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I found another passage I really liked, this time from sleuth: The shortest way to a man's heart is through humiliation.
This seemed particularly appropriate given the teasing nature and prank pulling that seems to be the status quo at CI5. With Doyle and Bodie, however, I thought it had a more personal, and maybe deeper psychological meaning, which I couldn't help but imagine here...
Special thanks go to Elizabeth O’Shea for Brit Reading this with her extra-special be-kind-to-silly-American-writer-glasses… Any mistakes are absolutely mine...
Bodie’s record for going to ground, up until that moment, not counting the dreadful aftermath of the cock-up which got Marikka killed was three and a half hours. Usually, he let Doyle find him long before that, and Doyle was getting worried. Six hours earlier they’d parted company, albeit not on the best of terms.
This seemed particularly appropriate given the teasing nature and prank pulling that seems to be the status quo at CI5. With Doyle and Bodie, however, I thought it had a more personal, and maybe deeper psychological meaning, which I couldn't help but imagine here...
Acts of War and Other Foreplay
Special thanks go to Elizabeth O’Shea for Brit Reading this with her extra-special be-kind-to-silly-American-writer-glasses… Any mistakes are absolutely mine...
Bodie’s record for going to ground, up until that moment, not counting the dreadful aftermath of the cock-up which got Marikka killed was three and a half hours. Usually, he let Doyle find him long before that, and Doyle was getting worried. Six hours earlier they’d parted company, albeit not on the best of terms.
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