Fic: A PUT-UP JOB by unbelievable2

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Title: A Put-Up Job
Author: unbelievable2
Artist: gvenanne
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Gen
Characters/Pairing: Bodie, Doyle
Word count: 43,485  Warnings: none necessary

Summary: It’s the early days of the partnership. Cowley orders the lads on a clandestine search for some missing official secrets, where MI6 appear to have dropped the ball. But all is not as it seems, and when a routine pick-up goes badly wrong, they find themselves battling a number of adversaries. Working out whether they can trust anyone, even each other, proves a dangerous game.

Notes: This story is part of the wonderful Professionals Big Bang 2014. My thanks are due to the Mods for all their hard work, help and patience.

My beta is the lovely alobear, and I thank her for her precision, insight and speed in carrying out a marvellous beta job.

The artwork for this story has been created by Gvenanne, and very wonderful it is!

Please, PLEASE make sure you double-click on the pictures embedded in the text as you read through, to make sure you see all the amazing details and perfect construction of Gvenanne's imaginative "file" on this case.

More notes, and more detailed thanks, appear at the end of the story, on account of some spoiler-y background!

Link to Fic: Fic Master Post           
Link to Art: Art Master Post

Comments

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, this looks like my kind of story! Really looking forward to it with the impressive artwork. Thank you for this!

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

It has been great to be involved with this challenge. I really hope you like the story when you get to it! And Gvenanne's artwork is an experience all in itself! :))

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

i am about half way through this story and am wondering now why bodie has done ...well what he's done and how it 's going to play out ...i will comment again when i've finished reading it. lovely artwort btw xx

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

I hope that means it's going well! ;)
The artwork is a dream, isn't it? :))

[smirra.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to read your story! Very cool, Gvenanne's artwork!

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Hope it pleases when you get to it! :))

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on posting! The story looks excellent and the illustrations are fabulous! Well done, both of you. :D

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :))

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love early-partnership-lads stories, and this sounds like a nice, long story to just relax into. I shall download as soon as i get home from work. Unfortunately, it will go into the queue--I'm behind!--but I shall read and comment soon, I hope.

Congratulations!

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

I've got loads to catch up on, too! So many wonderful stories! Hope you enjoy this one when you get there. ;)

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

well i have just finished this ....wow what a fantastic read ..i love how you got the partnership of the lads together again ....thankyou so much x

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Thank you for letting me know it worked for you!And thank you for reading and commenting! :))

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Whoohoo! Congrats on posting - yay! It sounds fabulous, thank you!

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Now I can actually go back and see all the wonderful stuff I've had to put on one side for the last many days - including your own lovely work! :))

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Thank you for participating and for posting your story. Have now downloaded. It sounds great.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy it! :))

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Congrats on posting, this sounds great and I am off to download right now ♥.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Hope you like! :))

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

I love early days. Thanks for this story. I'm looking forward to reading it. :-)

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy it! :))

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to find time to read this, I am way behind in my reading of BB stories but this is the one I have been waiting for the most! (rubs her hands together for a gen story) Beautiful art work too by gvenanne!

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

There are so many wonderful stories to read! I am way behind! Hope you enjoy it when you get there...
:))

[garettgal.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to post to say how very much I enjoyed your story.

This was, for me at any rate, one of the best stories in the Pros Big Bang this year.

Thanks for a great read.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that is such a kind comment. It means a lot. Thanks! :))

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

(Writers don't seem to be receiving any notification from A03 so i thought I'd put this here).

I’ve literally got no nails left and it‘s all your fault! What a brilliant humdinger of a story this was and I loved it! So much to comment on. A great, complicated plot which you managed to unravel at a perfect pace without tripping yourself up in terms of plot-holes, etc. Other bits I really liked and not necessarily in any chronological order: Dottie, thank god for Dottie who was great (I kept thinking of the scientific assistant in NCIS with the hair bunches....); the way you depicted Bodie and Doyle's relationship at the beginning, before Bodie went 'bad' - close enough to care about the value of a good partner but not *so* close that Bodie's behaviour (without consulting Doyle) would seem really out of place. And Doyle, poor Doyle, I’m surprised he could walk after the treatment his head received! And I appreciated your knowledge of Central London. And Doyle’s final preference for good old Walls sausage rolls over the other (unspellable) poncey sandwich filler thingie he thought he could bribe Dottie with. (Bodie knows best.)

After reading this story I feel so satisfied and very proud of the stories Pros as a fandom is still managing to produce after so many years, and it's even more satisfying to conclude my BB reading in the mannner in which I began it, on a high, and to go out with a 'bang'!

Thanks so much for this.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for telling me about the AO3 comment! I've replied to you over there, but once again, thank you so much for reading and commenting! :))

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for replying to my comment so quickly! I'm really pleased you've seen it because I'd hate to think that writers put all that work into a story and then might miss positive feedback. (I think there's definitely a problem with A03 notifications because a couple of other writers failed to receive some of their later comments, as well.)

Because I hadn't seen any other stories by you I thought this might be the only one you've written (so far) but in terms of standard of writing, it's incredible that this *is* your first story! I do hope you write more Pros and thanks very much for getting back to me.

[jaicen5.livejournal.com]

Oh this was such a pleasant surprise. I've just finished reading it and I was enthralled. A lovely long plotty episode based fic, with the lads being the lads all the way through. My favourite. Lovely. And such a lot of work for you, I can see the effort. I love the twists, the turns, the various spy agencies up against each other, Cowley's triple think. I did agree with Francis and thought that Cowley was perhaps a bit too ruthless, specially after his roses and lavender speech where he made mention of innocents bleeding over the high street, but i enjoyed the story regardless. My favourite bit was Doyle sneaking in the window to take the photos and the desperation at almost being caught. I loved the description of the whole scene, the gardens, the house, the sneaking through the bushes. I really hope to see more fic of this type from you. Thank you for writing it.

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for commenting here also. And I'm really pleased that you liked what you read! Re Cowley, I've sort of replied on AO3, but in the end I think it's just one of those subjective things, gauging how far he would go. ;)