From: Luzula
Date: 12/05/2007 |
Wow, I love this, how they're so clueless and slowly come to realize that they're in love. I really admire the way you show how they feel without them being consciously aware of it.
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From: spuffyduds (spuffyduds@gmail.com)
Date: 09/10/2007 |
Oh, wow, every word of this is terrific, but I most especially loved: for some reason the wolf finds Freudianism hilarious.
Go, Dief!
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From: Tharaist
Date: 01/31/2007 |
Fantastic story! Just the type of Post-CotW romance I was looking for. I love the fact that Fraser and Ray never really discussed about what was goig on. It felt subtle and very realistic.
Vecchio and Stella were cool and I liked the scene where they had dinner with Ray. The characterization of Ray was really good, the way he kept thinking about missing Fraser and the implications of that fact. Well done!
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From: Lucifercircle (Luciferofthecircle@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/08/2007 |
I liked the descriptions of Fraser and Ray, together and apart. I think you have both of their voices down perfectly and I think this story moves neatly and smoothly to the resolution.
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From: tally
Date: 01/08/2007 |
hey! this is great. for some reason, i really liked the image of fraser shouting at the dogs to break up a fight; it's a great example of fraser being tough, stern, and loud if he has to be. very good fic! -- tally
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From: Jenna
Date: 01/06/2007 |
Very sweet and nice gradual build-up!
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From: Timian
Date: 12/31/2006 |
This was *glorious*. I enjoyed this more than any dS fic I've read in a while. Beautifully done.
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From: Alexis (alexis.muirhead@gmail.com)
Date: 12/28/2006 |
This was really beautifully written, and I loved the way you built up the relationship without giving a lot of voice to each guy's unrequited love (which, uh, they weren't aware of anyway). And it was great to see Fraser posted to Banff (which is in Alberta, actually, not British Columbia, and has a much larger RCMP detatchment than only two officers, but the devil is in the details). Thanks for posting such a complex and well-thought-out story, and if you ever need anyone to beta Canada-related details for you, I'm your gal.
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From: primrose (primroseb@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Very nicely written! It's good to see a fic without the prerequisite unrequited but obvious longing (although it was still there in a wonderfully understated and clueless-to-the-characters way).
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From: V See
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Fantastic detail, and strong voices. Love the emotional build up. This works so well for me.
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From: pir8fancier (pir8fancier@gmail.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Superb story with enormously gratifying detail and characterization. Brava!
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From: kristiinthedark (kristiinthedark@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
This was wonderful! Gorgeous and achy and very much them.
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From: kristiinthedark
Date: 12/27/2006 |
This was wonderful! Gorgeous and achy and very much them.
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From: kristiinthedark
Date: 12/27/2006 |
This was wonderful! Gorgeous and achy and very much them.
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From: Berty (bertybertle@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
*hearts* Very real - very edgy. There's no rose-tinted and I think that's refreshing. Great job.
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From: JS Cavalcante (JSCavalcante@nycap.rr.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Oh, this is lovely. Atmospheric, even subtly lyrical in places. It builds quietly to a conclusion that seems like it was there all along. Very intelligent writing. Great characterizations all around; the bit with Stella and Vecchio especially was so well done. I adored how Fraser tells Ray that *Dief* didn't understand why Ray had to go, that Dief perhaps feels betrayed. Dief's always been a convenient stand-in for Fraser's emotions. Everyone's actions in the story are spot-on. The conversation Ray has with Fraser at the end is just perfect: "Okay, so maybe not that, but at least there's no gangs or hookers or drugs or--" "Actual police work or dim sum or *you*, Ray." Loved those lines, that ending. Really, really nice work.
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From: JS Cavalcante (JSCavalcante@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
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From: sarren (sarren@iinet.net.au)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Gorgeous :)
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From: Zebra (zebra363@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
I enjoyed this version of post-COTW events where Ray returns to Chicago, but then visits Fraser in Canada. It seems a very plausible scenario! I loved all the planning Fraser put into Ray's week in Banff.
Lovely section about motherly love: ...maybe they misplaced him for a week, left him in the car and the car was going to the mechanics, and he went without motherly love for a week or so. That line hurts!
Great last line from Fraser, and I liked all the flight details, too!
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From: Isis (isis@arithmancy.net)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
I loved this story. There's so much detail, so much richness, and the pacing is slow and sure and perfect within a well-crafted structure.
One of my pet ideas is Fraser somewhere *other* than middle-of-nowhere, Canada, and so I loved seeing him in Banff (yay! Rockies!) - and I also loved the implication that the bowling alley was Vecchio's cover story, because yeah, that always seemed hinky to *me*, too.
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From: bluebrocade (hick@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
Oh my god. That was so wonderful. It flowed so beautifully. Very subtle and just...wow. Perfect.
One of my favorite passages:
"Maybe Ray ought to go chase up his mom and dad in Arizona and ask if maybe there's something they haven't told him, maybe they misplaced him for a week, left him in the car and the car was going to the mechanics, and he went without motherly love for a week or so."
And this...so telling:
"He realises that he should have made this call from his home phone."
And this is where I started crying:
"Fraser says goodbye to Ray and puts the phone gently in its cradle before pushing off the desk, pushing a few papers onto the floor. He walks through the room and down the hallway; he opens the door to his right and crosses through the storage room, flings open the back door; takes a few steps and then just stands there in the snow. He breathes in deeply and lets the cool air tickle his throat. He looks up at the sky. He only allows himself a couple of minutes, then he roughly runs his hand across his face and goes back inside to finish the rapport on the state of the Hoodoo Creek trail which he inspected last week."
Such a beautiful, wonderful, subtle story with so many perfect images (Fraser yelling at the dogs to break up a fight)! And the ending was so perfect! ♥♥♥
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From: Ximeria (ximeria@popullus.net)
Date: 12/25/2006 |
I have but one word for this: Wow. *grins*
Let's see if I can do this coherently.
I loved how slow it was. That Ray's dancing around the topic on his own and that Fraser just... realizes what it is *he* wants and goes for it.
I nearly baptized my monitor at the line about the tourists from Jutland and Copenhagen. Are you from around here or do you have psychic powers? I mean, there are no other two parts of Denmark than those two who will get into trouble with each other.
In other words, I could not have wanted a more perfect story for Christmas. Thank you, my dear designated santa *g*
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From: jamethiel_bane (jamethiel_bane@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/25/2006 |
This fic is so full of yay that I actually lack words at the moment. Just- Vecchio, not being an arsehole, and Ray, not knowing what he's missing until Stella points it out to him. And Fraser. Oh, Fraser.
It was sweet, and hot and made me go AWWW.
Well done mystery person!
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