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.

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[primroseburrows]

It wasn’t a name that had been called and shouted, whispered, murmured, screamed into the night. Without the resonance of use, it was something like an identifying card on an artefact, a scribble in the margin of the dramatis personae.

This is one of the harshest, loveliest, truest phrases I've heard about Fraser. I think it's really how he sees himself. Leave it to Geoffrey to figure it all out.

In some Bizarro-world, there's a series with these two as best friends. It would so work, because these two would understand each other. And, y'know, be very pretty doing it.

Thanks for writing this. I'd love to see more of the Geoffrey and Fraser Show.

[loneraven]

You know the odd thing? I actually live with a polite and gentlemanly guy called Ben Fraser. And I didn't make the connection that they have the same name for, oh, months after I started watching this show. It could just be me being thick, but it's that, I think, that became this story.

And yes, of course, these two would be wonderful together! They'd understand each other after dark, when their non-manic moments coincide, but mostly Fraser would try and get Geoffrey to eat three meals a day and, I don't know, get a haircut, and Geoffrey would keep encouraging Fraser to blow off work and go and feed the ducks. *g* Clearly, I want someone to write me lots 'n' lots of the Geoffrey and Fraser Show.

Thanks so much for commenting. I'm really glad you liked this story. :)

[primroseburrows]

I want someone to write me lots 'n' lots of the Geoffrey and Fraser Show.

They could get a place together. It would be like The Odd Couple: "Can two weird but pretty guys share an apartment without driving each other CRAZIER? *cue kitchy theme song*

[loneraven]

"One eats razorblades! The other talks to a wolf! They BOTH SEE DEAD PEOPLE!"

[burntcopper]

me, I'm just admiring how you used the language.

[loneraven]

Thank you. :)

[luzula]

Wow, that's great. I like the contrast between them, it makes me see new things about them both. And your language is beautiful.

Also, the quote at the top of your LJ: "and I tried to remember, but I said, "what's a flower?"". I love that song, and it feels like such a post-CotW story to me.

[loneraven]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it.

"February" is one of my absolute favourite songs, but it's so very sad! I never really thought about it in CotW terms; do you imagine an unhappy ending for them?

[luzula]

Well, yeah, it is a sad song. And I guess I can see Ray moving to Canada as either working out or not (though of course I'd really want it to work out!). The first time I heard the song, I immediately thought of how it might feel for Ray during his first winter in the north. Although, maybe I was fannishly immersed when I heard it.

Hmm, I always found the last verse of the song hard to interpret. Do you think the relationship ended and the narrator found someone new, or is it the same couple? On the one hand, it's "my new lover", but OTOH, it still uses "we", like it was about the same people, and the narrator gets the keys back that were lost in the beginning. *fails at interpretation*

[loneraven]

Oooh, I never thought that it might be the same couple! Now you come to mention it, it does make sense that way, too. And I kind of want it to be the same couple, because it does have a very coming-full-circle ring to it.

Ray in the north has always worried me a bit; there's so much fic that depicts their happy ending, when I'm not entirely sure it would work out. I mean, there's something unsettling in the thought that Ray gives up everything he knows for Fraser, when their relationship thus far has been shaped and constituted by Fraser-in-Chicago, who is necessarily different from Fraser-up-north.

Er, it is possible I am overthinking this. :)

[petronelle]

This works far better than it has any right to work, partially because of the swirling scrim of the background in Geoffrey's mind.

[sfruof]

A better reason for being late-ish to work has never existed. Even if it is 6:30 in the morning, and you wrote this a year ago for a stagnant fandom. Seriously. You blew me the fuck away with this. *is working way through every S&A fic ever, not being a creepy stalker, oh shit, did I mention I went to bed three hours ago?* You. Fic. Excellent. The end.