Unspooling (The Black and White Remix) [Due South; Fraser/Kowalski, PG]

[ghostface_kira]

Title: Unspooling (The Black and White Remix)
Author: justbreathe80
Summary: When he was eleven, they moved to Inuvik and stayed for a couple of years. That was the first time Fraser saw a movie.
Rating: PG
Fandom: Due South
Title, Author and URL of original story: Happy in the Dark by elishavah
Notes: MANY thanks to synecdochic for the early read-throughs and really helping me

Comments

[shoemaster]

I love the evolution of their relationship and how it mirrors Fraser's previous experiences. I love that bit of history and how it shaped his expectations for his time with Ray.

And this! They went to a lot of movies, but Fraser could honestly say that he hadn't seen a movie lately, not really. Going and seeing were two entirely separate things, Fraser had to admit. Oh BOYS.

[justbreathe80]

Thank you SO much. The original focuses on Ray, and I wanted to flip it around and try to figure out how movie theaters and the dark might have affected Fraser similarly. I'm really glad you enjoyed it, babe. YAY!

[elishavah]

Oh, this is lovely, and just the sort of story/perspective/background that I couldn't have written at the time that I wrote the original. And it is so completely Fraser: aware of what goes on in movie theaters, not ignorant past that discovery that every child makes at some point but somehow standing outside that common experience, even while he's right there...until Ray. Wonderful.

[justbreathe80]

I really enjoyed the original, and I LOVED the opportunity to spin it around and make it Fraser's story, because Ray, in many ways, was a typical American kid, and Fraser was anything but.

I'm SO glad that you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me play in your sandbox! *g*

[minnow1212]

Just lovely. I especially liked this line:

>Then Ray leaned in and pressed his mouth to Fraser's, softly, almost chastely, but Fraser was done with almost, he was fully and completely done with not quite

[justbreathe80]

I am SO glad you liked this, and that was my favorite line, too, when I was writing it. *g*

Thanks!

[justbreathe80]

I am SO glad that the history worked for you, and the setting and character building.

Thank you! So much!

[lastscorpion]

The beginning sounds very much like one of those stories Fraser used to tell on the show. I especially love the tone here. Beautiful!

[justbreathe80]

You know, it's interesting, because I don't think that I necessarily INTENDED that, but I think I wanted it to sound like something Fraser would say, and going back and looking at it now, it IS like a story he would tell on the show.

Thank you SO much! *beams*