Aftermath

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Title: Aftermath
Author: tx_tart
Pairing RayK/Fraser
Rating: NC-17 (author's rating)
Length 3,360 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: I used to love porn. But at this point, it's starting to all blur together, and my brain tends to just skip those scenes: "and then his mouth was [ PORN ] The next day Ray woke up alone..."

With tx_tart's stories, I read every word. Because it's hot. So hot. And real. Not stylized movie passion, not instruction-manual sex, it's the white-knuckled heat of real desire, between two real (though incredibly hot) guys. And more than that, it's a whole perspective: her fic takes the show into the real world - snow camping, the worn-out sweater, a 7-11, Ray's kitchen, longing, confusion, regrets, excitement - and makes it something you've lived yourself.

In this AU, she looks at what if Ray Kowalski had met the Ben Fraser of S2 - younger, wounded, earthy, angry? What if, one night on stake-out, Ray sees two strangers come out of a corner store and go into an alley... and like a noir detective, he starts with voyeurism and gets drawn in too far.


Ray starts to grin when a memory stirs in his head and then, there’s a warm rush of recognition. Ray knows this guy. He’s the guy – the blow job guy.

For a second, Ray doesn’t breathe. Tonight, he’s all messy and sweaty, in dark blue sweats with some little crest in yellow over his heart. The body that Ray remembers is in close up now, all broad shoulders and long legs and Ray’s mouth actually starts to water.

The wolf, or whatever it is, sees Ray and trots over to him, pushing his nose into Ray’s palm.

Aftermath