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crack_van2008-05-22 09:31 pm
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Turn Toward Home by vsee (G)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: ~3,800 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vsee
Author Website: none
Why this must be read: because this is a tender story of Ray and Fraser on Valentine's Day, with Ray trying to figure out where their relationship is going and how they're going to get there. This isn't a story about cops and crimes or danger and excitement. This story is about common activities : walking the dog (okay, half-wolf), grocery shopping and bitching about work, and how those ordinary things can become laden with meaning. Ray is sweetly unsure about how to treat Fraser on this most important of fabricated holidays - should he buy flowers? Take Fraser out to a fancy place for dinner? The uncertainly is heart-wrenching but so real and makes this story well worth reading.
vsee is a talented writer, who manages to infuse her characters with a gentleness that resonates through the story, emphasizing the ordinariness of their daily lives, and how important that is.
They haven't talked yet about Fraser moving in. Fraser doesn't even have a key yet. And even on those weeks when he ended up staying more than three or four nights, he still never stays in the apartment when Ray isn't there. He has a towel on the rack and a scary straight razor in a cup on the bathroom counter, but no key, no plans, no talk, yet.
Ray glances at Fraser again, trying to judge whether he heard the slip. This time, Fraser is looking straight ahead, his eyes following Dief as he sprints far ahead of them through the entrance gate of the park. "Right you are," Fraser says.
Turn Toward Home
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: ~3,800 words
Author on LJ:
vseeAuthor Website: none
Why this must be read: because this is a tender story of Ray and Fraser on Valentine's Day, with Ray trying to figure out where their relationship is going and how they're going to get there. This isn't a story about cops and crimes or danger and excitement. This story is about common activities : walking the dog (okay, half-wolf), grocery shopping and bitching about work, and how those ordinary things can become laden with meaning. Ray is sweetly unsure about how to treat Fraser on this most important of fabricated holidays - should he buy flowers? Take Fraser out to a fancy place for dinner? The uncertainly is heart-wrenching but so real and makes this story well worth reading.
vsee is a talented writer, who manages to infuse her characters with a gentleness that resonates through the story, emphasizing the ordinariness of their daily lives, and how important that is.They haven't talked yet about Fraser moving in. Fraser doesn't even have a key yet. And even on those weeks when he ended up staying more than three or four nights, he still never stays in the apartment when Ray isn't there. He has a towel on the rack and a scary straight razor in a cup on the bathroom counter, but no key, no plans, no talk, yet.
Ray glances at Fraser again, trying to judge whether he heard the slip. This time, Fraser is looking straight ahead, his eyes following Dief as he sprints far ahead of them through the entrance gate of the park. "Right you are," Fraser says.
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