Cheating challenge by china_shop: This Here Now

[china_shop]

F/K, K/V, R-rated, 40k.

Angst for aerye. Big angst.

This Here Now

With bordering-on-hysterical thanks to sprat and sageness for beta.

Comments

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy again after reading this -- it was just that devastating. My poor, poor Fraser. Gut-wrenching. I had to gorge myself on mindless fluff after I finished.

[joannindiw.livejournal.com]

here via crack_van - raveninthewind led me into the Ray/Ray and I followed this rec to this story of yours and - just *inarticulate awe*. The Fraser parts - beginning and end, and RayV - willing to be cheated upon if that meant he could keep RayK, sure he'd be lost without RayK and sure that
Fraser would be fine - and Fraser, hurt, but essentially fine, in the end.

And RayK not wanting to chose, but chosing in the end...

uh, basically? wow. Thanks for the post, thanks for the link for quick feedback so I can embarass myself publically with babble...

[bluebrocade.livejournal.com]

Ack! Why did I read that? WEEPING now! Great story but now you owe me a new, non-smashed to bits heart. Oh, Fraser! *clings*

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Here via sageness's ds_wporkshop link. This story is brutal and beautiful.

[chesamus.livejournal.com]

How did I miss this one??! This hurts at the cellular level, and yet I can't see any other way to end this. Asolutely, painfully, wonderful. And now I have to go read something happy...

[capt-spork.livejournal.com]

Oh! That hurt something awful. Beautifully done.

[exbex.livejournal.com]

I love pain fic! (no, really). This is very courageous, and I'll go as far as to say fitting. Fraser is a consummate hero, and the reality is that the hero never gets the guy or girl.

[of-fkilter.livejournal.com]

I totally have Dolly Parton wailing out "Jolene" in my mind right now. "I'm begging of you please don't take my man"!

I'm loving the pain. It's dark and sad and wistful and uplifting and strong.