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DS Match Fic:For a Good Life We Just Might Have to Weaken
Title: For a Good Life We Just Might Have to Weaken
Author: Team Reality Member
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 9400
Why I'm reccing this fic: This reads almost like two separate stories and that threw me a bit at first, but then I realized life is like that. Our lives are not complete comedies or tragedies, but a mix of the two sometimes in the same day like happens here. The first part of the story introduces us to Ray and Fraser's every day reality. They are attracted to each other, they know they are attracted to each other, and without taking about it, they have agreed to do nothing about it. The reasons, as Ray reminds himself, are serious and real and important. Reading them broke my heart because I couldn't disagree with their decision.
But then something happens, which I won't reveal because it is just too good, that pushed them over the edge. This is where the story changes tone. First time sex is slightly desperate, very awkward, and funny. It's what first time and sometimes second and third time sex really can be like. Fraser's revelation at the end had me laughing hysterically. There's something particularly satisfying about Ray and Fraser understanding all the very real reasons not to pursue a romantic relationship, and making that choice anyway because at some point, they know it's worth it.
It's not like he doesn't understand why. He knows all the reasons why it's a bad idea. He's had all the conversations in his head; he can do any of half a dozen variations on it, knows all his lines and all of Fraser's, too.
There's the one that starts with Fraser taking seven paragraphs and way too much punctuation that Ray can actually hear -- something that'd only happened to Ray before with Stella, when she got into her speechifying mode; all those free-flying semicolons and emdashes had always gotten Ray horny and made him want to fuck her mouth -- to tell Ray the story about how Corporal Tightass up at Depot dedicated an entire two-hour classroom session to listing all of the eight-hundred and forty-seven perils of romantic involvement with co-workers, which Ray's head translates to "Don't shit where you eat" before Fraser's even got himself warmed up.
Or the one where Fraser finally makes Ray admit that he isn't sure he could handle losing his parents again, so soon after he got them back, and Fraser's eyes go all soft and make something twist in Ray's chest because he knows that Fraser knows even better than he does how much it sucks to have that happen.
For a Good Life We Just Might Have to Weaken
Author: Team Reality Member
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 9400
Why I'm reccing this fic: This reads almost like two separate stories and that threw me a bit at first, but then I realized life is like that. Our lives are not complete comedies or tragedies, but a mix of the two sometimes in the same day like happens here. The first part of the story introduces us to Ray and Fraser's every day reality. They are attracted to each other, they know they are attracted to each other, and without taking about it, they have agreed to do nothing about it. The reasons, as Ray reminds himself, are serious and real and important. Reading them broke my heart because I couldn't disagree with their decision.
But then something happens, which I won't reveal because it is just too good, that pushed them over the edge. This is where the story changes tone. First time sex is slightly desperate, very awkward, and funny. It's what first time and sometimes second and third time sex really can be like. Fraser's revelation at the end had me laughing hysterically. There's something particularly satisfying about Ray and Fraser understanding all the very real reasons not to pursue a romantic relationship, and making that choice anyway because at some point, they know it's worth it.
It's not like he doesn't understand why. He knows all the reasons why it's a bad idea. He's had all the conversations in his head; he can do any of half a dozen variations on it, knows all his lines and all of Fraser's, too.
There's the one that starts with Fraser taking seven paragraphs and way too much punctuation that Ray can actually hear -- something that'd only happened to Ray before with Stella, when she got into her speechifying mode; all those free-flying semicolons and emdashes had always gotten Ray horny and made him want to fuck her mouth -- to tell Ray the story about how Corporal Tightass up at Depot dedicated an entire two-hour classroom session to listing all of the eight-hundred and forty-seven perils of romantic involvement with co-workers, which Ray's head translates to "Don't shit where you eat" before Fraser's even got himself warmed up.
Or the one where Fraser finally makes Ray admit that he isn't sure he could handle losing his parents again, so soon after he got them back, and Fraser's eyes go all soft and make something twist in Ray's chest because he knows that Fraser knows even better than he does how much it sucks to have that happen.
For a Good Life We Just Might Have to Weaken