The Killer Replacements
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| Fraser/Kowalski Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | The Killer Replacements |
| Author(s): | Speranza |
| Date(s): | 2001 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | due South |
| External Links: | online here |
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The Killer Replacements is a due South F/K story by Speranza.
Reactions and Reviews
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Fraser gets a telephone call from RayK very much like the one he got from Vecchio in Burning Down the House. This got one of the most unusual endings in dS fic I've ever seen. [1]
Fraser gets a call in Canada from Ray, who tells him he mightn't be there to pick him up when he returns. Fraser reads between the lines and charges off to Chicago to see Ray before he disappears on him, just as Vecchio did.Lieutenant Welsh leaned back in his chair and scrubbed at his face. "Constable. You're back early. How wonderful for us all."
"Yes, I adjusted my itinerary with the hope of perhaps catching Ray Vecchio. Or the person we have come to call Ray Vecchio. Who is not that person," I said, pointing toward the door. "That person," I added acidly, "calls me 'sweetie.' "
Lieutenant Welsh had the good grace to wince.
This is a brilliantly funny parody of the whole Ray/Ray changeover plotline from the TV series. It's excellently done and has a totally non-fanon original perspective. [2]
I thought I was done with the DS recs for this update, then Speranza posted an announcement for this story to the lists. Shot that thought to hell. I read it, loved it, and so of course had to rec it. The Great Slash Drought is truly over and I'm just trying to keep up with all the new stories coming up the pike. I'm rec'ing as fast as I can.<g> I'm goofy, so sue me. In this one Fraser is on vacation in Canada. While there he gets a phone call from Ray Kowalski eerily similar to one he got from Ray Vecchio before he went undercover. Determined to not miss the chance to say goodbye to a friend a second time, he races back to Chicago. He fears he's almost to late, but he isn't going to give up. He has to see him just one more time before he goes. Has to tell him how he feels about him and have just one night with him before he goes. Fraser sets off in a desperate search and is determined to find his man. I love the ending to this one. I'm not going to give you clue one about it, so don't worry I'll spoil it for it. I won't. I will say that it had me smiling smiling and at the very end laughing. It's a sweet little story that tells of Fraser's desperation not to lose one more person close to him without a chance to say goodbye, to tell them how he feels about them. Well, you know he's just crazy in love with the blonde and vice versa, so you can imagine how he feels.<g> I don't think I've read one of Speranza's stories that I didn't like. She is wonderful writers, who shows alot of talent. Can't say enough about her, so I'll stop before I just go on and on. [3]
2001
"The Killer Replacements" by Speranza manages to have funny, heartbreaking, and sexy moments depending on where you are in it. Fraser, vacationing in Canada, gets a call from Ray K to say that he may not be able to make it to pick him up at the train.... It's a good thing Ray actually wants to be found, because I don't think he'd react well to Fraser's stalker coalition of taxi drivers, elderly busybodies, hotel maids, Italian and Chinese take-out places, truckers, and eighth graders otherwise. Several images in here make me purr. Love the ending(s). I'd be interested in seeing a follow-up dealing with Mark and Ray's new jobs.... [4]
2004
The story starts out with a twist and ends with a twist. What can I say, but it hooked me in the first couple of paragraphs and at the end left me begging for more. What more can you ask from fiction? As usual Speranza gives you funny dialog, hot sex and gut wrenching emotion. I so love this woman and hope she will always continue to write in this fandom!In the story, Fraser gets a phone call, a goodbye phone call. Another partner is calling him up to say goodbye (Ray K. has been transferred to another undercover gig and has to leave ASAP), but this time Fraser isn't going to be the one left alone, partnerless. He decides to track Ray down before he leaves to say a real goodbye and in this meeting some long denied feelings emerge.
What happens after that is pure Fraser and Ray. [5]