Disclaimer: I don't own Due South. If I did… I don't think I'd have changed much. I love this show.
This is in response to one of the challenges posted in the Due South Forum.
Francesca Vecchio was walking past the broom closet when the sound of voices inside made her stop dead in her tracks.
"What are Benny and Ray doing in the closet" She whispered to herself. As she was about to open the door, something stopped her.
"Come on Benny."
"Ray. I really don't think… oh."
"See that's better isn't it Benny?"
"Oh ye… I mean (coughs) yes thank you Ray" Francesca held her breath. She didn't want to let her imagination run wild on this one.
"Here Benny let me do that for you."
"Really Ray. I'm fine. I… Oh my. Oh, I…" Francesca couldn't take it anymore. She ran away from the broom closet, tears running down her cheeks. Bursting into the ladies room she was confronted by Elaine.
"Frannie, what is it?" What's wrong?" Francesca sniffed a few times and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
"It's Benny. He's… oh God… he's gay." Elaine's face fell, her jaw dropped.
"What do you mean?"
"I heard him and Ray, in the closet." Elaine smile and shook her head.
"They always go in there to talk. It doesn't mean that Benny's gay." Francesca clenched her fist and stomped her foot.
"No! You don't understand. I heard them… you know! Benny's gay… with my brother. I think I'm going to be sick." She ran into one of the stalls and began to heave into the toilet bowl. Elaine just stared at her and rolled her eyes, Frannie always was a bit of a drama queen. Outside she heard a commotion and so she stuck her head around the door to take a look. Detectives Huey and Gardino were talking animatedly.
"You here that Louis? The mountie's gay." His partner gave him a friendly punch on the arm.
"Yeah I heard but… so's Vecchio." Huey laughed.
"What you never suspected that?" The partners walked off down the corridor laughing with each other. Elaine went back into the washroom, there was going to be trouble, she could see it coming. What were people going to say when word got out that the Mountie wasn't available? What were the consequences going to be for Ray? Elaine was going to get to the end of this if it killed her. What was she to do if it really was true that the broom closet wasn't the only closet that the constable and the mountie hid in?
Please R & R. Should I continue?