Dead Guy Hiding    

Here's the story mentioned in the notes for "A Matter Of Trust". After
AOL/Hotmail screwed up twice while Sama was trying to get it back to me,
it finally came through the third time. *g* Anyway, as usual, I want to
thank Sama for beta reading it even when she has been extremely busy this
few weeks, so THANKS!! 

Disclaimers: Situations and characters aren't mine. Ain't makin' no money
so please don't sue!! 

Feb 99 ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *~ Dead Guy Hiding
 By Eugenie Chua   Normally I hate stiffs. Can't even bare to look at' em,
not to mention touchin' em and examining' em like Fraser and Mort always
seemed to be doin'. But this dead guy, this dead guy was somehow
different. This dead guy didn't bother me that much. Maybe because he
looked so...so alive, but man did he smell!  I wanted to report the body
to Welsh, but then Francesca walked in and freaked out, muttering
something like, "Oh my God! Oh my God! He killed him!" Who's he? I got my
answer when Fraser came back in from getting whatever Frannie had to say.
Frannie thought I killed the guy. No, wait a second, that didn't came out
right, what I meant was that Frannie thought that her brother, the real
Ray Vecchio, had killed the guy. Not me. I don't even know who the hell
the dead guy is! Or is that was? Am I even making sense here? Anyway,
Fraser said that we'd have to delay reporting the body to Welsh 'cause
that'd get the IA involved which, in turn, would blow Vecchio's cover and
he'd end up dead. It really surprised me that Fraser suggested the idea. I
mean, we're talkin' about suppressing evidence here! Or, according to
Fraser, delaying reporting it in. From my point of view, Fraser always
does everything by the book and keeps to the rules. I never thought I'd
see a day where he, the guy that lectures me constantly about rules,
regulation and the law, would bend the rules this far. Was Vecchio that
important to him? Would he do the same thing if it was my ass on the line
instead of Vecchio's? I know I'm not supposed to be thinking about it this
way, but I just can't help it. And how the hell are we supposed to hide a
body in a police station?!? Fraser told me to hang on to the interrogation
room for as long as possible, so I did just that. Coming up with stupid
excuses for Welsh and threatening that kid, Stanley Smith. Who the hell
names their kid Stanley anyway?! Well, my parents obviously did, but
that's not important. Important thing is that I managed to hang onto the
room while the Mountie went lookin' for clues to clear Vecchio. I can't
believe it! We were pushin' a dead guy, whose first name happened to be
Guy, around the station, cops everywhere with the kid practically blowing
our cover yellin' "Dead guy runnin'" and yet, nobody, and I mean nobody
noticed it! Then when Kuzma actually took him hostage, I nearly cracked
up. I would have if the situation wasn't that serious. Holding a dead guy
hostage! That's the first time! Come to think about it now, the whole
situation was pretty funny. Here we are trying to hang on to a room so no
one would discover Guy Rankin's body when in reality no one even noticed
it when we're pushin' him around the station announcing it's presence! I
bet if it wasn't for Kuzma, that guy could practically sit there the whole
day and no one would notice him. Why did we even bother to hide it in the
first place when we could have him sittin' in the station, out in the open
where no one would look at him twice? Then I wouldn't need to come up with
those stupid excuses for Welsh. Don't ya think so?   The End. 

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