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[understood]

You may be right.

[shakebadguysshake]

Oh, come on.
You gotta say it back, now, yeah?
Tell me, Frase.
Tell me you're stupid in love with me.

[understood]

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize the protocol.
Ray, I am stupid in love with you.

[shakebadguysshake]

Oh absolutely, sure, yeah.
I say I love you, you gotta say it back.
Every time.

[understood]

Understood.

[shakebadguysshake]

You know, that used to drive me crazy?
Understood.
Cuz it sounded so formal.
But now I know that's just the way you talk, and I like it.

[understood]

Well, I'm glad it doesn't bother you anymore. I don't mean to be annoying.

[shakebadguysshake]

I know you don't, sweetheart.
It took me a minute to get used to the way you talk, is all.
It was something all brand new and stuff.

[understood]

You've got a unique sort of diction yourself, you know.

[shakebadguysshake]

Oh yeah? How so?

[He just thinks the way he talks is pretty normal. But then again, Fraser probably thinks the way he talks is normal, too.]

[understood]

As you once said... you're a poet.

[shakebadguysshake]

Yeah?
You think I talk poeticlike?

[understood]

I do. You use a... a particular patter, or patois, but rather than a regional one, it's singular to you. I'll always remember how you greeted me when we first met. I mean, aside from the fact that I was "gobsmacked," your turn of phrase has stuck with me.

[shakebadguysshake]

Oh yeah? Which one in particular. Cuz I said a lot of things when we first met.
I chattered a lot, that first time. I wanted to make us look all buddy buddy for everyone around.
So I kept up a uh. Sure, a patter. Like you said.

[understood]

"Partners, Fraser. Partners."

[shakebadguysshake]

That's us through and through, Frase.
See cuz I knew you were real good pals with Vecchio. So I wanted to drive home that, you know.
I was gonna be your partner, too. Your duet. There through thick and thin, like.

[understood]

But I wasn't partners with Ray Vecchio. He was my colleague, and my best friend, but... well, I suppose that functionally, we were, in a sense, partners, but he never said so, and neither did I. We weren't even on the same force, I mean... it didn't seem appropriate. But when you said it, even if I didn't realize it at the time, it became true. For us. For you and I. And it's only become more and more true since that day.