Prison Fic?

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. Are there any Bodie/Doyle prison fics? Where they meet in prison? Or one of them is in prison and removed by CI5 for a special assignment? I'm looking for something that leans towards AU, hurt/comfort, or where the location of a prison/psyche itself plays a big role in the story.

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Pros Prison Stories - Waiting to Fall

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

The classic Pros H/C recovery from unjust prison story is Waiting to Fall by Rob. It can be found on the Proslib CD & online at The Circuit Archive. It's also the longest Pros novel, approximately 2 MB, so if it is to your taste, you'll be able to indulge for some time.

Keep in mind that the novel is leisurely paced; there's a good reason why it's also affectionately known as "Waiting to Fuck". *g*

ETA: Forgot to mention that Doyle is one that was in prison.

Pros Prison Stories

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

A few other Pros prison stories include: Endgame by Tarot (online pseudonym - different name on Proslib) features Bodie in a Mideast prison. It's also a well-known death story.

Fantasies by Fanny Adams has both Bodie & Doyle in prison and fantasizing before possible execution.

Hiding the Truth by Liz Bradford (Unprofessional Conduct 6, 1995) features Doyle recovering from an undercover assignment in prison that went wrong.

Inside Information by Sue S. (Circuit story) has Bodie undercover in prison.

Look Through My Eyes by Jane Carnall and Nicole Craig (A Simple Game zine & recently Proslib) features Cowley badly damaged by his time in a Russian prison. It's Bodie/Cowley.

Traitor's Fate by Meg Lewtan (Circuit story, Historical AU). Inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel book. Bodie is in French prison.

Also, in addition to stories that have either Bodie or Doyle (or occasionally other Pros characters) in prison in England or the UK, there are a number of stories that mention Bodie's mercenary past in Africa - often having him in prison or a jungle prison camp.

One of the best known may be House of Cards by MCK aka Marian Kelly. It is a zine comprised of two novellas: Ace of Spades and The Joker is Wild. Bodie's mercenary past and time in an African prison camp play a huge role in both stories. Ace of Spades was also published in Discovered on a Rooftop (1985, Spice Press, OOP).

YMMV but I find many of the African mercenary stories problematic - beyond my dislike of extreme H/C, rape, and torture fiction - because they uncritically invoke racist stereotypes and tropes in their handling of Bodie's mercenary past. Or worse, use Bodie's past as an African mercenary to excuse his canon racism.

Even though the episode Klansman was explicitly critical of race relations and ideally, would have spawned many a discussion, Pros fen tend to ignore or gloss over Bodie's canon racism. This pattern can also be seen in regards to Pros stories.

Of course, Pros isn't the only fandom to be hesitant to engage in such discussions - fandoms are, after all, part of our larger societies. And there have been notable exceptions - in both fiction and discussion - where Bodie's racism is examined critically.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if these fit your request but they do deal with imprisonment. If you haven't read this story, you might want to read ABOUT it before you read it if you are particularly sensitive about warnings.

There is The Pillory by Kitty Fisher, http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/5/thepillory.html

Or here with more warnings: http://hatstand.slashcity.net/kitty/pillory.html

Be aware that The Pillory is a controversial story. Some info is here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Pillory (Many spoilers on this page if that is something you care about.)

And one of the sequels, Any Other World by Andromeda. http://community.livejournal.com/ci5_boxoftricks/15186.html

I'm adding a story I really love: Rediscovered in a Graveyward by HG: http://archiveofourown.org/works/317527

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Yay for Taverymate. I thought of a couple, and thought of "What's that one where Bodie's in a Middle Eastern prison and... (plot happens)?" and wandered off to look for it and got totally sidetracked. It was, of course, Tarot's "Endgame".

I didn't think of "Waiting to Fall" (which ticks all your requirements above, most definitely), but I did think of HG's Rediscovered in a Graveyard, on the online circuit archive (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/20/rediscoveredin.html) and AO3: Rediscovered in a Graveyard (http://archiveofourown.org/works/317527/chapters/510642) - all 150,000 words.

A crossover with Man from UNCLE: Minerva's Discovered In A Congo Prison Affair (http://jj-minerva.livejournal.com/10618.html) (also on Proslib CD, also on AO3?)

There are inevitably yet others on the paper circuit, but they are very unlikely to show up online: I'm sure I saw one where Doyle is a political prisoner in a prison camp in (presumably) Central America, for example.

On LJ, there's two in an as yet unresolved series by merentha: Inmates (http://teaandswissroll.livejournal.com/494275.html) and Inmates II (http://teaandswissroll.livejournal.com/500865.html).

There's more, I'm sure of it. Shall think.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Since the makings of a story list seem to be coming together here, I'll add one more, even though the questioner said she didn't have access to zines: the novella which makes up half of Continental B&D, Fraternité, by Jasper, is - with the exception of the framing device (Bodie is knocked out, and dreams...) - a French Revolution AU. Naturally, there's a prison, and that's where they meet.

Bodie's a soldier, imprisoned for links with the aristos, Doyle is an artist now working in the prison as a warder. The whole of the first half of the story's set in the prison.

Ooh. Must go and add it to angelci5's list of AU occupations (http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/185696.html)!

(edited to fix link, grr)
(and then again to include the author. argh.)

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Another story featuring prison is PR Zed's Light of Day (http://archiveofourown.org/works/181948), where Bodie and Doyle have to go undercover in a prison. :-)

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

would you like one of mine? It's only little. I was using it as an excercise to write from one POV at a tiime. It's called Separation Anxiety. http://archiveofourown.org/works/266116

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Oh, and another, in case anyone ever makes a proper list of them: The Two Trees (http://www.morgandawn.com/two_trees.htm), by Morgan Dawn (also the CA (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/6/thetwo.html) and probably elsewhere - grim, but fits every criterion: AU-ish (King Billy is dead after Wild Justice), the lads are separately in prison, hurt/comfort (90% hurt, it must be said, though), and the psychological effects are definitely a major element. Even when Doyle is out, he's still in a prison of a sort.