Prosfic That's A Bit Different Rec Challenge?

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Okay, I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that, but I'm going to leave it up anyway... *g*

Obviously all Pros stories are unique and individual and all, but lately I've read a couple of stories that have seemed somehow... different. I'm not sure if it's the plot, or the premise it's built on being slightly unexpected, or if it's just that they don't fit as easily or closely with my versions of the lads, which is what makes the story seem extra "different", but it's something... Something that makes me sit up and go huh at the end of it, and think about it a bit longer...

Any idea what I mean? Anyone fancy posting recs for a story or two that's made them go huh, and think about it a bit longer...? *g*

And I shall start the ball rolling with a post up above... *g*

Prosfic Rec - "Beasts of Burden" by Deveroux Dane

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Title: Beasts of Burden
Author: Deveroux Dane
Link to story: Not online
Zine: Heroes 2
Review:

Beasts of Burden is the only Pros story in the multifandom zine "Heroes 2", which means that not many people might have read it/be able to get hold of it, but I figured that shouldn't mean that it's not worth reviewing/reccing...

The non-spoiler-y rec bit is that although it seems at first to be a fairly straight-forward plot/story, even in relatively few pages (32, but with quite large type) the author manages to weave several sub-plots and some very interesting twists and turns without actually losing me by being over-plotty with it... And it doesn't stick with looking deeply into just one character either - we find out more about Doyle, then Bodie, and then Cowley, all through it, and by the end I wasn't just thinking oh, good plot, I was thinking about how it fitted in with their personalities, and the way they behaved in different eps, and how that fitted in with the story - which I always like in a fic. A thinky bit... *g*

It's not written perfectly, though it's fine - there's the odd Americanism-type twist of phrase, and the bizare s'what type punctuation, and even the odd typo, but it was all interesting and twist-y enough to keep me reading anyway - it's worth ignoring to find out what happens!

I actually wanted this to be a longer fic - I'm sure there could be a great novel-length story around everything that was going on... *g*

Has anyone else read this one?! What did you think? Was it "different" for you? *g*

( The spoiler-y bit... )

Prosfic Rec - "The Missing Piece" by Cassidy Collins

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Title: The Missing Piece
Author: Bluespirit (written under the pseudonym Cassidy Collins)
Link to story:  http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/10/themissing.html

Strange! Last  week I read this story, and I thought that there are still and always surprises!
It’s extremely romantic – If that’s not romantic, I don’t know…
Bodie is somewhere in Africa,  – and he has a bad fever. His companions are forced to leave him alone,  alhough they think that he’s dying. "I know, Rick...but nobody should die alone like this. Not even blokes like us."
Now guess who or what saves his life, and what the ‚Missing Piece‘ is meant to be…?

I’ve found it on rec50:
http://community.livejournal.com/rec50/tag/the+professionals:+bodie/doyle
And the remark there fits perfect:
„Sometimes reality is totally overrated...“

Prosfic That's A Bit Different Rec: Andante by Jane

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Title: Andante
Author: Jane
Link:http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/4/andante.html

When I read this story a few years ago it struck me as being a bit 'different' from the norm....it had a certain kind of sweetness about it, not sickly sick, but a wistful kind of sweetness....and it was gentle and sad. And in turn I was touched by Bodie's generosity, then his jealousy.....