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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.

( Read more... )

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

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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

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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!