crack_van | Mark's Story, Written on the Body, by Colleen Kane (NC-17)

Fandom: due South (AU)
Pairing: Smithbauer/OC; Fraser/Kowalski
Author's website: none, for FPS; check due Slash under "Colleen Kane"
Author on LJ:

earthmagik

Why this must be read: In the first season episode The Blue Line, Fraser sees an old friend on the street and, naturally, stops to say hello. Almost immediately, things go awry. His old friend Mark Smithbauer is a professional hockey player and kind of a jerk and, oh did I mention, in some serious trouble with some serious bad guys. Fraser, being Fraser, wants to help. In the course of his helping, it turns out that Mark did kind of a foolish thing that winds up getting him kicked out of hockey. And that's the (original) story of Mark 'n' Ben.

Colleen takes the show canon and changes history a little -- Mark doesn't do that one particular foolish thing, and thus no career-ending scandal. Yet. But. As the summary says, we will still be dealing with Very Serious Issues. Because Mark, being Mark, has done some other rather foolish things ....

This isn't an easy series to read. Colleen's kind of a take-no-prisoners writer -- she'll shake you up and pin you down and make you hurt right along with the characters. And yeah, this one hurts. But it's not a death story, for those of you who like warnings. At the risk of sounding sappy, it's a life story.

Links are from due Slash

mark's story, written on the body

interlude: contact

todd's story, written on the bones

epilogue: find the river

why are you still here?