DS Match Fic: Lift

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Title: Lift
Author: spuffyduds
Pairing: K/V, F/K/V
Rating: R
Length: 6,200 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: There are lots of things to like about this story. It's the first wing-fic I've seen that captures the creepiness of the concept, as it slots neatly into Ray's nightmares of being an inhuman freak. Fraser's reaction when he realizes that his Rays are together is strikingly in character.

But the thing that makes me keep coming back and re-reading 'Lift' is the author's vision of Ray Vecchio, post-Vegas. This is a man who knows what he wants, and doesn't give a damn what other people think. He's cautious yet centered, loving and confident, completely ignoring Kowalski's fucked-up boundaries to transform the thing between them into an actual relationship. The idea that Vecchio's time undercover could allow him to grow into THIS person is wonderfully hopeful, and the entire story leaves me with a warm glow.

“Yeah, I’m here, I’m fine,” Ray hollers back.

“The four hours late for work and not answering the phone kind of fine?” Vecchio says, and Ray grins a little in spite of everything, because since he got back from Vegas Vecchio’s Mr. Careful—and Ray just knows, can hear it in his voice, that he’s supertense out there in the hall. Stepped back a little sideways from the door, gun raised, in case Ray’s apartment is full of twitchy mobsters.

“Yeah, that kind.”

“So, let me in.”

“Can’t,” Ray says, gets anxious silence from the hall and adds, “Fine, though, I swear. Peachy. No gun to my head, no knife in the ribs, swear to God, officer’s fine. I just, uh, can’t open the door.”

“So,” Vecchio says, and his voice has relaxed now, gotten a smile in it, “hooker tie you to a chair?”

Lift.

Comments

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

This is a man who knows what he wants, and doesn't give a damn what other people think. He's cautious yet centered, loving and confident, completely ignoring Kowalski's fucked-up boundaries to transform the thing between them into an actual relationship. The idea that Vecchio's time undercover could allow him to grow into THIS person is wonderfully hopeful, and the entire story leaves me with a warm glow.


You know, I couldn't articulate what it was I liked about this story's Vecchio, but yeah, that's it, right there. \o/

Now I want to...rec your rec. Or something. :D

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's all terribly meta.

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Aw, this is so nice! Thank you.

I just--I wanted all the awful of Vegas to have given Vecchio something good, I guess. Also, SOMEBODY had to make Kowalski see the light, he wasn't gonna do it himself!

Thanks so much, for liking and reccing and general wonderfulness.