due South/Slings & Arrows (PG13)
Title: Dramatis Personae
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: 20k plus
Author on LJ: lucifuge_5
Author Website: at AO3
Why this must be read: because it's an awesome crossover casefic that takes advantage of the fact that Benton Fraser and Geoffrey Tennant were played by the same actor...plus, the due South/C6D Big Bang archive just opened up last night and this was the first story I read.
lucifuge_5 does an excellent job in giving voice to her characters. This story has the true feel of a due South episode - full of ghosts and magical realism and homoerotic subtext and deaf half-wolves. Plus all the drama of the actors at New Burbage putting on Twelfth Night.
This is what lucifuge_5 is best at - making wacky-seeming crossovers and AUs seem...not so wacky. Read this one and see what I mean.
Fraser was lying in bed next to Ray, underneath many a cozy layer of quilts, when something in the air tickled his nose until he became semi-conscious. The atmosphere in their bedroom was growing hazy with a scent similar to ozone. He opened a cautious eye and lifted his head to get a better look. The soft movement prompted Ray to mumble something that sounded vaguely Polish and cuddle even more against him. Dief was happily snoring by the bedroom's fireplace. Fraser chose to dismiss the strange feeling of someone watching him on being more asleep than awake. Maybe he should have not had that last moose fajita Ray had made for dinner.
He was about to place his head back on his pillow when a faint "Psst, Benton, over here!" startled him awake once and for all. Fraser twisted his head in the direction of the familiar voice. His father was standing by the doorway, dressed in the red serge and looking somewhat embarrassed to have broken in. Still, he had an air of resolve about him; perhaps, wanting to engage in a serious talk as he invited him to go into the cabin's living room by pointing an index finger toward it.
Dramatis Personae
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: 20k plus
Author on LJ: lucifuge_5
Author Website: at AO3
Why this must be read: because it's an awesome crossover casefic that takes advantage of the fact that Benton Fraser and Geoffrey Tennant were played by the same actor...plus, the due South/C6D Big Bang archive just opened up last night and this was the first story I read.
lucifuge_5 does an excellent job in giving voice to her characters. This story has the true feel of a due South episode - full of ghosts and magical realism and homoerotic subtext and deaf half-wolves. Plus all the drama of the actors at New Burbage putting on Twelfth Night.
This is what lucifuge_5 is best at - making wacky-seeming crossovers and AUs seem...not so wacky. Read this one and see what I mean.
Fraser was lying in bed next to Ray, underneath many a cozy layer of quilts, when something in the air tickled his nose until he became semi-conscious. The atmosphere in their bedroom was growing hazy with a scent similar to ozone. He opened a cautious eye and lifted his head to get a better look. The soft movement prompted Ray to mumble something that sounded vaguely Polish and cuddle even more against him. Dief was happily snoring by the bedroom's fireplace. Fraser chose to dismiss the strange feeling of someone watching him on being more asleep than awake. Maybe he should have not had that last moose fajita Ray had made for dinner.
He was about to place his head back on his pillow when a faint "Psst, Benton, over here!" startled him awake once and for all. Fraser twisted his head in the direction of the familiar voice. His father was standing by the doorway, dressed in the red serge and looking somewhat embarrassed to have broken in. Still, he had an air of resolve about him; perhaps, wanting to engage in a serious talk as he invited him to go into the cabin's living room by pointing an index finger toward it.
Dramatis Personae