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Oh yes! I remember now. Probably too busy looking for icons that I didn't noticed it...
Thank you!

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(And maybe even some of us who don’t write stories normally could join – because those letters are supposed to be written by Bodie and Doyle, and neither of them is a writer. )

Good point, though I still don't think I could write them!

This is an interesting post which I'd like to devote more time to tomorrow, if that's OK. Thanks.

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"...though I still don't think I could write them!"
I've tried... And it was terrible! Everything would be better... :-)

Good Night!

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Oh I do like that story - and the idea of seeing what their letters might be like. I'm not online very much just now, but shall think on... Shall try and think of stories where we see their letters too - I know there are some!

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I've started one for Bodie. But I don't like it at all. There is something wrong. Maybe too long?

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Ray

So I’m not shot-proofed.

At the beginning I want to get rid of something, that you might not understand.
I’ve made a living will – and I instructed the medics to avoid all life prolonging activities if there is no hope for a normal life.
So no need to argue with them – afterwards.
I don’t want to depend on others. I know you would visit me and all that, but that’s exactly what I don’t want.

It’s something different with you. You have family, they would support you.
And I earnestly want to apologise that I sometimes had been jealous, that I even sometimes
argued you out of visiting them.
Please fix it up with them! Do me the favour. You see how quickly everything is over.

One word of my “family”. I don’t want my father to know about my death! Maybe later.

I leave you everything I have!
I want it so! I’ve done enough for lone mums.
I’ve earned some money in Africa, and it may help if – well I really want you to quit CI5!
At least the A-squad. I can’t protect your back anymore and I trust nobody in that special case.

Please...

You see what has happened to me.

One last word – I know you – YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME!
Maybe my time was up.

And you won’t do any foolish things, won’t you? Please be happy – for me too!
I really would have loved to… Maybe…

You are the best friend I ever had!

Bodie

I love you

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[I think the term 'instructed' is a much better choice].

I don't think this is too long at all and you've got some really good Bodie lines here like the doing enough for 'lone mums' and I think you've managed to capture (and convey) the spirit of their caring relationship in lines like these:

I’ve earned some money in Africa, and it may help if – well I really want you to quit CI5!
At least the A-squad. I can’t protect your back anymore and I trust nobody in that special case.
........
One last word – I know you – YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME!
Maybe my time was up.

And I loved this hint from Bodie:

I really would have loved to… Maybe...

And the 'I love you' - he just couldn't leave without slipping that in at the end, could he? And why not, nothing left to lose.

And it's so Bodie that he'd still be worrying about Doyle - even at this stage of the game. I thought this was sweet, in the nicest possible way, not sugary-sweet but touching and sad and I liked it! Thanks for letting us take a look.

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Thank you! Glad that it works somehow for you!
And is it O.K. with the correction? I had to delete/paste it, so the order of the posts is a bit confusing.

And I really think, that the worrying about Doyle is the most important thing for Bodie.

But I have some problems with Doyles letter...

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Yes I think the correction works much better.

But I have some problems with Doyles letter...

Yeah, that's strange because I've always had the impression that Doyle is the more expressive one of the two.... but maybe that's why..... Bodie isn't as vocal so he finds it easier to express himself on paper....? Anyway maybe you could try to imagine what it would be like saying goodbye to Bodie, how hard it would be, but what good times they shared........

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What about you?
Oh, come on! You're half ready with your thoughts!

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Having the thoughts is the easy bit, writing them down is the hard part! Over to you, sunshine...

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Someone else? Please!

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You like Bodie, don't you? Try and imagine yourself in a similar position and what *you* would say to Bodie, maybe just discussing past events in your relationship - that kind of thing. The same kind of (intimate) sentiments could be expressed by a man or a woman.

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That easy? :-)
I try!

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Good woman! I know you can do it....

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Ah, I can see that you have a whole history of the lads worked out here, even if you don't tell us much about it! *g* Such sad thoughts...

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It's a mix of the envelope story, of canon and fanon...
And I'm proud not to be influenced!
:-}

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Bodie,

This has always been the hardest letter to write, and I keep changing it and having to write it over again. Stupid, eh? And you know it all anyway, the important things.

I don't even have to tell you to go easy on the bastard, do I? The Cow will need you on the outside of the Scrubs, and you'd hate the food anyway. Stick close to him though. Please. Don't suppose you'll want to, but think of it as a last request. Do it for me, instead of whatever else you're thinking of doing?

Just writing this makes me miss you. You're on that stakeout with Bellamy and Smythe, probably giving them hell. Flat seems quiet without you knocking about somewhere. It's cold too.

Papers are in the usual place, should be up to date. Everything else is yours anyway.

I'll see you one of these days.
Love.
Ray Doyle

Dear Bodie,

This has always been the hardest letter to write...

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Hehe! Yeah!
I could imagine Doyle would write that letter, assuming that Bodie knows "it all anyway".
He would probably correct and delete, and always start from the beginning.
He gives enough hints of his love – "miss you… quiet without you… it’s cold…".

I just think that Bodie needs some more teasing care from Doyle – to keep him from any death and revenge trip… :-)

Thanks for writing! (Now it's no longer my turn... :-))

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I just think that Bodie needs some more teasing care from Doyle – to keep him from any death and revenge trip… :-)
See, half of me figures that they will have sorted that out after DiaG, where Bodie did head off for revenge, and half of me thinks that actually Doyle would do the same for Bodie anyway, so really he'd just want to remind Bodie not to get caught... *g*

I think I like the fic where Bodie tells Doyle that actually he hasn't written him a final goodbye letter, because he figures that they'll go out together anyway... I think it's a Sebastian fic, but can't for the life of me remember the title just now...

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