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A Glorious Revolution by Lost the Plot (PG13)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Frannie/Maggie
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lost_theplot
Author Website: Author's site
Why this must be read:
This is another post-COTW story, but with a different slant. This story follows Frannie - left behind in a station that's much changed with the absences of Ray, Fraser, Ray, Huey and Dewey. This is a Frannie that is working to improve herself - to grow up and mature - yet still remains Frannie, mistaken word choices and all. And in Chicago - seemingly still the location of choice for awkward Mounties - Francesca meets Maggie Mackenzie again.
The author gives an excellent Frannie voice, her hopes, loves and insecurities. Maggie is clearly herself and the growing friendship and romance between the two is well-handled as they become closer. The inclusion of Fraser and Ray's surrogacy request together with Frannie's desire for a child is a handy nod to her canon-referred ending. This is a sweet, quiet story, in which Frannie finally gets her Mountie.
Maggie is a sweet person, Frannie has come to realize with dismay. Frannie’s never met anyone who can really and truly be described as sweet. Maggie’s funny and smart and genuine and gracious, but most of all, she’s sweet without some of the stiffness that had made Fraser’s courtesy so hard to take sometimes, despite the fact that he was the model, the very epistle – epitome of a gentleman. Then again, maybe Frannie had never gotten to know Fraser well enough…hadn’t gotten underneath his skin and past his closed-off exterior the way either of the Rays had. It’s like she had been allowed access to a certain point of Fraser’s character, and then all the flashing red lights and orange warning signs had forced her back to the area of arms-length, no touching, and talking about surface things that didn’t matter.
But she’s getting to know Maggie better anyway, and sometimes she thinks Maggie’s kind of weird, but it’s that whole being from the north thing and not so much an abnormal freak thing, so it’s all right.
A Glorious Revolution
Pairing: Frannie/Maggie
Author on LJ:
lost_theplotAuthor Website: Author's site
Why this must be read:
This is another post-COTW story, but with a different slant. This story follows Frannie - left behind in a station that's much changed with the absences of Ray, Fraser, Ray, Huey and Dewey. This is a Frannie that is working to improve herself - to grow up and mature - yet still remains Frannie, mistaken word choices and all. And in Chicago - seemingly still the location of choice for awkward Mounties - Francesca meets Maggie Mackenzie again.
The author gives an excellent Frannie voice, her hopes, loves and insecurities. Maggie is clearly herself and the growing friendship and romance between the two is well-handled as they become closer. The inclusion of Fraser and Ray's surrogacy request together with Frannie's desire for a child is a handy nod to her canon-referred ending. This is a sweet, quiet story, in which Frannie finally gets her Mountie.
Maggie is a sweet person, Frannie has come to realize with dismay. Frannie’s never met anyone who can really and truly be described as sweet. Maggie’s funny and smart and genuine and gracious, but most of all, she’s sweet without some of the stiffness that had made Fraser’s courtesy so hard to take sometimes, despite the fact that he was the model, the very epistle – epitome of a gentleman. Then again, maybe Frannie had never gotten to know Fraser well enough…hadn’t gotten underneath his skin and past his closed-off exterior the way either of the Rays had. It’s like she had been allowed access to a certain point of Fraser’s character, and then all the flashing red lights and orange warning signs had forced her back to the area of arms-length, no touching, and talking about surface things that didn’t matter.
But she’s getting to know Maggie better anyway, and sometimes she thinks Maggie’s kind of weird, but it’s that whole being from the north thing and not so much an abnormal freak thing, so it’s all right.
A Glorious Revolution
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