Howzat!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Howzat!

“Be that as it may, I am not giving up my first Sunday off in two bloody months to come watch you and a bunch of ex-paras belt hell out of a ball and then each other in the pub afterwards... Oh, put that bottom lip away, will you?”

“Come onnnnn... I hate going on me own. You know that, and it’s once in a blue moon that I get the bloody chance, Doyle.”

“Thank God.”

“Ah, don’t be like that. I’ll buy you all the cream teas your curly heart desires.”

“Stop that. You’ll ruin your whites and we haven’t got time. Not if you want to get out to Croydon in time to whack some bloke silly in his mid-wicket... I wouldn’t laugh at me right now if I were you, Bodie.”

“Not laughing, sunshine. Just... admiring your expertise.”

“Yeah, well, you can admire my expertise later. After a three course meal in a restaurant of my choosing, that’s how this’ll work.”

“But cream teas today, yeah? After the match?”

“Christ, Bodie. Is it the cricket or the grub you go for?”

“The two are inseparable.”

“Like my brain for your mouth.”

“What?”

“Nothing. Just buy us a paper on the way, yeah? Two papers, actually. Big, thick Sunday papers I can fall asleep on, and... put me down, you daft bugger!”

“I’m going to score a century today, mate. Just for you.”

“Oh God. Then I’m going to need War and fucking Peace instead of a newspaper.”

“Two centuries then”

“Bodie!”

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Title: Howzat!
Author: Callisto
Genre: Slash
Disclaimer: Still not mine sadly
Notes: No time for anything other than a bit of dialogue, I'm afraid, but I did want to play. At least I've left someone a nice word choice to start the next one.*g*

Comments

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Very nice dialogue too! The voices were so accurate I never needed to work out who was speaking. Lovely work!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thanks:)) Dialogue is fun to do, and if I don't have much time it's something I can manage.

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

That 'put that bottom lip away' made me laugh.

Dawn

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you:)))

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Gotta echo Dawn--the bottom lip line made me chuckle out loud. :-)

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon. Glad you liked it!

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Hee loved the dialogue, you have their banter off brilliantly. *g*

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thank you - banter is always fun to write.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay for playing with dialogue - and I love the idea of cricket and cream teas being inseparable too... *g* Cheers!

Looks like three hours between commenting and posint - not out for two runs! *g*

Posint? Between commenting and posint? Eeep! posting... *headcricketbat*

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Just got it in in time, eh? Two runs is more than I've ever done in cricket in my whole life, so thank you!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

LOL! Adorable dialogue. Thanks!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Cheers, I'm pleased you enjoyed it, K.

[tango65.livejournal.com]

That was gorgeous - Bodie at his puppy like best and Doyle at his "things I do for you" best as well. Very nicely done. Thanks.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I do like a wheedling Bodie and a put upon Doyle.*g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Ah lovely - the bottom lip, and Doyle being such a martyr. I love dialogue fic, and you do it so well. Such nice fun, thank you.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And our Bodie can pout so well, it's a shame not to use it on Doyle in fics.

[mara-snh.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, darling, I was just trying to explain cream teas to a friend over at my neighborhood cafe an hour ago. She made a face at "clotted cream" and couldn't get past it for love or money. SO thanks, I needed that. And I'm not even a Pros fan (just a you fan;-)

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Clotted cream is *heaven*!! Seriously, I have scones just as an excuse to lather them three inches high with the stuff.

And thank you for reading, my dear. You are a total sweetheart.

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Ending my day with a laugh, thank you! Especially the dread bottom lip - and the demand for massive great Sunday papers to sleep on and while away the afternoon, escalating to War and Peace .... lol! Great dialogue, very them!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm delighted you found it them. It's always the trick in dialogue only fic to make the characters come through in speech alone, so I'm pleased it worked for you.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

You did this so well I didn't even "click" that it was dialogue-only until I read the comments, then had to go back and check. *applauds you*

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I'm delighted the 'story' came through the dialogue for you!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Catching up on old posts (I am very behind) and just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this. I love dialogue fic and in this I could just hear their voices so clearly. Great fun, thank you.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I *love* thinking up dialogue for these two, so a cricket match was a nice background to play with.