Refugees

Fanfiction
Title:	Refugees
Author(s):	china shop
Date(s):	1 June 2006
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Fandom(s):	Due South
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External Links:	Refugees on AO3
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"Refugees" is a Ray/Ray fic, written by china shop for the GreatestFits challenge.

Synopsis

Ray Vecchio, mid-divorce from Stella, goes back to Chicago and finds Ray Kowalski unshaven and unwashed, in a depressed funk after Fraser sent him away. (Synopsis taken from a rec by isiscolo.)

Reactions and Reviews

So I tend to read these on my e-reader, offline, removed from the fandom response like kudos and comments, and looking this one up now for the links and info, I'm startled to discover how little response this fic seems to have. All I can think is that maybe fics don't so easily win people over if their starting point is the disintegration of canon happy endings. Both Rays' post-Call of the Wild relationships have crashed and burned. Vecchio's split up from Stella, Kowalski's split up from Fraser, and they're back in Chicago and both a mess.

If you can get beyond that concept, I thought this was a delightfully lively, amusing fic that fairly jumped out at me from the many, many Due South fics I'd stuck on aforementioned e-reader to binge read. Ray (Vecchio) discovers that due to the identity confusion hangover from his undercover days, he's been paying for the utility bills of Ray (Kowakski)'s apartment, and figures that as Kowalski owes him the money he'll just move on in and crash there, since he can't face anyone he actually knows and likes or resuming his life in general after the disaster of his marriage.

Inevitably, slowly the enforced company does them each some good and they start to -- somewhat reluctantly -- bond. It's fun.