Challenge 64 : Red

Title : It's Dead Out Here, Warm Me Up
Fandom : due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating : Teen and Up
Tag : Poetry
Word Count : 187

AN #1 : Co-authored. Kowalski POV by bghost and Fraser POV by ride_4ever.

AN #2 : TYK to mizface for inspiring us with her zombie!fic Ch-ch-changes and TYK to hazelwho for inspiring mizface.

Summary : A zombie/human love-story begins here. Ray Kowalski is a zombie capable of loving and being loved by a human -- one particular human : Benton Fraser...and Fraser is a human capable of loving and being loved by a zombie -- one particular zombie : Ray Kowalski.

Fic at AO3




Ray POV

Angular and gray,
I am nothing but
gangle,
all elbows
and knees.
A walking bruise -
knuckles raw
from a wall
that wouldn't stop smirking
before it all
fell away,
and the world stopped working.

Or maybe that was me.

Lost in the scarecrow shuffle
of the unloving,
unliving,
undead -
I dance for memories
I can't remember.

I can't even cry
from my heart.
My heart stopped beating.
I dance alone.

Somebody, save me.

Somebody, dance with me.

Please.

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Fraser POV

Alive he would bleed bright red,
but the undead
ooze something dark instead.
I knifed him in the chest, not the head.
Alive he would bleed bright red.



Not fatal, my strike …deliberately not…
for although he was cold, yet something hot,
almost electric, sparked beneath the rot,
so I turned my hand away from a killing shot.
Not fatal, my strike…deliberately not.

Sometimes love can be a knife in the chest,
and sometimes after hurt comes comfort blessed.
We made that leap and embarked on a quest,
partners in a life-or-death test.
Sometimes love can be a knife in the chest.