Prosfic Rec Advent Calender - Day 10 - Guess the Story

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So, here we are with the todays Guess the Story. I have three clues which I will post all over the day. And at the evening we take a look at the comments and you can see, which story it was. I'll screen the comments, so nobody will know before the evening if someone knew it.

Clue one

Deeper down in the little cache he found what he was looking for.





Clue two

He had bought a live Christmas tree in a pot, only twelve inches high. He'd set it on the windowsill among his forced bulbs and draped a string of tiny lights around it. He cut out the figure of Cowley from one of the photographes he and Bodie collected for various bits of foolery and fastened it to the tip of the tree, remembering the Christmas trees of childhood and the noisy squabbling excitement of siblings and cousins as they speculated about the presents stacked under and around.



somtime later



He set down his cup and went into the living room, drawing back the curtains to let in the grey morning. On the windowsill the little tree stood forlornly, and he thought about relieving it of its undignified burden of decoration. He'd have to sort out a place it could get enough light, or find it a proper home in the earth, somewhere he could keep an eye on it while it got its roots dug in. He and Bodie could sneak it into a corner of the park - -

"What are you staring at, you malevoelnt old sod?" he demanded of Cowley's picture. "Working on the next helping of chaos?"

Oh, and have the third clue as well. It is only a picture this time *g*

Clue three

He picked up the little box, unfolded the card and read *Merry Christmas, Will, with much love from Mum.*



That are all clues you'll get from me. :-)

Prosfic Rec Advent Calender - Day 10 - And the story is...

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The story is Boxing Day by The Hag. The clues are again under the cut, so you can look if you would have known it.

I love this story because it shows me how much Bodie thinks of Doyle and how highly he values him. And it shows how vulnerable the tough ex-merc and CI5-Agent Bodie is in the inside. And because in this story Bodies youth isn't all violence and hate like in many other stories. It is sadness but in the end there was much love in his youth.
( The clues )

Even if it wasn't so easy, we have two fans who knew it only with the first clue. The first one was cornishcat, the second was msmoat.
byslantedlight said it rang a bell with the first clue and she got it after the last one. cloudless_9193 knew it too and of course hagsrus couldn't even begin to guess. *g*

I hope you enjoyed this little game and you enjoy the story. It is one of my favorites.