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Title: Merely Improbable
Author: [livejournal.com profile] arrow00
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 708
Warnings: DUCKIES!
This is for [livejournal.com profile] nos4a2no9, who's more articulater than me.



Merely Improbable

by Arrow



The ducks were really the last straw, Ray decided. The last straw in a mongo road kill of straws, starting with performance arsonists and veering insanely into Russian spies older than his mother, and the ducks were the end of the line. If Ray had to deal with one more impossible fucking thing, he was going to explode, guts and blood and disgusting lumps of brain matter messing up the place.

"Tell me about the ducks, Fraser."

Fraser looked surprised to be pinned to the sofa. Ray dug the heel of his palm a little harder into Fraser's chest and saw Fraser's eyes flick up to his forehead. He knew Fraser was running a visual caliper test on the vein Ray had there. Fraser had told him once that he feared Ray would have a stroke before he hit forty.

"Yeah, I'm on the edge, buddy, and I'll tell you why." Ray knocked on Fraser's chest with his knuckles like something out of a monkey cage.

Fraser cleared his throat. "Why is that, Ray?"

"Because, Fraser, I've had it up to here with all this crazy impossible shit. So do me a favor and just tell me how, in that big old herd of ducks—"

"Ah, Ray—"

"Okay, pack of ducks—"

Fraser shook his head.

"Fucking pluck of ducks, okay? Give me that much, Fraser. A pluck of ducks."

"Yes, Ray." Fraser grimaced like it hurt. "A pluck." Quick eyebrow rub. "Your question?"

"Yeah, okay. So here's this huge pluck of two hundred ducklings swarming around. How in the hell did you know, out of all those little ducks, which of them was the one that had swallowed the evidence? Huh?"

Fraser opened his mouth and looked to the side. He scratched his neck.

Ray thumped him on the chest again to get his attention. "I'm waiting, here."

Fraser flicked his eyebrow. "Well, Ray, when I observed the ducklings I noticed that one of them looked as if he almost certainly had an upset stomach."

Fraser's eyes suddenly widened in alarm, but Ray couldn't quite see him properly through the red haze that was distorting his vision.

"Ray! Your forehead!"

"I'm fine. I'm fine." Ray took a deep breath and the swirly stars began to fade. He was still leaning heavily on Fraser's chest, and Fraser looked a little red himself. "See, we have a situation here, Fraser—I can't take one more impossible thing right now. Not one. So could you please—"

Okay, this was stupid. Trying to keep Fraser out of impossible shit was like trying to keep Augustus Gloop out of the chocolate river.

Ray put his knee between Fraser's legs and leaned closer, trying to impress on him the sheer importance of his request. "How about you just try to stick to the improbable for a while, huh? Cut me some slack on the impossible."

Fraser's face was still red, and for some reason a little bead of sweat had escaped his hairline and was trickling down his temple.

"Well, Ray," Fraser sounded creaky, "How exactly will I know how you define each particular term?"

"Whuh?" He was a little distracted by how hot Fraser looked, all sweaty and crumpled underneath him.

"That is, what is improbable to you might be impossible to me, and vice versa."

"You want impossible?"

"Well—"

"Because I think knowing a duck has swallowed a stolen ring just by taking a gander at its fuzzy little face is freakin' impossible, Fraser. Just what do you consider impossible?"

Fraser looked dumbstruck for a second, and then this unholy light shone in his eyes. It was a little creepy-looking, and for a second Ray almost lost his 'I'm so bad Tommy Lee Jones has nightmares about me' pose.

And then Fraser answered him by reaching up, grabbing Ray's collar, and yanking him down to give him the hottest, sloppiest, nastiest kiss in history, ever.

Ray's spine turned to goo. Other parts took up the slack in the stiffness department. Fraser sucked hard on his tongue and then let him go to stare up at him challengingly.

When his brain had stopped leaking, Ray took a breath and grinned.

"Nope. Not impossible."

Fraser smiled.


....................
2007.05.07
(I wuz all angsted out.)


Date: 2007-05-08 06:06 am (UTC)
ext_12745: (Default)
From: [identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com
That made me grin.

In particular, Other parts took up the slack in the stiffness department

:))

Date: 2007-05-08 06:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Hee! Tx.

Nice toez. :)

Date: 2007-05-08 10:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dessert-first.livejournal.com
Eeee! So hot.

"Well, Ray," Fraser sounded creaky, "How exactly will I know how you define each particular term?"

So reasonable.

"Whu?" He was a little distracted by how hot Fraser looked, all sweaty and crumpled underneath him.

So hot! Crumpled. Mmmm.

Good fic! And your icon is fabulous.

Date: 2007-05-08 11:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tealc-spoo.livejournal.com
Ha! and again ha! That was such and awsome Ray! are you set out to prove you can write every single character in perfect voice, evar?! Cause I'm thinking you can do it.

Date: 2007-05-08 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grey853.livejournal.com
Made me laugh, always a good thing first thing in the morning.

Date: 2007-05-08 02:06 pm (UTC)
ext_9263: (ds ray/fraser)
From: [identity profile] kristiinthedark.livejournal.com
That was so sweet! Oh, Ray. Not impossible at all!

Date: 2007-05-08 03:07 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-05-08 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Tank you. I love to crumple him.

[livejournal.com profile] dar_jeeling made the icon:
http://dar-jeeling.livejournal.com/90265.html

Date: 2007-05-08 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Eep! Pressures!

Maybe I will try Welsh next. I adore him.

TYK, TS.

Date: 2007-05-08 04:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-05-08 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
I loves your iconage.

Thank you, K.

Date: 2007-05-08 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Wee! Duckies! :)

Date: 2007-05-08 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alwaysaddled.livejournal.com
A pluck of ducks! I love it (the ducks and your story).

Date: 2007-05-08 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nos4a2no9.livejournal.com
*dies* Okay, that was pretty much exactly the opposite of "Edge of Snow" in every single way, and I loved it to death. You are so very versitle, m'dear! I loved Ray's vien. And Fraser being worried that he'll stroke out. And the ducks. And...everything. This was so cute and funny and exactly what I needed today. *hugs you*

Date: 2007-05-09 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mickeymvt.livejournal.com
*snicker*

Love Fraer taking the initiative!

Date: 2007-05-09 05:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Hee. Tx. It was that or 'a fuck of ducks.' :D

Glad you enjoyed!

Date: 2007-05-09 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Yay! Fangirls should get what they need to make it through the day.

So glad you liked it. Potential for embarrassment HUGE.

Date: 2007-05-09 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Thanks. I think the ducks gave him courage. :)

Date: 2007-05-11 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] viciouscats.livejournal.com
Heeee! So cute! :D

Date: 2007-05-12 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Thank you, but, duckies? Cute? :)

What's wrong with you, man?

Date: 2007-05-12 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] viciouscats.livejournal.com
*g* I'm pervy, I can't help myself. :)

Psst, looky looky what I've got for you while you were away writing wonderfully angsty post-CotW stories (and duckies, can't forget duckies!): come this way. :D

Date: 2007-05-13 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
OMG. You are too, too good to me. I haven't read half of those, and the first one is teh HOTNESS.

Serious.

You're giving me all sorts of idears.

Thank you, thank you!!!

I don't see the guys into heavy scenes, either. I love the light bondage stuff the best. Just the very idea of Fraser succumbing...rrrrrr.

Date: 2007-10-11 11:27 am (UTC)
ext_20943: (duck)
From: [identity profile] sam80853.livejournal.com
::grins::

Date: 2007-10-11 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
Back at ya. :)

Date: 2008-07-11 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mizface.livejournal.com
sigh. You're one of those authors I wanna *be* when I grow up. Love love love your stuff, and here's the line that made me laugh out loud this time:

Okay, this was stupid. Trying to keep Fraser out of impossible shit was like trying to keep Augustus Gloop out of the chocolate river.

off to read more!

Date: 2008-07-12 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com
aw, thanks mizface. so nice to get a comment on an older story. I'm glad if it made you laff.

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