you're always running into people's unconscious ([identity profile] innocentsmith.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2009-07-09 06:29 pm
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The Way He Should Go, by Dira Sudis (G)

Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Gen - Fraser, Caroline Fraser
Length: 2,487 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] dsudis
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Why this must be read:

Pity Caroline Fraser, the first person to stand between the harsh, cold world and Benton Fraser's desire to help.

In this vignette, Dira Sudis presents us with six-year-old Fraser, too young to have anything like a grownup Fraser's competence in navigating an unforgiving frontier life, but already convinced he knows best. The child's POV is spare and unsentimental, and all the more heartbreaking for it, because the seeds of the person Ben will become are all there in plain sight - all the sweetness and determination and absolutely-crazy-makingness of the man.

The Way He Should Go