Under the Radar Rec - Inside Information, by The Android

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

My world is verging on too-crazy, there is only one solution: see it through Pros. So for my first break-time, I went to read fic.

Title:Inside Information
Author: The Android
Link to story: at the Android's Dungeon and also via The Hatstand
Zine: Don't think so

I've been trying to work out why I like this, and I think it's because it's a lovely ep-like story, which reveals a behind-the-scenes slashiness that could absolutely, really be right there while we're watching an ep. And yet it's not sparse exactly, there're plenty of little details that conjure their lives too:

It was one of Doyle's own paintings, from the days when he had fancied himself as a fashionable portraitist.

or

He raised a hand to indicate his bruised eyes, but the hand that he raised was Doyle's, the fingers so closely twined with his own that there seemed no separateness.

See? Lovely - Doyle's youthful pretensions, and the eternal rightness of being Bodie/Doyle... *g*

Comments

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

This looks v-e-r-y interesting and I like the way it starts with a you foul bastard - just my cup of tea....so I'll go and investigate.

Thanks for pointing it out!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee! Hope you like it! There are two stories by The Android up at Hatstand, and I have to say I quite like the other one too. It's a bit different, while still being everything I like best about Pros. Although, perhaps like the eps, too many other characters in some places!

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Yipee, another Under the Radar Rec! Excellent, thanks very much for this, I'll look forward to reading it. I love that second line you've quoted.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, isn't it a lovely line! Let us know what you think of the story?

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, this is lovely. And quite a mixture of emotions here, some aspects of it are pretty brutal, but there's also tenderness, and humour too. Oh and the bits about Cowley are perfect, just like the Cow! *g*
I'd really like to read a prequel to this, starting three months earlier.

This has reminded me of another fic where Bodie had to do a similar job, but I can't think which one... *headdesk*
Anyway, thanks very much for the rec, very nice!

(Sorry if this all seems vague, but I'm trying desperately to avoid any spoilers!)