You Get What You Need, by aerye (NC-17)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Fandom: due South
Pairing: Vecchio/Kowalski (with undertones of Fraser/Kowalski)
Author on LJ: _aerye_
Author Website: aerye
Why this must be read: Cutting hard against my immediately preceding rec, this story is very recent, and written by an author relatively new to dS; it's short and tightly focused; it posits a much bleaker aftermath for Fraser and RayK; it presents a pairing (Ray/Ray) which is still sort of marginal within the fandom. And it doesn't bring the happy ending. *g* Rather, it gives us a quick slantwise look into a possible future for these characters where there's no real possibility of a happy ending, if that's defined as getting what you want; as the title implies, if you can even get what you *need*, you're doing damn well. It's a razor-slice of a story, clean and merciless.

It's also part of a larger story still in progress; aerye recently posted another bit, Taken, and I am impatiently waiting for more. I am not, by the way, recommending these stories because I was lucky enough to beta them; I think dS is freakin' lucky that we have a writer of this calibre joining us. I will continue to rec the classics here, but I will also from time to time highlight things that I think are classics-in-the-making.

You Get What You Need

Comments

[akite.livejournal.com]

That story hits harder than a freight train. Yes, I love the classics, but wow, some of the newer stories are dynamite.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

It's fascinating, that a couple of days ago I told aerye that for ds_flashback I would have recced this story, except that it's too new, but that somewhere down the line I will point to it as one I've reread over and over and over. It is a classic, and a story that is brilliant and harsh, and, evidently, just what I need. I wish I could write like that.