Sliding

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Title: Sliding
Author: sageness
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 11,350 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: I love Sage's stuff and this is just such excellent tentfic from Ray's POV.


"Fraser?" Ray said later.

"Hmm?"

"Why haven't we been eaten by bears already? Or wolves or mountain lions or lemmings or whatever?"

Fraser laughed. "I don't think you need to fear the lemmings, Ray."

"Damn it, Fraser, you know what I mean."

"Sorry, yes," Fraser said. "Well, first, I should say that we are nowhere near mountain lion territory. However, it's largely a simple matter of not antagonizing the predators. Generally, the other animals at the top of the food chain prefer to avoid conflict with humans. Obviously, you and I are not hunting large game, and since they can all hear or smell us coming, they simply get out of our way."

"What about at night?"

"Ray," Fraser said earnestly, and he must have heard the tremble in Ray's voice, or he wouldn't have bothered clapping Ray on the shoulder with his huge, mitten-encased hand. "Diefenbaker would never allow anything to happen. To us, or the dogs."

Ray stood there staring into Fraser's eyes, and today they were a blue somewhere close to the color of arctic sea water and had a steadiness in them that shut the screaming little kid inside Ray's head right up, because yeah, they had Dief, and all kinds of crazy explorer guys had been tramping across the northwest areas for centuries. And Inuit people for eons before that, right? So, they'd be fine. Fine.

So when they stopped for lunch, Ray snuck Diefenbaker a chunk of rabbit meat from his stew and promised him a box of donuts if they ever found themselves near a bakery.


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