C6D Celebrations Challenge: Seasonal Disorder

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Title: Seasonal Disorder
Author: arrow00
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1908 words

Why I'm reccing this fic: Leaving aside just for a moment that it's awfully hot, I love the repeated colors; there's a bracketing image that makes me smile every time I think of it. I'm pretty sure Ray's the kind of guy who invents traditions for himself, and this gives us the chance to see what he's abandoned, and created (and readopted).

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Stella's favorite is lilacs. Ray always bought her a big bunch on her birthday. It's her birthday again this week, which is why Ray is thinking about it as he watches Dief sniff the marigolds growing outside the café window. A moth, the same color as the flowers, launches upward, startled by Dief's nose.

Dief barks once and snaps at it. He has pollen on his snout.

Inside, Fraser is getting them coffee, the good stuff. And hopefully some of those triangle things—Ray can never remember what they're called, but they aren't really sweet, and they usually have fruit in them, cranberries or tiny raisins or peaches, if he's lucky.

He and Fraser have been coming here at least once a week for almost a year now, like a ritual.

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Seasonal Disorder