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crack_van2005-05-15 01:02 am
laughingacademy.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2005-05-15 01:02 am
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Fandom: Due South/Twin Peaks (NC-17)
Title: “Cold Heart” by Dorothy Marley
Pairing: Fraser/Vecchio, Fraser/Cooper
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dmarley
Author Website: http://dmarley.mattachine.com
Why this must be read:
I must confess that the major attraction this story holds for me is the presence of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper from the short-lived but beloved series Twin Peaks (***SUBTLE HINT*** a show which I hope to write up for crack_van someday ***SUBTLE HINT***). But as the author says in her notes, “This is primarily a Due South story, and refers only obliquely to events in Twin Peaks,” so it can be read and enjoyed by people who have no idea who Laura Palmer is and don’t give a damn who killed her.
A few weeks after Fraser and Vecchio’s first meeting, the Mountie is taking questionable steps to combat his growing feelings of homesickness:
Meanwhile, Dale Cooper has come to Chicago for two purposes: to review an old case of Vecchio’s in the hope of finding a lead on a killer; and to look up Benton Fraser, a former lover. Cooper once kept Fraser from literally freezing to death, but could not save him from the creeping chill of loneliness. As Fraser tells Ray, describing what it’s like to recover from hypothermia, “there comes a moment when it's actually far more painful to live, to be warm again--to feel again--than it is to die in the cold...Dale and I could never get past that moment.”
Dorothy Marley vividly evokes both cold (the way it can cut and sting, the seductiveness of its false warmth and lulling torpor) and heat (which also has its pains and pleasures). She also does a great job depicting Vecchio’s reactions: his growing worry for Benny; astonishment when he barrels into Fraser’s apartment and finds Cooper; curiosity and jealous anger after hearing about their ill-fated relationship; grudging sympathy when faced with Cooper’s genuine concern and remorse. And once Ray applies himself to thawing out Benny, it’s enough to steam up the windows.
“Cold Heart”
ETA: Since Dorothy’s page seens to be down at the moment, here is another link for the story:
http://www.squidge.org/dsa/cgi-bin/convert.cgi?filename=romance/coldheart.html&wraplen=75
Pairing: Fraser/Vecchio, Fraser/Cooper
Author on LJ:
dmarleyAuthor Website: http://dmarley.mattachine.com
Why this must be read:
I must confess that the major attraction this story holds for me is the presence of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper from the short-lived but beloved series Twin Peaks (***SUBTLE HINT*** a show which I hope to write up for crack_van someday ***SUBTLE HINT***). But as the author says in her notes, “This is primarily a Due South story, and refers only obliquely to events in Twin Peaks,” so it can be read and enjoyed by people who have no idea who Laura Palmer is and don’t give a damn who killed her.
A few weeks after Fraser and Vecchio’s first meeting, the Mountie is taking questionable steps to combat his growing feelings of homesickness:
Peace spread through him with the cold, the turmoil in his mind clearing as his body numbed, his thoughts dropping into slow, sluggish torpor. This was what he needed. To lose the quick, loud pace of the city, to forget the sharp-edged buildings with their stifling warmth and windows that wouldn't open. The snow was soft, and cold, and clean, the flakes drifting down to settle on the frozen earth, and he let his thoughts follow, sending them down in the frigid dark, where they would sit, quietly and peacefully, and bother no one.
Meanwhile, Dale Cooper has come to Chicago for two purposes: to review an old case of Vecchio’s in the hope of finding a lead on a killer; and to look up Benton Fraser, a former lover. Cooper once kept Fraser from literally freezing to death, but could not save him from the creeping chill of loneliness. As Fraser tells Ray, describing what it’s like to recover from hypothermia, “there comes a moment when it's actually far more painful to live, to be warm again--to feel again--than it is to die in the cold...Dale and I could never get past that moment.”
Dorothy Marley vividly evokes both cold (the way it can cut and sting, the seductiveness of its false warmth and lulling torpor) and heat (which also has its pains and pleasures). She also does a great job depicting Vecchio’s reactions: his growing worry for Benny; astonishment when he barrels into Fraser’s apartment and finds Cooper; curiosity and jealous anger after hearing about their ill-fated relationship; grudging sympathy when faced with Cooper’s genuine concern and remorse. And once Ray applies himself to thawing out Benny, it’s enough to steam up the windows.
“Cold Heart”
ETA: Since Dorothy’s page seens to be down at the moment, here is another link for the story:
http://www.squidge.org/dsa/cgi-bin/convert.cgi?filename=romance/coldheart.html&wraplen=75
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If/when I do write up Twin Peaks, I plan to pimp the hell out of your Cooper/Truman “Fall” series.
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And thanks. I haven't written any TP in years, but I still love the guys.
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Just wanted to drop a note to combat link rot and say that "Cold Heart" can now be found at AO3:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/10843
Thanks so much for recommendation! :)