brain. mooshy.
Sometime in the summer of 2003, somebody wrote a DS flashfic which featured a young Benton Fraser in boarding school, drinking and cursing and talking with his classmates and eventually discovering that he wanted to be a Mountie, not in emulation of his father, but of Gerard. I could have sworn
lamardeuse or another Real Canadian had written it, but now I can't remember which challenge it was for, nor find the story anywhere. Help?
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silverakira, I was going to point you to this story by way of saying, yes. The Benton Fraser=Ryan Atwood parallel can certainly be made.)
ETA:
pearl_o has solved the mystery! The story was
cmshaw's Boys Will Be..., from the Summer of '79 Challenge.
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