[Ray would have stayed. Even with love for the big city and his usual reservations of Canada. He would have stayed despite the cold and the snow, despite the summers of mosquitoes and wilderness, even despite having to put up with Fraser day in and day out. He could have managed it. He might have even enjoyed it. But Fraser never asked and Ray never assumed.

Chicago was nostalgic though, in good ways and bad. He and Fraser had done so much in the city, from first meets to falling outs, to near death experiences and everything in between. But it also provided Ray plenty of memories of Stella, of their childhood romance and their attachment as they grew older. They shared plenty of their life together and now all that was being thrown away for some Italian cop who wasn't even that classy.

Benton did well not to push the matter further for the moment, the distraction of Diefenbaker proving to draw Ray out of his sulk to glance briefly over his shoulder at the wolf.]

Make sure you forget the rings, Dief. Gotta have at least one thing go wrong with the wedding. They ain't real weddings without a few disasters.

[And as much as Ray would love every bit of the wedding to be ruined, he would never actually do that to Vecchio of Stella. Especially considering Fraser's disapproving stares.]