Ninety-Nine Yew Trees by Draycevixen.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

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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]

Hey now, generations of my family have run that hill, including me. *g*

When asking for expert help, I do try to do the research first as far as I can and then get them to look at the overall facts of what I've put together. Like with Halo, where what she did more than anything was check over and tweak my timeline for recovery (it's difficult to find out information on the accumulative affect of multiple injuries), check my sense of what drugs he'd be put on and modify my stabbing idea so it'd be traumatic but Bodie stood a chance of surviving. She also helped by pointing me in the direction of the NHS health portal. With my prof mate on campus, I took him my rough ideas -- tough to research medical results of torture -- and said "is this possible?" He adjusted my timeline as well. *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g* Insanity runs in your family, does it?

It's good that you've got people you can ask about medical stuff like that. I don't even know anyone I could ask surreptitiously about stuff like that. Timelines are very important. *nods* Can't have them recover too quickly or too slowly!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

No, it gallops. *g*

There are quite a few experts on all sorts of topics lurking about in fandom. In some fandoms they've even collected lists of expert knowledge amongst the fen. We have at least two doctors and several nurses in Pros. The prof. knows I write so he tends to enjoy my questions. *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g*

My other fandom tends to have other 'specialties' covered. ;) Perhaps you could tell me who I should pester in Pros regarding my bullet wound questions. ;)

That's great that your prof is so happy and willing to help out with your writing. :)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Well Halo, EOS or Dawnbeth should/might be able to answer your questions. If you need help with such a thing just make a post to this com and ask for it.

I also find little_details really useful.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that little_details looks promising! Thanks for that! If I can't find what I need there, I'll PM one of the lovelies with medical knowledge.

I'm a bit reluctant to make an open post with my query because I like to keep the gory... sordid... details of what's happening in my story a secret. ;)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

The secret to dealing efficiently with the L_D crowd is to tell them where you've already looked and then break your question down in to clear parts. Actually, you can often find the answers you're looking for in their Tags.

I didn't mean open posting to asking a specific question so much as "does anyone know anything about the treatment of gun wounds?" or "anyone a chemistry major and could answer a question?" that sort of thing. *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

I spent the whole evening reading entries there. lol I noticed that those who were very concise about what they wanted got the best response. I actually found SOME of the information I need there, so thanks very much for the link!

*smacks head* I'm far too literal sometimes. *g* I have a very difficult time not revealing everything I know about things when asking a question. I sent a PM to Dawn and she's been extremely helpful.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I should have perhaps warned you that like TV Tropes and youtube it can be a real time sink. *g*

I'm glad to hear things worked out. *g* I make all sorts of strange connections. I got my information for NNYT about hand therapy when I remembered that the friend of an LJ friend is a hand therapist. Yeah, it's far easier to ask these sorts of questions from someone within fandom.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g* It really is! And some of the people who are asking questions are mean to their characters. *g* (In particular thinking about the person who wanted to shoot their character SIX TIMES as a 'warning' *boggles*)

It's definitely easier to ask questions, particularly injury questions, of someone in fandom - you tend not to get funny looks then. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a question on L_D once where my first thought was who would want to survive that little lot?

Try explaining the wide spread love of H/C to a non-fandom person... yeah, apparently we're all sadists. *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

That's just it, eh? Some of the injuries are so horrific that you have to think that the character would say 'fuck this shit - I'm out of here' (and thereby leave the author with a huge plot problem. *g*)

*g* Yes, they really don't understand that the emphasis is usually more on the comfort and that's why it's so beloved. I reckon everyone, deep down inside, has a need to but hugged and cuddled and taken care of.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

But most of us don't plan on getting severely whumped first. *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Whumping is most definitely not wanted prior to the taking care of in RL. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

But apparently big strong butch agent types must be... persuaded *cough* that they really need ze hot man lurve a cuddle.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g* Or they at least need to have an excuse. "I've got a bad owie - cuddles!"

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

If six bullet wounds is a "bad owie" then I propose that they're silly lads who are doing it wrong... or at least they need to develop a better sense of proportion. *g*

Hmmm... proportion, good challenge word.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah, the six bullet wounds to 'scare' a character was completely over the top! I think one would do the job quite nicely, thanks. *g*

It is... as is equilibrium. ;)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he takes "not scaring easily" to a bitter extreme. *g*

Ooooh ta! I needed a second one and I don't think I've used that one yet.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g* Totally! He takes 'not scaring easily' to new heights of insanity.

You're welcome!