la la la DEATH and DESPAIR

[schmerica]

Keeping up with my bizarrely morbid streak -- since my last viewing of the Pilot, I am now strangely intrigued with the idea of a story where, after Call of the Wild, Fraser has stayed up in the Northwest Territories and Ray has gone back to Chicago. Until, of course, Ray dies and Fraser has to go to Chicago and bring his killers to justice -- with all the deliberate parallels of the pilot, of course, la la la investigating, la la la Fraser versus everybody else, etc. Only I think Ray Kowalski's ghost could show up a lot earlier than Bob Fraser's did, because I'd want it to be a slash story, and I don't think this Fraser and RayK would have actually had a relationship. There could be lots of subtext-filled pre-slashy flashbacks on Fraser's end, too!

If only I could, you know, do plot or length of any sort. Sigh.

(On rereading, I realize this sounds very slightly similar to Kowalski is Bleeding, but it really wouldn't be; I think it's just the "stubborn Fraser" and "investigating" things that make it sound that way, but really, those are relatively basic elements.)

I also think there should be more stories where Fraser and Ray's really, really bad habits of wandering off to do dangerous stuff in different states and/or countries without informing anybody of anything gets them into trouble. Or just Fraser doing it to Ray. One of these days, he's going to end up naked in Wisconsin without money for a payphone, and then what is he going to do?

Comments

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Dude, so would I! I could provide you with all kinds of story triggers, in the time-honored LJ manner (cranberry bogs, pickled turkey gizzards, jackpine savages, Leinenkugel beer, golfball-sized mosquitoes, golfball-sized hail, mildewy cabins, deranged biker gangs with guns) drawn from my sordid Wisconsonian experiences. And then you provide the nakedity.

However, I would pay you even more to write that first story. Death and Despair!

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Grergh. I read that list of triggers and thought you were just doing random word association by throwing darts at a dictionary or something. Cranberry bogs? What's a jackpine? I have no idea what you're talking about, and it terrifies me.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Even living for 28 years in Wisconsin, I never came into contact with pickled turkey gizzards.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, bogs are how you grow cranberries.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

They might be how *you* grow cranberries. I don't grow them at all. In fact, nobody here grows them. Presumably due to the lack of bogs.

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

::butts in:: Hee! ::butts out::

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

I really want to hear the sordid story about you and the cranberry bog . . .

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You like the death and despair! Color me shocked! *g*

Actually, though, I really really do like the idea of Fraser coming to Chicago on the trail of the killers of Ray Kowalski. If I can't get anyone else to write it, I think I'm going to need to save it until I become a better writer.