Fire Held High and Away by Miriam Heddy ( R)
Fandom: PROS (THE PROFESSIONALS)
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 128k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Miriam Heddy’s Little Corner of the Universe
Why this must be read: Because it hits my domestic kink button like a freight train, while managing to be so much more than a fluffy Curtain Fic. The lads are working together, squabbling, moving in - dating basically - for twelve long years of partnership before they wake up and smell the coffee. Or chocolates, as Miriam Heddy would have here, in her beautifully realised and very lads-like seduction scene.
This takes us from Doyle’s disastrous involvement with Ann Holly to post series; to Bodie taking over the training of agents, and to Doyle being groomed for Cowley’s position. And it’s an absolute joy to sit back and watch these two alpha males lock antlers, God love 'em, and get there in the end. Banter is this writer’s forte, and I could listen to her Bodie and Doyle dissect their lives and the universe forever.
The excerpt is Bodie’s priceless reaction to Doyle’s suggestion they start sharing a flat.
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"Ray, wait, we can't do that."
"Why not?"
"But how's it look?"
"How's what look?"
"Well, I'm bisexual." Several heads turned and I realised that I'd not only said it aloud, but loud enough to hear in most of the restaurant. I could feel the flush rising to my cheeks and gulped down some of Ray's water.
Ray rolled his eyes at me and hissed, "Why don't you bloody well come out to the whole of London? I can have pamphlets printed up if you'd like."
I grimaced at him. "Yeah, that'd help our PR, sure enough."
Ray laughed. "Cowley'd love that."
"Cowley knows," I said quietly.
"Course he does. But is it necessary for the whole bleeding restaurant to hear it as well?"
"No. It isn't. Necessary," I said, stating the obvious for lack of anything sensible to say. "He knows," I repeated. "So how the hell will it look, us moving into the same flat?"
"He'll think that it's time we thought of it, probably. Possibly, he'll worry that we'll kill each other."
"Rightfully," I muttered under my breath.
He ignored me and continued. "Very likely he'll see it as confirmation that I am a confirmed bachelor, and you--"
I looked up from my meal and waited for him to continue.
"--are utterly hopeless, mate," he finished, and shook his head, turning back to his food with a slight smirk on his face.
"Very funny. Should book you into the music hall."
"Need a straight man, wouldn't I? Seen any about?"
"Sod off."
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Fire Held High and Away
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: 128k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Miriam Heddy’s Little Corner of the Universe
Why this must be read: Because it hits my domestic kink button like a freight train, while managing to be so much more than a fluffy Curtain Fic. The lads are working together, squabbling, moving in - dating basically - for twelve long years of partnership before they wake up and smell the coffee. Or chocolates, as Miriam Heddy would have here, in her beautifully realised and very lads-like seduction scene.
This takes us from Doyle’s disastrous involvement with Ann Holly to post series; to Bodie taking over the training of agents, and to Doyle being groomed for Cowley’s position. And it’s an absolute joy to sit back and watch these two alpha males lock antlers, God love 'em, and get there in the end. Banter is this writer’s forte, and I could listen to her Bodie and Doyle dissect their lives and the universe forever.
The excerpt is Bodie’s priceless reaction to Doyle’s suggestion they start sharing a flat.
******
"Ray, wait, we can't do that."
"Why not?"
"But how's it look?"
"How's what look?"
"Well, I'm bisexual." Several heads turned and I realised that I'd not only said it aloud, but loud enough to hear in most of the restaurant. I could feel the flush rising to my cheeks and gulped down some of Ray's water.
Ray rolled his eyes at me and hissed, "Why don't you bloody well come out to the whole of London? I can have pamphlets printed up if you'd like."
I grimaced at him. "Yeah, that'd help our PR, sure enough."
Ray laughed. "Cowley'd love that."
"Cowley knows," I said quietly.
"Course he does. But is it necessary for the whole bleeding restaurant to hear it as well?"
"No. It isn't. Necessary," I said, stating the obvious for lack of anything sensible to say. "He knows," I repeated. "So how the hell will it look, us moving into the same flat?"
"He'll think that it's time we thought of it, probably. Possibly, he'll worry that we'll kill each other."
"Rightfully," I muttered under my breath.
He ignored me and continued. "Very likely he'll see it as confirmation that I am a confirmed bachelor, and you--"
I looked up from my meal and waited for him to continue.
"--are utterly hopeless, mate," he finished, and shook his head, turning back to his food with a slight smirk on his face.
"Very funny. Should book you into the music hall."
"Need a straight man, wouldn't I? Seen any about?"
"Sod off."
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Fire Held High and Away