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Unionville by Umbo, R
Fandom: DUE SOUTH/HOMICIDE:LIFE ON THE STREETS CROSSOVER
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski, Tim Bayliss/Mark Smithbauer
Length: Long short story
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
umbo
Author Website: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~shellmidwife/stories.html
Why this must be read: Because it's long, plotty, and full of events. Because a mechanic and a bartender are still pretty good men in a alley fight. Because the whole Due South gang is in Toronto, and the result is that Tim Bayliss's lonely life gets taken down and built back better. Because tall is good. Because very tall is very good.
I'm walking out one night after my shift at the bar, looking forward to a few days off, maybe another trip to that place over by the St. Lawrence Market, when I hear something coming from an alley down the street. I go to check it out, and there are four guys surrounding a woman, and it doesn't look like she's too happy about it. I move a little closer, looking at the angles, escape routes, wishing not for my gun but maybe the nightstick I carried on patrol almost twenty years ago.
Just as I'm about to make my move, this white blur of a dog runs by me and jumps one of them. Figuring this is as good a moment as any, I move out of the shadows.
The dog is trying to bring one of them down, but he's not having too much luck. One of his buddies pulls out a knife, and I move.
"Put that down!" I say, hoping the authority in my voice will convince them--I still sound like a police, after all. There's someone behind me. I can hear him, and I catch a quick reflection of glasses and a shock of blond hair in a car window. He nods briefly, looking past me.
"I'd do as this gentleman advises, if I were you." There's another man dropping to the ground from the wall at the back of the alley. He's wearing a hat like a trooper, but he's in civvies.
Unionville
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski, Tim Bayliss/Mark Smithbauer
Length: Long short story
Author on LJ:
umboAuthor Website: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~shellmidwife/stories.html
Why this must be read: Because it's long, plotty, and full of events. Because a mechanic and a bartender are still pretty good men in a alley fight. Because the whole Due South gang is in Toronto, and the result is that Tim Bayliss's lonely life gets taken down and built back better. Because tall is good. Because very tall is very good.
I'm walking out one night after my shift at the bar, looking forward to a few days off, maybe another trip to that place over by the St. Lawrence Market, when I hear something coming from an alley down the street. I go to check it out, and there are four guys surrounding a woman, and it doesn't look like she's too happy about it. I move a little closer, looking at the angles, escape routes, wishing not for my gun but maybe the nightstick I carried on patrol almost twenty years ago.
Just as I'm about to make my move, this white blur of a dog runs by me and jumps one of them. Figuring this is as good a moment as any, I move out of the shadows.
The dog is trying to bring one of them down, but he's not having too much luck. One of his buddies pulls out a knife, and I move.
"Put that down!" I say, hoping the authority in my voice will convince them--I still sound like a police, after all. There's someone behind me. I can hear him, and I catch a quick reflection of glasses and a shock of blond hair in a car window. He nods briefly, looking past me.
"I'd do as this gentleman advises, if I were you." There's another man dropping to the ground from the wall at the back of the alley. He's wearing a hat like a trooper, but he's in civvies.
Unionville