Stoned Lads storylist ("Sorry sir, findin’ it a bit hard to concentrate...")

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello - long time no ci5hq post... but then moonlightmead posted at ProsStoryFinder asking about a story where one of the lads was stoned, and all I could think of was Heliophile's No Aspirin in the Jungle, though I knew I'd read a few along those lines - and quite like them rather alot, actually... *g* But I've never made a list of them! unoriginal_liz found the story being looked for there, but it got me wondering if we could think of any more between us. I'll add it to the Palelyloitering website tonight if we can (and, you know, tomorrow and the next days as well, if people need some time to think... *g*)

ETA - thanks for the suggestions so far - a much healthier (well... *g*) looking list!

Going for the Shore by Sebastian
Happy Landings by Jane
Night of the Cat by Caroline Dare
No Aspirin in the Jungle by Heliophile
No Such Thing as an Easy Op by Ann Higgins
Out of Faith by Brenda Antrim
Perfect Alignment by Slantedlight
Smokescreen by Alison
When Animals Attack by Rebelcat
A Widening Gyre by Rebelcat

Can anyone think of any others? Our lads all... not quite in control? (I think I like it cos they usually are pretty much in control and competent and all - it's a bit like the best kind of curtain fic, it's so unexpected that they're at home doing the dishes and choosing carpet, that it works... *g*)

There's currently a very short Drunken lads storylist up there too (I must find the one where they talk about Cuckoo clocks and, Doyle walks into a tree, to add to that one) if you'd like to help expand that list too...?)

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[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Well - there is moonlightmead's own story - "Raid" (found here: http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/213776.html)
I love her Doyle in this one!

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Grin, I was wondering whether to be forward and mention it, but you have saved me making the decision!

Updated/tidied version at the Auto Hatstand: http://hatstandfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=893
Even more updated/tidied version at AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/679958

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - I never know whether to suggest my own fic or not either! But you should certainly suggest yours... *g* Got it!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I should have remembered that one - it wasn't all that long ago I re-read it! Thank you! *g*

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Just a Kiss by Sebastian

There's a Jane story where B slips D some E but damned if I can put my finger on it.

I'm sure various others will come to mind!


My own stories:

The Cartland Factor mentions a cuckoo clock
https://archiveofourown.org/works/107524

Discovered in a Hatstand
https://archiveofourown.org/works/128471

Glenmorangie
https://archiveofourown.org/works/983102
(For some reason I'd never posted it at AO3, so just went and did it.)

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

The Jane story is Happy Landings: http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/4/happylandings.html

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I remember that one! Thank you! *g*

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Thanks - and very unethical!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Hi jessebee - I'm feeling incredibly guilty and terminally overstretched and culpably disorganised, but I haven't forgotten and I will, honest! (after the exam prep ...) ::hides face in shame::

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Hey, no worries! Best luck on the exams :-) ((hugs))

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent - that's got the Drunken lads storylist looking a bit better! Reminded me of loads more to link up too... *g* (I actually quite like having links to all the different Pros archives, rather than just A03 - gives people new places to go exploring if they've not found the likes of Circuit and Hatstand and author's own websites and all, yet...)

Hmmn - they're not drunk in The Cartland Factor, are they? Just drinking? It's definitely not that cuckoo clock... it was the Pulp Fiction conversation they were having, about cuckoo clocks and chocolate vs the Borgias and Renaissance Italy and so on... and my favourite bit was Doyle and tree... if only I could remember the story! I have a feeling it's happened to me before about this story, too...

Thank you!

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

"They're not drunk in The Cartland Factor, are they?"

Somewhat!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - I only skimmed it again just now, cos I know I like it. Will have to have a proper re-read tomorrow!

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

try The Still of the Night by Alexandra

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

That's the one! Well done! (Especially when it was, of course, the Medicis, and Bodie with the tree... *g*

Bodie found a large tree in his way and couldn't figure out how it had got into the middle of the path. Eventually, Doyle came and rescued him. "Oh," Bodie said when he stood firmly on the winding trail once more. "Shouldn't make these things so narrow. Not to mention treacherous.">/i>

Although...
"He did not tell Joseph Cotton anything at all about Swiss chocolate." Doyle weaved into a bush and spent a few moments extricating himself. "You've always had Swiss chocolate on the brain. You'd eat Swiss roll for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if you could."

Thank you!

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Smoke Screen by Alison: http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/16/smokescreen.html
Bodie's been slipped a little something while on an undercover...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I don't remember that at all, perhaps I'll have to drag myself away from Torchwood and have a re-read... *g*

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Not a pleasant experience, but Doyle is drugged (among other things) in Out of Faith, by Brenda Antrim (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/1/outof2.html).

I think there is a similar sort of set-up - but far far less angsty - in a story I have read in a zine (but which is also online). Can't remember the author or the title atm, but there is a preface about it being based on a quote from an O Yardley story about 'I could have you like that' *snaps fingers*. And there's a piece of jewellery that's important. I've got the zine, and I think it's one of the NHBs. Shall investigate. ETA: Have now found it: No Such Thing As An Easy Op (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/nosuch.html) by Anne Higgins. The drugging plays a fairly minor part in the story. Funny what remains with you.

More Rebelcat: Doyle all woozy from a tranq dart: When Animals Attack (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/18/whenanimals.html).

Caroline Dare: Night of the Cat (in Liaisons 2, also on CD) - they have breathed in the hallucinogenic gas from PMPD.

There's a very funny drunk Doyle scene at the start of Ginny's The Turtles in Unprofessional Conduct 10.

Doyle is high on - well, is it heroin? I think it is - in one of the Sebastian stories... ah yes, Going For The Shore (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/goingfor.html), and he is forcibly addicted and comes off it in Paper Flowers by Kitty Fisher.

And don't you have them smoking dope in Perfect Alignment?

Not sure all of these are quite what you want, but they're a start! I know there are more.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd have a long list for me - excellent!

Oh - and you've reminded me of Paper Flowers too! Another not-nice-experience one, but I suppose I didn't specify happy drugged up lads, did I... Ha - except that you did indeed mention that one, further down!

Don't remember the bit in The Turtles... must go and rummage for the zine!

I do have them smoking dope in Perfect Alignment, though for the life of me I can't remember how stoned they really get... I think Doyle falls asleep though... *g* I'm fairly sure I have them drunk more than once as well... maybe I shall have to have a good Pros-y re-read tomorrow... well, in between working, of course...

Thank you!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

I have nothing sensible to add except that this is a good list to have and I do rather like stoned!lads *bg*

Mind you, drunk and stoned and/or otherwise drugged is on the same continuum - do they all belong on the same master list, perhaps?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Liking stoned lads seems eminently sensible to me... *g*

Good point about being drunk/stoned vs being drugged - they are two very different things, implying completely different emotions in a story... The first is usually light comedy, the second hurt/comfort... I sort of wondered about it when I was adding some of the fics suggested above, but couldn't stop to devise a plan... Maybe two lists would be better - "drugged lads - stoned etc" and "drugged lads - hurt/comfort"...? So people would see them both at the same time, and be able to pick the one they'd meant to look for...

[nypagan.livejournal.com]

The Power of Suggestion by Anne Higgins. Bodie is drugged by an unknown substance during a raid. Doyle escorts him to hospital and then home.

"The chemicals in Mr Bodie's bloodstream have left him in a highly suggestible state. For the next few hours he will do or say anything anyone tells him to do."

Fuck. A head full of classified information and a lethal set of skills left the notion of a Bodie unable to resist the slightest command a major security risk. "He can't stay here, then."

The doctor looked alarmed, although past dealings with CI5 had to have at least prepared him for the announcement. "I really can't recommend his discharge."

"You said he wasn't in any danger."

"I don't believe he is, but complications could arise."
"

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

From Storm to Sunshine (http://hatstandfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=838&index=1), by LilyK - Doyle is undercover, drugged, rescued by Bodie and then gets rather silly. Love it.