Painted Angels by Angelfish

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Title: Painted Angels
Author: Angelfish
Artist: firlefanzine
Archive to Pros Lib: No
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 70,188 words
Warnings: Contains uninhibited M/M sex, during which some furniture gets broken.

Summary: George Cowley knows a marriage made in heaven when he sees one, and he's going to arrange it even if he has to send his young recruits to hell and back. Bodie, closed off and traumatised from his experiences in the SAS, can't believe he's being partnered up with a raw ex-copper. But Ray Doyle is his last chance, and as they fight through their training together and begin their work on the turbulent streets of 1970s London, a fire springs up between them that will either be their partnership's making or its destruction.

Notes: Thank you to JGL for encouraging me to take part in this great project and being my first reader, also to Firlefanzine for the atmospheric artwork.

Link to Fic: Painted Angels
Link to Art: Art Master Post
Link to E-reader files: E-reader Files (Click or right click to download)

Comments

thank you!

[angelfish777.livejournal.com]

Hello, all! Callisto and PRZed, you'll see I've actually created an LJ (wonders will never cease) for the purpose of saying thanks to the two of you and to the people who have had a look at Painted Angels and been kind enough to leave such nice comments. I really appreciate it. It was a pleasure to write the story and to spend time with B and D in that strange but wonderful 1970s world I remember with such alarming clarity. :-D

Very best wishes
Angelfish
xxx

Re: thank you!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to see you on LJ. Your story is amazing. I admit I'm not a big fan of younger lads story, however, yours definitely is one of, if not the best back story I've read. I'm always especially tickled to read a story with a plot or idea that I might not generally like and find it's so good I can't stop reading.

You did something amazing: you gave me two young men who I immediately recognized. You gave me reasonable reasons for their actions, and you showed me how they worked through the good and the bad to the satisfying end. I like how you wove in canon facts and explained their reasoning.

I think Gabe was an excellent OC, very well done and Cowley was spot on.

I admit I loved the tense you used. It's something I so enjoy reading. There aren't enough present tense stories for my taste. It makes me feel "in the now" when I'm reading; that things are happening immediately. Very nice work.

I'm happy also about the uninhibited m/m sex and broken furniture. Wonderful work.

(I had to edit my post re: your tense. I made a booboo. It's because I just finished reading the hot smutty sex scene... *g*)

Re: thank you!

[angelfish777.livejournal.com]

always happy if I can discombobulate someone with my sex scenes, SC. I'm so pleased you like the story, and thank you for the perceptive comments. The present-tense thing nearly didn't happen, actually - I looked at it late one weary night and just thought, "No." But (happily, as it turned out) the terrors of the search-and-replace operations needed to thrust it back into the past overwhelmed me!