I've completed my Million Word Fanfic Challenge. Woohoo! In this last leg, I read six fics, but I will only be writing up two.
...And Its Business Is Joy by Elise_Madrid (
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gilda_elise) is a crossover between Star Trek TOS and The Professionals. I liked this fic a lot. It had both emotion and humor and the interactions between the two sets of characters were interesting. 24,654 words. Kirk/Spock slash and Bodie/Doyle slash. Particularly recommended.
Comments with spoilers:
I really wanted Bodie and Doyle to figure out that the Enterprise was from Earth's future, though. Allowing them to see that same-sex relationships eventually become accepted by society would have been an interesting development after the conflict early in the story over their efforts to conceal their own relationship.
Also, I'm not very familiar with Star Trek TOS, but I think this fic may be AU relative to that canon, since Spock decides not to return to Vulcan as he is shown to have done in the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Author, if you are reading this, was that the intention? Paper Chase by ML Mead (
moonlightmead), a Professionals fic, was very good, as well. It's a casefic with a lively plot and some quite suspenseful scenes. There was one point I'm not sure about, as discussed below, but it's a matter of interpretation. 25,129 words. Bodie/Doyle slash. Particularly recommended.
Comments with spoilers:
The plot stopped short of them actually doing so, but ML Mead made it clear that Bodie and Doyle were prepared to murder the Russian agent Leon in order to keep their relationship secret. (Killing someone who is no physical threat and has offered to surrender to your side is murder. To say nothing of doing it in order to preserve your job.) I'm willing to roll with a wide range of character interpretations, but I find this one difficult. It seems out of character for Doyle, particularly, as someone disturbed by unnecessary killing and willing to take risks to avoid it (as in The Madness of Mickey Hamilton). In light of the fact that he owed Leon his life, I'm not sure I believe it of Bodie, either, though it would be easier to convince me. I need to do more thinking on the matter, but I'm eager to get this write-up posted, so that's all I have to say for now. The four fics I'm not writing up were worth three points for I, six points for E, another three points for I, and eight points for R.
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