Title: Breaking the Waves
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Vecchio/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~25,000 words
Summary: After a devastating experience involving the Las Vegas and Florida mafia, Ray Vecchio struggles to put his life back together and make peace with the past. Luckily, he gets a little help from his friends.
Categories: drama, hurt/comfort, threesome, post-CotW
Notes: Many, many thanks to my outstanding betas,
secretlybronte,
j_s_cavalcante and
catwalksalone. JS offered invaluable technical and thematic insight, and helped me find an ending. SB was there to push me when I needed it, and cheer me on when I needed that even more. Cat gave me Vecchio, and showed me the way to his troubled and complex heart. This story would not have been possible without their incredible support and commitment to telling the best story possible.
Dedication: This one's for
china_shop and
brynnmck, whose moving, funny and sexy portraits of the OT3 continue to inspire me, and for
belmanoir and
sdwolfpup, who helped me see Vecchio in a completely new way. Large pieces of all of you are in this story, although this time I kept the dismemberment to a minimum :-)
*Please note: this story exceeds the posting length stipulated by LJ and so it is broken up here into six parts. You can find a link to each new section at the top and bottom of each post. If clicking isn't your style, you can find the story without section breaks
here at my
website. If you enjoyed this story (or didn't) please leave a comment in my journal, or shoot me an email at
nos4a2no9@gmail.com. Feedback is always welcome and very much appreciated.
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Part Six]
ETA: Okay, hopefully all tech problems have been ironed out! Did I mention how much I hate coding?