Professionals Reading Bingo: Curtain Fic (maybe? maybe not, then)

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( I didn't know that finding curtain fic was an issue... )

Professionals Reading Bingo: Women of CI5

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Aaaand, for someone with no time, I seem to be on a roll! (Though I will pay for this later, LOL.)

This entry is Betty Knows Best by JoJo - a day in the life of Betty.

Betty's role is senior secretarial support (now known as executive admin assistant) for CI5. She's intelligent, fast, and efficient; as she herself says, "utterly invaluable to my boss." She does it all: anticipates her boss's needs, respects the "girls" in the typing pool, understands the female agents, and has both 4.5 and 3.7's numbers.

And yes - like any good secretary, she knows where the skeletons are hidden.

All of them.

But no one seems to see her - or just see her as an extension of their own worlds. So what exactly does she get out of being senior secretarial support for CI5?

It's the answer to that - which is very much the reason why I like this story. :D

I'm thoroughly enjoying the glance through some stories that I haven't had a chance to read before. So thank you for that, byslantedlight :D

Curtain fic!

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I am now kicking myself for including curtain fic as a square on the ci5hq Bingo board, because I guess it must have faded out of fashion far enough that people aren't really sure what it is any more. *g* I knew we'd had a discussion on here about it though, and I've finally found it, via Palelyloitering on the Wayback Machine. Yeay!

And I found a list of curtain fic up at Palelyloitering too, so I'm going to include that here as well.

Poll and discussion about curtainfic - 21st February 2009!

Basically, most people defined it as "That the story is set at home and is about something domestic" and the next biggest definition was "That the focus of the story is something domestic (no matter where it's set)". And I guess both those things are where I was coming from when I included it on the Bingo board, so that's what I'm looking for - it's about the focus of the story being the domestic thing, no matter where it's set. So, mostly they're probably going to be set at home, but also, for instance, if a story was about the lads fighting over how they're going to decorate their first house together, even if they're doing it while on stake-out in the Outer Hebrides, and the focus of the story is them setting up their house, then that would still be curtain fic. *g*

Stories
Building to Last (universe) by Terence

Cream Puffed Up by Caro Dee

Domestic Bliss by Alexandra

Home Improvement by Brenda K

A Day in the Life by HG

Discovered in a Furball by the Hag

Be It Ever So Humble by Jane

When I'm 54 by Lizzie

The Luck Bringers by Nell Howell

If anyone can think of more stories like this - where the focus is on the lads being domestic (not just them in a domestic setting) then do let us know in the comments! *g*