For the Ink Challenge by Indeliblefancy
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ds_flashfictionHello, new girl posting her first story for the ink challenge. Please be kind.
Title: Nothing Much
Rating: G
Gen
518 words
unbetaed
It wasn't something worth bothering over, it really wasn't, but Ray couldn't get the image out of his cockamamie head. On anybody else, it wouldn't have even attracted his attention, but on Fraser . . . What Ray couldn't get passed was that Fraser hadn't noticed it, couldn't feel it, it was so big. Well, maybe it wasn't all that big. Maybe it was actually teeny-tiny, like it had looked when Ray had first noticed it, and it was just Ray's wacked-out imagination that had increased the size of the ink smudge just left of Fraser's upper lip to the size of the Canadian National Tower. Now, Ray knew there was no way that anything the size of the Canadian National Tower could comfortably fit on Fraser's face, but still, the thing, that deep blue thing against the ice field of white that was Fraser's cheek was huge, no other word for it, gargantuan.
" . . . Ray, Ray!" Fraser got his attention again, the smudge bouncing up and down as he spoke.
"Yeah, Frase?" Ray shuffled some very late paperwork around his desk trying not to look back at Fraser's mesmerizing inkblot.
"Did you hear what I said about the significance of finding a mixture of talc and glucose in Miss Pennyworth's apartment?"
"It's bad?" Ray guessed, looking back up and giving in to the urge to rub his own cheek in sympathy.
"Well, while not indicative of any crime in and of itself, considering the pertinent facts of the kidnapping, yes. I'd say it is very bad."
"So now we should . . ." Ray waited for Fraser to fill in the blank because he'd already forgotten what they were talking about, such was the power of The Almighty Splot.
" . . . Question Mr. Faulkner and Mrs. Elderwhite in hopes that they will crack under your expert interrogation," Fraser answered in a voice one might employ with a two-year-old.
"Ah, okay." Ray hopped up and pulled the keys to the goat from his front jeans pocket, dropped them under the desk and went searching for them.
"Are you all right, Ray?" Fraser asked, popping his smirch with a cheek attached to it under the desk to be of assistance.
"Yeah, yeah. I just . . . " They found the keys and stood up too close together, getting an odd look from Huey who was passing Ray's desk on his way to the break room, "You got some uh, something on your uh . . ." Ray waggled a finger in the air in front of his own cheek as he took a step backwards.
"Oh, pardon me." Fraser pulled out his starched white handkerchief and rubbed vigorously at the wrong side of his face. "Did that do it?"
"Uh, yeah, you look great," Ray lied, not wanting to spend any more time on his own weird hang-up about Fraser's face. It wasn't that big. Nobody else would notice it. Nobody else was that cracked.
"Thank you kindly," Fraser said, placing his Stetson on his head, and they headed for the door.
Title: Nothing Much
Rating: G
Gen
518 words
unbetaed
It wasn't something worth bothering over, it really wasn't, but Ray couldn't get the image out of his cockamamie head. On anybody else, it wouldn't have even attracted his attention, but on Fraser . . . What Ray couldn't get passed was that Fraser hadn't noticed it, couldn't feel it, it was so big. Well, maybe it wasn't all that big. Maybe it was actually teeny-tiny, like it had looked when Ray had first noticed it, and it was just Ray's wacked-out imagination that had increased the size of the ink smudge just left of Fraser's upper lip to the size of the Canadian National Tower. Now, Ray knew there was no way that anything the size of the Canadian National Tower could comfortably fit on Fraser's face, but still, the thing, that deep blue thing against the ice field of white that was Fraser's cheek was huge, no other word for it, gargantuan.
" . . . Ray, Ray!" Fraser got his attention again, the smudge bouncing up and down as he spoke.
"Yeah, Frase?" Ray shuffled some very late paperwork around his desk trying not to look back at Fraser's mesmerizing inkblot.
"Did you hear what I said about the significance of finding a mixture of talc and glucose in Miss Pennyworth's apartment?"
"It's bad?" Ray guessed, looking back up and giving in to the urge to rub his own cheek in sympathy.
"Well, while not indicative of any crime in and of itself, considering the pertinent facts of the kidnapping, yes. I'd say it is very bad."
"So now we should . . ." Ray waited for Fraser to fill in the blank because he'd already forgotten what they were talking about, such was the power of The Almighty Splot.
" . . . Question Mr. Faulkner and Mrs. Elderwhite in hopes that they will crack under your expert interrogation," Fraser answered in a voice one might employ with a two-year-old.
"Ah, okay." Ray hopped up and pulled the keys to the goat from his front jeans pocket, dropped them under the desk and went searching for them.
"Are you all right, Ray?" Fraser asked, popping his smirch with a cheek attached to it under the desk to be of assistance.
"Yeah, yeah. I just . . . " They found the keys and stood up too close together, getting an odd look from Huey who was passing Ray's desk on his way to the break room, "You got some uh, something on your uh . . ." Ray waggled a finger in the air in front of his own cheek as he took a step backwards.
"Oh, pardon me." Fraser pulled out his starched white handkerchief and rubbed vigorously at the wrong side of his face. "Did that do it?"
"Uh, yeah, you look great," Ray lied, not wanting to spend any more time on his own weird hang-up about Fraser's face. It wasn't that big. Nobody else would notice it. Nobody else was that cracked.
"Thank you kindly," Fraser said, placing his Stetson on his head, and they headed for the door.
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