This is my first story so be gentle on me please. :) TYK to GooglyEyesTalk for the prompt of raccoons and DiefGirl and Rubberducky100 for your uploading help.

No, I don't own due South. You don't think someone named "TheBaconRaccoon" actually owns dS do you? LOL!

"She works hard for the money… so hard for it, honey…"

Donna Summer's voice filled Ray Kowalski's car the minute he turned on the engine. It was Monday morning and the radio being on was odd because he wasn't listening to the radio last night? It startled him and he turned it off immediately. He settled himself back into his seat and sighed. "It's too early in the mornin' for this." He said quietly to himself.

That's when his cell phone rang.

He pulled his phone out of his pocket. "Vecchio." He answered.

"Ray, it's me." Fraser voice answered.

"I'll be there in a minute, ok?" He looked down at the time on his watch and groaned.

"I know that, Ray, I was actually wondering if you were missing a bag of chips?"

"Chips?"

"Yes, I noticed you had a bag of potato twisters in the back of your car yesterday." Fraser said.

"Oh, that's right. Why ya askin' that?"

"Well," Fraser was pacing around the consulate while he spoke with Ray. "Dief brought a bag of the same chips home with him yesterday. I assumed they were yours?" Dief was standing next to Fraser while he spoke and whined when he heard the Mountie say his name.

Ray grinned. "Why can't you tell me this when we get back to the station, buddy?"

"Well, I was reading the nutrition facts on the side of the bag. Are you aware of how unhealthy these are?"

Ray grinned again. "Well, those are definitely mine then. I'll check the back." He leaned his seat back a little and turned his body to look around.

He dropped the phone to the seat and yelped.

"F-Fraser?" Ray yelled.

"Ray, are you alright? Ray?"

Ray was staring into the eyes of a raccoon that was sitting on his back seat. It growled at him and he jolted back.

"Ray?" Fraser shouted into the phone yet again. Now he was really worried and had stopped pacing.

"Fraser?" Ray forgot about his phone for a moment. He wanted to look around for it but he was paralyzed with fear. He could still hear Fraser enough though.

"Ray, what happened?"

"You're not gonna believe me." He swallowed hard.

"Ray, what is it?"

"There's a raccoon in my car."

"A raccoon, Ray?"

"Yeah, a raccoon."

The raccoon growled at him again.

Ray flinged. "Fraser, what do I do?"

"Ray, stay calm. Don't move. I'll come to you. You're at your apartment correct?"

"Yeah."

"I'll be there in 5 minutes. Stay calm and don't move."

Ray gulped. "Hurry up, ok?"

"I will."

Ray slowly looked over to the passenger seat and saw his phone. Then he heard the raccoon rustling around and looked back to it. The raccoon slowly crawled to the front and sat down on the passenger seat next to Ray's phone. Ray pushed himself against the door and as far away from the raccoon as possible.

That's when the raccoon started chewing on Ray's phone.

"Hey! Gimme that back!" He reached over in a split second and swiped his phone back. "Do ya know how much these things cost?" The raccoon whined, looked out the window, and looked back and straight into Ray's eyes.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to yell at ya."

The raccoon looked at him as if he understood.

Then Ray did something that even he didn't understand. He acted on his instincts and reached into the back slowly, with his eyes fixed on the raccoon the entire time, and pulled out another bag of chips. The raccoon leaned forward a little to grab the chips. "No, wait." Ray said and the raccoon leaned back.

He opened up the bag of chips and tossed one to the raccoon. It grabbed the chip quickly and devoured it.

"Want another?" Ray asked and pulled another one out of the bag for the raccoon to see.

The raccoon made a sound and opened its mouth.

Ray tossed another chip onto the seat and the raccoon ate it faster than the first time.

Ray smiled. His life just got slightly weirder.

That's all for now. Please review if you like it. TYK! :)