Prosfic Bingo - four squares left!

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There's four three wee squares left on the Bingo board - I know we're distracted by the Pros Novel Read-Along, but we can still fill them, right?! I picked up a fic to read with breakfast this morning, certain that I could shoe-horn it into one of the four squares left, but nope! I'll do a review anyway - and then see what else I can find today! *g*

Anyone else up for helping fill in the last few squares?

ETA - yeay macklingirl!

Case-based	Doyle pov	Hurt/Comfort	Women of CI5	Comedy
A winter story	Relationship-based	Bodie pov	Other agents	Lads doing other jobs
Injury/illness	Alternative Universe	WILD CARD	Other character pov	Older lads
First Time	Curtain fic	Based on a specific episode	Post-canon	Set mostly at night
Something Fanon	Crossover (with another show/fandom)	A celebration!	Cowley pov	Featuring an animal

Ritual Cleansing by Meg Lewtan

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I was looking out a fic for someone this morning, and decided I'd have a go at reading it myself - it's on the ProsLib dvd, but being my paper-y self I'm reading it in The Hatstand Express 8: Ritual Cleansing by Meg Lewtan.

It was apparently based on a storyline suggested by "JT", and I can only imagine that it came up as part of a very cool Pros-y conversation!

(Slight diversion - THE is a "letterzine", where people wrote letters in response to the previous edition etc. I've just come across a reply to a conversation apparently about whether zines would ever make the paper circuit obsolete... I guess we've been through internet lists and livejournal since then too - we're still here obviously, but lj's nowhere near as active as it used to be either: the "next thing" is moving on like a juggernaut, whatever that next thing is... individualism? A03? Hmmn...)

The story starts with Doyle in bed listening to Bodie come home at 5am in the morning and have a shower, which we're told is a ritual for him - and there's our set up. The lads clearly live together, but what's Bodie doing out all night that he needs to shower from, which would upset Doyle enough that he's clearly wide awake listening out for him..? A series of flashbacks is used to explain...

The story's a bit lads-talk-about-everything for my liking/belief in them, but I did keep reading to find out what was going on - and then to find out if there was any way it could or would be resolved! *g*

( Slightly spoiler-y bit with title of sequel )

If anyone else reads this, I'd love to know what you think!

Reading Pros Fic Bingo Challenge - Hurt/Comfort

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Ok, I'll claim the Hurt/Comfort square with Awakenings by PFL (msmoat).

It was one of the first Hurt/Comfort stories I read years ago. Bodie and Doyle had had a car accident and I would say it is a both-way-hurt-comfort story because it is only logical that both are hurt and both want to give comfort to the other.

UK Paper Circuit Library - by file folder - File Folder 03

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I'm cracking on with the Paper Library files - here's Folder 3, listed and linked where possible! Lots of stories in this one! As usual, if you spot anything that looks odd (or interesting!) do let me know. *g*

( File 3 stories listed here )