Fannish Fifty 2023: Rec #11

Title: Handy Pandy, Out Goes the Rat
Author: Rimy
Fandom: The Professionals (TV : 1977)
Category: M/M
Pairings: Bodie/OMC, Bodie/Doyle


REC

I suppose it's time I rec a story from the show my icon is from. I was in Pros fandom for about a minute maybe 13 or 14 years ago (has it really been that long?!). It wasn't that the (well-established, long-running) fandom was unwelcoming or anything, just that the fic tropes that were super popular in that fandom and turned up in fic all the time just weren't my thing.

This fic, though, is very much my thing. I've talked before about my love for outside POV stories because of the different perspective they can give us on our favorite characters. The POV in this story is from newbie CI5 agent Jason Collier. I love Collier's narrative voice so much. Also, the banter is spot on and the one action scene is fantastic.


TEASER

"Bodie," he introduced, "and Ray Doyle. 3.7 and 4.5, two of Mr. Cowley's fair-haired boys. Jason Collier, 8.6."

Bodie eyed me with all the enthusiasm he might've shown for birdshit on his windscreen. "Hell," he said, "it's the man with the golden gun."

"H'lo, Collier, 8.6," said Doyle.

"Four years on the Firearms Squad," Murphy supplied my CV.

Bodie snorted. "Another sodding copper."

"You'll learn to love me," I assured him, winning a sneer from him, a groan from Murphy.

"Came up through the Met myself," Doyle said, while his partner went on disgustedly: "Dunno what this mob's coming to."

Doyle rolled his eyes. "Yeah, they let in all manner of riffraff, don't they, Bodie. Military off-scourings and whatnot."