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That Old Mill Keeps Grinding
by irena_adler
Matt sat staring at his computer, but he wasn't getting anything done. He was thinking about he'd just heard. Charlie is gay, Matt thought, or at least `everyone' says so.
"So Amita is just a beard?" Matt asked Stendhauser, next to him.
Stendhauser blinked. "Amita's got a beard?"
"No, Amita is a beard, a cover-up girlfriend."
"I'm afraid so," Stendhauser said sadly, obviously up on the gossip. "I don't think she even knows it, poor girl. She worships him."
"Huh," Matt said. "And Charlie is dating someone in the office? I wonder who it—"
"Colby."
Matt gaped at her. "Granger? You're kidding!"
Stendhauser turned in her chair and smiled at him. "Anyone who's paying attention could tell."
"Then why doesn't `anyone' say so?"
"The men in the office are too threatened by the idea of a gay man, especially one as `manly' as Agent Granger."
"Threatened?"
"Yep," she said, with an extra popping sound on the `P'. "The women in this office would see it, except they're too busy hoping that Colby or Charlie will ask them out."
Matt raised his eyebrows. "But you?"
"I'm an old, happily married woman," Stendhauser said cheerfully. "But Colby and Charlie have been making googly eyes at each other for a while now."
Matt had to laugh. "`Googly eyes'?"
"I may be old, but I remember googly eyes. Now my teenager has them every week over a new boy."
"And what exactly does `googly eyes' look like?"
Stendhauser leaned a little closer and murmured, "Just look in the mirror next time you think about David."
"Gi-ju-wha?" Matt stammered.
Luckily, at that moment Charlie stepped off the elevator and, like the rest of the office, Stendhauser turned to look.
I do not make googly eyes, Matt grumbled to himself. I am very subtle.
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