Due South: Five of Hearts (Bittersweet Remix)
Original Fic: Five Challenge, by luzula
Remix: Five of Hearts (Bittersweet Remix) [Benton Fraser, 200 Words, Rated G], by kernezelda
1. Surrounded by unfamiliar sounds in the darkness, several nights passed before Fraser could sleep among his fellow cadets. In their snowed-in shelter, bodies pressed close, it took less than an hour for Benton's breathing to fall into rhythm with Victoria's.
2. Benton had always been intelligent. Clever. He enjoyed the acquisition of knowledge, accepting accolades with grace and humility. But he could never remember the poem Victoria recited when he lay dying, until he whispered it to a black Chicago night.
3. Fraser learned camouflage long before formal schooling. Natural protection for predator or prey, but Benton chose to be neither. He slipped through life, heart hidden behind a blank face, a protector’s shield. Until a woman's fingers trembled at his lips.
4. "Home is where the heart is," was the saying. Fraser breathed deep under the green and pink ripples of the Northern Lights; tramped with Diefenbaker through winter-dark forests near his father's rebuilt cabin. He still found ashes the following spring.
5. Magnets held two basic properties, attraction and repulsion. Victoria: steel and silk and danger and heartsick love. Ray: quicksilver and kind and obnoxious and blue-eyed insanity. Benton had been pursued for half his soul. He sought with all his heart.
Remix: Five of Hearts (Bittersweet Remix) [Benton Fraser, 200 Words, Rated G], by kernezelda
1. Surrounded by unfamiliar sounds in the darkness, several nights passed before Fraser could sleep among his fellow cadets. In their snowed-in shelter, bodies pressed close, it took less than an hour for Benton's breathing to fall into rhythm with Victoria's.
2. Benton had always been intelligent. Clever. He enjoyed the acquisition of knowledge, accepting accolades with grace and humility. But he could never remember the poem Victoria recited when he lay dying, until he whispered it to a black Chicago night.
3. Fraser learned camouflage long before formal schooling. Natural protection for predator or prey, but Benton chose to be neither. He slipped through life, heart hidden behind a blank face, a protector’s shield. Until a woman's fingers trembled at his lips.
4. "Home is where the heart is," was the saying. Fraser breathed deep under the green and pink ripples of the Northern Lights; tramped with Diefenbaker through winter-dark forests near his father's rebuilt cabin. He still found ashes the following spring.
5. Magnets held two basic properties, attraction and repulsion. Victoria: steel and silk and danger and heartsick love. Ray: quicksilver and kind and obnoxious and blue-eyed insanity. Benton had been pursued for half his soul. He sought with all his heart.