Title: New Year's Resolutions, 2000
Fandoms: due South
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Rating: Teen
Length: ~325 words
Angst-to-hope ratio: Low-to-medium?
Disclaimer: I didn't create these characters, I don't own them, I derive no profit from their use.
Author Note: Happy new year, fan-flashworks!  I still love and miss you!  (I'd like to lay this out in column format with the two lists side by side, but it looks like LJ doesn't like quite that much HTML.)
Summary: What it says on the tin.


Benton Fraser

1. Find some (legal) method to practice marksmanship regularly.  Legal restrictions on firearm licensure no excuse to let skills slip.  What are regulations on use of commercial ranges by resident aliens?  Perhaps arrangement could be made with CPD firing range?  Ray likely willing to assist with project.

2.  Exercise more restraint about accepting angling for  accepting invitations from Ray.  Two nights a week is more than enough to impose on a friend’s hospitality, particularly one who already spends many of his working hours with you.

3.  Work on being a better listener Listen hardest when you least want to Listen to your friends.

4.  Find apartment.  Two years is rather longer than “temporary stop-gap” and shilly-shallying is unbecoming.  Ray likely willing to assist with this, as well.

5.  Count your blessings.




Ray Kowalski

1.  Quit drinking for good.  Too old for this shit & working hungover could get you and your partner killed & anyway it’s not worth disappointing Fraser. Don’t need his pity.

2.  Start bringing the Mountie along to the firing range.  If that flies, work on wearing him down about getting a license to carry.  It’s good to have goals, right?  (Also: extra target practice because getting out-shot by a Canadian is NOT OK!  National honor at stake here!)

3.  Find another after-school volunteer thingumy.  Check out the flyers on the bulletin board?  Or Fraser might know of something cool?  (Just don’t end up teaching square dancing or something.)

4.  Yell less, smile more.  (Apparently some people think you have a nice smile a smile opens more doors than a frown.)

5.  JUST ASK FRASER ALREADY DAMNIT!!!     Figure out whether Fraser might be interested.   Stop making a fool of yourself before your partner runs out of patience. Get a social life that doesn’t involve the Mountie. Get laid.  Get the Mountie laid.  Get over him.


WHO AM I KIDDING NO ONE EVER KEEPS THESE DAMN THINGS ANYWAY