How Ray Got His Groove Back, Beguiled

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My due South F/K table

Claim: due South, Fraser/Kowalski
Title: How Ray Got His Groove Back
Author: Bone, on LJ thisisbone and Aristide
Characters: Fraser, Ray
Prompt: 43. Denial
Rating: NC-17 (oh so very)
Length: long
Brief summary: Um, yeah. I hadn’t read this fic in about six months when I decided to rec it, and…whoa. This is a smutty smut fest, a very well written one, that includes some really lovely moments between Fraser and Ray. The premise is that Ray is sexually frustrated, and Fraser wants to help him out. Ray has to come to terms with being with Fraser and being with a man, and figuring out what it all means to him. He draws lines that he keeps crossing, if you know what I mean. *g* There’s also a wonderfully hot little epilogue that should be read in conjunction. This is still, behind all the scorching sex, a love story, and it really comes through.

Fraser, too, seemed to be shivering. The good kind of shivering.

Fraser... wanted him.

Fraser wanted him. That look, that sexy, achy look he was still wearing, had nothing to do with porn, and everything to do with him.

God, the shit you never knew about people. He'd never have believed his Gold Coast girl would get wet for a career instead of bridge clubs and rugrats. And he'd never have believed his buttoned-up partner would ever, under any circumstance he could imagine, voluntarily put his hand... there.

And he would never have believed how much he wanted Fraser to go right back to it, put his hand there again, touch him again.

Link to the story: How Ray Got His Groove Back

Claim: due South, Fraser/Kowalski
Title: Beguiled
Author: Rhi Marzano, on LJ rhiko
Characters: Fraser, Ray, Vecchio, Stella, the rest of the gang, Giles Metcalf
Prompt: 24. Future Fic
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a very nice little fic that I discovered recently, and feeds into my recent dS obsession with all things kidfic or AU, which really makes no sense at all if you consider how hard I resisted these themes to begin with. Fraser and Ray are platonic (well, at least on the surface) roommates some time post-COTW, and Fraser finds himself a father when Victoria dies and leaves their son, who Fraser had no idea about, to Fraser. Why this fic works so well for me is watching Ray build a life for this little family that he suddenly has, and in the process, realizing and acting on his feelings for Fraser. Watching Fraser, Ray, and Giles become a family just gets me right there, man.

The GTO is not really made for carseats.

Fortunately, Fraser rigs something functional and legal (though freaking me the fuck out about my upholstery). Giles is big enough that he's in a front-facing seat, which means nothing to me except that I can see him making faces at me in the rear-view mirror.

The kid also likes playing the "let's drop my stuffed octopus and see how long it takes Fraser to pick it up" game. Even though I explain the objective of this game to Fraser, he can't last more than five seconds before rescuing the toy from the floormats. Round 26 of this game finishes up as I pull into the trailer park with the score being: Giles, 25; Fraser, 0; and Dief, 1, for gnawing a leg off the goddamn octopus when it hit his nose for the 15th time.

"Does that make it a septipus now?" I ask, turning carefully into a parking space. Fraser always bitches at me for taking turns too fast, so I thought I'd humor him while the kid was in the car with us.

"No, Ray, I don't think so." Fraser unfastens his seatbelt and opens the door. "No more than removing a leg off a millipede would make it a -- "

"Nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine-a-pede?"

"That's actually a common misconception." He leans in the back seat and starts doing something with the duct tape. I wince and look away. "Millipedes only have -- "

Link to the story: Beguiled