(Ode to Victoria)	 Disclaimer: This poem is written for the private
entertainment of fans. The author makes no claims to the series'
characters by the creation of this story. Fraser and Victoria belong to
Alliance, Paul Haggis and all the creative geniuses who made this show so
special. No infringement of any copyrights held by CBS, Alliance, CTV, TNT
or any other copyright holders of due SOUTH is intended. No money being
made here. 
 
 Note to the Readers: SPOILERS for Victoria's Secret. Did I really have to
tell you that? I wrote this a long time ago and don't know why I haven't
archived it here before now--but better late then never! Okay, this was
written in answer to a Challenge to write a DS Limerick, one that I
started, and when someone said they couldn't do Vicki I had to answer it
myself. This also has several allusions to my Fic, 'Fortitude Pass'. If
you've read it--you'll recognize the parts I mean. If not--you'll still
understand the poem--and maybe want to read the fic. Hey, I'll do whatever
I have to to hook in more readers! The meter is hardly perfect and the
rhymes are sometimes a stretch but-- Praise, comments, questions and
otters are all equally welcome--'though I do hope you'll enjoy! 'Thank you
kindly!'
 
 
 
 
 
    due SOUTH:
 Ode to Victoria
 By: Janice R. Sager
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 A wanted wheel man from Alaska fled
 Her flight of escape to Canada lead
 The plane went down
 without a sound
 And she faced the harsh tundra with dread
 
 Her pilot was a most evil man
 Victoria he would abandon
 the sentence was death
 and nothing less
 but he met his fate in a box canyon
 
 Ben followed their trail from the plane
 His duty to him was quite plain
 The quarry to track
 to arrest and bring back
 The felons who'd caused so much pain
 
 Fleeing from the ghosts of her past
 Victoria made for Fortitude Pass
 To escape the law
 she would give her all
 And risk death where no one else would trespass
 
 Ben knew that the danger was great
 That death just might be her fate
 if she ascended the hill
 the blizzard could kill
 If he followed his own death might await
 
 He found her huddled in a mountain crag
 little more than a doll made of rag
 Chilled and half dead
 in a snow covered bed
 Her plight at his heart did drag
 
 Using his rifle and coat to make a shelter
 And opening his arms, he just held her
 For a day and a night
 and a day they must fight
 Forcing words so the cold wouldn't take her
 
 When his voice was spent and words came no more
 When he realized they waited at death's door
 her voice touched his soul
 melded and made him whole
 The words of a poem through his thoughts did soar
 
 The words of that poem he would never remember
 but love was ignited like a dormant ember
 the storm passed away
 they'd survived the day
 And must face the harsh world of November
 
 Back down the mountain side they went
 though a thousand lifetimes they had just spent
 Ben must take her in
 a wanted felon
 though his sense of duty his heart it did rent
 
 Trust in the system with her he pled
 Trust me to help you he promised and said
 he did what he could
 as trail she stood
 But a guardsman in Alaska was dead
 
 Ten long years of her life slipped away
 so slowly the clock, day by day
 love turned to hate
 she watched the date
 And planned her revenge as youth fell away
 
 The shock when at last he saw her again
 reawoke a love beyond his ken
 she touched his heart
 then tore it apart
 For betrayal his soul she would rend!
 
 Victoria attacked all that he cherished
 She made his life truly nightmarish
 but she loved him still
 and so could not kill
 though she wished such feelings would parish
 
 She asked him to come with her aboard a plane
 When he said no she decided to escape by train
 the diamonds were scattered
 but none of it mattered
 Losing him again caused only great pain
 
 Come with me she called or you'll regret it
 his honor and duty he did forget it
 after the train he ran
 before her did stand
 then a shot her final victory upset it
 
 He stood frozen for a moment in time
 then in slow motion almost sublime
 he slipped back
 fell beside the track
 knowing only loves loss, a true crime
 
 I should be with her he told Ray
 Get an ambulance his friend did say
 the poem he whispered
 and remembered he'd kissed her
 As he felt his life slowly draining away.
 
 Months later in hospital he still lay
 slowly coming to grips with that day
 Dief at his side
 his heart it cried
 And slowly let love fade away.
 
 THE END