Thanks, N9. I was really playing with this one, and you pegged it. I wanted it to feel like an episode (like in the Buck Frobisher ep, where one moment it's dark assassin-in-town foreboding and the next second they are slinging up onto borrowed horses and getting bucked off).

I don't think it was really an accident that Fraser let slip. I don't think his subconscious would let things stand with Ray not knowing why he'd squirreled.

>I think this was the first time I've read an anal sex scene that I found as appealing as a good blow job. And that sounded really, really weird<

Not at all. ;) Don't you ever wonder if us slashy girls are just riding the fine line of penis-envy? *bites lip*

Thank you for the lovely compliments. I always feel you really get my stories, N9. And that is a very sweet deal for me. :)