Stay (Professionals story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Stay
Author(s):	Shorts
Date(s):	2002
Length:
Genre(s):	slash, Bodie/Doyle
Fandom(s):	The Professionals
Relationship(s):	Bodie/Doyle
External Links:	online here
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Stay by Shorts is a Bodie/Doyle story.

It was originally published in Secret Agent Men #1 and is online.

Summary

"Bodie and Doyle live together, but are forced to work apart. Which will happen first, frustration overload or the case gets solved?"

Reactions and Reviews

Stay by Shorts has Doyle discovered on a job to infiltrate a black market trade in abducted men and women. He is drugged, raped and filmed and the photographs sent on to Cowley as a warning. Cowley decides to enter the 'flesh business' incognito to buy Doyle back and uses Bodie as his in-between. Shorts has Doyle as a bisexual, something Bodie was not aware of, and uses this fact and Bodie discovery and rescue of his partner to create tension. Much of the story is taken up with Doyle facing his fears of rejection by Bodie. I found it hard to see Cowley in the matchmaker role, and I found it hard to believe that Doyle would bounce back after apparent multiple rape to indulge in sex with Bodie.