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The nice thing about owning your own building is that if you want to go up on the rooftop without setting off an alarm, you can. Ray does a lot of his big thinking up there. Sure, the Firehouse is only three stories tall, but it's still up on the roof. It gives him a little more perspective, and it's a nicely controlled perspective, too, rather than oh-my-god-my-place-in-the-universe-is-WHAT perspective.

Sometimes he finds it easier to talk about certain things up here, too. Slimer doesn't come up here much, and Ecto can't hear this far up without deploying active scanning, and Peter and Egon can't stumble in on things by accident. So he's waiting for Winston just now.

This is gonna be at least as hard as telling the guys about Milliways in the first place.

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"Yep," says Ray. "I don't think it changes anything except my investment strategy, really. I'm going to have to go long term now. Everything else is pretty much the same."

Except what happens on Mexican Night, but he'll deal with that later.

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"You gonna tell your sister?"

Because he thinks of these things.

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"I can't figure out how, for the life of me," Ray confesses. "And I've been trying to think how to say it for days. 'Oh, hey, Catherine, you remember how we talked about me setting up a will? That might not be necessary after all' doesn't really work very well with her."

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"You could just wait," he offers. "She notices, she notices... and it'll give you a few years to think up something to say about it. Plus, hey, people tend to get used to things over time. Might soften the blow."

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"I was kind of hoping that approach might be an acceptable one," Ray says. "Catherine can swallow a lot, but this would really be asking too much of her right now. Maybe over the course of a couple of years she might get around to being able to handle it, right?"

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"Probably," he says.

And he looks out over the City.

"So, were you trying that speech out on me before giving it out to the other guys?"

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"No, they're getting a different one," Ray says. "I haven't worked Peter's out yet. Egon's is mostly shaping up to be what he is and isn't allowed to test me for."

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He reaches out now and gives Ray a healthy pat on the shoulder.

"Just remind Peter that he's not allowed to hide behind you any more than he used to be," he says with a warm smile. "And Egon--"

There's a short pause.

"You're on your own there. Sorry."

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Ray smiles wryly. "I'll work something out," he says. "Thanks, Winston."

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He shrugs.

"What're friends for?"