New story: What Lies Beneath

[china_shop]

 
What Lies Beneath

Nearly 1300 words, post-CotW. With many thanks to sprat and secret_garden for beta. *hugs*

Summary: Kowalski gets mad and shoves Vecchio against a wall.

Comments

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I like hurty RayK, and I especially like that RayV still has warm feelings and memories of his relationship with Fraser, rather than bitterness or regret.

[china_shop]

Thank you! *beam*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

Ngrrgh. Wonderful. Also, I want there to be more of it. It feels like a first chapter of something. Something dirty, in my head. *G*

Not that I'm insisting on more, but that's just what it feels like.

[china_shop]

*beam* I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks! :)

(Out of authorial curiosity, does it feel like a first chapter of dirty R/R or dirty F/K? Just wondering.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

It feels like R/R, an open and shut case for R/R as a matter of fact. I was so surprised by your suggestion that it could have felt like F/K that I went back and reread it, and yeah, it could end up F/K, but it feels like R/R because it's from Vecchio's POV. Almost like, if it does end up being F/K, we won't see it happen, because presumably, Vecchio wouldn't witness it, so we wouldn't either.

Does that make any sense at all?

[china_shop]

It does make sense, and I think it's perfectly natural to read it with the R/R pairing, since those are the characters who're in it (*g*), except that if there's actually a spark of that there, it makes it much closer to sexual assault, rather than plain no-frills assault. Which... ewww. You know? My squick. So I personally wouldn't go from this to R/R. (Thanks so much for taking the time to re-read and answer. Much much appreciated.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

::rereads AGAIN:: Okay, I'd sort of dismissed the assaulty vibe for a couple of reasons. Assault (sexual or no-frills) is not a squick of mine, plus Kowalski is unhappy and spoiling for a fight, and I took the shoving as more of a posture (even though it freaked Vecchio out, it didn't really freak me because I don't think Kowalski would force himself on someone, but Vecchio is understandably cautious because he doesn't know Kowalski too well, presumably). I can totally see Kowalski physically confronting another guy and have it not mean too much to him.

So maybe the R/R I saw was sometime in the future, after they'd been partners for a while and things had settled down in Kowalski's mind, and there was calmness and understanding between them, and not so much with the adversarial verbal taunting and sudden closeness with walls.

[china_shop]

Understood. Thanks! :)

[lorem_ipsum]

Guh.

[china_shop]

*beam*