#faser/vecchio

[persephassax]

ms. fraser’s school of etiquette

after ray totally blows a date (again? it feels like “again” with him) and he’s lamenting about it, fraser offers to bring back an old friend to help ray up his game and spruce up his moves.

cue the return of ms. fraser, classy, demure, and one hell of a knock out (literally and metaphorically), whom ray is to take out on the town so that she can provide feedback on his manners and technique with women.

this is a first for ray: going out with a lady with the intention to woo her but without the pressure to succeed, intimacy with a woman who isn’t a blood relation. also, an opportunity to be both the better man no one but Benny (and maybe Ma, when she’s feeling sentimental at the holidays) believe him to be, as well as a chance to be vulnerable with a friend in a way he rarely gets to be (we love toxic masculinity!).

meanwhile, fraser gets to let loose a little bit. he might still be wearing a mask, but ms. fraser can do and say and feel things that a Constable of the RCMP could never allow. and ms. fraser likes the detective, whom she can tease and correct in a way that doesn’t carry with it some of the implicit moral judgement that comes with the same comments from the Mountie. and benny maybe gets to see a bit of ray that is usually hidden away, hard to suss out on the mean streets of chicago.

THEN EVERYONE GETS WEIRD AND GAY ABOUT IT AND THEN THEY MAKE OUT AND MORE GAY SHIT HAPPENS. THE END.

[p.s. shout out to @portlandwithyou for ms. fraser in stockings rather than pantyhose i am literally losing sleep over the image thanks]