https://gensplosion.dreamwidth.org/ gensplosion! - Dreamwidth Studios Sat, 23 May 2015 09:05:38 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios gensplosion community https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7506976/2023191 https://gensplosion.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://gensplosion.dreamwidth.org/92233.html Sat, 23 May 2015 09:05:38 GMT https://gensplosion.dreamwidth.org/92233.html Posted by: <span lj:user='thisbluespirit' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/'><b>thisbluespirit</b></a></span><br /><br /><b><small>FANDOM:</small></b> Spooks (MI-5)<br /><b><small>FIC LINK:</small></b> <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/141581">Notes on an Exile</a><br /><b><small>AUTHOR LINK:</small></b> <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.archiveofourown.org/users/delgaserasca/profile'><img src='https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico' alt='[archiveofourown.org profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='https://www.archiveofourown.org/users/delgaserasca/'><b>delgaserasca</b></a></span><br /><b><small>RATING/WARNING(S):</small></b> G | None<br /><b><small>WIP?/WORD COUNT:</small></b> 2962<br /><b><small>MAIN CHARACTERS:</small></b> Malcolm Wynn-Jones, Colin Wells<br /><br /><b><small>FIC SUMMARY:</small></b> "Before he leaves, Colin debates over whether or not to write a note."<br /><br />For three months in 1998, Colin is sent to work at the Manchester office. Malcolm sends him tea.<br /><br /><b><small>RECCER'S NOTES:</small></b> Wonderful, low-key but heart-warming* friendship piece for the two desk spooks, as Colin goes into exile and misses Malcolm. There are so many lovely little Spooks-y details in here (the Manchester officers wonder if Colin is a mole, peeling off the front of postcards, and tea, and bugs etc.), all on top of the delightful handling of the two and their friendship, as a briefly-referred-to incident from their past is explored and expanded, and then even a happy ending. Gosh. (Well, for the moment. It is <i>Spooks</i>, after all.)<br /><br /><br />*<small> well, definitely heart-warming for <i>Spooks</i> at least...</small><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=gensplosion&ditemid=92233" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://gensplosion.dreamwidth.org/92233.html friendship yuletide pre-canon minor characters male friendship tea clever characters being clever spies older characters - gensploder: lost_spook - fandom: spooks/mi-5 public thisbluespirit 0