Prosfic - Mollycross

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well this is scary - am I really the first person to post Halloween fic for Discovered on All Hallow's Eve?!

On the bright side (hopefully!) it's a long-ish one - too long to fit in an lj post, and for some reason my Dreamweaver has stopped including the formatting when I cut and paste, so it's over at The Automated Hatstand...

Mollycross


Title: Mollycross
Author: Slantedlight
Slash or Gen: Slash - always, eternally B/D
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes, if archiving!
Disclaimer: Bodie, Doyle and the CI5 universe are not and were never mine...
Notes: Thank you very much to angel_ci5 for speedy betaing!

Comments

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Would you send me a copy for Proslib, please?

Thanks!

Proslib business: proslib at gmail dot com

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

What a pleasure to read on a dark and spooky night! This had everything I enjoy – atmosphere, tension, brilliant description, and very natural conversations from every character – from B & D to the locals. You do write this kind of fic so well, especially when B & D are isolated from their real world and put into different parts of England – here the Fens. The surroundings are so recognisably life-like, and it’s lovely to read about our lads in such a recognisable place as it makes it more real. Really enjoyed this, thank you!

Challenging, but then Doyle always was.

That section was particularly lovely! *g*

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

Heh, you know how to paint a picture :)
I really enjoyed the long read and the lads were spot on!
Thank you :D

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I liked this very much. You certainly took me on a good journey. You did a nice job weaving the case story in with the local tales of long ago. I also enjoyed the lads together, working on their relationship and the case. Great descriptions of the countryside and its inhabitants. I particularly liked the strangeness of the nights in the cottage and the sound of the unseen horses.

Thanks!

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

Now that was enjoyable. And the fens took pride of place. I never. :-)

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

A wonderful long read, and the Fens provide such a beautifully eerie backdrop for the lads and their case, and the terrible tale of the little girl and John Danby, which all ties in so cleverly at the end.
And you have B&D's interaction and banter absolutely spot on, it's a joy!
Thank you!

[greengerbil.livejournal.com]

ooh, scary! Or perhaps a better word would be 'atmospheric'. A really vivid depiction of the fens, and the ghost story mixing in with the lads' RL concerns... and nothing too specific.either, which is so clever. It could all still - just - be put down to imagination and weather and spooky surroundings, so you're never quite sure - which is the best way for these things to be, for me. Something you can never quite put your finger on, but like Doyle and Bodie both say at different times... there's something... *g*

I did like this. Thank you!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I really liked this! It kept me guessing all the way to the last, never sure what was real and what wasn't. The vet's complicity came out of left field, that's for sure. Well done!

[robeau.livejournal.com]

That was a fun read and I kept reading faster because I simply had to know what happened!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

What a pleasure to have a nice, long fic from you for Halloween. And just the kind of thing I love, Bodie and Doyle isolated from CI5, and having to rely on their wits and each other. I love how you wrote them here, the banter, the warmth, the uncertainty from Bodie ( I loved his spike of jealousy:-). And it was an intriguing ghost story too - well done, kudos and thanks all round!

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

What an excellent read, thank you! I do like Bodie and Doyle in a relationship, so that's established and the plot can take centre stage, but there's development in the relationship too. Thanks for the happy ending!

Needless to say was thrilled you'd set this in the Fens, so empty and disorienting. Love the road and fields inexorably sliding towards the water. Just this morning was musing on going to the Whittlesey Straw Bear festival this winter, for a bit of that fenland weird.

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful, wonderful surprise to check LJ on Halloween and find Pros stories!
I don't know why, but I never expected anything, which makes it all the sweeter! :)
I tried reading as slowly as possible, to make your story last, and it was grand following Bodie and Doyle having an almost "holiday", even though it was work, and having a mystery to solve and channeling the ghosts of the past.
Just the thing for a stormy, rainy Halloween!

Having no idea what a "fen" is, I googled it and found out more about them.
Maybe someday I'll manage to see them. :)

[ailcia.livejournal.com]

I got so totally sucked into this and it didn't half startle me! The fens are a scaaaaaary place, in my mind, and you did them justice!

Loved this, love, especially your Bodie - trying to snatch a bit of 'the normal life' without really knowing why. The way they fitted together in this was so completely believable and lovely to read unfolding. Thankyou very much!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Late commenting as usual ::slaps own wrist::

This was such a gorgeous read, sitting here with the rain lashing down outside and several cups of coffee, I really got sucked into the atmosphere. I don't know the Fens at all, but you describe them beautifully, plus the dotty villagers and the wonderful dialects. And your Doyle and Bodie are so utterly the way I want them to be - Bodie laid back and besotted with Doyle, Doyle all snarky and quick tempered and sex on a stick... the dialogue and humour are fab - especially "That's Royal Mail innit?" Doyle muttered at the end. Love it!

Brilliant, thank you so much.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, you do know how to frighten people, don't you?! Really, really scary. I was travelling on hallowe'en (by Brit time, anyway - no idea about Pago Pago) but I downloaded this when I got home and saved it for an evening alone. Hmm. Shouldn't have. Got to go to bed now and shiver all the way upstairs!! Great story, well grounded in country legend, perfectly them and well - just perfect of its kind!! Thanks!