Marjorie adamantly shook her head. “No, that’s really kind of mean. The guy’s jumpy enough as it is.”
Since Ray's been there two months, I get so much from that about the whole picture, and we haven't even seen him yet. The whole Marjorie & lunatic friend thing was very cute (somewhere between helpless and spunky, so it's especially satisfying when she takes a stand and Ray compares her to Frannie, go Marj!)
“And you need that many condoms? He isn’t exactly eighteen anymore.”
SNORK. (Hey, but a girl can dream, right?)
He was happy just tracing the infinite line of Fraser’s lips with his thumb, up, and over, and down, and over, the soft curve of it, the stubble all around rasping against Ray’s skin. [...] They kissed around his thumb....
You made me read and love established relationship fic, you talented hor!
I loved Ray's sense of DOOM! and the whole job interview process, and then Ray's reaction to being called a tourist - totally didn't see that coming with the prompt, makes so much sense. That whole confrontation scene with the reporters was unexpectedly moving. I mean it's this movie-farce set-up, but you pack all this sad and scary and touching feeling into it, Ray's embarrassment and fear about his job prospects, at least, maybe I was projecting there, but that's how it seemed to me. Also. Ray's little pink ears OMG! And then Fraser turns up and...
*gets misty-eyed*
He stood on the corner of Centennial St. and Inuit Rd. and shook random strangers’ hands, barely hanging onto the basket.
Inuvik’s newest resident, Stanley Raymond Kowalski (left, pictured with partner Corporal Benton Fraser, RCMP) received a traditional summer basket from the Inuvik Tourist Board yesterday afternoon. Adamant about not being called a tourist, Kowalski accepted the gesture gracefully, and with good humor.
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Marjorie adamantly shook her head. “No, that’s really kind of mean. The guy’s jumpy enough as it is.”
Since Ray's been there two months, I get so much from that about the whole picture, and we haven't even seen him yet. The whole Marjorie & lunatic friend thing was very cute (somewhere between helpless and spunky, so it's especially satisfying when she takes a stand and Ray compares her to Frannie, go Marj!)
“And you need that many condoms? He isn’t exactly eighteen anymore.”
SNORK. (Hey, but a girl can dream, right?)
He was happy just tracing the infinite line of Fraser’s lips with his thumb, up, and over, and down, and over, the soft curve of it, the stubble all around rasping against Ray’s skin. [...] They kissed around his thumb....
You made me read and love established relationship fic, you talented hor!
I loved Ray's sense of DOOM! and the whole job interview process, and then Ray's reaction to being called a tourist - totally didn't see that coming with the prompt, makes so much sense. That whole confrontation scene with the reporters was unexpectedly moving. I mean it's this movie-farce set-up, but you pack all this sad and scary and touching feeling into it, Ray's embarrassment and fear about his job prospects, at least, maybe I was projecting there, but that's how it seemed to me. Also. Ray's little pink ears OMG! And then Fraser turns up and...
*gets misty-eyed*
He stood on the corner of Centennial St. and Inuit Rd. and shook random strangers’ hands, barely hanging onto the basket.
Inuvik’s newest resident, Stanley Raymond Kowalski (left, pictured with partner Corporal Benton Fraser, RCMP) received a traditional summer basket from the Inuvik Tourist Board yesterday afternoon. Adamant about not being called a tourist, Kowalski accepted the gesture gracefully, and with good humor.
Fucking perfect, that.