Triple Hankie Challenge - Gods Says Nothing Back, Exposures, Ordinary Days

[akamine_chan]

Title: God Says Nothing Back (Five Times Fraser's Heart Was Broken)
Author: simplystars
Pairing: Fraser-centric, Fraser/RayK
Rating: PG13
Length: shortish
Why I'm reccing this fic:Because it should be rated A for Angst. This is the story that made me fall in love with simplystars. It's spare, elegant, beautiful, and it hurts so very, very much. Five moments in Fraser's life. Five things that can't be undone.


His ears, too, are filled with static. Fraser frowns a bit, concentrating, and slowly untangles the jumbled sounds into distinct threads. Lieutenant Welsh, bellowing into his radio; Ray, chanting over and over Oh my God, Benny, stay with me, Oh my God, Benny! In the background, the clacking rhythm of steel wheels on steel tracks; in the foreground, his own broken whisper – he feels the echo of speech, the vibrations, more than he is able to distinguish words.


God Says Nothing Back (Five Times Fraser's Heart Was Broken

Title: Exposures
Author: dsudis
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: NC17
Length: longish
Why I'm reccing this fic: This was the first deathfic I'd ever read and it hit me so hard that I sat around for days thinking about it. It wasn't until the second reading that I fell in love with it. This is life in the Arctic - dangerous, often deadly. This is the story of Fraser and Ray on their adventure and 24 brief moments in time told by 24 pictures. It's Fraser and Ray living. And dying.


Taken at arm's length. Fraser on the left, Kowalski on the right, smiling mouths joined in a kiss that is on the verge of disintegrating into laughter. Fraser's grin shows a flash of teeth, Kowalski's reveals a hint of tongue. Dark hair and light are both wildly disarrayed and damp, Kowalski's standing on end while Fraser's falls in half-hearted curls. Both men's eyes show smile lines, but while Kowalski's gaze has strayed to the camera, Fraser's eyes stay fixed on Kowalski.


Exposures

Title: Ordinary Days
Author: busaikko
Pairing: Fraser, RayK
Rating: R
Length: medium
Why I'm reccing this fic: Because I love the heartbreaking ordinary-ness of this story. As the days slide by Ray lives each day for itself, and for Fraser and there's no amount of glue that will ever fix this. And that's how it is sometimes.


Ray scrubs at his face with the bathtowel Vecchio sent from Disneyworld-land-whatever, eyes himself in the mirror. No way is he stupid enough to practice smiling, but he looks good, he thinks. He feels old in his bones, but it doesn't show so bad. Yet.


Ordinary Days

Comments

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

I just got home and sat down to write a rec for "Ordinary Days." Great minds, my dear.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I love all three of these- and have to be in a very special place to want to read any of them. Not the same place for any of them, either- the first is numbly elegiac, the second has an air of growing utter desperation, and the third sometimes feels like the founding of a new religion.

Great choices.

Julia, who's trying to wake up enough to think about due South while on d-2 for putting my husband and daughter on the train to get her back to college.

[capt-spork.livejournal.com]

Exposures makes me cry every time I read it. It's just beautifully done, and the descriptions actually hurt because you know that these are the only evidence of what life they had together.

Sniffle