In Case of Emergency, Break Rules

Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title:	In Case of Emergency, Break Rules
Author(s):	Heliophile
Date(s):
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	The Professionals
External Links:	online here
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In Case of Emergency, Break Rules is a Bodie/Doyle story by Heliophile.

Reactions and Reviews

It is amusing, serious, lighthearted, emotional – everything I need in a good story.

You can feel their affection, but it's told without any exaggeration or repetitions.

I really like the first part of this fic - epic! :D

With Bodie following, the bike, and then the quiet time between partners... *very happy fangirl*

But when they went back to the car and the fic kind of turned in some way, and it both surprised me, and got me all -Whaaaaat?- I don't dislike it, it just didn't push all the right buttons for me. It almost felt like two fics in one to me. As a whole I like it though.

I guess I was expecting something more. *shrug* :)

Hehe - usually it is my business to complain when a good plot turns into 'just another first time'. :-)

But here it fits all (for me). The whole story - as well as the title - leads to that 'one moment'. There is no time for any kind of decisions at all - Doyle is just doing it!

That's very convincing for me.

I'm not complaining, I'm just telling what it felt like. It was like the first part didn't quite fit together with the second part (To clarify, the first part ended with the two men going their sepparate ways and the lads going back to the car). I was expecting something compleately different, and then they were by the car and I was transfered into another fic alltogether. *g* Sounds weird I know, but I don't know how else to explain it.

Well the light version with a kiss between partners in such a situation is old enough. So why are you sooooo surprised? - I really do like the scene with the more heavy "kiss" between the lads, it was damn hot. So I do like this heavier version of the lads getting together. It's not that. It's...

I was expecting some fighting maybe, a little hurt/comfort, whatever, and then I got this instead and I was all 'okay...'. Maybe I got a little dissapointed that it had to end there, if you know what I mean, not that it ended the way it did.

I liked this, especially the second half, which I thought a was lovely because I got a real sense of their vulnerability throughout that scene in the car.

... it's such a treat! It just leaves me grinning stupidly, right down to 'on yer bike, sunshine', - hee!

Heliophile writes so delightfully and this is a good example. Like firlefanzine, I could see this as on film (well not the sex, but the rest of it) - especially Doyle flinging himself into the car - so vivid!

Doyle's cunning plan to pretend to be a couple of blokes innocently having it off on a dark country road is excellent! It starts off as a great surprise, but there are hints that it's not such a coincidence. By the end, it looks as though Bodie had thoughts of seducing Ray himself that night, in the cottage where they are supposed to be staying.

I really enjoyed the first part of the story, Bodie’s concern for Doyle and the way he goes with his instincts in finding him. The bit where he opens his coat to wrap it around a frozen Doyle is exquisite. But I agree with scherwood that the second part throws you out of the story slightly because of the jump in perception. I think it may have worked better to draw the scene of them fleeing and Doyle’s solution out more, giving the reader an opportunity to adjust to the changing circumstances and for the tension to build. Having said that, I did like the fic in its entirety – a very enjoyable read.

Went and reminded myself of this and thoroughly enjoyed it. And I must say that I don't see it as a fic of two halves as some seem to. At that point in the car about midway through, we're in Bodie's POV, and so what Doyle does is clearly meant to come as a total surprise. And the direction she then takes it works well for me. It's hot, it's convincing as a first time, and she portrays Bodie's sudden lust as well as his confusion nicely. And dialogue gal that I am, hers is to die for..*g*

I like this very much! Liked the fresh and skilfull use of language, like the characterization of the lads, liked the neatly encompassed snippet of plot -- capturing just a few moments, a turning point, in their lives. In fact, I can't think of anything I didn't like about it.