Wow! Brilliant piece of plotting! and interesting to see an evil!Cowley, there's not enough fics featuring him!
Great story, and I loved the way you included people like Macklin and Betty, and the way they all had their suspicions but never dared do anything about it until Bodie started pushing.
Loved the way you tied it in to Fall Girl,too - Bodie is so angry at the end of that, it's quite possible to see evil!Cowley exploiting that to drive a wedge between the lads.
Well! I really haven't time to read stories right now, and I've always detested "The Pillory" (It's well done--Kitty Fisher is a good writer and I love other stories of hers, but...ouch), so why am I here commenting? Because...I started reading it. I've needed an explanation of "The Pillory" since my first year in Pros fandom. *g* And it seemed like it was going to end in such a way as to make me happy. *g* And it did! Thank you! Okay, I don't really believe in an evil!Cowley, but...I'd rather believe in evil!Cowley than betrayer!Bodie.*g* And the plot was suitably Machiavellian, and I could see why Bodie had come to believe Doyle had done it. And of course I love it that the bond between them survived even this. *g*
I have always hated how "The Pillory" ended and I'm so glad you have written an incredible sequel to the original story, and giving Doyle a better ending.
So now we have the humorous "Seven New Endings to The Pillory", and your wonderful and fantastic sequel.
This is fabulously plotty and dark and twisted. I have to admit to a weakness for dark!Cowley stories and for ones with one or more of the lads adapting to life outside of CI5. I really like the way you riff off Fall Girl and The Pillory and take your story in its own distinctive direction. And it's great to see Betty, Kate Ross and Macklin getting a look-in.
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Great story, and I loved the way you included people like Macklin and Betty, and the way they all had their suspicions but never dared do anything about it until Bodie started pushing.
Loved the way you tied it in to Fall Girl,too - Bodie is so angry at the end of that, it's quite possible to see evil!Cowley exploiting that to drive a wedge between the lads.
Thank you for a great story!
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I hope it's gone a little way to satisfying your request for a The Pillory sequel.
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I was a bit nervous, writing a sequel to such a well-known story, but I always wanted to give Bodie and Doyle a happy ending.
Thanks!
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I have always hated how "The Pillory" ended and I'm so glad you have written an incredible sequel to the original story, and giving Doyle a better ending.
So now we have the humorous "Seven New Endings to The Pillory", and your wonderful and fantastic sequel.
Thank you so much for sharing the story.
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I've always been charmed by "Seven Endings..."
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Dark!Cowley is pretty frightening. All that power just waiting to be turned evil...
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I'm enjoying all the Big Bang stories. So many new long-fic to read and enjoy!
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