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ci5hqSomebody said Harlequin Airs is an AU.
I think about it as pre canon. Although it has crossover tendencies with "Ladder of swords".
Doyle´s sent undercover:
Cowley began to shuffle through a stack of papers, finally stopping at one that apparently caught his eye. "Macklin says you are quite impressive in tumbling routines both on the ground and on the fixed trapeze."
"Surely that doesn't surprise you?"
Cowley drew a noncommittal face. "Perhaps it does. After all, it has been ten years since you worked with the circus."
"True."
"He says your timing is uncanny."
Doyle raised the rim of the glass to his lips and said nothing.
"Have you heard of Circus Sergei?"
"No."
"We have reason to believe that it is being used as a way station for IRA armaments and explosives."
"Donal O'Shea." Doyle gestured at his face and hair. "That's why you had all this done--so I wouldn't be identified."
"That's right. And although I would prefer not to send you into an operation that might involve him, I don't have another agent who has your abilities."
"And which abilities," Doyle drawled inquiringly, "might those be?"
"Aerial and equestrian."
He meets Bodie at the Circus.
It´s all a bit fast and the Lads are almost too good to be true, but I can see The Lads from the series in them, and it´s all about trust and love and there´s AMAZING Artwork by Suzanne Lovett.
And I really LOVE it!!
I think about it as pre canon. Although it has crossover tendencies with "Ladder of swords".
Doyle´s sent undercover:
Cowley began to shuffle through a stack of papers, finally stopping at one that apparently caught his eye. "Macklin says you are quite impressive in tumbling routines both on the ground and on the fixed trapeze."
"Surely that doesn't surprise you?"
Cowley drew a noncommittal face. "Perhaps it does. After all, it has been ten years since you worked with the circus."
"True."
"He says your timing is uncanny."
Doyle raised the rim of the glass to his lips and said nothing.
"Have you heard of Circus Sergei?"
"No."
"We have reason to believe that it is being used as a way station for IRA armaments and explosives."
"Donal O'Shea." Doyle gestured at his face and hair. "That's why you had all this done--so I wouldn't be identified."
"That's right. And although I would prefer not to send you into an operation that might involve him, I don't have another agent who has your abilities."
"And which abilities," Doyle drawled inquiringly, "might those be?"
"Aerial and equestrian."
He meets Bodie at the Circus.
It´s all a bit fast and the Lads are almost too good to be true, but I can see The Lads from the series in them, and it´s all about trust and love and there´s AMAZING Artwork by Suzanne Lovett.
And I really LOVE it!!
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Date: 2012-07-15 10:03 pm (UTC)...maybe I should go re-read it. Again. :)
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Date: 2012-07-15 10:08 pm (UTC)It took me ages to start it because it´s such a long story.
And I just read and read and read until I was done this weekend, so this was the first part of neglecting the Art for the ProsBB....
I have to be doubly diligent now, but it was such a good read!!!
It´s definetly one of my favourite Pros story now!
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Date: 2012-07-15 10:24 pm (UTC)I've always really enjoyed this story. I do consider it AU, but it's close to canon. I also really enjoy the original characters. Sure, it's all probably a bit "too good" to be true, but...I thoroughly enjoy it. *g*
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:21 am (UTC)No I don´t have a zine version, I really have to think about getting it! *g*
I did enjoy the story immensely!! And I will read it again!!
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Date: 2012-07-15 10:58 pm (UTC)(Weird! LJ won't let me change my icon..)
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:22 am (UTC)(Which Icon would´ve you chosen instead? I think it´s VERY nice!!!! *g*)
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Date: 2012-07-16 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 01:06 am (UTC)Guess that means - I'll be reading it very very soon... :D
I also just watched Ladder of Swords for the first time about five (?) hours ago. This should be pretty cool!...
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:25 am (UTC)I only recognised the hair and stuff from Ladder of swords, I´ve never seen it, but then I´m a fan of BODIE/DOYLE, not Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw....
You probably don´t remember because it´s right at the beginning, I just thought it introduced everything very nicely and far better than I could!
Have fun reading!! And take a look at the Art!! It´s SO worth!
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Date: 2012-07-16 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 08:28 am (UTC)It won´t make Best on my personal list, but it will be in the Very Good category!
I guess the background changes makes an AU of it then?
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:38 am (UTC)Yes, for me that's something that means a story is "AU" - if it's not something that fits with our lads' canon background. But you were right, in theory this could - except that in 57 episodes we might have expected one of the lads to refer to their previous life in a circus at least in some obscure way, so it's not really likely... *g*
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:41 am (UTC)I´m pretty sure I can change my pov, and see it as an AU too!
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 08:21 am (UTC)Ellis Ward is such an accomplished author and all of her stories are worth more than one read. She manages to draw the most beautiful images with her words - but the artwork is also lush!
It is a long story, which needs to be read for enjoyment rather than a quick B&D fix, but one I've read more than once in my very short acquaintance with Pros Fiction. Thank you for the reminder. When I'm finished beta-ing for this week and finished reading all the other stories reviewed in this challenge, (arrggh ... stop ... please ... this is the most wonderful torture ...!!! *vbg*) I'm going to the circus!
Thank you for the review!
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:33 am (UTC)I´ve never read the books about the circus, but the little I know is that there is so much more time involved to aquire a skill/ the skills, they have, it´s unbeleivable how fast they are. But then thats fiction, so we go with it and love it!
I adore Ellis Wards stories!
Have fun re reading!!
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:41 am (UTC)Ellis Ward is a consistently good author and this story does not disappoint.
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:44 am (UTC)Nothing disappointiong in this story at all!
And I just agreed that this should be labeled as AU, so I admit I love AU´s too!
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Date: 2012-07-16 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 10:17 am (UTC)*G*
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Date: 2012-07-16 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 11:05 am (UTC)I´ve let myself be convinced that it is an AU, but one that could be easily seen as pre canon! So.
Never hard to get around when the Lads are involved, right?? *G*
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Date: 2012-07-16 11:19 am (UTC)Yes, me too! It was either the second or third Pros fic I ever read, and I was still in my hating-everything-Pros-oh-wait phase then, so in some ways it drew me in and won me over because it wasn't canon (for me), if you see what I mean *g*
It's a beautiful ride of a story, and such a comfort read too - and oh, the artwork! Somehow or other I managed to read it without seeing the artwork the first time, so when I found that later on I was blown over by it.
Thanks for the rec/reminder... I haven't read it in far too long. Must put that right soon!
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Date: 2012-07-16 11:25 am (UTC)You´re very welcome, I´m totally blown away by all the comments, and how many people really like that story.
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Date: 2012-07-16 11:36 am (UTC)I always loathed everything about Pros and all who sailed in her... and then Mab pimped me into the fandom, I read a couple of good fics - Harlequin Airs for one - and I thought I ought to try and watch it again.... then I saw The Patch in Blind Run and started making silly squeaking noises... *g*
It's lovely to see how many people really love the story - so nice when a passion is shared *g*
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-17 11:00 am (UTC)I can't believe it now, but when it first aired I absolutely couldn't bear it, and then never saw it again through 'adult' eyes until after I started reading fanfic - so I hadn't ever seen more than a couple of eps until quite recently. I'm just a late bloomer I guess!
I so agree with your comments further down - I think you've summed it up beautifully. And the dog! Doyle would be totally like that with a dog. *g*
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Date: 2012-07-17 07:28 pm (UTC)(Fast-forward through the eighties, nineties and - oh dear, the noughties too.)
Then I saw a couple of episodes comparatively recently. Erm. Okay. We're all allowed to make mistakes...
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Date: 2012-07-18 02:19 pm (UTC)Sounds like we're twins *g* Thank goodness the fic was so brilliant that I couldn't resist - I hate to think of what I might still be missing. ;D
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:54 pm (UTC)Thanks Mab!
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Date: 2012-07-16 12:42 pm (UTC)Thanks for the reminder.
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:56 pm (UTC)I very much like her OCs a lot! Including the animals!
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Date: 2012-07-16 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 05:57 pm (UTC)You´re in with the "Harlequin Airs Proswatch" ?
I´m glad you read it, too! It´s such a lovely story!
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Date: 2012-07-17 11:00 am (UTC)Absolutely, hence my use of the word "also" as in "along with everyone else above" :-D
You´re in with the "Harlequin Airs Proswatch" ?
Where do I sign up? *g*
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Date: 2012-07-17 07:29 pm (UTC)Sign up will be here at CI5hq.
*G*
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Date: 2012-07-16 07:05 pm (UTC)And it is happy escapism. I just don't believe a word of any of it, if you see what I mean. So for example, the description of the tiger and the weight of his head (and his stinky breath!) is beautiful every time, but - a secret tiger? And the geography is just close enough to real geography in the area for me to notice that it's not right. (There are no moors and dales half an hour's bike ride from Newcastle - although there is a moor in the middle of the place, funnily enough.) And when is it set? I see why it makes sense to be pre-canon, but the comments about abseiling in parliament put it in the late eighties. Bbut wasn't there a real backlash against animal circuses by then? So I skate quickly over all of these questions and just remind myself "AU".
So mostly I enjoy the scenes of them together, whether practising, or Bodie explaining facts of circus life, or realising they are falling for each other. The interactions between people rather than the performances.
Oh, and Doyle with the dog. If Doyle had a dog, I am sure that's exactly how he'd treat her, with an exasperated affection, and thoroughly enjoying it if she eats anything of Bodie's.
Which now reminds me of another story where they are house-sitting, and two labradors get underfoot at all the most inopportune moments. Whichever was that? Must find.
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:59 pm (UTC)And I see what you mean, so there are other things I can´t believe, but then I do enjoy the rest maybe even more.
Doyle and the dog are just so much fun!
Please let me know when you found the story!
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Date: 2012-07-17 02:26 pm (UTC)There's a follow-up, Even Tough Guys Like Us (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/4/eventough.html). But alas, no dogs in that one.
Enjoy!
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Date: 2012-07-17 07:31 pm (UTC)( I thought I knew the story!) *g*
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:35 am (UTC)What I love about this story is the way it is written. It's entirely from Doyle's POV (which I don't usually like, preferring Bodie's) and we really only know what Bodie is thinking by Ray's assumptions and thought processes. It's detailed and descriptive and rich and it gradually builds, that slow awareness they have of each other, the fit and gorgeous physicality of both men lovingly detailed. The back drop of the circus adds something magical, creating a cosy, warm, enviable hideaway for them, protected by like minded people and it all glitters, despite it's dubious criminal connections. Unrealistic? Maybe, I can't see anyone suddenly swinging from a trapeze after a 10 year absence, but who cares... it's the circus.
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Date: 2012-07-22 06:12 pm (UTC)And I agree wholeheartedly to your last sentence!
So nice you took some time to comment to this old post! Thank you!