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[awesome_lilly]

It's been an awesome weekend for Lilly. She's back at Milliways, back in her new suite, Bernard and Tonks' wedding was beautiful, her own wedding at the bachelor party was... drunken and demonic, just as she'd always dreamed it would be. She's outside by the lake, sprawled out in the sun with her eyes closed but she's not sleeping. Just... being happy.

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[highking.livejournal.com]

Peter gives her a sidelong, serious look, and is silent for a moment.

"No," he finally says. "I don't suppose it was."

[awesome_lilly]

"Damn straight," Lilly says cheerfully, willfully ignoring the serious and not what seems to be Pete agreeing that she's not so much a High Queen in the making.

"You would have actually had to come to the party for drunken demon marriage to occur. As it is, Alain and I are the ones trying to figure out if you need Satan to sign off on your drunken demon wedding annullment."

[highking.livejournal.com]

"Ah. So you're going to go back to being, erm, not married, then?"

Peter sounds a little bit relieved.

[awesome_lilly]

"Oh yeah," Lilly says.

She laughs.

"I like Alain and all, but we were never staying married. Even I kinda like to be at least dating someone before that comes up."

[highking.livejournal.com]

He grins. "Well, good. Because if you were going to stay married to Alain, I'd consider it my duty to give him the protective-best-friend speech, and I'm not entirely sure I could intimidate him."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly looks suddenly thoughtful.

"So um... how long would I have to stay married for you to give him that speech? Because I'm thinking a few extra days of being Mrs. Alain Johns might just be worth it for that."

[highking.livejournal.com]

Peter waves her off.

"I know you're getting an annulment, now. Too late. Sorry."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly pouts.
Lilly sighs and exchanges a look with Veronica. Duncan's being impossible again. It's not too late to make changes to the wedding plans, again, and he knows it. He just doesn't want to do it.
"Whatever, Duncan. You can still do it if you want to."

[highking.livejournal.com]

Peter looks at Lilly, confused, then over to (his) Duncan, who is contentedly eating grass a few feet away. And then something inside him dies, just a little, but his voice is still light, joking.

"Pete, here, Lilly."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly blinks, looks confused.

"Yeah, and Lilly here, Pete. Have we suddenly gone all Tarzan, because I thought that was pretty clear."

[highking.livejournal.com]

If she'd realised her mistake, laughed at it, he would have been fine. But she doesn't even realise what she did.

"You called me Duncan."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly tilts her head.

"I did? Weird, I could have sworn I said Pete."

But as he says this, something -teasing a reluctant Duncan into changing his wedding plans again- flashes through her mind. It's gone just as quickly, though, and so Lilly shrugs.

"Sorry about that, I must have been picking up a big brother vibe with the protective talking and all."

Yeah, that has to be it.

[highking.livejournal.com]

"Right. That must be it. I seem to put out that vibe a good deal."

He laughs a little uneasily.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly smiles at him.

"There are worse vibes to have, Pete. And I mean, you have three younger siblings. This was maybe a bit inevitable."

[highking.livejournal.com]

His smile eases somewhat.

"Well, yes, there is that. I've done a good bit of big brother protecting, in my time, both asked for and not."

[awesome_lilly]

"Yeah, I can see that," Lilly says, laughing, and then stopping as she remembers him facing down her mother.

"At least you probably don't always use Rhindon for emphasis, right?"

[highking.livejournal.com]

"I've only had it back for a couple months, you know. I had to make do with threatening glares, back in London. And sometimes a stick."

He's absolutely straight-faced.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly just stares for a second and then utterly loses it, falling back onto the grass and laughing.

"Oh, God, Pete. I can actually see that, and it's like, the best thing ever. Glares and a stick!"

[highking.livejournal.com]

"It was a big stick," Peter says, a fond smile crossing his face.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly's still on the ground, but she reaches up to punch his shoulder anyway.

"Shut up, you did not actually threaten people with a big stick back in London."

[highking.livejournal.com]

"Are you sure about that?" he asks solemnly.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly's still laughing.

"I really don't care, as long as I can keep this mental image forever. Were you wearing a hat? Because in my head you're wearing a hat."

[highking.livejournal.com]

"If you like, sure, I was wearing a hat," Peter says agreeably.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly sighs happily.

"Perfect. Now, if I can just get my demonic marriage annulled without having to bug Satan, death will also be perfect. Awesome."

[highking.livejournal.com]

"Yes, well. Let me know how that goes."

Peter stands up and moves to get Duncan.

"I need to get him back to the stables," he explains.