{"id":2592,"date":"2016-01-27T03:53:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2016-01-27T03:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:53:35","slug":"fic-equal-and-opposite-dseastwick-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Fic: Equal and Opposite (ds\/Eastwick, gen)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author’s Note:<\/strong> Written for fandom_stocking two years ago for Seascribe, but it’s been rattling around in my brain probably since I watched due South again for the first time after seeing Eastwick. Potentially an excerpt from a longer crossover, but if I haven’t written it yet, I’m guessing it’s not going to happen. :-\/ Also, I tagged the story “choose your own Ray” because I’m honestly not sure myself which one Fraser is talking to. It sounds alternately like both of them to me at points.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“So let me get this straight. You woke up this morning and suddenly remembered that you’re not Benton Fraser, you’re an angel.”<\/p>\n

“Well…no, Ray, that’s not technically true. I am Benton Fraser, son of Robert and Caroline Fraser. It’s just that before I was born–that is to say, before Benton Fraser was born–I was a messenger of God.”<\/p>\n

“So what’s your real name?”<\/p>\n

“Benton Fraser is my real name, at least for this lifetime.”<\/p>\n

“All right then: your ‘angelic’ name?”<\/p>\n

“Luciel.”<\/p>\n

“Your name is LUCILLE?”<\/p>\n

“No, not Lucille; Lu-ci-el. The accent is on the third syllable. It means ‘light of God’.”<\/p>\n

“Riiiiiight. And the reason you were sent down to Earth to become a human was…?”<\/p>\n

“To find and retrieve my fallen twin brother.”<\/p>\n

“Whose name is…?”<\/p>\n

“Lucifer. Although, being that he would have also assumed human form, he has probably also received a new name. Likely several, since he seems to enjoy collecting them; Satan, Beelzebub, Sebastian–”<\/p>\n

“Whoah, whoah, whoah. Fraser, are you seriously telling me that the Devil<\/em> is your evil twin<\/em> and God sent you here to arrest<\/em> him?”<\/p>\n

“Well, essentially…yes.”<\/p>\n

“All right, so assuming I take all this at face value and don’t just decide you’ve finally gone all the way around the bend, how do we find him? You got some sort of built-in Devil detector?”<\/p>\n

“Well, yes, of a sort. As twins, we share a special bond above and beyond that which exists between all of the malekh. I should be able to use that to discover his location within a few square miles.”<\/p>\n

“And what then?”<\/p>\n

“Well, even though our human forms do not share the same mortal mother, ultimately our true natures would out, giving us the same likeness regardless of any genetic differentiation.”<\/p>\n

“Huh?”<\/p>\n

“He’ll look just like me.”<\/p>\n

“Okay. Hell, why not? Let’s go.”<\/p>\n

“Then you do believe me?”<\/p>\n

“I don’t know. But it would certainly explain a lot about why you’re such a do-gooder. Are all Canadians angels?”<\/p>\n

“No, not at all. Canadian was simply, shall we say, the simplest disguise for one such as I to assume without being forced to violate my essential nature.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author’s Note: Written for fandom_stocking two years ago for Seascribe, but it’s been rattling around in my brain probably since I watched due South again for the first time after seeing Eastwick. Potentially an excerpt from a longer crossover, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[759,924,159],"tags":[113,914,928,124,927,852,761,926,925,204,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azar.ink-and-quill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}