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Title : Make Bright Your Dark Story
Fandom : due South
Rating : Teen and Up
Characters : Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Pairing : pre-slash Fraser/Kowalski
Word Count : 300 (deliberately constructed to be a triple drabble, in tandem with [livejournal.com profile] bghost's triple drabble)

AN # 1 : A [livejournal.com profile] ride_4ever  and [livejournal.com profile] bghost collaboration, written by [livejournal.com profile] ride_4everas a companion piece to [livejournal.com profile] bghost's One Dark Story, both of which having been written for the fan_flashworks "Secrets Challenge".

AN # 2 : The opening 5 lines, in italics, are quoted from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. They are quoted here under the aegis of the U.S. Fair Use Doctrine and the Canadian Fair Dealings Doctrine; no copyright infringement intended.

Summary : Ray Kowalski is the ray of light to brighten Fraser's dark story.


"At the still point of the turning world....there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement....Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."

"That's one dark story,"
I say to you with a laugh
when you try to make light of it all...
'cause light...trick of the light...
your darkest secrets are the ones
nobody else sees but me...
your darkest secrets that they don't see,
being blinded by your light.
You're the most clever kind of con
who can hide in plain sight.

So who's more undercover here, buddy?
Me undercover, I'm doin' my job.
You undercover, it's nearly your 24/7 life.

And I've been there, done that,
got the t-shirt that says
"Hurt. Fear. Hope. Fear. Lemme tell ya a story. Har de ha ha."

So you build a little camp-fire...
you've got that much drive to survive...
not dead frozen but still damn chilled.
You think you've kept it secret from me
that you want to build a fire together.
You've banked it low, but even so
this is one thing I don't need my glasses to see.

You feel like you're always falling,
but Benton-buddy dontcha know :
there's red falls and green falls,
and this here's a safe fall,
this falling for me.

Just say "Ray, my good friend..."
and then shut up for a heartbeat.
Be at that still-point place
I've heard you talk about,
the one where there's only the dance.
Say just "Ray, my good friend..."
and be open for me to dance you...
I swear by my name
I'll be the ray of light
to make bright your dark story.


Comments

[identity profile] bghost.livejournal.com wrote:
Sep. 21st, 2012 11:53 am (UTC)
I am so delighted by this poem as a companion piece to Fraser's voice in One Dark Story. The two voices seem to flow together so well, and now when I reread the Fraser poem it's richer than it would have been without Ray's voice. Which is a metaphor really for the relationship... Ray really is a ray of light.

Sadly I'm in the middle of moving, or I'd say a lot more... but just to say how much I love this, and it seems the more we work on together the more we mesh. Thankyou!
[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com wrote:
Sep. 21st, 2012 05:49 pm (UTC)
"What d'you see, over and over, is this: duets, okay?"
[identity profile] bghost.livejournal.com wrote:
Sep. 21st, 2012 09:25 pm (UTC)
And by the way... how much I love that you alliterate the clever kind of con... I love that phrase. And "I swear by my name", and 'red falls, and green falls,but this here's a safe fall'... that line just knocked me over.
[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com wrote:
Sep. 21st, 2012 10:18 pm (UTC)
Alliteration, yes...we do find resonance in the same things. And I <3 that you repeat back to me favorite phrases.
[identity profile] asharo-slash.livejournal.com wrote:
Sep. 25th, 2012 05:56 pm (UTC)
aww.....this is so beautiful hun! I really love to read this over and over again! *-*
[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com wrote:
Sep. 25th, 2012 09:43 pm (UTC)
TYK, m'dear...feeling the love!

And OMG your new icon! I am feeling THAT, too! So much love.

Hope that when you decide to read this again, you'll read it where it's now archived at AO3 together with its companion piece by my writing partner ButterflyGhost : http://archiveofourown.org/works/516949

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