dsss letter

[boxofdelights]

I don't know whether I'll have anything to add to my dsss request, except to say that I will appreciate whatever you make for me, even if it doesn't include any of these optional details.


Request 1 by seramirez

Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Benton Fraser
Ray Kowalski
Any Freeform
Any Category
Any Rating

Optional:

Kidfic
Polyamory

Summary

Ray wants kids. Fraser loves kids. I love stories about them having kids, but I wish there were more in which the kid's mom was alive, not evil, and involved in her child's life.

My mind turns naturally to polyamory, but I would also be happy with a story in which Ray & Fraser's relationship with their child's mom was not sexual or romantic. I'd like it even more if it is sexual and/or romantic, but I am a parent, so I realize how difficult it is to fit kids and sex into the same life, much less the same fic.

I love thinking about them going to the hospital together.
LABOR NURSE: And which of you is the father?
RAY: We both are.
LABOR NURSE: ...How does that work?
FRASER: Very well, thank you.
ELAINE: Speaking of work, I am in labor here.

Or to their first parent-teacher meeting, pulling up a third tiny chair. When they introduce themselves, Fraser adds, "We are not married." The kindergarten teacher says that that doesn't matter, and Fraser explains that it does: "Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada makes it a crime to practice or enter into any kind of conjugal union with more than one person at the same time; so it is very important for us to be clear about the fact that, even though we are living together and raising a child together, we are not in a conjugal union."

Request 2 by seramirez

Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Benton Fraser
Ray Kowalski
Any Freeform
Any Category
Any Rating

Summary

"A bird and a fish may marry, but where would they live?"

I love these guys, and I want to see them Happily Ever After, but the most plausible way I can see to make that happen is when Fraser does something incredibly helpful for some Men With Brooms whose game turns out to be Quidditch; they then enchant his closet (in the Northwest Territories) so that if you open it right it dumps you out in Ray Kowalski's closet in Chicago. (I'm not asking you to write that one.)

I'd like to see them talking about how hard it is for each of them to live in the other's environment, and searching for ways to compromise. "What about Montana? I could be a Sheriff, you could be a Forest Ranger. That's kind of like a Mountie."

Request 3 by seramirez

Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Benton Fraser
Ray Kowalski
Stella Kowalski
Any Freeform
Any Category
Any Rating

Summary

Brilliant. Beautiful. Bossy. Self-contained. Highly skilled with words. So used to being right that they lose sight of the fact that they could be wrong.

Ray Kowalski has a type.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

You hit all my Due South narrative kinks. Can't wait to see what happens.

Also
When they introduce themselves, Fraser adds, "We are not married." The kindergarten teacher says that that doesn't matter, and Fraser explains that it does: "Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada makes it a crime to practice or enter into any kind of conjugal union with more than one person at the same time; so it is very important for us to be clear about the fact that, even though we are living together and raising a child together, we are not in a conjugal union."

How much Googling did you need to do for this, or it sadly well known among poly folk?

[boxofdelights]

I learned that fact from alt.polyamory, in the latter days of the last century. I googled for specifics because it is the kind of thing Fraser would know. And would tell you.