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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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And suddenly there is something large and soft and rather damp nuzzling at her shoulder.

Get your mind out of the gutter.

It's just Duncan saying hello, Peter not far behind.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly blinks, startled, and then recognizes Duncan. She laughs, reaches a hand up to pet his nose and catches sight of Peter.

"What up, sais?"

[highking.livejournal.com]

Duncan snorts and sets to munching on a patch of nearby grass.

Peter sinks into the grass beside Lilly.

"Alright. You?"

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly smiles at him.

"Not bad at all, really. I'm still on the happy to be back plus bachelor/bachelorette plus wedding high. It's pretty nice."

[highking.livejournal.com]

"You're always on some sort of high or another, aren't you?"

Shut up. He doesn't know much about all that new-fangled drug crap.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly sporfles. It's the only appropriate word.

"Yeah, Pete, I'm high on life," she replies, giggling. "No drugs, I swear. Only alcohol and the occasional post-trauma cigarette since I got to Milliways."

[highking.livejournal.com]

Peter blinks.

"Right, okay. Did I say differently?"

It's quite possible he's picked up the more innocent connotation of being high without having any idea what it refers to.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly sighs.

"Poor, innocent Pete. In my time, high generally refers to being on some kind of drug. High on life got used in a totally lame anti-drug ad, and has been kinda a joke ever since."

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"...ah. Well, you know the whole coming-from-fifty-five-years-before-you thing does seem to get in the way."

From Peter's expression, this hasn't entirely cleared things up, but he'll deal.

[awesome_lilly]

"Every once in a while," Lilly agrees. "God, it's hard to remember that in the forties and people weren't smoking pot and snorting coke and doing heroin and acid and all. The strongest things you did were booze and tea."

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"Well. There was probably something," Peter muses. "But I'm not the person to ask for details."

[awesome_lilly]

"Excellent point," Lilly says, nodding.

"Speaking of being on acid, were you at the bachelor party? Weirdest night I've had in a loong time."

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"I don't know the groom. I didn't think it appropriate to attend."

And the British manners emerge in full force.

[awesome_lilly]

"But of course," Lilly says, in her best imitation of a British accent. "Terribly rude to just show up to a party with an open invite."

She smirks.

"It really is too bad you didn't come. You missed my wedding!"

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Peter chokes on... well, nothing really, but he certainly has quite a coughing spasm before he manages to speak again.

"Your what?"

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly beams.

"My wedding. I got married, Pete!"

[highking.livejournal.com]

"Um... congratulations?"

Tentatively. Also worried.

[awesome_lilly]

"Thanks," Lilly says, laughing.

"Man, I'm telling you, as impromptu weddings go, getting married by a d demon beats Vegas every time. Alain's just lucky I didn't have time to insist on witnesses dressed like Elvis."

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"You. Married Alain."

Peter blinks.

"No. Scratch that. Alain married you?"

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly looks somewhat affronted. Sure, she and Alain were both massively drunk and really only got married because they couldn't dodge the drunken demon fast enough, but Pete doesn't have to sound quite that shocked.

"Uh, yeah. Why is that so hard to believe? Am I like, totally unmarriable or something?"

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"No!" Peter assured her hurriedly. "I mean, I don't know Alain very well, but you don't really seem his type. I mean. He's even less emotional and energetic than I am."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly frowns.

"I don't know about that, he can be energetic when he needs to be."

She's thinking about three overlapping shots echoing on an alien planet.

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Peter raises an eyebrow.

"Can he, now," he says, his voice a little choked.

Obviously Peter didn't hear those shots.

[awesome_lilly]

"Oh yeah," Lilly says distantly.

She blinks, looks over at Pete.

"That's not the point, though. The point is... well, I don't remember now. But I think it might have had something to do with the idea of anyone wanting to marry me being utterly incomprehensible to you."

[highking.livejournal.com]

"I don't find the idea utterly incomprehensible," he says faintly, looking away to, um, make sure Duncan is okay.

Yes.