In His Best Interests by Terri Botta (NC-17)

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

My last new author rec -- the rest of the month will be some fan favorites.

Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: http://www.wordsmiths.net/Botta
Why this must be read:

This one starts slow, but once it gets going, it's impossible to stop reading.

It's been fifteen years since Ray and Fraser broke up and Fraser moved up to Canada. He's retired (due to a serious injury in the line of duty) and living close to Maggie's family, playing favorite uncle to Maggie's kids. And then Ray shows up. Fraser's ticked because he hasn't heard anything from Ray in a decade, until Ray explains that Maggie had told him that Fraser was dead.

Wow. There's so many things I like about this story: the premise, the fact that Terri's not afraid to have her characters age, the details behind everything that's happened to Ray in that missing decade. Even the kids are cool, which isn't something I say often, and while Maggie's much more manipulative than you usually see her in fanfic, she's not a two-dimensional bad guy, just a sister doing what she thinks is best for her brother. If nothing else, this fic is a great reminder that life doesn't end at forty and that alone is reason enough to read it.

In His Best Interests

Comments

[intheyear2004.livejournal.com]

You know what? I don't think I've ever read anyone else in DS but Speranza, because she was the first writer I read in DS and after her no one seemed to really get their voices right. But I'll try this one and perhaps a few of the earlier ones you recced. This one sounds quite promising. I just love the 'years later after they've parted'-scenario.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

It is a good story, and I hope you like it, but I have to admit that my standards for reccing at crack_van are a lot lower than the ones I use for epic_recs (primarily because 300 stories have already been recced before I got a chance to drive the van, so my pool of available stories is much smaller).

That said, I actually just posted an AU on epic_recs that I'm planning on making my final (and favorite) rec at crack_van and I think you'll realy like it: it's a little dark, realistic, and the sex really isn't as graphic as it could be (and doesn't pop up till later in the series anyway). Enjoy!