challenge. ish. yeah.

[qe2]

Title: Slow Like Honey
Author: qe2
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: …omgsotired&starved. The usual, yes?
Words: …haven’t the faintest.
Character/pairings: RayK/Fraser
Notes: for stop_drop_porn’s Spring Fever Challenge. Mille, mille grazie to spuffyduds, who cheered, stomped, nagged, ♥ed, and otherwise supported me through the process of (1) writing and (2) posting the below. Any

Comments

[mlyn]

*Wipes drool off face* This is gorgeous, so clear and vibrant. Burnished cream against a red plaid blanket? YES.

And whoo hoo Ray & Fraser in Seattle! Fraser would love it here. Still close to the scary wilds. And Ray…plenty of nightclubs for Ray. :D

[qe2]

Heh. *hands you nice soft Mountie handkerchief stolen from spuffyduds What a satisfying reaction - I'm delighted you enjoyed it! Yours was one of the few comments I got before I crashed last night, and it sent me to sleep smiling.

On the Seattle thing: this story is actually part of a long arc - most of which is still in my head and will probably remain there - at one point on which Fraser and Ray relocate to the West Coast for family-related reasons and at a later point on which they build what starts out as a vacation cabin and winds up being their home on one of the islands in the Puget Sound. The stories I wrote for ds_match and due South Seekrit Santa 2007 both take place along that arc as well, the ds_match one during the time that they're building the cabin and the dSSS one much earlier, while they're still living in Chicago. I lived in Seattle for three years when I was really young, before my father figured out he'd rather teach law than practice the evil corporate version thereof, and it's haunted the fringes of my brain for a good portion of my

[mlyn]

I recall reading at least one of those, so now I'm going to have to go hunt them down. I love epics. *G*

and it's haunted the fringes of my brain for a good portion of my recent adulthood

It does that. The Evergreen State: You'll Never Get Out Alive DUNH DUNH DUNNNNNH.

[qe2]

I'll be interested to hear what you think of 'em. :-)

*backs slowly away from you and the scary Theme Song Of Movitude*

[slidellra]

Nrrrgh. That's gorgeous, Q. That's wonderful. ♥

Budding and blooming, huh? Will do my best, love.

[qe2]

Oh, darlin'. I am so glad you liked it. Like mlyn's, yours was one of the few comments I got before I crashed last night (and when I say crashed...well: let's just say it's a damn good think I wasn't driving), and it lightened my dreams.

I cannot wait to see what you do with the prompt. (And before you wibble: I trust you know I would actually read the phone book if you copied it out and posted it. Though I hope you won't, because I would a lot rather read your writing than a list of random Smiths in Youtown. But I would. If you posted it. Yes.)

[spuffyduds]

This was gorgeous throughout, funny fireworksy Ray voice and building heat. And then this sentence, "Fraser’s voice sounds dreamy, slowed and soft-edged, crisp military edges planed off by want and trust," just completely finished me OFF with the poetry and the HOT and the so-much-about-the-relationship all together, YUM.

[qe2]

You rock like the world's best rocking chair for being irreplaceable during, not only the "omgwtf I have to WRITE" phase, but the "holy hell how do I make this READABLE" part, not to mention the "AUGH AUGH POSTING NOW NO ONE WILL LIKE IT AND I WILL BE DEFRIENDED" bit.

Also, you give damn good comment.

*squidges you and does not let go*

[jamethiel_bane]

*jaw drops*

This is GORGEOUS. Your Ray voice is perfect, and he's so in love and, oh! This made my chest hurt in a good way!

[qe2]

*grins at you happily, binding your jaw back up all the while w/ most tender hands of gentleness*

Lovely compliment, very much appreciated. Thank you, darlin'.

[elementalv]

Best. Opening line. Ever.

Seriously, I'm in love with this fic, because slow and dreamy middle-aged sex between two guys who know each other that well is the best.

[qe2]

*grinsbig* Thank you! It's always so cool when someone reading something I've written picks out one of the bits I like most, and that line is one of my favorites. I tend actually to write fic from one line out - beginning, end, middle, whatever, but I need a line that works before I have even a prayer of getting anywhere with the story - and that was this story's line.

And God, I have such a kink for established-relationship fic, especially with these men.