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"Mosquito Field, AFQ" by raggedass_road (NC-17)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Length: ~11,000
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raggedass_road
Author Website: Original? writing journal at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
syntox. Unfortunately, neither journal appears to have updated in several years.)
Why this must be read: Angst is not my usual thing, so it's a little bit of a fluke that I read this story at all. I consumed it via podfic at first, courtesy of one of Luzula's entries into an amplificathon.
It chewed my heart up a few times and caused me to make little whimpering sounds, but my gosh, it was worth it.
"Mosquito Field, AFQ" is set post-COTW and focuses on Ray Kowalski, who has decided that "away from Fraser" is the most healthy place for him to be. He ends up at a little airfield in Alaska and learns to be a bush pilot. (The author is a small-aircraft pilot her/himself, so they know what they're talking about, but writes the flying and mechanics simply enough for a non-engineering-type person to keep on track with the action.) When Fraser shows up in Alaska, much to Ray's dismay, they have to deal with things unspoken and misinterpreted. It's gritty and rough and really well-written.
It's not an album Fraser's even supposed to be in. It's supposed to be Ray, just Ray, and Marty, maybe the guy who tends bar, and the grocer and his wife and the local State Trooper. The small-town set, twenty faces he knows. But not Fraser. The whole point of the album was not to have Fraser, but now everything's fucked and nothing's what it's supposed to be. His home base at AFQ, the place where he's safe, it's not so safe anymore. The sky where he can't be touched, it's not so high up there all of a sudden.
Mosquito Field, AFQ
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Length: ~11,000
Author on LJ:
raggedass_roadAuthor Website: Original? writing journal at
syntox. Unfortunately, neither journal appears to have updated in several years.)Why this must be read: Angst is not my usual thing, so it's a little bit of a fluke that I read this story at all. I consumed it via podfic at first, courtesy of one of Luzula's entries into an amplificathon.
It chewed my heart up a few times and caused me to make little whimpering sounds, but my gosh, it was worth it.
"Mosquito Field, AFQ" is set post-COTW and focuses on Ray Kowalski, who has decided that "away from Fraser" is the most healthy place for him to be. He ends up at a little airfield in Alaska and learns to be a bush pilot. (The author is a small-aircraft pilot her/himself, so they know what they're talking about, but writes the flying and mechanics simply enough for a non-engineering-type person to keep on track with the action.) When Fraser shows up in Alaska, much to Ray's dismay, they have to deal with things unspoken and misinterpreted. It's gritty and rough and really well-written.
It's not an album Fraser's even supposed to be in. It's supposed to be Ray, just Ray, and Marty, maybe the guy who tends bar, and the grocer and his wife and the local State Trooper. The small-town set, twenty faces he knows. But not Fraser. The whole point of the album was not to have Fraser, but now everything's fucked and nothing's what it's supposed to be. His home base at AFQ, the place where he's safe, it's not so safe anymore. The sky where he can't be touched, it's not so high up there all of a sudden.
Mosquito Field, AFQ