anna's beloved moments meme

[schmerica]

Quoting from stumbledhere from in this entry: Okay. On the note of my conversation with SK about "End of the Road", I continued my email to her by telling her that the other night I made a list of my favorite dS fic moments. Not my favorite fics, or the ones I read all the time, but just the moments that I replay in my head sometimes when I am sitting on the subway or driving for a long time or stopped at a red light or staring at the ceiling in my bedroom.

So anna wants us *all* to make our lists, too, and give them to her. So I did that, because I am a pushover.

These are basically the first ten or so crystal-clear moments that popped into my head when I closed my eyes to think this meme over; I'm sure the exact list would change at any other given time. Also, I put the authors into alphabetical order, because I'm obsessive like that.

+ Ray rubbing his hand across his beard in Fucking Rain.

+ Ray waking up to hear Fraser talking to Dief about him in Bugs and Thorns. "Yes, I did notice he smells like cucumbers. No, I don't think that's strange. You realize I wouldn't be having puppies anyway?" (This I did not look up, so it's not word accurate.)

+ Fraser and the ten minutes grace in Leaving Normal.

+ Ray fucking up his hands on the telephone pole in the hockey AU.

+ Ray driving into Canada with Michael at the end of Sunday's Child. (Hi, I'm a SAP.)

+ Ray coming in after cheating on Fraser in End of the Road, and Fraser smelling him, and that whole conversation they have, and then Fraser leaving for work.

+ Fraser crying in the bathtub and telling the wolf story in in your corner (ha, F/V alert!)

+ Pretty much the entirety of Homemaking, but especially this part: For a second Ray was tempted to whip off the towel and take him up on it, because Fraser had hands that could make a shelter out of two overcoats and a tree branch, and they were just as talented at other things. Which I cheated and looked up, but whatever.

+ Fraser getting the handjob from Charlie Anderson in Passion.

+ The scene with Dief and Bob Fraser in Mangy Dog, with Fraser calling Dief off, it doesn't matter, it's all right, stew is *fine*. (Actually, almost all of this story is completely there in my head; I'm trying to be good and just pick one. But, oh! Dief is deeply ensconced in my left armpit as well.)

+ Ray banging his hand against the steering wheel so he'll stop being a sicko thinking about beat-up!bloody!Fraser in The latest party.

Comments

[aerye.livejournal.com]

Ray coming in after cheating on Fraser in End of the Road, and Fraser smelling him, and that whole conversation they have, and then Fraser leaving for work.

Just adding my yes, yes, yes! to this because for me, this moment is when everything breaks, and not because of the cheating, really, but just because this is the moment when it's no longer possible for them to go back, and everything afterwards is the painful slow trudge to the end. God, that scene killed me--I was an absolute wreck.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

There are just really few things more intensely satisfying to me to read than a really well-done argument scene. It's the flipside of porn, I suppose: that emotional connection, pressing each other's button, the knowledge of each other, the intensity. Mmmm.