[ Fraser takes a little longer to relax. Turnbull may be gone, but the tension takes longer to ebb; the faster it set in, the harder it was to shift. And while he knew that they truly had pulled the wool over the younger man's eyes, they'd still been caught in flagrante delicto. It's going to take a moment or two to get the mood back. There's a hole in the door, for one thing, a hole over which Fraser hangs his hat. ]
You were very convincing.
[ What with the very convincing nodding and looking mad, how could even a smart Mountie hope to know any better. And obviously there was Fraser's magnificent talent for lying. Well. It was magnificent considering he didn't exactly have much practice. Right, right. It was awful. But Turnbull had fallen for it, hadn't he?
Fraser breathed deeply, inhale, exhale, then he turned on the spot, eyes dancing across the room to where Ray stood with his shirt on inside out looking impossibly mussed, his hair still damp, impossible to miss arousal in his eyes. Fraser himself was naked down to the waist and past it, just as damp, just as aroused, with a split lip besides. Who missed such obvious signs as that?
There was a good, clean answer for that: Fraser would have, five years ago. And as if to prove it: ]
We can pick up where--
[ His breeches fell off his hips, caught around his knees, and Fraser tipped over as though in slow motion, crashing gracelessly onto his face at Ray's feet. ]
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You were very convincing.
[ What with the very convincing nodding and looking mad, how could even a smart Mountie hope to know any better. And obviously there was Fraser's magnificent talent for lying. Well. It was magnificent considering he didn't exactly have much practice. Right, right. It was awful. But Turnbull had fallen for it, hadn't he?
Fraser breathed deeply, inhale, exhale, then he turned on the spot, eyes dancing across the room to where Ray stood with his shirt on inside out looking impossibly mussed, his hair still damp, impossible to miss arousal in his eyes. Fraser himself was naked down to the waist and past it, just as damp, just as aroused, with a split lip besides. Who missed such obvious signs as that?
There was a good, clean answer for that: Fraser would have, five years ago. And as if to prove it: ]
We can pick up where--
[ His breeches fell off his hips, caught around his knees, and Fraser tipped over as though in slow motion, crashing gracelessly onto his face at Ray's feet. ]