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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Maggie Mackenzie/Francesca Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Frannie Vecchio, Ray Kowalski/ Maggie McKenzie
Rating: Explicit
Length: 7587
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: luzula on AO3, and on the Audiofic Archive.
Themes: Siblings, Marriage, Family, Domestic, Kidfic, Polyamory, Bisexual characters, AU

Summary: Sedoretu AU. Glimpses from the marriage of Fraser, Ray K, Maggie, and Frannie.

Reccer's Notes: I love the 4-person marriage invented by Ursula Le Guin - the sedoretu - and

luzula makes it work perfectly here. In this 'verse there's the category of gender, plus another category called moiety - morning and evening people. In a sedoretu there are two same-sex and two opposite-sex couples, and two pairings (morning-morning and evening-evening) that are forbidden. Here, the forbidden pairings include the half-siblings, Fraser & Maggie. Luzula writes them all beautifully and lets us see how well this poly marriage works. We also get glimpses of how the sedoretu is the usual form of marriage in this AU, with their parents also in sedoretus. Domestic and lovely.

Fanwork Links: Puzzle Pieces, and luzula also recorded it as a podfic here.

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski & Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Buck Frobisher, Maggie McKenzie
Rating: Mature
Length: 26,124 for the main fic, 28,647 for the series
Content Notes: Creator chose not to warn. This has at least a hopeful ending, but the fic is about zombies and Ray kills and eats at least one victim, plus there are some slightly gross descriptions in places. Way less gore etc. than most zombie stories, though.
Creator Links: mizface on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Friends to lovers, Friendship, Complete AU, Zombies, (Not really) character death, Epistolary fic

Summary: Ray Kowalski thought he had an okay existence: he had a place to call home, didn't have to worry about a job, and nobody bothered him. If it wasn't for the fact that he was a zombie, things would have been pretty good.

Then he met very much alive Benton Fraser, and his whole world was turned upside down.

Reccer's Notes: And the trifecta of cracky fantasy creatures: zombies. This story's based on the movie Warm Bodies, which also takes the cracky zombie premise kind of seriously, in a romantic way. Zombies are usually shown as mindless ravening hordes, but in this story both Rays have been zombified but haven't completely lost themselves. Here, zombies are called "the infected", and both Rays begin to mysteriously improve across the story, regaining more speech and cognitive ability. Apart from the relationship with Fraser that develops - and we also access Fraser's POV from his journal entries - there's a nice friendship between the Rays. There's one major story, followed by a number of short fics adding to the 'verse. A rather lovely and poignant take on zombies, that more seriously explores a possible at least partial recovery from that state, and developing relationships.

Fanwork Links: Ch-ch-changes, and the series

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen & up
Length: 1782
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: dance_across on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Friendship, Humor, Pining, Post-canon

Summary: Ray and Fraser discover that someone's been writing stories about them. Slashy, slashy stories.

Reccer's Notes: This is set after canon, during Ray and Fraser's quest. They've become minor celebrities in the wake of the big submarine/terrorists drama and when they briefly hit an outpost of civilization (a motel with internet), Ray checks his email and finds Frannie's sent him a link to a fanfic someone's written, called "Snowfall in Summer". Hilarity then ensues as they decide to read it together, and it leads to Ray making a big decision. The cracky premise is the existence of fanfic about them, and as far as possible, dance_across shows us how that might actually pan out. In a romantic way, of course, with a hopeful ending! It's a lot of fun.

Fanwork Links: Twenty Cents a Page

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Harding Welsh
Rating: Teen
Length: 4590
Content Notes: The author chose not to warn. AU from the end of Victoria's Secret as Fraser wasn't shot and he left with Victoria on the train.

If you'd much rather know about major AO3 warnings and be spoiled for the reveal at the end, click the arrow at left. SPOILERS

Ray doesn't realise until near the fic's end that it's Fraser's ghost meeting with him, as Victoria killed him then ran for the US border. But with Fraser's and Welsh's help, they catch her.

Creator Links: MSSalieri on AO3, Salieri's old website
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Friendship, Cops and Crime, AU: Fork in the road

Summary: He’s in a booth around the corner, hands folded on the Formica table. It’s his jacket, the one he had on when he jumped onto the train, so Ray believes it’s him. But it’s not the guy Ray knew. His hair hangs to his collar. His eyes are dark with exhaustion, his face gaunt. He’s been gone nineteen months. It might as well be nineteen years.

Dief’s whine is thin, a little panicky. He’s shivering against Ray’s knee.

“Hello, Ray,” Fraser says.

Reccer's Notes: This is a tough story, but I keep going back to it from time to time because it's just so good. Set more than a year after Ray Vecchio stumbled and missed the shot so that Fraser left with Victoria on the train, Ray meets up once more with a very changed Fraser in a motel at the ass end of Canada, in a blizzard. It's sad, spooky, and wonderfully written. Powerful and haunting, and very much worth a read.

Fanwork Links: Dysmas on AO3, Dysmas on Wayback

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria
Rating: author's rating is ?NC-17 for angst and violent imagery. I'd rate it Mature.
Length: 9998
Content Notes: see rating note above. No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: exeterlinden on AO3, exeterlinden on DW
Themes: Mystery and Suspense, Mythical Creatures: werewolves, Angst with a happy ending, Friends to lovers, AU: fork in the road

Summary: It appears on the fire escape one late evening in early winter, big and dark and silent.

Reccer's Notes: This gripping and spooky story starts with a different version of Fraser's chase and snowy huddling with Victoria, then segues into current (AU) canon with Ray Kowalski baffled by the big, black, mysterious, wolflike dog that intermittently appears on his fire escape, trying to get in, sometimes with Dief trying to chivvy it away. Also, Fraser's been distancing himself, and when he finds out about the dog's visits he's most unhappy. Things get weirder, and Fraser gets weirder, and then Victoria returns to push them all into crisis. The ending took me by surprise, and I liked it a lot! An excellent read.

Fanwork Links: Ghost Song on AO3 and Ghost Song on Dreamwidth

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria Metcalfe, original characters
Rating: Explicit
Length: 19,093
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings
Creator Links: thehoyden on AO3, luzula on the Audiofic Archive
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friends to lovers, First time, Working together, Complete AU: academia

Summary: "What the hell is this, an Austen novel?"

Reccer's Notes: Complete AUs are unusual in due South, and this is that rarity, a dS AU set in academia. Fraser is a new professor, looked down on by his colleagues as he's from the University of Guelph, and only Ray Kowalski, a punky, nonconformist professor, befriends him. They both have offices on the unpopular top floor (Fraser as he's bottom of the pecking order, and Ray as he likes to get away from the rest of the department), which helps kickstart their friendship. The story is about the highs and lows of academic life and there are some great sections showing Ray's unconventional teaching style which the students love, and Fraser's more traditional, but solid, approach. There's academic politics and also drama with the return of Victoria, Fraser's ex and his academic rival. It's about character development, and about Fraser and Ray's friendship which blossoms gradually into much, much more. The fic's beautifully written, and an extremely good read - highly recommended.

Fanwork Links: Academic Punk on AO3, and the excellent podfic by luzula is here

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio, Harding Welsh, Renfield Turnbull, Sam Franklin
Rating: Mature
Length: 26,765
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: feroxargentea on AO3
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friendship, First time, Action/adventure, Complete AU, In Space

Summary: Androids are going missing on the giant spaceship Chicago! A Mountie and a space cop team up to investigate why, and to find their friend before it’s too late.

Reccer's Notes:
As I mentioned earlier, there are very few due South fics set in space - and this is an excellent one! The familiar due South characters and settings are translated into space, with their base being on the Spaceship Chicago, and Vecchio in trouble over at spacehub Vegas. There's action, adventure, banter, romance, plot and drama as Fraser and Ray work to solve the case and rescue Vecchio. A cracking read!

Fanwork Links: Build a Rocket, Boys!

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Frannie Vecchio, Margaret Thatcher, Armando Langoustini, Victoria Metcalf
Rating: Teen
Length: 60,820 (whole series) Real Boys is 22,820, Real Worlds is 38,000
Content Notes: Author "chose not to warn", but I don't think any AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: MSSalieri (aka Troyswann, Salieri): MSSalieri on AO3 and Salieri's old site on Wayback
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friends to lovers, Action/adventure, AU: Science Fiction, AU: robots & AI, Fandom Classics, Worldbuilding

Summaries: for Real Boys:
Ray looked out from between his fingers. The creature was there, on the other side of Mr. Thug, and it had lots of silvery fur and teeth that would be gleaming really nicely if the 'liner hadn't gone and taken most of the light with it. Between Mr. Thug and Ray, there was a pair of tall boots. Tilting his head back, Ray looked up, up past the red jacket all the way to the head, which was wearing a wide-brimmed hat. On the face under the hat there was a small smile.

"What the," Ray said. "Who the."

for Real Worlds:
"His existence is a violation of Armistice Statute—"
"God laws."
"Yes."
It took only one long stride for Ray to get into Thatcher's space and to her credit she didn’t back down. "You're gonna quote God laws at me?" He jabbed her with a stiff finger. "Who's playin God here, huh? You wave the fucking God laws at me while you got Fraser strapped to a table somewhere so you can put his fucking brains in a blender and take what he is? Look in a fucking mirror, lady."
"For some reason I can't fathom, Mr. Kowalski, I like you, so I'm going to give you a piece of advice." Her chin came up. "You might watch your words. Unless you want to join Fraser on charges of sedition."
"What?" Vecchio was incredulous. "You're yankin me, right? Fraser’s a kitchen appliance, but he's man enough to be brought up on charges? How the Jee does that compute?"

A sequel to Real Boys:
Three years raising sheep on Clementine, and it all comes crashing down in a skip storm, some consequential psychosis, a kidnapping and a global catastrophe. He may be the universe's punching bag, but Ray will fight for freak love. He's getting Fraser back, God Laws be damned.

Reccer's Notes: There are very few AUs that put the due South characters into spaaace! This is a fusion with the Bladerunner universe where Fraser's an android looking for the killers of his AI father and partners up with Ray Kowalski, a futuristic but very recognisable CPD cop. Salieri's a marvelous writer who takes aspects of the Bladerunner universe and expands on them with extraordinary worldbuilding to tell a complex and riveting tale. There's a gradually developing relationship between Ray and Fraser, nefarious villains, and anti-android laws that wrench the boys apart so that both Rays have to fight to get Fraser back. A triumph, and a due South classic. Here's a quote from a comment by Moth: "The other day I was talking to a friend about Philip K. Dick adaptations and I said that it was funny how one of the best adaptations out there was a due South fanfic. So I went and searched for it to see if it lived up to my memories and it actually exceeded them. This is the best type of AU, one that transplants the canon characters, storylines, and themes to a new universe, while also commenting on the both the canon as well as the nature of fiction." It's also a bloody good read!

Fanwork Links: Real Life series on AO3
Podfics of both stories: Real Boys read by Zabira & Real Worlds read by Luzula
Fanart for the series is here (scroll to the end)

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker
Rating: Teen
Length: 1929
Creator Links: seascribble on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, First time, Friends to lovers, Domestic

Summary: Ray is actually starting to like oatmeal.

Reccer's Notes: Set towards the end of the quest to find the Hand of Franklin and afterwards, once their relationships's established, this story weaves together scenes featuring Ray Kowalski, Fraser, Dief, and food of various types - some delicious, some less so, and all telling the tale of their relationship. Lovely.

Fanwork Links: A Balanced Diet (or, Four Vaguely Interrelated Vignettes about Ray, Fraser, and Food)

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio/Benton Fraser
Rating: Mature
Length: 1878
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: seascribble on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Polyamory, Domestic, Friends to Lovers

Summary: Benton has no reason to think anything in Chicago has changed during his absence.

Reccer's Notes: There's not a lot of food in this, but the Rays do make Benton dinner - even if it turns out that Ben's the main course. Some excellent Ray/Ray banter, a sensible discussion, UST finally requited, and a very hopeful ending. Fun, hot, and heartwarming - and the food sounded tasty, too!

Fanwork Links: Dinner and a Movie

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Francesca Vecchio, Ma Vecchio, Vecchio family
Rating: Gen
Length: three-panel comic
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: ArtConundrum (SpaceTimeConundrum) on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Family, Domestic

Summary: Dinner at the Vecchio house is always an adventure.

Reccer's Notes: An excellent set of panels with Dief and Ma Vecchio cooking, Fraser feeding the smallest Vecchio, and all of them at the dinner table. It's cheerfully domestic and perfectly captures the warm chaos of a Vecchio family dinner.

Fanwork Links: Sunday Dinner

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Diefenbaker
Rating: Gen
Length: n/a (artwork)
Content Notes: may induce donut cravings!
Creator Links: Wagnetic on AO3
Theme: Food and cooking, Happy endings, Crafts, Textiles

Summary: A bag featuring Dief and the imminent demise of some donuts.

Reccer's Notes:
I will never stop reccing this! An excellently crafted bag with a felt appliqué of Dief about to enjoy a stack of donuts. It's so good, and a perfect likeness of Dief with a "donuts incoming" gleam in his eye!

Fanwork Links: Hungry Like the Wolf

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Vecchio/Ray Kowalski, background pining for and by Fraser, and see the notes below
Rating: Explicit
Length: 1434, 1984, 10932, 3256
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: resonant on AO3, pares on AO3
Theme: Amnesty, Series, Enemies to lovers, Friends to lovers, Polyamory

Summaries: (just for the first two fics)
Two cast-offs in one armchair.

So here's me, Raymondo Vecchio, coming back to my life twice, and finding Kowalski there both times.

Reccer's Notes: This is a series that happened gradually over quite a few years. Back in the early 2000s Res wrote the first story Left from Ray K's POV, about him and Ray V getting together after Stella and Vecchio broke up. Pares then wrote the story Right based on that, from Ray Vecchio's POV. Then in early 2024 Res wrote Clockwise, a much longer sequel from Ray Vecchio's POV in which the Rays grapple with a number of issues, chiefly how to handle Fraser who Stella needs to return to Chicago for some time, to give evidence in a trial. It's an interesting, complex story in which they both figure out a few things, and Ray V comes to terms with issues about his father. Finally, later in 2024, Res followed it with Wrong, from Fraser's POV, when Fraser, after an unsettling phone call from the Rays, rushes down to Chicago. The fourth fic addresses the tensions of the prior stories and comes to a satisfying resolution. The resulting series is hot, angsty, and twisty, each of the characters having interesting blind spots. The Rays are very committed to each other for all their combativeness, and, in the end, they find a solution to the Fraser problem. Angst and hotness with an eventual happy ending, wonderfully written throughout, and very much recommended.

Fanwork Links: These aren't in AO3 as an actual series, but after the first one, they're all basically sequels, and best read in this order.
Left by resonant
Right by pares (kormantic)
Clockwise by resonant
Wrong by resonant

jasmasson

Fandom: due South
Pairings/Characters: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski , Diefenbaker
Rating: Explicit
Length: 20,414 words
Creator Links: Speranza at AO3
Theme: Magic, Animal transformation

Summary: Dief made a face, his nose crinkling in almost comic distaste. "Terrible. Human. Body," Dief insisted, signing the words decisively. "No coat, and two legs put you off-balance, never mind how you're forced to expose your—"

Fraser felt his eyebrows shoot into his hairline.

"—to everyone, which is really not smart, if you ask me," Dief concluded.

Reccer’s Notes: Dief is turned into a human by a witch on a case. He has to learn to use opposable thumbs, but arguably Fraser learns something more important…

Speranza’s works are classics in this fandom, and her grasp of the characters’ voices, innovative plots and excellent storytelling will show you why. This was recced on this comm already ten years ago for trope inversion - as unlike most animal transformation fics it’s an animal character to a human not the other way around - and it was more than ten years old then. A real classic, indeed, but absolutely worth a re-read…

Fanwork links: About a Dog

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Bob Fraser
Rating: G
Length: 00:03:53
Content Notes: none apply, other than the vid containing some fast cuts
Creator Links: LarixLaricina on AO3
Theme: Happy endings, Friendship, Action/adventure

Summary: But, ah, I wouldn't let this get to you. Something good might come from it.
It did for me.

Reccer's Notes: I am forever in awe of vidders - I have no idea how they do their magic. Amazingly, this is LarixLaricina's first vid, and it's a doozy - weaving together the modern, crisp, hi-def videos of the show with excellent editing and a great song, showing first Fraser going through various vicissitudes, often alone, then Ray K arriving and the two of them falling into partnership. The vid's ending is spectacular, absolutely a happy ending, as it was in the show.

Fanwork Links: vid post on AO3, vid on YouTube

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: M
Length: 2597
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: feroxargentea on AO3
Theme: Trope subversion/inversion, Established relationship, Soulmate-identifying marks

Summary: They’d been sleeping together for weeks before Ray found Fraser’s soulmark.

Reccer's Notes: A while back, I wrote a soulmark/soulbond fic for due South - I enjoy taking that trope and trying to write it so it's not non-con. But

feroxargentea went one better in a past Remix challenge, taking the trope in my fic and subverting it so that Ray and Fraser are together by choice, in defiance of their soulmarks (the name of the person you're soulbonded to appears somewhere on your body around puberty). It's an excellent fic and a clever reversal of the trope, and I highly recommend it. You need to be logged in to AO3 to read it.

Fanwork Links: Call me but love

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, George Fraser/Martha Fraser
Rating: Teen
Length: 2288
Content Notes: none apply (canonical and minor character death)
Creator Links: Arwyn on AO3
Theme: Trans & non-binary characters, Family

Summary:
“You’re not like other grandfathers, are you?”
"As you say."
In which families are hard, labels are inadequate, and Fraser shares many things in common with his grandfather.

Reccer's Notes: A short story about Fraser and his grandfather, both of whom Arwyn sees in a different light. George, his non-binary grandfather, and Benton himself, are gradually clarified, as Benton asks curious questions as a child, and later deals with his father who understands almost nothing and is, as usual, profoundly unhelpful. And then, finally, Ben explains it all to Ray. Understated, real, and lovely.

Fanwork Links: Water of the Womb

stranger

Fandom: due South
Pairings/Characters: Benton Fraser/Eric Kikitmeot, George and Martha Fraser
Rating: Teen and up
Length: 12,737 words
Creator Link: Luzula on AO3
Theme: Indigenous Characters, pre-canon, coming of age

Summary: "The year that Benton turned eighteen, the highway finally reached Inuvik, and he followed it due south."
That is, Benton decides to join the RCMP, and Eric, as well as Benton's grandparents, have a lot to say about it.

Reccer's Notes: Eric Kikitmeot in the due South episode "Mask" had impressive presence and an obvious prior friendship with Fraser. This piece gives a backstory for them as young adults from different origins, but from the same place. There are a couple of sequels by the same author, also on AO3.

Fanwork Link: Leaving Home

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Turtle & Diefenbaker
Rating: G
Length: 6325
Content Notes: none
Creator Links: Gloriana on AO3
Theme: Arts and crafts, Friends to lovers

Summary: Turtle longs to go North.

Reccer's Notes: This is a marvellous multimedia work that includes crafted images using collage and diorama, and it's about Turtle's deep desire to go north, linked to the "Call of the Wild". The actual story's a treat, as is all the work that went into the images. Through Turtle, stymied Arctic explorer, we see Ray and Fraser's developing relationship, until, eventually, they all get to be Arctic explorers. Truly amazing, and very readable.

Fanwork Links: Zugunruhe

mific

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Diefenbaker
Rating: G
Length: 1 craftwork
Content Notes: "Sugary baked goods are very bad for wolves, Diefenbaker."
Creator Links: Wagnetic on AO3
Theme: Arts and crafts, non-fic recs: crafts, non-fic recs: textiles

Summary: A bag featuring Dief and the imminent demise of some donuts

Reccer's Notes:
Wagnetic really did mail this wonderful bag to me and I treasure it. Dief and donuts! It's a thing of beauty.

Fanwork Links: Hungry Like the Wolf

mific

Fandom: due South, Zombies run! (an app/game to motivate joggers by having them chased by zombies - you don't need to know it to enjoy this)
Characters/Pairings: Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Renfield Turnbull/Francesca Vecchio, Diefenbaker, OFC
Rating: Unrated by the author. My take: T for sexual situations, E for explicit violence and zombie gore
Length: 38,463
Content Notes: It's the zombie apocalypse so there are lots of character deaths. The author tags for graphic violence and major character death but as far as I can see there's just secondary character death. Several POVs, each telling their part in the 1st person.
Creator Links: Butterflyghost on AO3
Theme: AU: zombies, Big bangs, Action adventure, friends to lovers, apocalypse

Summary: Ray Vecchio is having a very bad day. Then the world ends and his day gets worse; so does everybody else's.

Reccer's Notes: Written for a past due South C6D Big Bang. Okay, so not everyone likes zombie AUs, but I definitely do - I know this story as I did the complementary art for it, and it's a ripping good yarn. Great characterizations, lots of plot and action, a nice slow-burn romance between Fraser and Ray despite the dire straits they're all in and a wonderful OFC in Lola, a feisty trans woman they rescue who fights alongside them. Ray Vecchio starts off in Vegas and has to try to get back to Chicago despite hordes of zombies, and Frannie's pregnant. It's heart in your mouth action, with daring escapes and Dief being a hero (as ever), and a satisfying conclusion even if the apocalypse continues. An excellent read.

Fanwork Links: The Day the World Turned Grey - fic on AO3
Art for the story

starwatcher

Fandom: Due South
Pairings: Fraser/Kowalski
Characters: Fraser, Ray K, Ray V, Frannie V, Diefenbaker
Rating: Mature
Length: 1,500 words (guestimate; in comic form, no word count available)
Creator Links:

mific
Theme: Just plain fun, Friends to lovers, Crack, Casefic, Fork in the road, Fancomics

Summary: You probably think a private eye trying to make a buck in the windy city lives a pretty exciting life. You'd be wrong. I'm Ray Kowalski and me an' Vecchio've got this agency downtown - we're not in the big leagues, but we pay the rent. Mostly it's routine stuff with cheating husbands and missing girlfriends, or at least, it was. Then one day this Mountie and his deaf wolf turn up, and everything changes.
A detective noir historical AU comic set in 1949.

Reccer's Notes: Delightful story in comic-book form, with well-drawn art. A mix of 1940's detective stories crossed with a riff off the dS pilot. Great good fun all around.

Content Notes: None

Fanwork Links: The Good Son, by mific at AO3

mific

Fandom: due South/Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen - Benton Fraser & Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 15,346
Creator Links: Julia_here on LJ
Theme: Never met in canon, friendship

Summary: Due South/Stargate Atlantis Crossover; spoilers for the entire series of Due South and most especially for the series finale of Stargate Atlantis - although in fact this is mostly pre-series for both, and ends post series. I don't understand spoilers very well, and I hope, in any case, that the vaguest knowledge of either series is sufficient to understand and enjoy this story. PG, Childhood stories and adult friendship. Nothing you couldn't read to your grandmother, unless your grandmother is Martha Fraser.

Reccer's Notes: I love this story - it's poignant and incredibly well written. It tells the tales of Benton's and Rodney's not-especially-happy childhoods and how they met back then, followed by a meeting many years later in Chicago, and finally on Atlantis after she returns to Earth. The characterization is excellent and there's a satisfying ending. Benton's love of nature and his interest in birds run through it and I used bird calls as dividers between the sections of the story when I podficced it. They never met in canon, but julia_here makes us believe that they did, and that they were friends thereafter.

Fanwork Links:
Birds of a Feather (and back-up links on Wayback, just in case: part 1, part 2, part 3)
My podfic of the story is here.

ride_4ever

Fandom: due South and MCU crossover
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 6069 words
Creator Links: thefourthvine on AO3 and Norah on AO3
Theme: tentacles

Summary: Creators' summary simply says "Co-written tentacle due South/Marvelverse crossover crack! Um, \o/?"

Reccer's Notes: This is an AO3-locked fic wherein RayK gets tentacles and the tentacles get Fraser. Dubcon because of circumstances, but really both guys want it.

Fanwork Links: Fic on AO3: The Cetacean Situation

runpunkrun

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,504 words
Creator Link:

Speranza
Theme: Post-Canon, Outsider POV

Summary: "Aileen," Musky said finally, with the air of someone imparting great wisdom, "if you ever have a case gives you the stinkeye, one of the finest policemen in all the world lives not twenty miles past Miller's Hill."

Reccer's Notes: Fraser and Ray, happy in their retirement, come into town to solve a murder and have a beer. The OFC's outsider POV is a smart way to tell the story and offers delicious clues to Fraser and Ray's life together.

Fanwork Link: Locked Room Puzzle

mific

Fandom:Stargate Atlantis/due South
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Original Characters.
Rating: E
Length: 16,616
Creator Links:

esteefee , esteefee on AO3
Theme: crossovers/fusions, sentinel AUs, law enforcement AU

Summary: Senior Special Agent and unbonded Sentinel John Sheppard gets called up to chase a fugitive headed for the Canadian border. Unfortunately, this means working with Corporal Rodney McKay, RCMP—a Mountie, Guide, and royal pain in the ass.
Will these two pesky individuals be able to put aside their differences and catch the escaped convict? Or will they simply annoy the living heck out of each other and do the job anyway? SSA Teyla Emmagan and SA Ronon Dex look on in amusement while tracking the fugitive and flirting with various Canadian Mounties and Border Security Officers. Because there's not much else to do on this tiny patch of hell.

Reccer's Notes: I'm calling this an SGA and due South crossover although Fraser and Ray are just alluded to and don't actually appear. It's set in the due South 'verse though, so it's AU for the Atlantis crew, also because "sentinels are known". Sheppard (FBI) crosses into Canada on the trail of a criminal, where he meets Mountie Rodney McKay and shenanigans ensue. This is a fun read with action, adventure, romance, drama and sentinel senses - who could resist!

Fanwork Links: Mosquito, Gnat and Midge Season and a podfic by librarychick_94

mific

Fandom: due South/Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Benton Fraser, Rodney McKay, Rodney's parents, Martha Fraser, George Fraser, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Richard Woolsey
Rating: PG
Length: 15,344
Creator Links: Julia_here on LJ

julia_here
Theme: Crossovers

Summary: (adapted from the notes) A due South/Stargate Atlantis Crossover focusing on Benton Fraser and Rodney McKay - childhood stories and adult friendship. Nothing you couldn't read to your grandmother, unless your grandmother is Martha Fraser.

Reccer's Notes: This is a wonderful crossover between two of my favourite fandoms with totally believable backstories for Ben and Rodney, from their childhoods in Canada to when they meet again, many years later, in Chicago. The writing's top notch and the characterisations are perfect. I don't mind a bit of handwaving about canon timelines to bring a good crossover together, but when a writer manages to mesh the timelines so the story slots neatly into both canons without being at all AU, it's especially satisfying. Highly recommended.

Fanwork Links: Part 1 (of 3) on LJ - follow the links at the base of each section to the rest. I also recorded a podfic of the story, which is on AO3 and features avian sound effects.

kiki_eng

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 42,595 words
Creator Links:

cesperanza /

Speranza / website
Theme: heists & capers, pre-AO3 fic, old fandoms

Summary: "Of course he got the money--he's Fraser, he's organized, he's a fucking criminal mastermind, what do you think?!"

Reccer's Notes: I think my favourite thing about this is just how competent Fraser is when he turns to crime, how seamless and well-planned his heists, and how ridiculous the dance that he and Kowalski enter into is. This is such a satisfying and delightful story. (This fic was previously recommended in the amnesia and cops & crime rounds in 2010 and 2014, respectively, and also previously tagged for humor and comfortfic.)

Fanwork Links: @ AO3 / @ author's website

jerakeen

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Fraser/RayK
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,900 words
Creator Links:

aria //

ariastar
Theme: Huddling for Warmth

Summary: Ray dared to smush his experimental hair down in hats in Canada, dared to eat everything Fraser gave him including the freaky bark tea, dared ... dared to let Fraser turn his world inside out and meet his eyes afterward.

Reccer's Notes: Such a pretty, achingly romantic fic.

Fanwork Links: @ LJ // @ AO3

greywash

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 202,967 words
Creator Links:

dsudis
Theme: pre-AO3, sports AU

Summary: Eighteen sex scenes strung together with angst and hockey.

Reccer's Notes: This is such a classic of the (pick several) fandom, genre, form that I never totally know what to say when introducing it to new readers, so—I guess I'll start from the basics. This is a due South AU in which Fraser and Kowalski are professional hockey players, and fourteen years later, you can find its fingerprints all over both due South fanworks and hockey RPF. It's also extensively footnoted for the new-to-hockey: I recently had occasion to introduce my partner to it to help her cement a beginner's introduction to hockey as a sport. I am not joking about this even a little bit. It helps that it's worth a read even if you care about hockey not at all: "Hawks and Hands" is also just a very long, very meaty and satisfying read, and one of those stories that you'll find yourself coming back to over and over, for the trip it takes you on down-down-down into some very dark places, and then back up again.

Fanwork Links: "Hawks and Hands"

thady

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~ 2,800 words
Creator Links:

keerawa
Theme: pre-ao3 fic, established relationship, old fandoms

Summary: Inspired by:

stop_drop_porn's knife!kink Challenge. I don't do 24-hour deadlines, but it got me writing!

Reccer's Notes: Oh, this is hot and intense and so very much in character. These Fraser and Kowalski can be extrapolated directly from canon. I really love the insight into their characters.

Fanwork Links: Leaving a mark.

meretricula

Fandom: Due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 8k
Creator Links:

Speranza
Theme: Secret Identities, Fandom Classics

Summary: "I adjusted my itinerary with the hope of perhaps catching Ray Vecchio. Or the person we have come to call Ray Vecchio. Who is not that person," I said, pointing toward the door. "That person," I added acidly, "calls me 'sweetie.'"

Reccer's Notes: A true classic of Due South fandom, this fic takes the premise of the opening episode of Season Three (Fraser returns to Chicago to discover that his partner has been replaced by a stranger whom everyone else insists is his partner while his partner has gone undercover with the mob) and runs in a very different direction. I loved the eventual consummation of Fraser and RayK's star-crossed love, of course, but the true heart of the fic lies in the community network that Fraser has built up over the years in Chicago: all the people he's helped, who are in turn eager to help him when he needs them. It's a really lovely story.

Fanwork Links: The Killer Replacements

meretricula

Fandom: Due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 19k
Creator Links:

thehoyden
Theme: Amnesty, AU: Complete AU: Academia, Slow Burn

Summary: "What the hell is this, an Austen novel?"

Reccer's Notes: An oldie but a goodie! I can't believe this hasn't been recced for Academia AUs before -- it's so on-the-nose with all the semi-incestuous politicking that goes on beneath the surface of your average English department. The slow reveal of what Fraser is running from is really well done, and the eventual resolution of the incredibly slow burn romance he has with RayK is just *kisses fingers* perfect.

Fanwork Links: Academic Punk

imogeneherdman

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1k
Creator Links:

beledibabe
Theme: Unconventional Format, Established Relationship, Humor

Summary: Friday, 6:47 pm

1 gal. milk
1 doz. large eggs
1 loaf whole wheat bread
1 box dog treats

Friday, 7:03 pm

1 gal. milk
1 doz. large eggs
1 loaf whole wheat bread
1 box dog WOLF treats
COFFEE
OREOS
BANANAS

Reccer's Notes: 1. I think you could pitch the entire show to someone with this fic, and 2. I could happily read like two weeks' worth of their shopping lists.

Fanwork Links: Friday, 6:47 pm (Document Challenge)

jerakeen

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Rating: Explicit
Length: 39,360 words
Creator Links:

speranza // website
Theme: (Not Really) Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Outsider POV, Casefic

Summary: "Benton Fraser says no body, no death, and nothing we say seems to convince him otherwise. He's just not sane on the subject, Ray, and so we were hoping that maybe you could talk some sense into him."

Reccer's Notes: Vecchio is pulled from his undercover gig because Kowalski's lost, presumed dead, and Fraser's gone nuts looking for him.

Fanwork Links: @ AO3 // @ Author'sWebsite

beatrice_otter

Fandom: Sentinel, Atlantis, Monk, Highlander, due South, others
Characters/Pairings: Blair Sandburg, Jim Ellison, a whole grab-bag of others from other series depending on which story in the series you are reading.
Rating: PG-13
Length: around 300k for the whole series
Creator Links: dasha_mte, dashamte, Cascade Library, a bunch of other places.
Theme: Sentinel AU, novel-length, crossover, casefic, fandom classic, old fandoms, plotty fic, worldbuilding

Summary: If Blair's washing out of the guide program, who's taking care of Jim?

Reccer's Notes: If you're wondering "how come she's reccing a Sentinel fic for a Sentinel AU category?" it's because this is one of the biggest and best known mega-crossovers in which one (or more) character from a particuar show is a Sentinel who just happens to cross paths with Jim and Blair. It's popular for a reason; the stories in this series are generally well-written, great worldbuilding on what "a world where Sentinels and Guides are known." And I think it is a more real look at what the world might be like than a lot of Sentinel AUs are. It's neither a dystopia nor a paradise, with lots of thought put into things like "what might the Occupational Safety and Health Administration regs be like for sentinels? What are the legal limits on the police use of Sentinel surveillance?" And so on and so forth. It's also a thoughtful look at the aftermath of abuse and recovery from abuse. In addition, there are a series of great cases that build into one overarching case that ties everything together. And there were so many different fandoms, there was something for everyone. I've only listed the major crossovers.

Fanwork Links: Ahahahaha. Unfortunately, this series got posted in dribs and drabs on a variety of archives. If you, like me, prefer reading on AO3 where you can download fics to archive them easily, the first nine main-line (focusing on Jim and Blair) stories are here at AO3
The first nine stories plus (I THINK) all of the ones focusing on the crossover characters are here
The tenth mainline story, which really is a stand-alone which crosses over with Murder, She Wrote, is here.
I think that's everything?

jerakeen

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Fraser/RayK
Rating: Explicit
Length: 11,130 words
Creator Links:

waldorph
Theme: Kidfic, Future Fic, Established Relationship (Amnesty!)

Summary: “She stole your jizz,” Ray said dully, sitting on the couch. Fraser was pressing a cup of tea into Ray’s hands, and Ray took it because it was easier than explaining that actually tea didn’t solve the world’s ills.

Reccer's Notes: New due South fic gives me life! Unexpected baby acquisition story, where Victoria Metcalf is even crazier than we knew.

Fanwork Links: @ AO3

magician113

Fandom: The Sentinel & due South
Characters/Pairings: TS: Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison, Simon Banks. dS: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 28K
Creator Links: Josephine’s Fiction Page and at 852 prospect
Themes: old fandoms, crossover, case fic, established couple, pining, first time

Summary: While Jim and Blair are helping another department with an investigation in the woods outside Cascade, they meet up with Benton and Ray, who are also on official business. Benton is scheduled to meet a fellow Mountie and, precisely on time, Leftenant Fontaine shows up--by falling out of a plane without a parachute.

While they transport the body to the nearest Ranger station, they theorize who might have wanted him dead and why he had sacred artifacts in his possession. Jim and Blair also suspect that Benton, whose sense of taste, hearing and sight are quite acute, might be another Sentinel.

Reccer's Notes: It often seems that just about every fandom has co-opted the Sentinel/Guide trope without any canon basis. Due South already had Benton displaying several heightened senses in the show, so it makes it funny (and more logical) to speculate that he might indeed be a sentinel.

This was originally written as part of the Sentinel Slash Virtual Season, although it can be read as a standalone story. Time frame is post-series for TS and sometime after Vecchio has left with Stella and Ray K doesn't have to pretend to be Ray V for dS. Enjoy.

Fanwork Links: The Mountie Who Fell to Earth

thady

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: ~ 9,150 words
Creator Links:

katallison
Theme: old fandoms, first time, friends to lovers

Summary: Ray goes to the gym and tries to work some stuff out.

Reccer's Notes: This is the very first due South fanfiction I've ever read. I read it before I ever watched one episode and I didn't even know what Fraser or Ray looked like. I was captivated. I re-read and re-read the story. I loved it. And finally it made me look up who those characters were and watch the series. And read more fanfiction. "Heavy Bag" was my introduction to a fandom I probably would've never joined otherwise.

I love the imagery, the emotion portrayed, and the angst which never gets too heavy, or too artificial. And of course the hot, hot sex. And the ending, which is so hopeful after the angst.

Re-reading it after I watched the show I can see how close to canon the characters are. And how strong the story still is.

Fanwork Links: Heavy Bag.

jerakeen

Fandom: due South
Pairings: Fraser/Kowalski, Bob Fraser
Rating: Explicit
Length: 45,000 words
Creator Links:

china_shop //

china_shop
Theme: Bodyswap, Ghosts, Minor Characters, Family, Trope Subversion/Inversion

Summary: Aside from the lack of communication, now that I've had a chance to experience death I find it not so very different from living in Canada.

Reccer's Notes: One of my favorite dS fics. Benton bodyswaps with his dad - who's dead.

Fanwork Links: @ AuthorArchive // @ AO3

jerakeen

Fandom: due South
Pairings: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 42,500 words
Creator Links:

speranza
Theme: Cops & Crime, Humor, Comfortfic (previously recommended for amnesia)

Summary: "Of course he got the money--he's Fraser, he's organized, he's a fucking criminal mastermind, what do you think?!"

Reccer's Notes: All time favorite! Fraser goes undercover, loses his memory, goes on a crime spree. His plans are, as expected, diabolical and nutritious. (You seriously have to read this.)

Fanwork Links: @ AuthorArchive // @ AO3

hagar_972

Fandom: Too many to mention
Characters/Pairings: Too many to mention
Rating: Unrated by creator; I'd put it at PG
Length: 00:45
Creator Links:

wyomingnot
Theme: humor

Summary: Seriously - blink and you'll miss it.

Reccer's Notes: Put away all beverages, foods and smokes. Chances are you won't make it longer than the first "duck" before laughing.

Fanwork Links: The Llama Slash Song

magician113

Fandom: The Sentinel and due South
Characters/Pairings: Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio
Rating: PG
Length: 8K words
Author Links: at the 852 archive

Theme: crossover, established couple, casefic

Summary: Jim and Blair are in Chicago so Blair can confer with a noted anthropologist, Dr. Barstowe. Jim wanders around the museum while waiting for Blair to finish, only to overhear an altercation involving Blair. As he and Benton Fraser, who is also at the museum, rush over to investigate, they learn that Dr. Barstowe's former student has stolen valuable artifacts that he plans to use in a ritual during the upcoming eclipse. Blair insists they investigate, so they stop by the Chicago PD to pick up Ray, who is the only person with the authority to do so.

Reccer's Notes: I like this because it captures the quirkiness and patter of dS (including a stop at Ray's mom's house) as well as the banter between Jim and Blair. It was posted in 1997 while TS was still airing; Blair is younger here and the dissertation hasn't become a sore point yet. This has the distinction of being the first crossover posted at the old 852 archive.

Story Link: Dark Time
Note: At her now-defunct fic site, this was titled "In a Dark Time"

starlady

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: Teen
Length: 4500 words
Creator Links:

speranza
Theme: Outsider POV

Summary: "Aileen," Musky said finally, with the air of someone imparting great wisdom, "if you ever have a case gives you the stinkeye, one of the finest policemen in all the world lives not twenty miles past Miller's Hill."

Reccer's Notes: This is a lovely post-CotW fic in which part of the fun is figuring out the details of the ways Ray & Fraser's relationship has evolved through the eyes of the Mountie who calls them in to assist her on an apparent murder case. It's a wonderful glimpse.

Fanwork Links: Locked Room Puzzle

starlady

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: General
Length: 1400 words
Creator Links:

helens78
Theme: Outsider POV

Summary: Diefenbaker knows something's going on when he notices the metal bands on Fraser and Ray's fingers. But then, he's been here the whole time, keeping an eye on Ray.

Reccer's Notes: This is a great canine perspective on Ray and Fraser's relationship--helens totally nails Dief's perspective, in my opinion. Do read the fic it's remixed from by

wintercreek to get the whole story, as it were!

Fanwork Links: The Voice Under All Silences (With All Good Intent remix)

jerakeen

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Diefenbaker, Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Length: 20,400 words
Creator Links:

speranza //

cesperanza
Theme: Trope Subversion & Inversion

Summary: Dief made a face, his nose crinkling in almost comic distaste. "Terrible. Human. Body," Dief insisted, signing the words decisively. "No coat, and two legs put you off-balance, never mind how you're forced to expose your—"

Fraser felt his eyebrows shoot into his hairline.

"—to everyone, which is really not smart, if you ask me," Dief concluded.

Reccer's Notes: Animal transformation is usually about people turning into animals. This goes the other way around.

Fanwork Links: @ AO3 // @ AuthorArchive

ride_4ever

Fandom:due South
Characters/Pairings:Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski/Frannie Vecchio
Rating:Explicit
Length:50,265 words
Author Link:http://j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com/
Theme:M/M/F Threesome
Warnings:Non-con, rape

Summary:Fuck-or-die trope wherein a pornographer kidnaps Fraser, lures RayK and Frannie to attempt a rescue, and then forces all three upon threat of death to star together in a porno film. The three escape after the movie has been made and "consequences ensue".

Reccer's Notes:The most remarkable thing about this brilliant and engaging fic is the variety of tones it manages to hit. The first few paragraphs look like it might be crack!fic (the title, "Makeup," initially refers to the potentially crackesque scenario of Frannie being forced to use her makeup on Ray and then Ray being forced to put on Frannie's undergarments). From there it goes to blazing hotness with the threesome sex...and that scene is both fraught with angst and tinged with love. Ultimately it leads to a story of love and relationship negotiation and redemption.

Story Links: http://archiveofourown.org/works/57305

magician113

Fanwork Type(s): fiction, podfic
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, due South, Lewis, The Sentinel, Merlin, A-Team, Hawaii Five-0, many others.
Characters/Pairings:
Creator Links: at AO3
Theme: creator rec

Reccer's Notes: When I think of Lamardeuse, I think of long, luxurious stories. But she writes short, luxurious stories as well. Everything I’ve read of hers is a good read.

Favorite Fanworks: Equilibrium (The Sentinel) This is a long (83K words), plotty story that starts with Blair having trouble at the Academy and Jim starting to question his sexual identity with the help of a shrink. Then, Jim is assigned to a case that might be a hate crime just as homophobia rears its ugly head at the PD and directed at the guys. This has plenty of everything: angst, romance, hurt/comfort and getting at those unresolved issues that stand in the way of a happy ending.

Catch (The Sentinel) Post-series Jim and Blair take a fishing vacation to Nova Scotia.

Podfic of “Slow Dance” (The Sentinel) Lamardeuse reads her own story here and it’s short and loving. Blair’s yearning for a little romance. The story can be found at AO3.

beatrice_otter

Fanwork Type(s): fic
Fandoms: SGA, Harry Potter, Pacific Rim, SG-1, Supernatural, Due South, others
Characters/Pairings: various
Creator Links:

busaikko
Theme:

Reccer's Notes:

busaikko writes lots of fics in a wide variety of fandoms. She's especially good at AUs--I love her twists on canon.

Favorite Fanworks:

Ten Aprils. Severus must find a way for Harry to defeat Voldemort. Remus must find a way for Severus to free himself from the past. The Dark Lord is about to attack Hogwarts, and Harry needs to get over his rage, hate and despair in order to learn to summon the phoenix needed to defeat Voldemort. Snape must find the answers, then teach Harry how. In the next thirty minutes. Like it would ever happen.

A Hundred Happy Things. Harlequin AU (no Stargate). Kaleb's long gone, Jeannie's got a career, Madison has problems, Rodney's got Inner Power!, and Sheppard. . . is pretty much the same.

The Number of a Man. Rodney McKay will leave no man behind—especially when there's a simple solution involving nanites, alien technology, and Legos. One of the more heart-breaking kidfics I've read, (but with a happy ending). Also, great use of Ancient technology.

The Boy who Fell. Boxing teaches Dudley discipline and how to work hard for what he wants. Or who he wants. A great Dudley Redeemed story.

Here, where the world is quiet. After the war, Severus became head of the Scrimgeour Lycanthrope Academy. His mandate was simple: Provide them with Wolfsbane and daily occupation. Teach them as you see fit. Report any violent outbursts. Keep them away from regular people.

magician113

Fanwork Type(s): fiction, fan art
Fandoms: The Sentinel, due South, others
Characters/Pairings: Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio
Creator Links: Fic by Elaine and at Artifact Storage Room 3 and at AO3
Theme: creator rec

Reccer's Notes: Elaine has been a strong presence in The Sentinel fandom for years. She set up the Artifact Storage Room 3 archive five years ago when 852 Prospect started waning. It has more than fifty authors who’ve published over 1200 stories and is still welcome to all TS fans and writers. Elaine writes intelligent prose that run the gamut: AUs (futuristic, historical, fantasy, different meeting), PWPs, humor, crack, and also darker and weirder stuff. She’s so good, however, that she makes it all believable.

Favorite Fanworks: Covert Response Unit (The Sentinel) Blair is abducted by a shadowy government agency. Sound familiar? Except that in this complete AU, the agency has the best of intentions when they bring Blair to his holy grail, who heads the covert group. You gotta love a story that has the tag “Jim is kind of a bastard”. He is… and he isn’t.

Eye of the Serpent(The Sentinel & Stargate SG-1) Jim and Blair are on holiday in Chicago. While visiting Field Museum they run into Jack O’Neill and Daniel Jackson. Jim and Jack know each other from their military days and are happy to be reunited. But not as happy as Daniel and Blair, who are old lovers, which becomes obvious early on. But Jack and Daniel aren’t tourists; they’ve come to Chicago because there might be a Ga’ould artifact at the museum. And that lands both Blair and Jim right in the middle of a mess.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Burns(The Sentinel) Blair in a kilt; what more can I say?

Oh, and the icon I'm using? It's Elaine's. :)