Ordinary Days (R) by Marysuefanfic/Busaikko

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Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski (unrequited)
Warning: Mental Illness
Length: Short
Author on LJ: busaikko , marysuefanfic 
Author Website: Fanfiction by Busaikko
Why this must be read: So, Fraser and Ray are living together in Chicago after their Quest. Same old, same old right? WRONG.

The Fraser in this story is irrevocably broken in ways that will make you teary-eyed. You will cry harder, however, for Ray who is so full of love and works hard to keep his duet with Fraser going even if it is different from what everyone would expect.  This is here is high-quality angst, folks. The kind that will stomp on your heart but will give you a measure of hope as well as a strange sense of peace. 


Someday he'll buy Fraser a piano. It's on the list with all the other dreams. He'd like to have a TV again, have cash for beer and smokes and candy. Even the nice overcoat in Goodwills yesterday, ten bucks, no fucking way will it still be there when red tags are half price. But he gets hand-me-downs from his brother, and - well, nothing Kowalski fits Fraser, winter's on them again and Fraser, fuck, Fraser needs everything. Ray likes it well enough when Fraser looks good, so spending the money on him is no hardship. None at all.

Home and up the stairs and Fraser's in the kitchen putting the soup on the stove. Ray takes a minute to throw water on his face. He can hear Fraser talking on the other side of the door. He almost lets himself believe that they have guests, that those extra place settings Fraser'll put out? Yeah, real people might sit there, eat the goddamned food, talk to him. It'd be nice to have someone to talk to, someone Ray can see, too.

But it's cool.

After four years, yeah, it's cool.


Ordinary Days