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Green Creek Series: Pack + Autumn

Green Creek Series: Pack + Sunday Dinner

MY MOTHER met the Bennetts halfway through summer at one of the Sunday dinners. She was nervous, like I’d been. She ran her hands along her dress, smoothing it out. She curled her finger in her hair. She said, “They seem so fancy,” and I laughed because they were and they weren’t.

Green Creek Series: Pack + Rain

Sunday dinner has always been at the Bennett house because that’s tradition

But after Mark moves in with Gordo and they have enough time to get settled, one time they have Sunday dinner over there

The pack still helps with the cooking, but Gordo and Mark’s kitchen is smaller so less help at a time and they end up doing more

The wolves are all looking all over the place and touching everything to get their scent on everything

The humans even follow their lead too because the more time they spend around the wolves, the more they start acting like them

Gordo doesn’t say how much Elizabeth handing Sunday dinner over to him, even once, after a tradition so long means something

He knows she knows anyway and for once Elizabeth Bennett’s knowing smile doesn’t make him annoyed with her

Carter and Kelly and Joe are making themselves a special kind of at home in Gordo’s place and going through his stuff and it’s predictable and he’s really not as annoyed as he pretends to be

Gordo and Mark are kind of loving hosting the pack in their home together, even if the pack is full of total assholes asking why they don’t have all the usual dishes

The shop boys are the worst though

They complain because Gordo doesn’t have the brand of beer they like and come on Gordo how could you not stock up

But they also go on a beer run for him so at least there’s that

Gordo isn’t used to having people in his house, let alone this many

Sure, he’s had the shop boys over sometimes but he’s preferred going to their places or out for a long time if they were hanging out outside of the time they spend together at work all day every day because he hadn’t wanted them to see how lonely his life was and say something about it

Sure, Carter and Kelly helped Mark move in so Timberwolf was there too

But he hasn’t really had people over and properly hosted anyone in, well ever

And now he’s hosting his pack and they’re bugging him a bit but they are having a nice time

This doesn’t lead to Sunday dinner always being at Mark and Gordo’s place

It’s back to the Bennett house the next week and all the weeks after that

But it is the start of the pack coming over and hanging out at their place semi-regularly

And the start of random pack members showing up whenever they feel like it

The pack is all over at the Bennett property, raking up the leaves

Bambi is there too, even though she isn’t pack (at least yet)

Elizabeth is like we have a guest all of you idiots better behave and Jessie’s like you know they’re not going to why even try

Joe definitely uses the line I’m falling for you on Ox

Timberwolf tries to help rake too, but he’s a giant wolf so he has mixed success

He’s kind of helping by pushing leaves into Carter’s pile

But he’s also kind of knocking half of Carter’s pile over in the process

Plus he has so many leaves stuck in his fur now

Carter is getting annoyed and calls Timber a mess and tells him to stop knocking the pile over

Timber starts helping a little less urgently, being careful not to knock the pile over (or at least not as much)

He wags his tail with pride when Carter mutters out “That’s better.”

Afterward, Carter has to pick leaves out of Timber’s fur and it takes forever

He makes Kelly help him and Timber growls at that at first

Robbie has a similar reaction internally because he was having a nice time helping Kelly get a bigger leaf pile than Carter because Carter’s been cheating using Timber’s help

(Although Carter insists it’s not cheating when he’s knocking it over more than he’s helping)

Carter calls Timber on growling and stares him down and warns “No growling at Kelly.”

So Timber begrudgingly lets Kelly help, even though he would incredibly love to have Carter personally pick the leaves out all on his own for however long it takes

It’s not totally clear if the shop boys are helping or just scooping up leaves out of piles to dump on each other’s heads

Mark is so pleased because autumn is his favourite season and the the whole territory smells like dirt and leaves and rain and that doesn’t have to be bittersweet anymore

Mark keeps sniffing the air and he’s so green

Gordo is internally like he is such a dork but he’s my dork and I love him

Then he gets all three of the shop boys dumping leaves on him at once because he’s distracted what his mate

And now he really smells like dirat and leaves and rain

Gordo is pulling the leaves out of his shirt and hair and Mark comes over

For a second, Gordo is naive enough to think Mark is going to help him

But no

He’s just wrapping his arms around him and sniffing him

Gordo’s like you’re the actual worst

But that’s okay because the brothers get Mark worse later

At least the shop boys have the decency to not pick the wettest leaves possible

Rico tries to use Bambi as a shield of you wouldn’t dump leaves on her

But then she betrays him and teams up with the boys

Chris makes the mistake of trying to pick Jessie up to drop her in a leaf pile and ends up with his arm pinned behind his back like ow okay I won’t throw you stop

He thought he had the element of surprise but Jessie can look after herself better than any of the shop boys