LINKDING

➤ F doesn't like feeling different

<blockquote>"In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, 'It's deja vu all over again.'"</blockquote> ➤ post-CotW, arsonist up north, restorative justice, F feels he's getting soft ➤ I feel weird about the ending decision being that Fraser moves back to Chicago from Canada, because there's not enough evidence throughout the fic that Chicago is actually a place either Ray or Fraser is happy in? ➤ The whole fic is about this small town Fraser lives in, and introducing us to a bunch of different people in town who genuinely care about Fraser, and then the happy ending is just....leaving them. also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/75097

<blockquote>Two seconds before he walked out the front door of Kelsey's Bar, Ray felt an itch between his shoulder blades that made him turn around and take a quick glance back at the table where he'd been sitting. Two seconds after he shrugged and let the door close behind him, it struck him that everyone at the table had been staring at him. It took Ray fifteen minutes before he figured out why they'd been staring. </blockquote> ➤ in which Ray kisses Fraser on autopilot before leaving