Shadow of the Bookman Wordcount: 9959 and climbing
Author: ButterflyGhost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Noncon, underage
Characters: Ray Vecchio, canon characters, (Vecchio family, Harding Welsh, Bullring characters, Benton Fraser) original characters.
Summary: The FBI continue to apply pressure, and Ray is beginning to wonder if there might be something in the lies they tell:
"And perhaps… perhaps the FBI weren’t lying at all. Perhaps it was all true. Perhaps his father, Pop, Joseph ‘Giuseppe’ Vecchio, really was what they had said he was. A man with no honour, no heart, no faith at all.
If that was so, if it was all true . . . He couldn’t imagine what it must have cost Ma, how much pain she must have been in all these years. He’d do anything, anything to keep her from knowing the truth…"
Chapter Two