Professionals - Bodie/DoylebyslantedlightJune 11 2016, 10:59:52 UTC
Many an Obscure Past by Slantedlight
post-Man Without a Past It had gone swimmingly until the fifth pint, Bodie thought later, a coup for Anglo-American relations, and just what he’d needed to celebrate Doyle’s release from hospital, and the Yanks finally being free enough of Brian Forrest that they could go home. They’d talked about women, football - both kinds - and how pizza should be made properly rather than unwrapped for the oven from the freezer. Doyle had even promised to try it at home. And then, disastrously, they had somehow slipped into comparing jobs.
o0o“Never would have thought you British guys had so many of those secret departments,” Braddock said at last. “You got one for every colour in the box, don’t you? Tiny little things, no one knows about, tiny little obscure people, all secret. No one knows about…” He trailed off, lifted his glass, gazed at it for a moment and then drank. Fifth pint, Bodie reminded himself, amused
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by Slantedlight
post-Man Without a Past
It had gone swimmingly until the fifth pint, Bodie thought later, a coup for Anglo-American relations, and just what he’d needed to celebrate Doyle’s release from hospital, and the Yanks finally being free enough of Brian Forrest that they could go home. They’d talked about women, football - both kinds - and how pizza should be made properly rather than unwrapped for the oven from the freezer. Doyle had even promised to try it at home. And then, disastrously, they had somehow slipped into comparing jobs.
o0o“Never would have thought you British guys had so many of those secret departments,” Braddock said at last. “You got one for every colour in the box, don’t you? Tiny little things, no one knows about, tiny little obscure people, all secret. No one knows about…” He trailed off, lifted his glass, gazed at it for a moment and then drank. Fifth pint, Bodie reminded himself, amused ( ... )
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