DS Match Fic: Truths Like Gravity

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Title: Truths Like Gravity
Author: Team Reality Member
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: 3800
Why I'm reccing this fic: I love established relationship fics set in the future. I like the reassurance that Ray and Fraser make things work. This story leaves me no doubt as to the strength of their relationship, b ut that doesn't mean everything is perfect. We drop in on Ray and Fraser as their youngest child is about to turn 16, and Ray reflects on their life as parents. They weren't prefect parents, their adopted daughters did not all leave their pasts behind and embrace their new parents with no reservations. There are fights and estrangements and hurt feelings, but most of all their is love. Rays memories are filled with love for Fraser and for their family. And that love means hope.

Eventually Katie's anger had mellowed. She'd left, gone to Winnipeg, had a child. And her son, Akiak, had changed everything for her. As the years passed, she'd come to understand that Fraser's disappointment, and his silences, were mainly directed at himself.

It made a little more sense, Ray knew, if you understood that Fraser's love for his children was like the love of God: profound, inexplicable, and that he sat in judgment. He'd been raised by people who'd taught him that love was conditional. They'd admired thrift, praised cleanliness and resourcefulness and honor, but hadn't said much about affection. The qualities Fraser thought were the best parts of himself, the ones he had to pass on to his children, were the ones he understood best. When Katie hadn't accepted what he had to give, Fraser'd been convinced he had nothing more to offer.

It had taken him a long time to understand that he had much more to give his children. He had love. Unconditional and irrevocable love.



Truths like Gravity