Due South Challenge Stories

All Your Time Waiting (513 words)
Posted for the Songfic challenge. First posted August 23, 2005.
"All of my illusions about you are being shattered, here."

All's Well (787 words)
Written for the Darkest Before Dawn challenge. First posted August 10, 2004.
Ray, whose sleep had been light and restless for the past week, lay undisturbed beside him.

Bliss (6,747 words)
Written for the Amnesty challenge (Cliche #2). First posted January 4, 2004.
"Hello," the other guy said. "We seem to find ourselves in quite a predicament."
Warning: Amnesia, no plot closure.

Blowing It (666 words)
Written for the Cliche challenge (Cliche #8 sort of maybe). First posted August 5, 2003.
“You were right,” Ray said, pulling on a clean, dry t-shirt, “the bra sucked. Glad to have that thing off.”

Brotherly Love (684 words)
Written for the Fraser Whomping challenge. First posted February 28, 2004.
“Ray, for God’s sake, you’ve done worse to me yourself.”

Code-Switching (2,687 words)
Written for the Many Tongues challenge. First posted March 15, 2004.
Hockey AU. “Eh, Fraser. J’suis ben paqueté.”
Warning: Explicit sex, inexpert use of French and Quebecois.

Favorite Things (100 words)
Written for the Movie challenge. First posted September 26, 2003.
This fic belongs to the same universe as Tea for Three.
I discovered my favorite thing about the kid when we were packing videotapes.

Flash (853 words)
Written for the Curtains challenge. First posted May 21, 2003.
He would only have this one chance to see Ray see the aurora for the first time.

Hell on Wheels (784 words)
Written for the Footwear challenge. First posted September 5, 2003.
Once you’ve gotten the mental image of a Mountie on roller skates into your head, you can’t stop until you’ve actually seen it.

Jingle Jangle (227 words)
Written for the Keys challenge. First posted September 15, 2003.
Schmoop. Ray sighed, and fished his keys out of the inner pocket of his parka, where they rode most of the time, next to his heart.

June, 1979 (303 words)
Written for the Summer of '79 Challenge. First posted June 24, 2003.
He was nineteen. Fighting with his girl, fighting with his dad. Flunking out of school. Seemed like the end of the world.

Laid Up (1,219 words)
Written for the Cliche challenge (Cliches #3, 6, and 12). First posted July 28, 2003.
Of the two of them, it was hard to say who was in greater danger of losing consciousness. What was clear, however, was who had further to fall.

Male Bonding (425 words)
Written for the Footwear challenge. First posted September 7, 2003.
“Cement shoes.”
Warning: Discussion of violence.

Melt and Freeze (408 words)
Written for the Water challenge. First posted December 2, 2003.
Fraser wasn't worried anymore.

Moving Days (1,095 words)
Written for the Packing challenge. First posted December 11, 2003.
After breakfast one morning, he shook his father’s hand.

Nightmare on Elizabeth St. (1,026 words)
Written for the Halloween challenge. First posted October 28, 2003.
Ben said, “I’d like to be a Mountie for Halloween, grandmother.”

Out of the Cold (775 words)
Written for the Naked without Sex challenge. First posted November 24, 2004.
Fraser's two and a half days late, and the temperature's hovering around sixty below.

Permanent (853 words)
Written for the Make-Up challenge. First posted April 23, 2003.
“Look, what if I take care of it, just for tonight, and then you can get a real tattoo in the morning?”

La Plus Ça Change... (821 words)
Written for the Hourglass challenge. First posted April 30, 2003.
“Ben, you remember that time when I said I wished nothing would ever change?”

A Quiet Morning at Home (787 words)
Written for the Marriage challenge. First posted October 22, 2003.
Bob woke up warm, with a pounding headache.

Seen and Unseen (1,158 words)
Written for the Public Sex challenge. First posted May 4, 2004.
“He fucked her right here, right up against the wall.”

Southbound (1,778 words)
Written for the Anywhere But Here challenge. First posted October 10, 2004.
"Fraser! What part of I want a divorce do you not understand?"

Sugar Snow (920 words)
Written for the Recipe challenge. First posted November 18, 2003.
He found Ray standing in the snow, one cold-reddened hand holding his coffee mug upside down.

Take the Gun (2,004 words)
Posted for the Movie challenge. First posted September 29, 2003.
The lieutenant called them into his office, late in the afternoon on a Thursday.

Tapped (150 words)
Written for the Telephone challenge. First posted June 1, 2003.
Kowalski/Vecchio. “Did you recommend me?”

Tea for Three (907 words)
Written for the Threesome challenge. First posted May 26, 2003.
This fic belongs to the same universe as Favorite Things.
“The truth is,” he whispered, “you and the Yank are doing just fine.”

Watching (547 words)
Written for the Voyeurism challenge. First posted April 14, 2003.
Ever since Ray appeared in my life like a changeling, a magical figure slipped into my disappeared partner's place, I've been watching him.

The Way He Should Go (2,498 words)
Written for the Fraser Fucks Up challenge. First posted July 20, 2004.
Two days after his sixth birthday, Benton Fraser disobeyed.

Whistling in the Dark (1,100 words)
Written for the No Power challenge. First posted September 4, 2005.
Ray was a little too warm, but he wasn't the least bit tempted to move.