All About the Hat

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Claim:  Fraser/RayK (due South)
Title:  "All About the Hat"
Author:  KindKit
Characters:  Fraser, RayK, all the usual suspects
Prompt:  42. Holiday
Rating:  G
Length:  Medium
Brief summary:  This lovely (lovely!) fic takes place immediately after the season four episode "Good For the Soul."  It makes me feel just so warm and fuzzy, not least because the image of Ray wearing Fraser's Stetson and being so pleased with it makes for the cutest picture in the history of cute.  There's nothing I don't adore about this story.

Crazy everywhere, but Ray's in the zone, in the Zen, in the whole inner peace place.

Ray is good. Ray is dancing to the quiet inside. He talks to Dewey--Dewey, of all people--wishing him a merry Christmas and a quiet day tomorrow when the poor bastard's on duty, thanking him again for the present, and not once does Ray get the urge to pistol-whip him. He slides and shimmies and quicksteps through the party, getting a hug from Frannie and a thump on the back from Welsh, who says "Nice hat, detective" with that deadpan look that means he's yukking it up inside.

And the best thing is Fraser. Fraser's standing still while Ray wanders, because that's the kind of guy he is. He's talking to people the way he does, polite and serious, but every so often he looks at Ray out of the corner of his eye and he smiles. Fraser's hardly ever happy, not below the happiness-varnish that he puts on for good manners, so this is an event. This is something Ray wants to remember so he can figure out how to do it again.

Link to the story:  All About the Hat