A Mercenary's Tale by Fictionwriter
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bodiecuddleArchive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle, Bodie/OMC
Word count: 46,800
Warnings (highlight to read): Violence. OC Deaths
Summary: A midnight phone call, a mysterious visitor and Doyle’s persistence force Bodie to relive his mercenary past, bringing that past into the present. Over one long night Doyle listens to the tale Bodie has to tell and when he’s done it’s up to Doyle to try and stop his partner risking all in a headlong dash to revenge.
Notes: Thank you once again to moth2fic for her beta skills, her suggestions for improvements in the narrative (telling me where I was going wrong in other words) and for keeping me on track with grammar and punctuation as well as making some gorgeous icons for the story. Happy birthday Moth, have a good one.
Of course a big thank you and hug to my artist, bodiecuddle for such a stunning visualisation of my story. Thanks also to the Box of Tricks mods for again giving us another year of Pros goodness.
Link to Fic: Fic Master Post/A Mercenary's Tale
Link to Art: Art Master Post
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Date: 2012-10-21 12:05 pm (UTC)Your story is amazing!!!!
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Date: 2012-10-21 08:05 am (UTC)*reads story - swoons multiple times*
Wow! That's all I can come up with and it seems so inadequate. Thank you for creating such a great story and art and for sharing it.
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Date: 2012-10-22 05:25 am (UTC)Thank You for such a wonderful comment! I'm very glad you liked the story and it worked for you. And yes, the art is quite something:D Bodiecuddle has a real knack for picking out the best scenes for her vids.
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Date: 2012-10-21 08:06 am (UTC)And a fab vid from BodieCuddle, as usual!
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Date: 2012-10-21 12:08 pm (UTC)enjoy reading it. It`s fab.
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Date: 2012-10-22 05:32 am (UTC)And a fab vid from BodieCuddle, as usual!
Yeah, isn't it just!
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Date: 2012-10-21 08:49 am (UTC)And thank you to
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Date: 2012-10-21 12:09 pm (UTC)Enjoy reading.
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Date: 2012-10-21 10:51 am (UTC)Congratulations on posting!
I'm determined to read everything in order this year, so it'll take me a while before I read, but it sounds fabulous. And the artwork is just gorgeous.
Thank you both.
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Date: 2012-10-27 09:00 pm (UTC)And I'm impressed by your knowledge about mercenary life and the political circumstances in that part of Africa and at that time!
It all sounds 'real' to me! (But what do I know...?)
Thank you!
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Date: 2012-10-31 04:10 pm (UTC)I think this is a story to fall in love with and like other favourite stories I know it's going to stay in my head for some time. Thanks so much for writing it.
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Date: 2012-11-01 03:25 am (UTC)The story came out of an awful lot of research (especially into the political situation in the Congo!) and some general knowledge;) I was living in South Africa around the time of Angola's independence and the subsequent civil war and I wanted to tell Bodie’s story, create his world, by using some of my own experience of life in Africa. I’m very glad it worked so well for you.
Thank you very much for reading, for commenting and most of all for enjoying the tale. That it will stay in your memory is great praise for a writer and I really appreciate you telling me that:D
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