TEAM REALITY: Day 8, "For a Good Life We Just Might Have to Weaken"

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Title: For a Good Life We Just Might Have to Weaken
Author: malnpudl
Team: Reality
Prompt: "Look at it this way -- if we don't, we're toast."
Pairing(s): Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 9400
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: A thousand thanks to my betas akamine_chan and nos4a2no9 for their candor, patience, persistence, cheerleading, and invaluable guidance. The title is from a Tragically Hip song. (You're so not surprised.)
Summary: Math was never Ray's strong suit in school. He got Cs if he slacked off, Bs if he worked hard, which he sometimes did, especially in pre-algebra when he had a crush on his teacher and then again in geometry when he and Stella were in the same class. He had three classes and a study hall with her that year; if anything could salvage being a high school sophomore, that was it. It was the only time Ray ever got an A minus in math.

Lately, though, Ray's whole life has turned into a numbers game, and he's starting to feel like he's almost good at it. At numbers, that is, not at the whole life thing.


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