Title : Train Ride to Do-Over
Fandom : due South
Characters : Victoria Metcalf
Rating : General Audiences
Word Count : 188

Author Notes : Written for the fan_flashworks "Do Over" Challenge. As I rode the train home from Bitchin' Party, snapshot-images of Victoria riding the rails came to my mind, and I wrote what appeared in those snapshots. With a nod to Luzula for causing me to reconsider Victoria.

Summary : Victoria is riding the rails again, with conquests and vengeances in mind.



FROM THE PAST
As her train pulled away from the Chicago station, Victoria was thinking that if ANYONE was going to shoot HER Ben, it ought to have been HER. But she hadn't pulled the trigger; she had the chance and she didn't take the shot. And then Vecchio did it. Shot him. Shot HER Ben. Shot him in the back. Her scorn was intense...every man she had killed, or even considered killing, she had gotten close, right up into their face, looked into their eyes. And that's what she intended to do some day with Vecchio.

IN THE PRESENT
Victoria's do-over isn't going as planned. Again she won't be taking Fraser away with her...he's gone North on vacation. And she won't be taking down Vecchio...the Vecchio she finds at the two-seven is not the Vecchio she wants, is instead some new Detective Vecchio whose presence leads her to think there are machinations here whose purpose, when grasped, will lead her where she wants to go.

TOWARDS THE FUTURE
Victoria has connections. Victoria utilizes her resources. Victoria is leaving Chicago, leaving on a train for Las Vegas.