Stealing Home
| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Stealing Home |
| Author(s): | Sandy Hereld |
| Date(s): | 1995 |
| Length: | 15147 words |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | online at AO3 |
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Stealing Home is a Bodie/Doyle story by Sandy Hereld.
The story was first published in Nudge Nudge Wink Wink #4. The author's notes on Archive of Our Own mistakenly attributes its original publication place as Concupiscence #3.
Reactions and Reviews
Why this must be read:Ah, this is a discovery story, and who doesn't like this kind of story? Cowley assigns Bodie to guard an old acquaintance of him. And Doyle is not really happy to know this is a solo operation. But, as Cowley asks him to stay on close touch... well, we all know Doyle. :)
He spent the whole day with Bodie and his charge, and something happens, something that force Doyle to ask himself a lot of questions, and find some startling facts he must to face and deal with. [1]
Why this must be read: This is a lovely view of the partnership between Bodie and Doyle, and how one old friend of Bodie's can upset the applecart. We see Doyle learning more about Bodie - and getting it wrong, sometimes: "It was so far from what he’d expected, he was reminded again how little he knew Bodie at times ". We also see Doyle almost getting into a spot of trouble with Bodie's friend Jerry, prompting some classic Doyle self-analysis and angst. How our lads manage to extricate themselves from all the misunderstandings, and how they get together, is beautifully told with flashes of humour and a good descriptive turn of phrase. I was a bit surprised to find that this hasn't been recced here before - at least, not that I can find. Even if it has, it's some time ago, so I do hope you enjoy this as much as I do. [2]
I think you've been reading my mind as I've just been reacquainting myself with this story. I really like the author's work and wish they'd written more. [3]
Great choice, the first piece of slash fiction I read was by this author. I loved her web page, it was my introduction to fandom. [4]
I saw [livejournal.com profile] sherrold around when I first showed up, and considered her one of the eminences grises of the fandom. I was really sorry I never got to speak to her (too intimidated at the time, I guess). But I never really read any of her fic before.
Thanks for posting this, and giving me a start to catching up on her work. [5]