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Shadow of the Bookman, Volume Two COMPLETED
Wordcount: 67781 and done
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Ray Vecchio, original characters, reference to canon characters

Ray, in Vegas. COMPLETE

Shadow of the Bookman: Volume Two Ray is undercover with the Mob and all eyes are on the Bookman, waiting for him to slip up. What choices does Ray have to make to maintain his cover?

Chapter Eight: Ray is forced to finally accept his role as the Bookman, and everything that goes with it.

And for those who missed it, Shadow of the Bookman Volume One is also available.

These are part of a four volume series. Volume Three covers the rest of Ray's year in Vegas, and Four looks at what happens when he comes home.

Watch this space for "season three" of Bookman.

Shadow of the Bookman, Volume

Two

Wordcount: 57535 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Ray Vecchio, original characters, reference to canon characters

Ray, in Vegas. (Apologies for having posted the announcements for these chapters late.)

Shadow of the Bookman: Volume Two is now nearing its conclusion. Ray is undercover with the Mob and all eyes are on the Bookman, waiting for him to slip up. What choices does Ray have to make to maintain his cover?

Chapter Six: Ray attends his niece’s funeral, meets a friend beneath a tree, and there are more deaths in the ‘Family.’

Chapter Seven: Ray has to make an impossible choice.

For those who missed out the first time, the first volume of Shadow of the Bookman is now complete.

Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/20449.html

Shadow of the Bookman, Volume Two

Wordcount: 41351 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Ray Vecchio, original characters, reference to canon characters

Ray, in Vegas.

Shadow of the Bookman: Volume Two is now underway. Ray goes undercover with the Mob - all eyes are on the Bookman, waiting for him to slip up. What choices does Ray have to make to maintain his cover?

Chapter Five: It would appear that the Mafia cheat at Monopoly, even funerals are not sacred, and muddy waters should not be consumed whilst one is in shock.

For those who missed out the first time, the first volume of Shadow of the Bookman is now complete.

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/19875.html

Shadow of the Bookman, Volume Two

Wordcount: 33355 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Ray Vecchio, original characters, reference to canon characters

Ray, in Vegas.

Shadow of the Bookman: Volume Two is now underway. Ray goes undercover with the Mob - all eyes are on the Bookman, waiting for him to slip up. What choices does Ray have to make to maintain his cover?

Chapter Four: Ray has a most unpleasant wake-up call, makes friends with the Yakuza,
and sees the sort of ghost that scares Armando.

For those who missed out the first time, The first volume of Shadow of the Bookman is now complete.

Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/19641.html

Shadow of the Bookman, Volume Two

Wordcount: 25518 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Ray Vecchio, original characters, reference to canon characters

Summary: Ray Vecchio, lost in Vegas.

AN# This is not a work in progress. The entire story arc is written and completed, all the way to the end of volume 4.

Previous chapters of Shadow of the Bookman: Volume Two here.
Chapter Three: Armando ‘looks after’ Ray. Ray gets his first sight of the Bookman’s accounts, and scares the FBI half to death.

For those who missed out the first time, The first volume of Shadow of the Bookman is now complete. What Vecchio family secret did the Feds use to turn Ray into the Bookman?

Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/19362.html

Shadow of the Bookman, Volume Two

Wordcount: 16866 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Noncon, underage
Characters: Ray Vecchio, original characters, reference to canon characters

Ray, in Vegas.

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Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/18977.html

Shadow of the Bookman

Wordcount: 40725 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Noncon, underage
Characters: Ray Vecchio, canon characters (Vecchio family, Harding Welsh, Bullring characters, Benton Fraser)

When Ray gets home he has some explaining to do.

"This mess was ruining his life, reaching out and sucking all the goodness out of everything he had."

Chapter Seven

Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/18130.html

Shadow of the Bookman
Wordcount: 33516 and climbing
Author: Butterflyghost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Noncon, underage
Characters: Ray Vecchio, canon characters (Vecchio family, Harding Welsh, Bullring characters, Benton Fraser)

Chapter Five - Summary: Ray recovers in the hospital, and other secrets come to light.

"Ray sat back, and went cold. "You realise what you just told me, don't you?"

"What?"

"You just told me that the FBI have been listening in on my family. Spying on my house."

Chapter Six - Summary: The pressure continues to mount.

"You people coming to the school now?" Ray's voice was clipped as he squared off against Agent Cash. "That's a new low, even for you."

Shadow of the Bookman
Wordcount: 18925 and climbing
Author: ButterflyGhost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Noncon, underage
Characters: Ray Vecchio, canon characters, (Vecchio family, Harding Welsh, Bullring characters, Benton Fraser) original characters.

Summary: Ray confronts his demons at the church, and entertains guests:

"If the Iguanas find out," Ray said, "they'll torture me. They'll torture me till I tell them everything, and then they'll bury me in the desert where nobody will ever find me. It'll take years to have me declared legally dead, and in the meantime Ma will be sitting in that house, every day, thinking maybe I'm alive out there somewhere, never knowing. That's the best case scenario. Worst case? They figure out who my family are and go after them. They'll spend the rest of their life in witness protection. Ma wouldn't live to see my pension."

Chapter Four

Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/16837.html

Shadow of the Bookman
Wordcount: 14056 and climbing
Author: ButterflyGhost
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Noncon, underage
Characters: Ray Vecchio, canon characters, (Vecchio family, Harding Welsh, Bullring characters, Benton Fraser) original characters.

Summary: The FBI have approached Ray to go undercover with the mob, and Ray has said 'no.' But it turns out that there is a skeleton in the Vecchio family closet. What is the secret which Ray can't allow to be revealed, and how do the FBI use it to turn him into the Bookman?

"At that moment, Ray had realised that he’d spent his whole life feeling inadequate, trying to live up to a man who really, he owed nothing to. A man with no loyalty, no love...

If what the FBI said was true, the man had never had a shred of loyalty, or decency at all."

Like most dS fans I've always wanted to know more about what happened to Ray Vecchio while Benny was away in Canada to persuade him to take the undercover gig, and what subsequently occurred in Vegas. This series looks to address that.

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

I promise from here on in to publish updates each Monday when I post a chapter!

Crossposts: http://bghost.livejournal.com/16511.html

Perfect Ten: Editor's Cut
author: bghost
fandom: due South
character: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: sex, violence, and vile, vile language. The vile language is mainly in Chinese, but just so you know... There are at least a billion people out there who could be offended. To whom I also apologise for my rubbish keyboard not allowing me to get the tones right. No insult to anyone's actual ancestors is implied, or should be inferred.
Word Count: 3228

Notes: This is the 'editor's cut' of Perfect Ten, posted on the compulsively inspirational ds_snippets. It's over ten times as long, and a thousand times filthier. (You have been warned.) Don't blame me, it's not my fault that Fraser can't hold his beer.

Oh yes, and congratulations to Wu Minxia! You rock, in any language.

(A salutory tale, which warns of the evils of alchohol, as illustrated by rampaging elephants, a blood bath, and an alternative Chinese lexicon.)

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My friend Vicki asked for a story in which Fraser and RayK are in a happy romantic relationship, raising a child. Now, once upon a time I thought I'd never write kidfic. (Once upon a time I thought I'd never write slash, and oh Lord, chapter three... look what happened!)

Anyway... here it is. And, for someone who hated the idea of kid!fic, was terrified of writing slash, and who hated the notion of Victoria having a child... I've got to say, I was wrong. Though I do say so myself, this is fun!

Thank you so much Vicki, for all the great ideas, and encouragement. Long may it continue.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/439504/chapters/749214

This is what happens when I sit up late at night chatting about wolves, and librarians, and fairy tales, and so on! After going through a rather emotional stage of my fic writing... THIS happened. (Warnings for... how can I put this... werewolf smut.) Blame Granny Fraser for being a werewolf librarian who decided to walk around my head for a night. Or Ride, depending...

http://archiveofourown.org/works/436422

Current Mood: weird
Current Location: somewhere in the deep dark wood

(Hoping I've posted to the right community now!)

I am delighted to say that my son has started writing fan fiction! He's a teenage lad, and his stories, so far, have been short, but I think with each attempt he's getting better, and his last one made me very proud. Yes... I know I'm his Mum, and I'm going to think he's wonderful, but I do think it's good for anyone, let alone a teenage boy. So... a Kong pov of what happens when he's taken to America.

Any encouragement has to be a good thing. I'm sure all us authors know how good feedback makes you feel. And I hope he continues writing because... well, it's good for you. :) Here it is, "Last of His Kind." (and if anyone out there knows what his name means, enlighten me! Something to do with Doctor Who and Marvel universe, I think...)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/435689

Current Mood: pleased

Hello everybody! I'm new to dreamwidth, but no longer new to dS fandom. I discovered the world of online dS on the 16th of February (a family birthday, hence why I remember) and since then it's taken over a large chunk of my life.

I've written a variety of different kinds of fics, ranging from casefics that I intended to parallel the series, and be the kind of thing that might have been shown on television, through crossovers, poetry, short stories, background fic.

If anybody's interested I'll put up a list of links to what I've done... I hope there's something for everyone. And before anyone asks, I swing both Rays... though I feel I have more in common with Vecchio. (Catholic upbringing, immigrant guilt thing going on.)

Anyway... most of my stuff is posted on AO3. Some is also on fanfic, but I plan for everything to go up on AO3, since I find it more user friendly, and easier to read.

http://archiveofourown.org/users/ButterflyGhost

Anyhoo... that's me. Let me know if you want to hear more about any of my fics... superman crossover, Benny as a baby, or the wonderful things that are happening in SLWalker and Kalijean's wizard!verse. http://archiveofourown.org/series/6043

And I'm sure I'll be popping in here a lot, because some really good writers are posting here, and I'll be along for no other reason than to read.