dS fic: External Factors (The Fallen Bathrobe Remix)

[keerawa]

Title: External Factors (The Fallen Bathrobe Remix)
Challenge: remixredux09
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: due South
Warnings: Animal harm and unpleasantness
Thanks to: My betas, etcetera_cat and Steven, and also to kinetikatrue for her calm and generous response to the way I twisted her original story Bathrobe Wars.
Summary: Dief thought the new kitten smelled funny.

Comments

[brigantine]

THAT IS SO COOL!

I've never gone in much for the Elm Street/Halloween gory type horror stories. I love creepy-type horror stories best.

I started kind of wondering about the kitten when Ray was trying to explain about where he'd left the chocolate, and the kitten interrupted. No way would Fraser squish a kitty too hard. He knows better. So... I made the "Hm" noise. And then the kitten just seemed to be all over Fraser all the time, and it was... weird. So I started thinking maybe the cat was jealous of Dief to the point of wanting to actually hurt him, which was bad enough to make me go, "Hey! Evil!Kitty!" though I hadn't quite got to the extreme of breaking up the guys and maybe killing Ray. Yeesh.

SO. COOL.

I am epiloguing this in my brain, where Ray starts dragging Fraser's stuff back into the apartment, babbling about the cat, and the bathrobe, and being stupid and sorry, and Fraser isn't sure how to react at first, and there's some yelling, but then Dief chimes in on Ray's side, so... yeah, me and happy endings.

Weirdly, this creepy little story helped cheer up my sucky morning rather a lot. :)

[keerawa]

The fact my creepy story cheered you up amuses me greatly. Of course Dief will help bring them back to sanity. That's why Evil!Kitty had to get rid of him!

THanks brigantine1!