due South/Durham County (MA)

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Title: What Else Would You Have Me Be? by sionnain
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Mike Sweeney (background Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio, past Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski unrequited)
Length: 10, 700 words
Author on LJ: sionnain
Author Website: sionnain_fics is her Fic Journal.
Why this must be read:

Not only is this a wonderfully clever crossover AU (especially viewed through the prism of the Canadian Six Degrees fandom), but it's also a SCORCHING kink!fic. As the story opens, RayK (in all his twitchy, highly-caffeinated glory) and Mike Sweeney (the scariest cop in the universe) are biding their time at the airport once their flight to Toronto gets delayed again and again. What might seem casual to the passerby soon grows very interesting. For RayK and Mike are a kinky couple and the reader will soon learn the backstory on how they got together, where is Fraser and how come Mike Sweeney is living in Chicago amongst other things.

For those who might not know, sionnain is a Grade-A writer. Everyone's voice is perfect and the story has a great mix of angst (including the heavy baggage from Durham County as well as RayK's own set of insecurities), the funny (RayK/Mike banter is made of WIN) and the HOTNESS (all the sexy times between RayK and Mike.)

This story (as well as the entire 'verse it spawned)? It's fantastic kink because she makes the kink aspects fit the pairing and not the other way around like it happens in terrible kink!fics. A big reason why the kink plain ol' works is because the things they do (or, more appropriately stated what Mike does to RayK) are quite organic to the two of them. In truth, I'm left breathless and dreamy/glossy-eyed every single time I read this story. Funny, seductive, tender (in its own special way) and quite original, this fic is a wonderful ride.

If you find this pairing as tasty as I do, you must go to used_to_love_me which is the comm for this 'verse.



And then, they'd been working late and frustrated at their lack of progress, they'd ended up bitching at each other and Ray had thrown a punch. Mike had backed him up against a wall and Ray had felt that slow burn of anger flare up into something hot and bright, something he hadn't felt since he got that call from Fraser about him and Vecchio getting married up there in Canada. And Ray had hated how he'd felt then and he hated Mike fucking Sweeney making him feel that way again, and the next thing he'd known, Mike's mouth was on his and he was hurting Ray and Ray was hard and aching and wanting it so fucking bad he couldn't breathe.

Never mind Ray had always thought he was straight, or that Mike always pissed him off. Mike wanted to hurt someone and Ray wanted someone to hurt him, and that seemed to be just enough to get them into bed.

They fucked before they ever really even liked each other; late nights in Mike's hotel room, case files and beer cans littering the small table, sheets a tangled, sweaty mess on the bed. Ray had a lot of fond memories of that hotel; long, hot showers that hurt his bruised skin, driving too fast with the windows down as he headed home on empty streets, the sun breaking pale over the dim gray Chicago dawn.

What Else Would You Have Me Be? (Link goes to sionnain_fics.)

Comments

[inathunderstorm.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you <333 *beams* What a lovely rec!! *is all blushy*

[lucifuge-5.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm tickled that you're blushing.

It's a kickass fic (and 'verse AND pairing), Sionn! :D!