#27 - And Grace, Too (Maggie/RayK + F/K subtext, PG) for isiscolo
Title: And Grace, Too
Pairing: Maggie/RayK (with a large side of F/K subtext)
Rating: PG
Length: ~750 words
Acknowledgments: The title is ripped off from a song by the Tragically Hip. It made sense to me at the time. Obliquely, anyway. Many thanks to agentotter for reassuring me that it didn't suck, and to nos4a2no9 who proofed it for unCanadianisms.
~ * ~
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/8m/2d PM
I have a daughter.
This is the first time I've ever been grateful that Benton ignored me when I encouraged him to pursue a girl. That could've been unfortunate. This time.
Lord have mercy, I have a daughter.
I'm too old for this.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/8m/4d PM
Maggie left for home this morning. For a moment there, it looked like she might be of a mind to start something with the Yank.
At least one of my offspring might give me grandchildren some day.
The Yank's not so bad, really. For a Yank. Scrawny lad, but wiry. A scrapper. He might do.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/8m/22d PM
I'd seen Benton and the Yank making eyes at each other before, but that was nothing to the cow eyes between them now that they're out on the trail together.
No good can come of this. There's no future in it. I'd tell Benton so in no uncertain terms, but Caroline has forbidden me to interfere.
I can't risk losing her again.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/11m/19d PM
They're off the trail at last, thank heaven, their last stop here at Maggie's cabin. If they'd shared that tent another week, they'd have either killed each other or… well. As I've said more than once (not that a certain woman will listen), no good could come of that. Everyone is better off this way.
Maggie sat up talking with the Yank late into the night, long after Benton had fallen asleep. They looked good in the glow from the woodstove, both blonde, with those blue eyes. They'd have handsome babies, those two.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/1m/27d PM
The Yank moved in with Maggie today, and Benton made the trip down to welcome him and help him settle in.
Caroline says I'm smug and calls it unbecoming, but I don't see why a man shouldn't be entitled to enjoy being right every now and then.
She claims to be happy for them, but more than once I've caught her looking worried. I'm sure she'll get over it once Benton clears out and leaves the lovebirds alone together. It's for the best. Now Benton will be able to find himself a suitable wife and get on with his life.
She'll see.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/7m/16d PM
Maggie and the Yank had another fight today. That's nothing new, sad to say, but this was the first time they didn't make up before they went to bed.
Bed, nothing; the Yank spent the night on the davenport. At least he's gentleman enough to leave his woman the comfort of the bed.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/10m/30d PM
They've gone three days straight without a kind word to each other, and I'm sorry to say my daughter's solidly in the wrong this time.
I could have been in their shoes, but for Caroline's generous and forgiving nature. One person in a marriage needs to have the grace to give better than she gets, and I'll be the first to say that in ours, it was her. It was always her.
These two don't know how to be soft with each other.
Caroline insists I give credit where due. All right, then: I don't know that Maggie's got that softness in her; I don't know that the capacity for it survives in either of my children, and it pains me to say so, as I'm sure I know where the blame for that lies. But the Yank has it. He could do it for Benton. Has done. Not so's to let himself get run over - he's no weakling, that one - but when it mattered most, he could be the first to bend. He did it for Benton.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/11m/2d PM
Benton called Maggie today to say he'll be arriving on Saturday for a few days' visit.
I've never seen such relief as was on her face when she heard he was coming, except maybe on the Yank's when she told him.
Caroline swears she had nothing to do with it.
As for me, I'm a big enough man to admit that perhaps I might just possibly have been wrong.
~ fin ~
Prompt: I'd like Maggie/RayK, please. Happy, sad, bittersweet - up to you. Any rating. Prompt: "I'm too old for this."
Pairing: Maggie/RayK (with a large side of F/K subtext)
Rating: PG
Length: ~750 words
Acknowledgments: The title is ripped off from a song by the Tragically Hip. It made sense to me at the time. Obliquely, anyway. Many thanks to agentotter for reassuring me that it didn't suck, and to nos4a2no9 who proofed it for unCanadianisms.
~ * ~
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/8m/2d PM
I have a daughter.
This is the first time I've ever been grateful that Benton ignored me when I encouraged him to pursue a girl. That could've been unfortunate. This time.
Lord have mercy, I have a daughter.
I'm too old for this.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/8m/4d PM
Maggie left for home this morning. For a moment there, it looked like she might be of a mind to start something with the Yank.
At least one of my offspring might give me grandchildren some day.
The Yank's not so bad, really. For a Yank. Scrawny lad, but wiry. A scrapper. He might do.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/8m/22d PM
I'd seen Benton and the Yank making eyes at each other before, but that was nothing to the cow eyes between them now that they're out on the trail together.
No good can come of this. There's no future in it. I'd tell Benton so in no uncertain terms, but Caroline has forbidden me to interfere.
I can't risk losing her again.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 3y/11m/19d PM
They're off the trail at last, thank heaven, their last stop here at Maggie's cabin. If they'd shared that tent another week, they'd have either killed each other or… well. As I've said more than once (not that a certain woman will listen), no good could come of that. Everyone is better off this way.
Maggie sat up talking with the Yank late into the night, long after Benton had fallen asleep. They looked good in the glow from the woodstove, both blonde, with those blue eyes. They'd have handsome babies, those two.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/1m/27d PM
The Yank moved in with Maggie today, and Benton made the trip down to welcome him and help him settle in.
Caroline says I'm smug and calls it unbecoming, but I don't see why a man shouldn't be entitled to enjoy being right every now and then.
She claims to be happy for them, but more than once I've caught her looking worried. I'm sure she'll get over it once Benton clears out and leaves the lovebirds alone together. It's for the best. Now Benton will be able to find himself a suitable wife and get on with his life.
She'll see.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/7m/16d PM
Maggie and the Yank had another fight today. That's nothing new, sad to say, but this was the first time they didn't make up before they went to bed.
Bed, nothing; the Yank spent the night on the davenport. At least he's gentleman enough to leave his woman the comfort of the bed.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/10m/30d PM
They've gone three days straight without a kind word to each other, and I'm sorry to say my daughter's solidly in the wrong this time.
I could have been in their shoes, but for Caroline's generous and forgiving nature. One person in a marriage needs to have the grace to give better than she gets, and I'll be the first to say that in ours, it was her. It was always her.
These two don't know how to be soft with each other.
Caroline insists I give credit where due. All right, then: I don't know that Maggie's got that softness in her; I don't know that the capacity for it survives in either of my children, and it pains me to say so, as I'm sure I know where the blame for that lies. But the Yank has it. He could do it for Benton. Has done. Not so's to let himself get run over - he's no weakling, that one - but when it mattered most, he could be the first to bend. He did it for Benton.
From the memoirs of Sgt. Robert Fraser, RCMP (deceased)
Recorded: 4y/11m/2d PM
Benton called Maggie today to say he'll be arriving on Saturday for a few days' visit.
I've never seen such relief as was on her face when she heard he was coming, except maybe on the Yank's when she told him.
Caroline swears she had nothing to do with it.
As for me, I'm a big enough man to admit that perhaps I might just possibly have been wrong.
~ fin ~
Prompt: I'd like Maggie/RayK, please. Happy, sad, bittersweet - up to you. Any rating. Prompt: "I'm too old for this."