She Comes Here a Lot by Justbreathe80 (NC-17)

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Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Fraser/Stella
Author on LJ: justbreathe80
Author Website: Giggling and Dizzy
Why this must be read:

This pairing seems to be made of nothing but pain, but justbreathe80 does an absolutly beautiful job of taking that pain and making it good. Both Fraser and Stella are frustrated with the men in their lives - Ray doesn't seem to reciprocate Fraser's feelings and Stella has just been stood up on her date - when they run into each other in a bar. It is a one night stand that should seriously be nothing more than a PWP. But it isn't. It is about meeting needs and just making a connection, even if it is just for a night. It is about seeing that underneath it all, the incomperhensible isn't really that different from you. (And it is my token het pairing, because I'll admidt to not reading much het in this fandom. But even if you are a dedicated slasher, I urge you to give this a shot, because it is some of the best het that I've run across in any fandom)

“Nothing’s happened yet, huh? But you want it to?”

Fraser sighed and closed his eyes. “Well, I suppose it doesn’t matter what I want, because it seems to me that he doesn’t want the same thing.”

Stella knew Ray Kowalski better than anyone did, even his mother, and she’d seen the puppy dog eyes he made at Fraser when he thought no one was looking. She also knew that Ray had never been a hundred percent straight. He’d never said so outright, but she’d spent twenty years watching him try not to notice other men. “God, what is it with men, huh?” she said, kind of startled by the bitterness in her own voice.

She Comes Here a Lot