Ninety-Nine Yew Trees by Draycevixen.

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Title: Ninety-Nine Yew Trees
Author: draycevixen
Artist: przed
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 33,249 words.
Warnings: None needed.
Summary: A secret from Bodie’s past has come close to killing him. With Cowley refusing to accept his resignation from CI5 and Doyle turning his back on him, Bodie has fled to his bolt-hole in the countryside to lick his wounds and try to work out what to do next.

Notes: I would like to thank halotolerant for her invaluable medical beta and help with my timeline. Also, may I just say that if you want to know how to stab someone correctly for maximum damage, ask a doctor. *g* I’d also like to thank ashley_pitt who was kind enough to answer some very general questions about hand therapy for me. Of course any remaining mistakes are my own.

I’d also like to thank Zed for the lovely trailer vid and of course przed and callistosh65 for not only hosting this party but for, well, just being bloody brilliant broads in general. *tips hat*

Lastly, I’d like to thank my flistees for their encouragement, their encouraging mockage of my story related angst and ND, Vic and Mikey in particular for bearing the brunt of it. ♥

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

An e-reader file is easily accessible at the Fic link.

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Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment. ♥

I almost abandoned it completely a couple of times. It seemed odd to plan on writing such a quiet story with most of the action told in flashbacks and dreams when I knew that most of the Big Bang writers would go for a more action/work based theme. It makes sense. If you're going to write a long story, keep it moving. Then again, I'm rarely sensible and tea drinking, tourist lads it had to be.

I needed Bodie to be hurt badly enough to make Doyle stay despite himself but I didn't want him permanently damaged and I didn't want to dwell on the torture. It wasn't the important part of the story I was trying to tell, just an essential part of the mechanism. I'm glad that worked for you.

I'm also very glad the descriptions worked for you. I discovered that it's difficult to describe a place you know really well, what to tell, what to leave out particularly when you're a person who tends to notice the odd details anyway.

I'm always thrilled to hear that a reader thinks I got the dialogue and characters right so thank you for that you.

Again, thank you.

p.s.: I did slip a bit of dinosaur in. The little boy is pretending to be one and there's a man in a dinosaur costume at the Cheese Rolling. Yes, I had to do it. :D

p.p.s: Thank you for the bears. ♥

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I don't read Pros for the action, I read it for the lads. Action or not, it's the interactions between the characters that I read for. You've given us that in spades! Just loved it to bits.
HOW did I miss the dinosaurs???!! And I was looking, and all!
Thought you'd appreciate the bears. Wore my purple shirt to work on Wednesday and all....

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

And again, thank you. ♥

I did indeed appreciate the bears. I wore a purple top too as did most of my colleagues and almost all of my SAs.