FIC (Due South): "Q & A" (Fraser/Kowalski) - 2002

[bethbethbeth]

Originally posted in May, 2002.

Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if anything seems problematic.

Disclaimer: You still need to ask? They belong to Alliance and the Pauls - and to each other.

Many thanks to Sihaya Black for endless encouragement, Kellie Matthews for asking the right questions, and AuKestrel for knowing the answers. I love you guys.

(This story is set post-CotW. Consider this a blanket spoiler warning for the whole series)


Q & A
by Beth H.
(c) May 2002

( Q & A )

FIC (Due South): "Freak" (Fraser/Kowalski) - 2002

[bethbethbeth]

Originally posted in August 2002.

Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): hostage situation with gunshots/injuries; elements of emotional child abuse

I started writing "Freak" in the summer of 2000 soon after I became interested in dueSouth, but after three months of opening and closing the story file, all I had was a small collection of loosely related scenes. I was given some good comments on those scenes from some of the members of a list I was on at the time. I have a distant memory of Gearbox and Mia, in particular, offering useful feedback (I just hope I took it!), but I'm sure there were others whose input I've since forgotten, and for that, I apologize.

In any case, long before the random scenes I'd written could coalesce into a finished work, an image of Fraser and Kowalski sharing a kiss in the doorway to Ray's kitchen popped into my head, and I started working on "Touch and Go." In the end, that was the story that became my first ever piece of completed fanfiction.

However, even though I put "Freak" aside, I never forgot about it entirely (mostly because CLFinn kept chastising me for abandoning it). Finally - after almost two years - I dragged the story out of mothballs for one last look and decided to finish it.

I want to thank Rowan, Kellie, Sihaya, and Starfish for their insight and thoughtful comments at various stages in the life of this story. Any remaining peculiarities are entirely a result of my own stubbornness.

Needless to say, any recognizable characters remain the property of Alliance and the Pauls.

Christine - for refusing to let me forget about this story, this is for you.

Freak
by Beth H.
(c) August 2002

( Freak )