Parental Challenge: The Heart's Compass, It's Like This Old Inuvit Story I Know, Home Schooling

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Thank goodness for Amnesty Week, so I can rec some Fraser parental fics!

Title: The Heart's Compass
Author: zabira
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: 7,500 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: This was my favorite fic of the latest DS Match competition. Ray is an inadvertent time traveler, and he finds himself visiting Fraser's childhood repeatedly. Through Ray we get to meet Caroline, raising a child essentially alone in the middle of the far Northern prairies. She's strong, sensible, and full of unfettered affection for her son, who returns it openly. And once she's decided Ray is no threat, she welcomes this strange, intermittent companion for little Ben. Unfortunately, we know her future, and it's a tear-jerker, but Ray's presence in the then and the now, helps.

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The Heart's Compass


Title: It's Like This Old Inuvit Story I Know
Author: Pru (rageprufrock)
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG
Length: 4,390 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: "Meet the parents" is an often-dreaded ritual for every new couple--we see a flashback here to how it wasn't so great for Ray with Stella's parents. It's even worse for Ray when he and Fraser aren't even dating, and Fraser's father's dead, yet he's suddenly being visited by an annoying old Mountie. Who's making snippy remarks about Ray's lack of child-bearing hips. Maybe he's just going crazy instead ....

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It's Like This Old Inuvit Story I Know


Title: Home Schooling
Author: luzula
Pairing: Gen
Rating: G
Length: ~1,200 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: This is a perfectly characterized moment of young Ben studying with his grandmother when his father arrives, and we get to see two generations of parental interaction. In one short sketch, we see the influences surrounding Ben--order, intellectualism, reserve, snippiness, avoidance of conflict, distancing--that became part of his personality. Surely this must be canon.

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Home Schooling