New Story: "The Minute After" part 2 of 4

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Title:  The Minute After, part 2 of 4
Author:  Me, Alex
Pairing:  Fraser/RayK
Beta'd by:  chitown_brit
Rating:  NC-17 for the sexy sex (and a little bit of the violent violence in part 4)
Genre:  Drama, angst, humor, procedural
Length/Status:  41,629 words total.
Warnings:  Sex, moderate violence, language. 

Summary:  Fraser kisses Ray.  Ray kisses back.  What happens next?  Ray struggles with his feelings, confronts homophobia at work, and (in parts 2-4), investigates a gay bashing.

Teaser: 

So it went like that for a couple of weeks, then a month, then a couple more weeks. Staying the night after they’d just ended a big case got to be their tradition, and when Ray strutted into the station the next day, proud as a banty rooster, everyone else could figure it was just over putting one in the can, and not over having gotten to spend the night with his partner, his best pal, the hottest guy in the entire Midwest, if not the entire world.

And it just happened that it was one of those mornings, one of those post-case, post-sleepover mornings, that he followed Frase into the bullpen to hear Detective O’Brien complaining, “--just because some faggot got his mascara smudged, doesn’t mean I have to--”

 

Read it here!

Comments

[alex51324.livejournal.com]

No problem--I do that sometimes too, especially with writers I'm not familiar with. But you can plan on reading it Thursday. :)