The Border Between Life and Death

Fraser/Kowalski Fanfiction
Title:	The Border Between Life and Death
Author(s):	Speranza
Date(s):
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	due South
External Links:	online here online at AO3
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The Border Between Life and Death is a Fraser/Kowalski story by Speranza.

Reactions and Reviews

I thought I had about all the DS recs for this update. Then, of course, Speranza went and posted an announcement to the lists for a new story. So you just know I had to go and read it. Which led to me instantly falling in love with it and having to rec it. Like, duh!<sigh> I'm never going to be finished with this update. People are going to start thinking I've given up on the rec'ing thing. Fear not I'm just sitting around playing catch up trying to rec alot of great new stories that I've found. The Great Slash Drought is definitely over, I feel like that movie title I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, just trying to juggle the webpages and RL. I'll manage. In this one Speranza gives us a look at the past. It happens quick so you have to try and keep up. One minute Ray is about to turn the tv on and the next we are taking a stroll down memory lane. There is some Stella/Ray in this one, no het sex really, but in Ray tracking what went wrong we do get mentions of it. We see how Ray and Stella started out as just best friends when they were kids and how things sort of moved up from there. She gives that as the reason for Ray having such a hard time letting go of Stella, he not only lost his wife, but literally the person who had been his best friend for over 20 years in one fell swoop. That it was having the friendship taken away that hurt the most. Sometimes in movies or tv shows they use the married to my best friend thing to cliché levels, it makes me want to gag at how overused that is. Often it seem fake, since you know these actor just met not long ago most of the times, so I roll my eyes at it. Speranza gives us a real look into what it is like for two childhood friends to fall in love and how bad it hurts when you lose that. Never fear though, this is a BF/RK story. While thinking on his past Ray realizes he doesn't know a whole lot about Fraser, that if they are really going to be friends then he has to know more. Since Fraser hasn't be very forthcoming he decides to do a little digging of his own. He finds out a secret of Fraser's that even the RayV didn't know about. I really liked that little look she gave us into a unknown part of Fraser's past, it really seemed totally believable to me. I liked getting to know a Fraser secret too.<g> I really loved this one. I love most of her stories though. She is becoming one of my favorite DS authors, that isn't obvious is it? Oh, it is. Well, I never said I was subtle. Yeah, I do subtlety like a sledgehammer does.<eye roll>

This is my favorite due South story, hands down. The first half of the story is about Ray and Stella, how they came together and how they fell apart. I love the history that Speranza creates for them. The second half of the story is Ray realizing he doesn't know Fraser as well as he thinks he does. I cry EVERY SINGLE TIME, no matter how many times I've read it.