The Furry Doorstop

[donutsweeper]

Title: The Furry Doorstop
Pairing/Rating/Warning: Jack/Fraser, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Ray is confused when he finds Diefenbaker acting as a doorstop at Fraser's apartment.
Author's Note:  Due South/Torchwood crossover.  Written for travels_in_time

Ray walked down the hall to Fraser’s apartment, rapping on the door before pushing it open, like always.  But this time it only opened an inch.  He peered through the crack at the furry doorstop. 

“Deif?  What’ca doing?  Hey Benny, let me in!”

Blushing, and decidedly rumpled, Fraser finally opened the door.

A stranger grabbed Ray’s hand and shook it firmly.  “You must be Ray,” the man said, smiling.  “Benton’s told me all about you.  Sorry, gotta go.  I’m running late.  We lost track of time, errr, catching up.  Later, Benton!” 

Then he left, questions and confusion swirling behind him.

Comments

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

I hear you. Really.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

And there you are... back to the evil...

hmm.. to go for the double drabble or not....

[unfeathered]

Perhaps he might be more willing to talk after sex... *g*

(Have no idea if he would or not, since I don't know the characters very well, but it's an idea!)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

heehee I love these Due South crossovers - I haven't watched it in years but Benton and Jack just *fit* together so well :)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Severe indigestion from eating too much rich food??

I wish I could sit here all afternoon and *read* ...but I can't :(

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Quoting Ten again: "Stop it..."

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Love the userpic! (and, yeah.. we went a little off topic in the comments here... just a tad)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Glad you like, I honestly haven't watched that many recently, but I thought they just clicked together also, it's their 'old school' gentlemanly nature or something...

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

heee
Currently reading 'Charming the Pants' but I have to go out soon so I may have to finish later.. loving it so far though :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*bounces* Hooray! No idea how that one ended up being so long

[unfeathered]

Go on - it'd be fun! :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

No way on earth I could write the sex scene between them... I also think that it's a conversation they'd only have under dire circumstances, kind of like Ten and Jack's talk in Utopia, if the door and the fate of the settlers didn't hang in the balance they would never have talked

[unfeathered]

OK, do that then! *g*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I do NOT, NOT need another huge fic hanging over my head! Old Man 4 and my tardis_bigbang will NEVER get written then.

You people are all evil

[unfeathered]

Sorry! I didn't realise it'd have to be huge. :-(

And I forgot to say I liked the actual fic, too - I was so busy reading all the fascinating comments!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

You know me, if it's not a snapshot I can't do short. Glad you like the fic!

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

Severe indigestion from eating too much rich food??

I think that's entirely possible.

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

Frobisher? Just guessing.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

according to wikipedia you're right! Apparently the character was names after a famous Canadian explorer.

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

I had thought he was named after *that* Frobisher.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It hadn't occurred to me before, but you are 100% correct. Supposedly "The names 'Fraser' and 'Frobisher' are references to Canadian explorers, both connected to the search for commercial passages to the Pacific. Simon Fraser journeyed from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1808. However, the Fraser River (named after him) turned out to be unusable as a trade route. Sir Martin Frobisher was a 16th Century explorer who attempted three voyages in search of a Northwest Passage, but did not make it further than Northeastern Canada"

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

And of course at the very end of the last series, Ray K and Fraser load up with tack and tallow, hitch up the dogs, and head out:-

Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

Through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west
I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest
Who cracked the mountain ramparts and showed a path for me
to race the roaring Fraser to the sea

How then am I so different from the first men to this way
Like them I led a sheltered life and threw it all away
To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men
To find there but the road back home again

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I'm probably evil for even joining the conversation, but I'd like to register my interest in this story as well. There are so many parallels, it would be an interesting topic to explore, and Jack might be the only one who could drag a conversation like that out of Sheppard.

I can see how it wouldn't be a tiny little short fic, though. You know, whenever you get to it! :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Not evil at all! And it's on my list. You can't go wrong having a lot of interesting plot bunnies nipping at you!

[lurker1860.livejournal.com]

Catching up... must remember that *g*