Fic:: Under A Blackened Sky [S&A/dS]

[loneraven]

A pinch-hit story for macadamanaity in my Slings & Arrows ficathon. She wanted a minor Due South crossover element and no Geoffrey angsting. I failed significantly on both counts. I did try, honestly!

Fic:: Under A Blackened Sky
by Raven
PG-13, Slings & Arrows/Due South, gen. Geoffrey and Benton Fraser.

Comments

[thiswaltz]

Oh my! I never imagined a crossover between these shows since they seemed to exist in different universes but this works so well! A brief meeting but not too brief, personal but not too personal. Perfection.

I really liked the 'name like a lable' line.

[loneraven]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked.

And, yes... there's a point in the canon where absolutely no one Fraser sees on a daily basis calls him by his first name. I don't know, that strikes me as oddly terrible.

[spuffyduds]

Wow.

This is really quite amazing. Geoffrey's POV is a thing of wonder, because he's got to deal both with the dregs of his madness and with his (probably innate) tendency to story-structure his life, and is that tendency a thing he should struggle against, because it makes life less real, or a thing to embrace because we're all to some degree wired for the story arc and so that's how life is? Injecting physical motion into the narrative after he's made a forward-moving statement, and he knows he's doing it but he still does it, and it turns out to be right.

And opening with a spit take. (A dramatic trope, too.) And noticing that Fraser's name doesn't feel used.

And Fraser! Having chosen to stay in (we presume) Chicago. But still certain that he HAS Canada--that's his happiest ending possible.

Beautifully written and chock-full of ideas and, obviously, made me blithering and incoherent.

[loneraven]

Oh, thank you, honey! I'm so glad you liked this. Filtering Fraser through Geoffrey's madness was, well, not fun exactly, but a challenge. *g* Thanks so much for reading.

[keerawa]

I really enjoyed the lyricism of Geoffrey's narration. protagonist and antagonist in cocooning spotlight, darkness and audience all around was particularly striking.

[loneraven]

Thank you very much! :)

[hurry_sundown]

*sighs the sigh of the deeply satisfied*

Yup. That's it. Excellent work, baybee.

(btw, am I the only person waiting for someone to write Fraser/Geoffrey? Or am I just the only one willing to admit it?)

[loneraven]

Thank you kindly! *g*

(Honey! We're all waiting for you to do it! 'Cause, wow, that would be hot. *g*)

[vsee]

Very interesting! Bookmarking to reread a few times.

[loneraven]

Thank you kindly. *g*