I came to the "Professionals" without any lead; I just knew the name of the show and I had seen a few pictures of it on Liza's site (and wasn't attracted at all then). I was looking for stories in crack_van because I was a little fed up with the sort of MFU fanfiction that was published at the time (or simply I was having an overdose of it). I was extremely impressed by the outstanding writing quality of the first "Pros" stories I happened to read (the old, novel length, classic ones). Many of them have nothing to envy to the best of the mainstream literature. I didn't know anything about the show and once I dared to ask a question about a story's background, I got to be positively insulted (by rabid fans, not by the author who is perfectly civilized). I kept on reading however and almost exhausted the archives on line. Then I bought the DVDs, watched the show, liked it a lot though I didn't much recognized the characters from the fictions. Eventually I changed my favourite pairing, dropping the partners for one of them and his boss! And, still this time, it was because of a fateful story of which I strongly admired the writing. The sad result is I have now almost nothing left to read because it's a very unpopular pairing. End of the story.