New due South story: Privacy
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Privacy (4540 words) by Resonant
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Romance, First Time, Post-Canon, Back to Chicago, fun with refractory periods
Summary:
Yeah, I can't believe it, either -- I haven't written an all-new story since 2014, and I'm incredibly relieved that I can still do it.
Thanks to
fox for beta, and also for a couple of years of shared squee and general enabling.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Romance, First Time, Post-Canon, Back to Chicago, fun with refractory periods
Summary:
“Guess it’s a while since you had a door with a lock on it?”
“I’ve never had a door with a lock on it."
Yeah, I can't believe it, either -- I haven't written an all-new story since 2014, and I'm incredibly relieved that I can still do it.
Thanks to
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Date: 2/16/23 04:38 pm (UTC)Maybe Simon & Garfunkel will get back together too.
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Date: 2/19/23 12:05 am (UTC)Loved, loved, loved the groupings of three in this litany:
>He had not killed Fraser. Fraser had not killed him, and nothing else had killed him, either. His intense stupid longing for Fraser hadn’t gone away, and it hadn’t ruined everything, and it hadn’t made anything real happen. When it was time to sled on back to civilization, they hadn’t fallen into each other’s arms and they hadn’t parted forever.
They hadn’t found any reaching-out hand, but other than that, he’d guessed wrong about everything.<
>OK, Ray sort of got it. Fraser would never say anything so impolite, but Thatcher’s replacement was way too eager to be his best friend, and Turnbull’s replacement was on a whole new axis of unhinged. It maybe wasn’t a surprise that he didn’t want to be that easy to reach. When he wanted to call Ray, he used the pay phone outside the corner pawnshop.<
Ha, also, so very Fraser to just...whatever the opposite of malicious compliance is. Polite noncompliance, I guess.
>Dief behind him looking like he found the whole thing hilarious.<
Because he did, of course.
>They were passing his third-favorite diner, so he made with the courteous door-opening thing and pulled them both in for food and breath-catching and giving Fraser a menu to hide his face in so he could stop blushing before he passed out.<
Oooooh, this is so sweet!
>“My first Chicago apartment seemed the height of luxury in that it had a door, but as the lock tended to get stolen, the door was more in the nature of a polite request.”<
So very Fraser.
>He slammed out the front door, and in five minutes he was down at the corner pawn buying Fraser a mini television.<
Chekhov's pawnshop, good for a pay phone *and* a white-noise generating television.
>It was a terrible kiss, bad angle and too much pressure and the stupid fucking channel knob pressed into his chest. And then they both tried to pull it back at the same time like a tug of war, and Fraser said, “What was that?” and then he frowned down like he was just now noticing it and said, “What is this?”<
This is just perfect and visual and funny.
>“No, Ray, you don’t understand.” Fraser corrected him right down onto the bed<
Best verb use.
>Fraser made a frustrated half-growl. “I yearned for this all this time and now that I have it I’m in no condition to take it.” He stood up, throwing off clothes, tight-jawed like some kind of strange pissed-off stripper. “My self-indulgence has made me useless.”
“I don’t need you useful,” Ray said, appalled.<
And this is just so...so sweet and hilarious, and they both want this so much, and Ray just wants Fraser to be happy and to have good things, and he is one of those good things, and this is all just very delightful.
Yay!
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Date: 2/20/23 06:32 pm (UTC)Ha, also, so very Fraser to just...whatever the opposite of malicious compliance is. Polite noncompliance, I guess.
Yeah, just because he's courteous doesn't necessarily mean he's helpful.
You've still got it!
Date: 2/20/23 06:25 pm (UTC)...and we're so lucky.
Brutally accurate, that Fraser.
Ray's tiptoeing on the sisal rope between their hearts
And then this magnificent delicious collision!
Your insight into their needs is 100% accurate!
Re: You've still got it!
Date: 2/25/23 05:48 pm (UTC)Aw, yes, exactly. And BTW he doesn't quite know where his apt is from Fraser's bedroom window, but he totally k own where Fraser's apt is from his own bedroom window!