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Fandom: due South

Pairing: Gen

Length: Short

Author Links: Author's Site / [archiveofourown.org profile] busaikko

Theme: Hurt/Comfort

Summary: Fraser hears voices, and Ray lives one ordinary day at a time.

Reccer's Notes: Four years after a hostage situation gone many kinds of wrong, Fraser and RayK live together in Chicago.

What sounds like a regular set-up for slash becomes something else as we soon learn that Fraser's gone, well, wrong too. This is a story that has a hard and irredeemably realistic approach to the idea of Fraser and RayK as a "duet".

The Fraser in this fic is broken-yet-functional. [livejournal.com profile] busaikko's talent is obvious in how Fraser's well-loved quirks (he talks to ghosts! he's prudish! he's wicked smart!) have most (if not all) of the whimsy taken out of them.

It is RayK, however, who carries this story. He's the heart, his every thought directed at Fraser as they go on in their daily life.

The comfort he finds at the end of the story might leave you teary-eyed, but that doesn't mean this isn't a worthy read.

Story Links: Ordinary Days (Author's site) or here at AO3

Date: 2011-08-24 02:14 am (UTC)
hazelwho: (ds rayk sad face ckr)
From: [personal profile] hazelwho
Oh, Luce, great pick! I only read that fic once, about a year ago but it broke me (in the best possible way) and I knew just which story you meant 3 seconds into your review. I didn't know why it effected me so much, but after reading this, I think you absolutely hit it on the head when you talked about Fraser's endearing quirks minus the whimsy. I'm tearing up again just thinking about it.

Date: 2011-08-24 06:26 am (UTC)
thady: (GK  -  Brad-Nate)
From: [personal profile] thady
It left me teary the first time, but the second time, after grandma had the stroke, it completely broke me. I was such a mess afterwards. Still, I don't regret reading this story.

It's a great rec.

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