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crack_van2009-09-07 04:41 pm
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Let the Sunshine In by Catwalksalone, Rated R
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Length: 4000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catwalksalone
Author Website: http://www.thecatthatwalkedalone.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Why this must be read: So, I love Ray/Ray. (Which um, I'm sure everyone knows? :D?) And this fic makes me SO. HAPPY. I love it because, while I adore angst and fics that deal with all the weighted history between Ray and Ray, this is so hilariously funny and so them all while being decidedly not angsty and *insanely happy*. THEY TALK ON THE PHONE, OKAY. And it's a wonderful fic because it keeps them so marvelously in character and shows yet another reason why Ray/Ray is love, and why they work so great together. Cat is a great writer and she does amazing humor, and if you don't laugh out loud several times in this fic, then you maybe don't have a soul? I don't know, but I do know that this is one of those "I read this fic in a bad mood and I cheer up instantly and flap my hands crazily at my desk in glee" fics. (IRTFIABMAICUIAFMHCAMDIG fics, you've heard of that acronym, right?)
I love fics that get the Rays together with friendship just as much as I love them kissing after a fistfight, and this is one of my faaaaavorites in the friendship-first! category.
Also, the list Vecchio makes in a notebook is priceless.
"And then the shrink told me I should locate 'the inner me' and I did not punch him in the face."
"You're growing as a person, Kowalski."
"Yeah, pass me another beer."
Ray did as he was told. "I got signed off. Apparently I am done with my 'reintegration issues'-" Ray gave that phrase the air-quotes it deserved "-and am a fully functioning member of society once more." The shrink was probably right about that, the nightmares had stopped weeks ago and he'd lost that whole cold-angry edge he'd learned to live with. It was back to the regular blazing-hot-coming-from-nowhere kind. Jeez, he'd missed that.
Kowalski nodded slowly and clinked his bottle against Ray's. "Kudos. You gotta write me a cheatsheet. I swear, I'm gonna be getting my fifty minute hour when I'm pulling my pension. Anyone that gets to switch up time is bad news, if you ask me."
"Let an hour be an hour, huh?" Ray leaned back on the couch and stretched out his legs. His ankle accidentally knocked against Kowalski's. Kowalski knocked back but didn't shift away. "See, the problem you got, Kowalski, is that you actually are crazy. You're gonna need research. Years of it. People will come and study you."
"Fuck you, Vecchio," Kowalski said and knocked Ray's ankle harder. It didn't hurt at all.
Let the Sunshine In
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Length: 4000 words
Author on LJ:
catwalksalone Author Website: http://www.thecatthatwalkedalone.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Why this must be read: So, I love Ray/Ray. (Which um, I'm sure everyone knows? :D?) And this fic makes me SO. HAPPY. I love it because, while I adore angst and fics that deal with all the weighted history between Ray and Ray, this is so hilariously funny and so them all while being decidedly not angsty and *insanely happy*. THEY TALK ON THE PHONE, OKAY. And it's a wonderful fic because it keeps them so marvelously in character and shows yet another reason why Ray/Ray is love, and why they work so great together. Cat is a great writer and she does amazing humor, and if you don't laugh out loud several times in this fic, then you maybe don't have a soul? I don't know, but I do know that this is one of those "I read this fic in a bad mood and I cheer up instantly and flap my hands crazily at my desk in glee" fics. (IRTFIABMAICUIAFMHCAMDIG fics, you've heard of that acronym, right?)
I love fics that get the Rays together with friendship just as much as I love them kissing after a fistfight, and this is one of my faaaaavorites in the friendship-first! category.
Also, the list Vecchio makes in a notebook is priceless.
"And then the shrink told me I should locate 'the inner me' and I did not punch him in the face."
"You're growing as a person, Kowalski."
"Yeah, pass me another beer."
Ray did as he was told. "I got signed off. Apparently I am done with my 'reintegration issues'-" Ray gave that phrase the air-quotes it deserved "-and am a fully functioning member of society once more." The shrink was probably right about that, the nightmares had stopped weeks ago and he'd lost that whole cold-angry edge he'd learned to live with. It was back to the regular blazing-hot-coming-from-nowhere kind. Jeez, he'd missed that.
Kowalski nodded slowly and clinked his bottle against Ray's. "Kudos. You gotta write me a cheatsheet. I swear, I'm gonna be getting my fifty minute hour when I'm pulling my pension. Anyone that gets to switch up time is bad news, if you ask me."
"Let an hour be an hour, huh?" Ray leaned back on the couch and stretched out his legs. His ankle accidentally knocked against Kowalski's. Kowalski knocked back but didn't shift away. "See, the problem you got, Kowalski, is that you actually are crazy. You're gonna need research. Years of it. People will come and study you."
"Fuck you, Vecchio," Kowalski said and knocked Ray's ankle harder. It didn't hurt at all.
Let the Sunshine In
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Do you know how many of your stories are on my "rec this for Crack Van" list? THE ANSWER IS A LOT.