crack_van | Due South/Sentinel PG

I forgot it was Cross over day.

Title: Valse a duex temps

Author: Laura JV

Pairings: Ray Kawolski/Benton Fraser & Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg

Author's website: Devilmonkey

Why You must read this:

I read this story after reading a bunch of Sentinel stories and knowing the background of the show fairly well. However I hadn't really started reading Due South fic yet and hadn't seen the show since the first two seasons aired. I still loved the story and while parts of it confused me (first Ray? Red ships? wha?) it did help to rekindle my interest in Due South. Laura did a fantastic job of keeping all four characters in character and capturing the feel of both worlds.

Due South and The Sentinel are both shows where really unbelievable things keep happening to our heros and where mysticism or magic plays some kind of role. As well while Jim is a bona fide Sentinel with super senses, Benton Fraser just seems to poses heightened senses without being anything special. Other than a Mountie.

Laura takes the concept of Fraser's heightened senses and combines it with the world of Sentinels. The story is set after the end of both shows and Ray and Faser are living in the wilds of Canada and Blair gets a letter from Fraser indicating that he might be a Sentinel and off Blair and Jim go to meet Benton Fraser.

Told from Blair's point of view we get to see the the way Ray and Fraser interact from an outsiders point of view, the things they say to each other that make sense to them but to no one else. The talk of a 'first Ray' or 'other Ray'. The highly improbable situations they get themselves into and of course we get to see Blair and Jim in action and to see them hook up after Blair speculates about Ray and Fraser.

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