moonlight

Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title:	Ill Met By Moonlight
Author(s):	O. Yardley
Date(s):	pre-1991, though likely much earlier
Length:	22 pages
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	The Professionals
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Ill Met By Moonlight is a 22-page Bodie/Doyle Shakespeare fusion story by O. Yardley.

It was published in The Small Print #2 under the name Kate Bowless as a straight story and as a slash circuit story written by O. Yardley.

The sequel is Restore Amends.

Fan Comments

Some people might call this one A/U but to me it is Fantasy - and very enjoyable Fantasy at that. Our CI5 Bodie and Doyle, whilst searching the woods for a suspect, find themselves involved in an exchange of bodies with Oberon and Puck, the Fairy King and his mischievous servant fron Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', who want to experience what it is like to be Human and pick on our guys as their guinea-pigs. Doyle, while retaining most of his own character, becomes Puck very easily; Bodie, poor soul, can't quite conceive of himself as being King of the Fairies, and he has Titania to cope with besides, whose relationship with the real. Oberon is not all hearts and flowers. The tribulations B & D suffer as they roam the woods, unable to leave because of the magic of the situation, are treated very amusingly and the development of their relationship with each other is very delicately done. Of course, everyone ends up back in their own bodies at the end, Oberon to face his irate Queen whom Bodie has mortally offended, B & D not quite sure what has happened, only that something has changed their feelings for one another.

There are two versions of this story: the straight one, printed in 'THE SMALL PRINT 2' under the name Kay Bowless, and this slashed one.

It is one of my favourite B/D's, perhaps because I first read it shortly after seeing a marvellous performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dreamy on stage for the first time, and therefore had a very clear