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Entry tags:
Due South/Men With Guns (PG-13)
Title: Out from Under
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brigantine1
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser (Mamet/Benton Fraser)
Length: +/- 17777 words
Author Website: Brig's memories
Why this must be read: Men With Guns' drug-addled Mamet is one of my favorite -- and one of the most heartbreaking -- characters in the CKR lineup of Beautiful and Dented. And in Out from Under,brigantine1 pulls off an amazing trick: convincingly casting Ray Kowalski as Mamet. That alone is enough to tug the heartstrings but good, but then brig sends Fraser in to try and save him. Oh, Fraser. His clear-eyed understanding and willful optimism in the face of despair are especially painful and lovely in this world. Plus, brig manages to capture and expand on Men With Guns' urban small-time criminal milieu in a wonderfully satisfying and engrossing way. The ending isn't quite as strong as the rest of the fic, but that's mainly because the rest of the fic is so very damn good.
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Reickhart is a short, stocky man with thinning hair he's got the good sense to cut short. He perches on the edge of his desk and regards Fraser with a frustrated huff. "We get a word of him, a tease, but before we can get there to pick him up he's melted back into the city like a chameleon into Madagascar. Granted, my officers are new on the job, but they're good lads."
Fraser rubs behind his ear. "Sir, for how long have they been hunting him?"
"Hunting?" Reickhart twitches a smile at the term. "Nearly six weeks. I find I owe your Lieutenant Welsh something of an apology. I've been harboring some fairly uncomplimentary thoughts regarding his apparent lack of concern for one of his own."
"Six? But we didn't know, we had no idea…" Over a month before DEA Agent Grant decided that it might be a good idea to let Ray's commanding officer in Chicago know he was missing in action. Six weeks ago Ray could have, should have been home safe, but after he had given them what they needed to make their case, the DEA agents in charge of him just couldn't be bothered.
"... but we can't very well go about asking every snitch and stoolie if they've news of a lost under cover detective. He'd be dead in days. He's just..." D. C. I. Reickhart makes a dissipating gesture with his hands. "The hell of it is, Constable, that the DEA knew he wasn't right in the head, yet they left him adrift anyway."
Out from Under
Author on LJ:
brigantine1Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser (Mamet/Benton Fraser)
Length: +/- 17777 words
Author Website: Brig's memories
Why this must be read: Men With Guns' drug-addled Mamet is one of my favorite -- and one of the most heartbreaking -- characters in the CKR lineup of Beautiful and Dented. And in Out from Under,
brigantine1 pulls off an amazing trick: convincingly casting Ray Kowalski as Mamet. That alone is enough to tug the heartstrings but good, but then brig sends Fraser in to try and save him. Oh, Fraser. His clear-eyed understanding and willful optimism in the face of despair are especially painful and lovely in this world. Plus, brig manages to capture and expand on Men With Guns' urban small-time criminal milieu in a wonderfully satisfying and engrossing way. The ending isn't quite as strong as the rest of the fic, but that's mainly because the rest of the fic is so very damn good.Detective Chief Inspector Alan Reickhart is a short, stocky man with thinning hair he's got the good sense to cut short. He perches on the edge of his desk and regards Fraser with a frustrated huff. "We get a word of him, a tease, but before we can get there to pick him up he's melted back into the city like a chameleon into Madagascar. Granted, my officers are new on the job, but they're good lads."
Fraser rubs behind his ear. "Sir, for how long have they been hunting him?"
"Hunting?" Reickhart twitches a smile at the term. "Nearly six weeks. I find I owe your Lieutenant Welsh something of an apology. I've been harboring some fairly uncomplimentary thoughts regarding his apparent lack of concern for one of his own."
"Six? But we didn't know, we had no idea…" Over a month before DEA Agent Grant decided that it might be a good idea to let Ray's commanding officer in Chicago know he was missing in action. Six weeks ago Ray could have, should have been home safe, but after he had given them what they needed to make their case, the DEA agents in charge of him just couldn't be bothered.
"... but we can't very well go about asking every snitch and stoolie if they've news of a lost under cover detective. He'd be dead in days. He's just..." D. C. I. Reickhart makes a dissipating gesture with his hands. "The hell of it is, Constable, that the DEA knew he wasn't right in the head, yet they left him adrift anyway."
Out from Under
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