Such a Day Tomorrow
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Such a Day Tomorrow |
| Author(s): | Sebastian |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | 2550 words |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Professionals |
| Relationship(s): | Bodie/Doyle |
| External Links: | here |
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Such a Day Tomorrow is a Bodie/Doyle story by Sebastian.
Reactions and Reviews
Unknown Date
the best one i've read out of her, beautifully characterized, sweet, charming, emphatically quirky, perfectly put-together: no faltering, whimpering ending here. [1]
1995
in all our previous discussion of music and slash, I neglected to mention a particular piece of music that was used successfully in a slash story and that will forever be imbued with lascivious intent for me: Handel's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba was the background for Sebastian's Such A Day Tomorrow. There are no lyrics to quote but Doyle kept replaying his tape of it over and over as he feveredly rubbed and gyrated astride a happily supine Bodie. Whenever I hear that piece now, I can't help but smile a little as wicked images flick through my mind! [2]
2010
One of Sebastian's early circuit stories, with the lovely, warm, sweet quality typical of many of them. It's a small story in which nothing much happens, yet it encapsulates a crucial turning point in their relationship, a notching up of a situation we learn has been ongoing for some time. I love the way Doyle makes his declaration; a promise for the future. Even more than that, I adore Bodie's response to the glimpse he's given of a time to come:
- "Won what?" asked Bodie, sitting up, passing one shaky hand over his damp forehead. The shock was passing, settling into something--familiar, and right. He was beginning to feel very, very happy.
This simple, charming story is one of my favourites of Sebastian's earlier tales. I can't even exactly pinpoint why it pleases me so much. It's partly the fairy-tale quality of the whole, I think, and partly the way Bodie first anchors us in a prosaic reality as he deals with a provocative Doyle, then transports us along with him to the heady realm of imagined future delight. Furthermore, the whole is framed within the CI5 world, so there's also the gentlest of reminders, particularly in the epigraph, that they live in a non-idyllic world that's not quite as removed from time and space as the mood they generate evokes. It gives me the best of both worlds: the sense of a timelessness that surrounds the characters, yet their lives grounded in the world of danger and mayhem we know Bodie and Doyle inhabit. [3]
- Doyle grinned at him, rakish, perfectly balanced on the balls of his feet. "Me!"
References
- ^ The Pros recs; archived link
- ^ from Strange Bedfellows (APA) #10 (August 1995)
- ^ 2010 comments by istia, prosrecs, Archived version