discoveredinalj | Pros fic: Magic by JoJo - Pros Bingo Challenge 2016

There were a number of things Ray Doyle did not believe in.

Most of the God variations. Fairies both sparkly and evil. Little Green Men. Thatcher. Magic.

His mother prayed but it didn’t seem to improve Bodie’s prognosis. Beaten to within an inch of his life, knifed in the guts just to make sure. Not to mention being left to fade away in a cold storage warehouse.

“What a bloody mess,” the on-call A&E doc had said, his tone suffused with the fury of a medic who profoundly objected to human beings treating each other this way.

“Amazing, miraculous things do happen, Ray.” His sister’s soft voice down the phone line.

Doyle didn’t believe in miracles, either.

Sheer bloodymindedness, though. He did believe in that.

The day Bodie thumbed his nose at all the odds, crawled back from his virtual death sentence, and coughed up the ventilator in utter disgust... now that. That was the kind of divine sorcery Doyle decided he could get behind.

Even more of an enchantment, when he finally managed to summon the force of will to become both conscious and coherent, Bodie was entirely on the ball. He stared Doyle in the face, frowned in slow motion, and then tried to clear his throat.

“No you don’t,” Doyle said, painfully aware he’d said that before. “Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t even blink. Just... breathe.”

He’d squeezed the hand he’d held in his for hours and hours and hours.

Author: JoJo
Slash/Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Yes please
Disclaimer: No money made, no infringement intended

A/n: for the top horizontal line of my Pros Bingo card, the 'magic' square, and the third of three short parts/fills!