When Ray went undercover as Vecchio, Welsh told him that he would have to make nice with the Mountie to pull off the undercover gig. Not only did he ‘make nice with the Mountie’, but he also made nice with Dief. It was easy for Ray to be buddies with Dief; even though he was more of a turtle guy.
Ray walked into his bathroom and saw that Fraser was taking a bath. The steam from the bath warmed the air and his gut was telling him that Fraser was probably having back pain.
‘Your back feeling better?’ Ray asked. Fraser was no longer an untouchable perfect Mountie and Ray worried about him.
‘Oh yes. The warmth is helping quite a bit.’
Ray grinned. ‘Greatness!’ He was happy that Fraser was feeling better. He didn’t want Fraser to feel pain even though he knew it was going to happen. ‘Can I join ya?’ Ray asked with a grin.
‘Of course. I would enjoy that very much,’ Fraser said with a slight smile.
Ray began taking off his clothes and left them in a pile on the floor. He grinned when he saw that Fraser’s cheeks turned red. They had seen each other naked several times, they were in a relationship for a while, but seeing Fraser was still flustered by nudity was still charming.
He got into the tub and settled back against Fraser. Fraser was warm and wet. He closed his eyes and just enjoyed the warmth and Fraser around him. Fraser rested his hands on Ray’s legs and Ray just enjoyed the closeness. When he first met Fraser, he thought that he was a perfect untouchable Mountie, but now he realized that Fraser was far from perfect and that was greatness as far as Ray was concerned.
He heard Dief’s nails click on the tiles and Ray opened his eyes and saw that Dief was sitting next to the tub.
Dief whimpered.
‘What’s up with Dief?’
‘Oh dear. It would seem that Dief wants to join us in the bathtub.’
‘Sorry, buddy but I don’t think you’ll fit,’ Ray said because both him and Fraser barely fit in the tub and Dief definitely wouldn’t fit with them.
Dief whimpered and Ray reached up and ruffled his fur.
‘Sorry, buddy,’ Ray said. An idea was forming in his brain.
The next day after he got home from work he put his plan into action. He sat down his shopping bag and took his turtle Fluffy out of his tank.
‘Hey, buddy. You wanna help with something? It’ll make Dief happy,’ He asked Fluffy as he lifted Fluffy and brought him up to his face.
Fluffy wiggled his legs and bobbed his head. Ray knew that Fluffy would be excited to make Dief happy. He might have thought that wolves and turtles were enemies, but Dief and Fluffy were buddies. Some mornings he would see them on the couch watching tv.
He walked into the bathroom with his bag and his turtle. He sat the bag of the floor and sat Fluffy in the tub, turned on the water and grinned when his turtle started splashing in the water.
He heard the front door open. He stuck his head out of the bathroom door and sure enough Fraser and Dief walked into the apartment.
‘Come here, Dief. I got a surprise for ya.’
Dief walked into the bathroom and his tail wagged like crazy when he saw the tub full of water.
‘Whatcha think? You wanna join Fluffy in the tub?’ Ray asked Dief.
Dief climbed into the tub with minimal splashing, several weeks before Fraser had had to explain to Dief that getting Ray’s bathroom floor wet while taking a bath was not befitting of an Alpha wolf. Dief nuzzled Fluffy who was still in the tub. Fluffy splashed Dief and Dief barked happily. Ray put the second part of his plan into action. He picked up a bag he had bought and dumped a bunch of brightly colored bath-toys into the tub. There were rubber ducks in all kinds of colors, there were little plastic balls and even a few cubes. Dief used his paw to push the toys to Fluffy and Fluffy pushed them back.
Ray grinned as he watched Fluffy and Dief played in the tub.
Fraser came up to Ray. ‘You bought toys for Dief and Fluffy?’
‘Yeah. I felt bad that Dief couldn’t take a bath with us and thought they might like them,’ Ray said as he continued to watch them play.
‘That is very thoughtful. You do tend to spoil them.’
‘Yeah. Yeah. I’m a big softie,’ Ray said with a grin. He did like spoiling them because they were both so cute.
He was happy that Dief was having fun in the bath, because the last he tried to give Dief a bath-bath (with dog shampoo and all that) Dief had complain the whole time; he wanted to keep his natural wolf scent. Ray had talked him into a bath by saying that ladies liked a clean scent. Fraser liked to sniff Ray neck, he liked Ray’s scent and Ray thought maybe Fraser was half a wolf too.
