First line festival challenge by nos4a2no9

[nos4a2no9]

Title: Now Lie in It
Author: nos4a2no9
Pairing: Ray/Ray (with mentions of F/V, F/K and F/V/K)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 4200 on the button
Notes: Many thanks to the wonderful jamethiel_bane for a swift and thorough beta. She saved me from POV slip-ups and talked me out of putting everything in italics. And to china_shop, who many moons ago supplied me with a prompt for a F/K/V

Comments

[nos4a2no9]

...okay, i'm just going to shove aside the whole speech about how I don't read Ray/Ray...

*g* You're not alone in that one, and I'm glad you decided to give the pairing a try even if I'm not exactly showing them at their best.

Somehow you sold me on every bit of Ray in this, I think if it were just the idea of Fraser sleeping with Vecchio while still in a relationship with Ray, then I would've walked away and never looked back.

I don't blame you - it was tough to place Fraser in that position, but exploring Ray's reactions to his infidelity was too good to resist.

I honestly don't get Vecchio's agenda in this though, it almost comes across as though he's playing Ray vs. Fraser. Which is depressing because the way it's going, Vecchio is going to win hands down. And I like Vecchio, but my sympathy goes 100% to Ray here, I've been in that place where you're hurt so bad by the person you love, you just lash out and make a mistake.

Oh, Vecchio. He's on a self-destruct course here and he's creating fractures in Kowalski's previously rock-solid relationship with Fraser. I think Vecchio gets a sad sort of satisfaction in seeing that all the worst parts of himself have come out to play at this post-Stella, post-Bookman phase in his life. As though he always expected to turn into someone who hurts everyone around him.

Yeah. It's not a really happy story. Sorry about that.