Want, by: dessert_first. (PG)

[thady.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm thady, your due South driver for this month. I'll try to rec a variety of stories, but I tend to prefer RayK-centric stories.

Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Length: 4,000 words
Author on LJ: dessert_first
Author Website: None, as far as I know.
Why this must be read:

This story was written for the DS Match challenge over at ds_flashfiction, which produced 28 awesome stories. This one is one of my two favorites.

I don't think this story can be recced too often. Sharp and poignant and real in a way that isn't affected by 'reality' or 'whimsy'. Brilliant and sad and hopeful. Fraser is so wonderfully himself, and I adore RayK here.

This story gives up its secrets slowly, and while a second reading isn't required I can only recommend it to see how all weaves so beautifully together.

It all started… well. It's impossible to say when it all started. Fraser has thought it over a thousand times, gone over every single interaction, every crumb of information, every scrap or clue. But the very nature of the matter is what makes it so difficult to find anything out of the ordinary.

Fraser keeps searching the haphazard tangle of his memories though, because he thinks, If I could only understand. If I could only see.

He doesn't know what follows on the heels of that thought. If he could understand, then what? If he could see, what would come of it? What would change? How would it make things right?

How would anything ever be right again?

Want