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RCW 139 - a due South ficlet collection, Due South Archive
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2024-07-08
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That Dream Again & That Awakening

Summary:

Ray dreams that dream again, then he awakens.

Notes:

Written for the RCW 139 Ficlets Collection, a challenge to write a 139-word 3-paragraph fic where the first paragraph starts with "R," the second paragraph starts with "C," and the third paragraph starts with "W".

Also written for the dSC6D snippets comm on Dreamwidth, Challenge 7. The several prompts presented were "awake," "stir," "stretch," "toss," and "like you're choosing between choking and....". How many of the prompts to use was optional -- I used all the prompts 'cause that's how I roll.

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Ray dreams that dream again, like when he was really drowning in the depths. Ray dreams that dream again, like when he was really soaring in the sky. Somehow both are like how he feels about his life with Fraser -- like he's just about to die and like he's never been more alive.

Cold water, dream-vivid, covers him. Open sky, dream-vivid, surrounds him. He’s tossing and turning now, waking Fraser beside him and Dief at the foot of the bed. The wolf grumbles, stirs, stretches, and settles down again. Ray dreams that he’s choosing between choking and surfacing, cries out and wakes up shaking.

Warm embrace, Fraser hugging him and murmuring “Ray, Ray, Ray” in that repetitive Fraserish way of his. It calms Ray and his shaking ceases. Ray mimics him fondly with “Frase, Frase, Frase,” and then “Ben”.