verushka70

Title: Luxuriously Slowly
Author: verushka70
Fandom: due South
Characters: Benton Fraser, (Choose Your Own) Ray
Pairing: Benton Fraser/(Choose Your Own) Ray
Rating: Explicit
Length: 139 words
Summary: Ray shivers with restraint, feeling Fraser shake beneath him.
Challenge Prompts: The RCW 139 snippets Challenge: Write a snippet of 139 words, in three paragraphs, starting with letters R, C and W.
AN: For dsc6dsnippets' RCW 139 Challenge.

Luxuriously Slowly on AO3

Title: How (Not) To Live A Life Alone
Author: verushka70
Fandom: due South
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Gen
Length: 139 words
Summary: Ray feels for the guy: losing everything in a fire is awful.
Challenge Prompts: The dsc6dsnippets prompt was for Challenge 65:

* loose

* lose

* one

* all

"As for lonely, I can show you how to live a life alone

All it takes is getting used to getting lost"

(John Fullbright, "When You're Here")

The RCW 139 Ficlets Challenge is a challenge to write a 139-word 3-paragraph fic where the first paragraph starts with "R," the second paragraph starts with "C," and the third paragraph starts with "W".
AN: For dsc6dsnippets and for the RCW 139 Ficlets Challenge -- and for ride_4ever, for letting me know about the RCW 139 Ficlets Challenge!

How (Not) To Live A Life Alone on AO3

Title: Preocupado
Fandom and Pairing: due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen
Length: 299 words
Prompt: Challenge 68:

* flame

* flash

* flick

* flood

"We live in, and are, occupied territory." --Anonymous

Summary:

Kowalski settled into a chair across from Victoria. "They say you were hard to find."

The ghost of a smile barely graced her lips. "That was the idea."


Preocupado on AO3

No Archive Warnings Apply (yet)

I posted a dS photo-collage fanart to create a work using a brand new dS AO3 tag (Francesca Vecchio & Diefenbaker):

Wait...What? Now? Hmmm... by verushka70
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Francesca Vecchio & Diefenbaker, Francesca Vecchio & Other
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary: Francesca is on the case. Or on the spot... Dief's going to help!


Also posted a Ray Vecchio fic for Ray Vecchio Day(/Week; it was thankfully extended!):

Not Happening (Again) (9225 words) by verushka70
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Undercover - Past
Summary: Vecchio shook his head, stifling a groan, squeezing his eyes shut. Stopped at a red light in his latest Riviera, he swiped a hand over his face and gritted his teeth. It was not happening – not happening again. He took the long way home.
Halfway there, he turned around and headed for Kowalski’s place.

\o/

Recently, Ride_4ever reminded me that a past dS fic (on a 10-year-old LJ comm related to DS_Match), "I'm here...", wasn't up on AO3. So I imported it to AO3.

Rating: Mature
Category: M/M
Fandom: due South
Relationship: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Touching, Angst with a Happy Ending
Originally published: 2007-11-18 (backdated)
Words: 4698
Title: I'm here. You're here. They're gone.

Summary:

Ray shakes his head, closing his eyes, as if to say he has the patience of a saint but he won't forever.

"Frase -- stop -- don't apologize." He clenches his jaw, unclenches his jaw, runs a hand through his hair and opens his eyes to stare moodily at Fraser. "Get in here."

Story at AO3

So I ficced some more in January... I'm trying to hang on to that momentum.

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(Not Quite) Roughing It (on AO3)
Fandoms: Longmire (TV)

Slash - Walt Longmire/Henry Standing Bear
Characters - Walt Longmire, Henry Standing Bear, The Ferg (Longmire), Victoria "Vic" Moretti,
Tags - Affection, Nature, Camping

Teen And Up Audiences, No Warnings Apply

Summary: They stare into the fire, tucked snugly against each other despite layers and jackets. Their arms tighten around each other. Henry looks up at the inky, moonless sky, millions of bright stars hemmed in only by the dark silhouettes of the tree tops around them and the mountains beyond.

Words: 2,549

(Not Quite) Roughing It (on AO3)
Fandoms: Longmire (TV)

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A Suitable Alternative by verushka70
Fandoms: due South
Slash - Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters - Diefenbaker, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Alternate Universe - Vampire, Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets

Explicit, No Warnings Apply

Summary: “Take it.” Ray shoves his wrist higher under Fraser’s nose, the scent of his blood enticing. “Your eyes -- you're fanged out –- drink!”

Words: 298

A Suitable Alternative (on AO3)

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Finally, Goran Višnjić: So I've been watching Timeless... and, wow, guh, hot older 40 man. Like, Tyler Hoechlin-ish (almost complete with the eyes, though they don't light his eyes properly to highlight their strange color), but almost 20 yrs older. HOT. I'll have to go back and watch all the ER eps I never saw him in because after I became an RN I stopped watching all medical shows because everything is so medically inaccurate 99% of the time and MDs are continually shown doing stuff they never do which is almost always done by RNs (like administering chemo, drawing blood, starting IVs, chest compressions, giving resuscitation meds... I could go on... sure, the doctor orders the meds or whatnot and intubates the patient for resuscitation, but RNs will keep you alive until he/she gets you intubated).

But supposedly ER had an RN consultant for accuracy. So I might give it a shot now. Because Goran is muy caliente. I think the first thing I saw Goran in was Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, but even though he was hot in that, he was also violent and creepy. Maybe I should've watched more ER -- it had some critical
acclaim, iirc -- but I was too busy watching ST:TNG, X-Files, and BTVS (not to mention Forever Knight and due South in the 90s), lol.

Prime-time medical soap opera wasn't on my radar... if it's not scifi or supernatural, I gravitate to cop shows, it seems -- or vampire cop shows, lol, since slightly more than a decade after Forever Knight was cancelled, Moonlight came along with Jason Dohring and Alex O'Loughlin both playing vampires. Ironically, Moonlight was the first thing I saw
Abigail Spencer in, and now she is a lead character on Timeless, which is the show that has rekindled my lust for Goran Višnjić.

FULL CIRCLE! \o/ My ADD brain <3s that.

Since my tendonitis/epicondylitis got a bit better, I tried to light a fire under my own ass to finish two long WIPs.

I posted on AO3 excerpts of two longer fics -- one a dS WIP(RayK/Stella, RayK/Sam Franklin, eventual Fraser/Kowalski), and one a TW WIP (Derek/Stiles).

Then I wrote a Teen Wolf/True Detective Derek Hale/Rust Cohle crossover... uh, whoops? But I feel they would understand each other, these two. They have both lost so much, had so much grief.

All are technically unbeta-ed, though the dS WIP has been beta-ed somewhat (thanks Ride_Forever!).

Just Act Normal
Fandoms: due South
Words: 11,588
Explicit
M/M, F/M
Tags: Sam Franklin/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski,
Rimming, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, First Time Blow Jobs, Sexual
Confusion, Bisexuality, Infidelity, First Gay Sex, Angst

Summary: Stella was gone. Sam was around. A lot. Ray realized pretty soon that he had a crush on Sam. A terrible, hopeful crush.


This Is What You Do (To Me)
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
Words: 2,163
Explicit
M/M
Tags: Underage,
Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Masturbation, Voyeurism, Self-Denial, Come play

Summary: Derek's surprise visits usually involve shaking Stiles down for research. Anything else is an afterthought (chain-yanking). Stiles is fed up with it. So when he finds Derek in his room again, he shows him the door. Or, rather, window. At least, that was the plan.


Beautiful (Beast)
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), True Detective
Words: 4,465
Explicit
M/M
Tags: Rustin "Rust" Cohle/Derek Hale, Derek Hale, Laura Hale, Rustin
"Rust" Cohle, Blow Jobs, Anal Fingering, Anonymous Sex

Summary: "Show me," Rust murmurs. Derek lets his wolf out a little, just the eyes, the heavy brow, the fangs and sideburns. "Beautiful beast," Rust whispers. He slides down the back of the bathroom door to his knees. When he looks up with glassy eyes, Derek realizes it isn't just Rust kneeling at his feet. It's Rust and someone else. Rust has shifted, in his own way.

Here's a permissions thingy:

Blanket permission to podfic as desired. I would be incredibly flattered. Just link back.

Conditional permission to remix fic: Please no remixes into non-canonical kidfic or mpreg.

Been reading through old fics on the old Windows partition of my Linux Thinkpad. Unfinished outnumbers finished probably 2 to 1, maybe 3 to 1. Sigh. Found this from 2009 -- not a good year for me. Based on the time-date stamp of the file, I started this a few months after my mother died. It's not exactly finished. It's not exactly unfinished. It is what it is, I guess, and probably as good as it's going to get. All errors are mine; un-beta-ed.

Ten Times Mike Didn't (And Once He Did)
~14,000 words; one shot; Mike/Nathalie; explicit-ish



She touched him first. It was a simple fact. Every time, she touched him first.

1.

At first he was so lost in a fog of shock and numbness, he didn't notice. Audrey was so sick. Sadie was so tough – and so not. (He couldn't call her on it; he was doing the same damn thing, just three times older and male.) Maddie was bewildered, bereft, pretending in her own little fantasy world. He was supposed to be their rock.

But he wasn't the rock. He was never the rock. Audrey was the rock. He was just the boat that came back to the rock every night and sailed out every morning, the boat that wouldn't know what to do with itself without the rock to tether itself to. But Audrey. And Sadie. And Maddie. Needed. They needed. He hadn't realized how much he needed them not to need him, until they really needed him.

And so he didn't notice Nathalie's warmth. She seemed warm with everyone, and his numbness was a nearly impenetrable layer, a thick glove he wore stiffly, not really feeling the things he touched or came into contact with. He didn't notice the looks she shone on him, the soft break of her smile, her curving her body towards his as they sat next to each other in the folding chairs at the support group. Didn't see the flustered way her eyes met his and then dropped, looking anywhere and everywhere but him, and then, emboldened, back at him.

After they were already well down the road together, he looked back on the very beginning, wondering how he could have been so stupid, how he could have missed the importance of all of Nathalie's tells. They are in his mind, now, trapped in cool, cop detail: he recalls her movements and eyebrows and deepening dimples. They come to him like evidence, like video from a security camera, with no feelings attached, as if something in him merely filed the information away, refusing to invest it with meaning.
( The warmth, the current between them came from Nathalie. It sure couldn't have come from him. He felt cold, and dead, and numb. )

Too windy and wild outside to sleep; rattling windows, outdoor security light keeps turning on due to moving branches in the line of sight of the motion detector. Can't sleep.

Got to resolve my behemoth S/E/D fic (with S/K/D) flashbacks. It's too big (472K text file). Too unwieldy (needs a beta, or two, or five). Starts too far in the past (Stefan & Damon's pre-Katherine childhoods). I intended a happy-ish ending, S/E/D riding off into the proverbial sunset together; it it isn't turning out that way; don't want to go in the direction it's headed. Just hoping to salvage something, even if only some short TVD fics. Very raw, unbeta-ed form with section divisions/notes.

Despite some very G-rated gen flashbacks to Stefan and Damon as children, this has to be NC-17 for all the other stuff: S/K/D, S/D, S/E, WARNINGS for incest slash, flashback child abuse/whipping (Guiseppe disciplining Damon), historical aspects of slavery, deaths, BDSM, orgasm denial, m/f/m threesome sex and sex on the rag.

Parts of this are little more than first drafts; others have been worked and reworked, so as a whole, it's rather uneven. :-\

( Vulnerare - part one )


Huh. Now it is raining.