Fic: Smarties (due South, part five of 'Queering the Text'); also AtS-dS connection

It occurs to me that Benton Fraser is the hero that the Angelverse is constantly searching for -- he 'lives as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be'. That's Fraser through and through. He's a glimmer of hope and truth. I know that I've used him as an inspiration.

Title: Smarties (Seeing is Believing)
Summary: Ray knows someone who'd love to meet Fraser.
Pairing: Eventual Ray/Fraser
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Fifth part in a twenty-four part series. They are, in essence, post-episode ficlets from RayK's perspective.
Disclaimer: I don't own a thing. Well, there's the computer I'm writing on. I also have a moderate collection of books. And... ah, yes, I own none of the characters mentioned in this story. That would be Alliance Atlantis and the Pauls.

( All the good qualities of the American product, but better -- that was Fraser, all right... )

Website update:

Added Chicago Rain, The Band Played On, and Smarties to Queering the Text. Added Hollowed and Anatomy of a Lie to the due South fanfiction page.
( click here to view the five cover images )

due South: Fraser and RayK, realizations (also, Dead Men Don't Throw Rice)

Dead Men Don't Throw Rice:

Wow, I hadn't remembered how slashy this episode was. "That was a beautiful paragraph, Ray." And Ray continues to be the essence of polite and articulate as much as possible during the episode -- including offering sodas to the guys in the cells and prompting Fraser about the speech to the crooks. This is the episode before the double-date (Fraser&Ray, Thatcher&Turnbull -- Or, we could call it 'Ray goes out with the Canadians') and Fraser saying that he believes in love at first sight (Say Amen) and only two episodes before the season finale. Tellingly, this is also right after Good for the Soul, so Ray may, in some way, be using his vocabulary as a way to show Fraser that he's always going to be on Fraser's side and never let him down (again).

This is also an episode where Fraser is decidedly uninterested in Frannie, by both word and deed. He's so willfully oblivious of her interest -- and it's definitely willful, because he knows that she wants him (The Deal would've confirmed that, no matter how he wanted to deny it). But he's never been interested in her (at least not that I've seen -- are there any episodes where he welcomes her touch?) for whatever reason and he has a decided inability to tell a woman to stop pushing (see: Inspector Thatcher, Elaine, and most of Chicago's female population...). He has a hard time dealing with women at all -- the only time he shows any skill at it is when he's totally playing Denny. Both Victoria and Janet suckered him big-time and he's never successfully put off female-interest that I've seen (are there any episodes where he manages that?). Hmm. Possibly related to being raised by his grandparents, who were big on the old-fashioned stuff?

The comfort level between Fraser and Ray grows in each episode (especially if they're placed in the order that was on the official site, which appears to have been yanked -- and I mean the whole site, not just the list).
( assuming a romantic relationship (or at least interest) between Fraser and Ray... )