An Incident Along a Poorly Guarded Border
| Fraser/Kowalski Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | An Incident Along a Poorly Guarded Border |
| Author(s): | kindkit |
| Date(s): | 2005-06-24 |
| Length: | 4200 words |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | due South |
| External Links: | on livejournal; on AO3 |
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An Incident Along a Poorly Guarded Border is a Fraser/Kowalski story by kindkit that was posted to the ds_flashfiction livejournal community.
Reactions and Reviews
The Story in Which Ray and Fraser Prove That It Is Entirely Possible to Die of Stubbornness, and They're Just the Boys to Do It. An Incident Along a Poorly Guarded Border, by kindkit. Due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski.
And from psychics with - well, not specifically needs, more like a mystical imperative, we go to an entirely other kind of mystical imperative. Specifically, here we have the Vaguely Ethnic Spirits of Magical Realism Make Them Do It. Well, so does they weather, but - seriously, sometimes Ray and Fraser get into this place of being total blockheads, and it takes being hit over the head with their impending deaths to get them to kiss. (And this despite the fact that they've already done it in the canon.) This is what happens to them here (hardly surprising, I'm guessing, given that I elected to bring it up in the story summary), and the metaphorical clue-in-the-form-of-a-brick is a snarky Inuit, which I just love beyond the telling of it. I mean, it's bad enough when you need a near death experience and a spiritual intervention to get you together with someone, but when your Big Fat Honking Clue is mocking your denseness, well, it's time to loosen up and fuck right, folks.
Fortunately, Ray and Fraser manage to do just that. And there are so many joys here - seeing Ray and Fraser tag-team on their spiritual advisor is worth the price of admission (well, I mean, it would be if there was a price) all by itself. And it's wonderful to see that Ray and Fraser have standards, because, yeah, okay - it's one thing to initiate sexual relations at the behest of a deceased Inuit, but letting that Inuit watch crosses the line. Frankly, we could all stand to follow their example. (Or at least I could. My lines are not what they once were. And I don't mean when I was wee and innocent; I mean my lines have migrated substantially since this time last week. Fandom: consistently enabling me to achieve new moral lows.) [1]
I liked this. Stuck in the middle of a blizzard, hypothermia kicks in and Ray and Fraser have to make the decision whether to live or die.[2]
References
- ^ rec by thefourthvine at Slashy Awards 140: It Is Not in Mortals to Command the Hot Gay Sex, April 1, 2006
- ^ "Due South: Fic Recs". Archived from the original on 2023-07-02.