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The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf by Stars (PG)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Genish, with a little Fraser/Kowalski
Length: 2,700 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
simplystars
Author Website:stars_fic
Why this must be read:
Because it's lovely and funny and adorable. Because it's just a wonderful example of writing from an animal's perspective without being twee or sounding like a Nova special on lupine behavior.
Because in the final analysis, we know this show is really all about the lip-reading, junk food-stealing, blonde-transfixed, snarky half-deaf half-wolf, Fraser's first partner and best friend.
Dief loves to run. Some mornings Benton runs with him, long and slow around and around the park, passing by the same trees and bushes and scent-marks that Dief has already investigated, and that's kind of boring, too. But Benton says slow and steady wins the race, Dief so Dief adjusts his pace, loping alongside instead of racing off ahead. That's okay, though, because it gives him the chance to scatter flocks of pigeons from the sidewalk, sending them airborne in a chaotic flutter of frenzied flapping, and to eye the bushy-tailed squirrels who chatter mockingly at him, circling their tree-trunks and hanging head-first just out of reach.
One day one of them might miscalculate, and Dief will be ready.
It's better, much better, when Benton takes him to the woods. There, the leaves crunch under their feet, and Dief's paws squish through the wet dirt, and Benton hides and waits for Dief to seek him out, to pursue and nip at his ankles. Sometimes, as he zigs and zags and tries not to be caught, Benton will laugh - and the sound makes Dief so happy that he has to bark, too.
The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf
Pairing: Genish, with a little Fraser/Kowalski
Length: 2,700 words
Author on LJ:
simplystarsAuthor Website:
stars_ficWhy this must be read:
Because it's lovely and funny and adorable. Because it's just a wonderful example of writing from an animal's perspective without being twee or sounding like a Nova special on lupine behavior.
Because in the final analysis, we know this show is really all about the lip-reading, junk food-stealing, blonde-transfixed, snarky half-deaf half-wolf, Fraser's first partner and best friend.
Dief loves to run. Some mornings Benton runs with him, long and slow around and around the park, passing by the same trees and bushes and scent-marks that Dief has already investigated, and that's kind of boring, too. But Benton says slow and steady wins the race, Dief so Dief adjusts his pace, loping alongside instead of racing off ahead. That's okay, though, because it gives him the chance to scatter flocks of pigeons from the sidewalk, sending them airborne in a chaotic flutter of frenzied flapping, and to eye the bushy-tailed squirrels who chatter mockingly at him, circling their tree-trunks and hanging head-first just out of reach.
One day one of them might miscalculate, and Dief will be ready.
It's better, much better, when Benton takes him to the woods. There, the leaves crunch under their feet, and Dief's paws squish through the wet dirt, and Benton hides and waits for Dief to seek him out, to pursue and nip at his ankles. Sometimes, as he zigs and zags and tries not to be caught, Benton will laugh - and the sound makes Dief so happy that he has to bark, too.
The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf
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