Due South dream
Aug. 11th, 2006 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHad a dream with Benton Fraser and both Rays. Living together. As a three of them. Which is not usually the kind of thought that occurs to me, because personally I can't see RayV that way, but the idea that Benton could seems perfectly reasonable. So having two Rays he then has to make a home with both of them. Which is easier said than done.
Not because they don't want to get along. They really do. They're all like tiptoe around and everso polite to each other, because this really has to work. So mostly it goes great.
But then there are towels.
And tablecloths, and plates, and all those bits and pieces that say 'home', or at least 'homewares'. Because they have three people, with quite different styles, and now only one house. And while using all their old stuff might seem reasonable, it looks like their old stuff. Three sets of stuff, with very little in common. So it becomes a Thing that they get stuff that is Theirs, and not quite so obviously just joined at the edges.
So they go to shops, and go to more shops, and some more shops after that. And after a while Benton is stood there behind the others, standing very straight, and rubbing his eyebrow. The two Rays, who would usually read this, are a little distracted, because they cannot agree on even one thing. And of course this being a democracy, they kind of expect Benton to break the deadlock, but he is not quite that bad at relationships.
The problem is... well, B suggests that maybe to be going on with they could get something temporary, and both Rays practically yell "No! This is not temporary!"
And while they're stunned to silence by having actually agreed on something, Benton finds this a promising start. And maybe they'd go home then and, er, work on the understanding, but it is a long way to home, and they still have only a double duvet on a king size bed, and actually the silence doesn't last long.
Benton excuses himself and wanders off a little way.
And has a cunning plan.
He buys table napkins. 40 of them. In a red to match his uniform. And he gives them as a gift to Mama Vecchio.
So the Vecchios have a nice party, and they use the new napkins, and she is very grateful. Always so polite, so generous. And, okay, 40 is a little much for dinner, and not quite enough for, oh, say, weddings, but that's okay, it was so thoughtful. And the red does not quite match anything else they have, but its very... Canadian. And Benton, ever so apologetic, must of course correct his error immediately, and go buy her exactly what she would want. And after trying to talk him out of it, she finally agrees, and offers to come along and then they'll get it just exactly right.
And while they're out, she sees some things, and wouldn't this be perfect for Raymundo? And this, and maybe this? And this, this and this having duly been bought, and appreciated by Raymundo, and put in their proper places in the home, next time the senior Mrs Kowalski comes to visit there are a few new things around. And maybe they're not to her taste, but you know, you got to compromise when you're setting up a home. But maybe not quite so much next time? So RayV tries to not be insulted on his mother's behalf, which is not so easy. And basically the two mothers get together and start talking, and now the argument transfers up a generation. Because this might not be exactly what they had in mind for their sons, and okay, on a second marriage you'd think they'd figure these things out for themselves, but if something needs doing for their kids they're going to do it perfectly.
And Ray, and Ray, and Benton, can go out and buy some stuff that's kind of plain and maybe not quite perfect, but hey, its only temporary. The stuff. The living together? By the time their mothers go through making everything just right... well, they wouldn't want to be the ones telling them they're breaking up. Not in this century.
And Benton, privately, thinks this is kind of perfect.
And now they have a king size bedspread. And, okay, always somebody ends up somewhere sticking out the edge, but now the only remaining solution is to get closer, and this they can all live with.
Yes this *was* all from the dream. And also some stuff with RayK and dancing, that turned into a plot bunny for a conversation with RayV after I woke up. Because it starts out about partners. They've done partners before, Benton is great at partners. Especially the unspoken parts. Kind of like Dief, who can't hear what you say, just sees what you mean. So dancing with Ben, that's always good. But RayK does not so much know how to dance with three, unless they keep changing partners. And with this idea he is not so much happy. So RayV sighs and agrees, and says yeah, its kind of like leading, the old rules don't work so good this way. RayK disagrees, says its easy to both lead, you just have to both be good at... well, following.
So Benton comes home and finds they two Rays kind of clomping about the floor, trying to learn to dance together. And smiling a lot.
I haven't watched the show in a while, and I never get these bunnies, yet today? Whole story in my head.
Whole curtainfic! With a three I don't quite believe in!
Which is much, much better than the first time I woke up, which had a whole conspiracy-murder theme going on and was deeply scary.
I guess mounties make great comforters.
Not because they don't want to get along. They really do. They're all like tiptoe around and everso polite to each other, because this really has to work. So mostly it goes great.
But then there are towels.
And tablecloths, and plates, and all those bits and pieces that say 'home', or at least 'homewares'. Because they have three people, with quite different styles, and now only one house. And while using all their old stuff might seem reasonable, it looks like their old stuff. Three sets of stuff, with very little in common. So it becomes a Thing that they get stuff that is Theirs, and not quite so obviously just joined at the edges.
So they go to shops, and go to more shops, and some more shops after that. And after a while Benton is stood there behind the others, standing very straight, and rubbing his eyebrow. The two Rays, who would usually read this, are a little distracted, because they cannot agree on even one thing. And of course this being a democracy, they kind of expect Benton to break the deadlock, but he is not quite that bad at relationships.
The problem is... well, B suggests that maybe to be going on with they could get something temporary, and both Rays practically yell "No! This is not temporary!"
And while they're stunned to silence by having actually agreed on something, Benton finds this a promising start. And maybe they'd go home then and, er, work on the understanding, but it is a long way to home, and they still have only a double duvet on a king size bed, and actually the silence doesn't last long.
Benton excuses himself and wanders off a little way.
And has a cunning plan.
He buys table napkins. 40 of them. In a red to match his uniform. And he gives them as a gift to Mama Vecchio.
So the Vecchios have a nice party, and they use the new napkins, and she is very grateful. Always so polite, so generous. And, okay, 40 is a little much for dinner, and not quite enough for, oh, say, weddings, but that's okay, it was so thoughtful. And the red does not quite match anything else they have, but its very... Canadian. And Benton, ever so apologetic, must of course correct his error immediately, and go buy her exactly what she would want. And after trying to talk him out of it, she finally agrees, and offers to come along and then they'll get it just exactly right.
And while they're out, she sees some things, and wouldn't this be perfect for Raymundo? And this, and maybe this? And this, this and this having duly been bought, and appreciated by Raymundo, and put in their proper places in the home, next time the senior Mrs Kowalski comes to visit there are a few new things around. And maybe they're not to her taste, but you know, you got to compromise when you're setting up a home. But maybe not quite so much next time? So RayV tries to not be insulted on his mother's behalf, which is not so easy. And basically the two mothers get together and start talking, and now the argument transfers up a generation. Because this might not be exactly what they had in mind for their sons, and okay, on a second marriage you'd think they'd figure these things out for themselves, but if something needs doing for their kids they're going to do it perfectly.
And Ray, and Ray, and Benton, can go out and buy some stuff that's kind of plain and maybe not quite perfect, but hey, its only temporary. The stuff. The living together? By the time their mothers go through making everything just right... well, they wouldn't want to be the ones telling them they're breaking up. Not in this century.
And Benton, privately, thinks this is kind of perfect.
And now they have a king size bedspread. And, okay, always somebody ends up somewhere sticking out the edge, but now the only remaining solution is to get closer, and this they can all live with.
Yes this *was* all from the dream. And also some stuff with RayK and dancing, that turned into a plot bunny for a conversation with RayV after I woke up. Because it starts out about partners. They've done partners before, Benton is great at partners. Especially the unspoken parts. Kind of like Dief, who can't hear what you say, just sees what you mean. So dancing with Ben, that's always good. But RayK does not so much know how to dance with three, unless they keep changing partners. And with this idea he is not so much happy. So RayV sighs and agrees, and says yeah, its kind of like leading, the old rules don't work so good this way. RayK disagrees, says its easy to both lead, you just have to both be good at... well, following.
So Benton comes home and finds they two Rays kind of clomping about the floor, trying to learn to dance together. And smiling a lot.
I haven't watched the show in a while, and I never get these bunnies, yet today? Whole story in my head.
Whole curtainfic! With a three I don't quite believe in!
Which is much, much better than the first time I woke up, which had a whole conspiracy-murder theme going on and was deeply scary.
I guess mounties make great comforters.
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Date: 2019-04-01 03:18 pm (UTC)It is not a fandom I have written for, just read.
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Date: 2019-04-01 03:33 pm (UTC)Also, I totally relate to what you said in your bio about being a second generation SF fan growing up with reading F&SF.