Rainy Days (Professionals story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Rainy Days
Author(s):	Jane of Australia
Date(s):	July 1986 (circuit story)
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	The Professionals
Relationship(s):	Bodie/Doyle
External Links:	Online at The Professional Circuit Archive
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Rainy Days is a Bodie/Doyle 56-page story by Jane of Australia. It is a circuit story, the first part of the Rainy Days Universe and was later published in Rainy Days.

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Reactions and Reviews

1990

Anybody who's so unimaginative that they can't get into fantasies or historicals should at least try to check out these "real-world" B/D adventures [lists many stories by Jane of Australia. I love this B&D in the RAINY DAYS stories because they're so mature, which is a rare thing for most B/D fanfic. They don't rape each other or torture or abuse or humiliate each other, or even beat each other up -- Gods! Instead,these stories are about how they deal with day-to-day problems of living and loving... two men in love with each other in a prejudicial, mostly straight and repressive world. Even when they do have fights, they fight fairly. Their work in CI5 is always spot-lighted, too, but what attracts me most to these stories is their loving, mature, settled relationship. S&M freaks, don't bother reading these. They're about a real relationship.

1996

Okay are there two stories with this title (Rainy Days)... Got curious and just read the story and maybe the online version is toned down or edited but the only possible scene that could even fit the rough sex definition is when Bodie is mad at Ray and initiates sex while angry. There is absolutely nothing in my copy to indicate that at any time Doyle said 'no' or 'stop' or 'I don't want to'... which for me is needed to indicate rape. And I wouldn't classify it as rape just cause Bodie was angry at Ray and taking it out this way. The version I read implies not only at the end that Doyle enjoyed it but never indicates at any point that he wasn't willing.

Unlike say Consequences where it is quite clear he's saying no. Bodie did dominate him in this scene in Rainy Days but B and D doesn't indicate rape... nor even does S and M and there is a lot of violence involved in S and M. Rape is a sexual act against the party's will and I don't see that in Rainy Days. My copy never implies that it was against Doyle's will.

I do see that in Jigsaw although whether it's rape or sexual assualt... I think that without penetration it's assualt but I'm not sure. I'm afraid that I agree that Jigsaw -- which I like for the most part does take Bodie too far out of character in this scene. I could buy either the scene at the gym or the scene in the apartment-- meaning I can believe that Bodie might at some point lose control and even misdirect his anger-- but and this is a big but and why I thought Jigsaw was out of character... I can't see Bodie losing control for this prolonged a period of time. I can see him striking out at Ray once in anger but not over a several hour period. He's too controlled and too protective of Ray for his natural instincts to go on vacation for that long a time. An hour maybe--at most-- but this was for several hours and he should have cooled down and been remorseful long before he reached Ray's apartment, not still angry at him.

I haven't read any partner rape stories that I found even remotely believable in the set up...

I love the follow up to Consequences but I don't buy the rape nor do I buy Doyle's reaction to it.

And maybe I'll get my head snapped off here but Doyle's or Bodie's comment [in Rainy Days] that rape is harder on men is something I agree with. We as women are aware of the danger -- we know we're weaker and less able to fight than men but men at least in US society are conditioned to believe themselves as being stronger and in control. I as a woman am aware of my vunerability... even though I've never been raped I know it's possible. Men don't... they don't realize it they don't accept it -- it's not something they ever think about unless suddenly it happens. They know they might get mugged and beaten up but that they might be raped just doesn't occur. Women know everytime they face a violent situation that it's a possibility. So not only do they, men, have to face all the effects of the actual violence they also have that wall of saftey or invunerability that surrounds them ripped to shreads...{yeah I know we all have a bit of that wall in that we all believe that it won't happen to us but we as women somewhere recognize that it might if we're not careful-- men don't for the most part-- it's not even something that they consider. If I walk in a bad part of town after dark I'm aware that it's something that could happen-- a man who walks in a bad part of town realizes that he might get mugged beaten up shot-- but that he might be raped-- it's normally beyond their comprehension} So when a man is raped I think that's more devastating--the unthinkable has happened. And there is definitely more stigma attached to a man than a woman and also less support groups.

Overall it's also an individual response. I don't like rape stories either partner rape or stranger rape. I'll tolerate them if the hurt comfort aspect is good but I'd prefer other injuries or violence to rape. It's just not a subject I take lightly. Oh well I've wondered off topic but wanted to defend the author's position with that comment. Hope I managed to make my point clearly... it's a tough one to state clearly.

As for Rainy Days-- I don't see a rape or near rape in the copy I read.. only a bit of rough sex and considering some of the other stuff I've read on the library not all that rough in the sex department.

2007

Bodie's POV and probably the most in-depth of all the fics on Doyle's recovery process [from the events taking place in Discovered in a Graveyard episode]. She's very imaginative and very technical -- one of the only writers who addresses the real probability that Doyle wouldn't make it back, or that there would be lasting health implications."