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❛ Kowalski. ❜ A pointed look that could make a polar bear go vegetarian. ❛ Are you questioning my authority? ❜ There is no more than a tinge of scorn in his tone, mostly it was just his own unshakable pride. ❛ Well good! ❜ He barely gives the latter avian a chance to respond. ❛ Lets roll then, Soldier! Toot-sweet! Before these tourists get the shock of a lifetime. ❜ Infiltrating the water park was the simple part to a more treacherous operation.

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Allison Hargreeves  +  Steve Rogers.  Is this a weird one? I don’t know. I just feel like Steve - moral and dedicated Steve - versus Allison, who grew up being told her incredibly immoral powers were the only thing of value about her... Would be really interesting. Especially given that despite their differences, they both know what it feels like to be seen as an idea / ideal, not a person.

Charlotte Ritter  +  Prior Walter.  I feel like I’ve rambled to you about Lotte a fair bit already, but she would adore Prior. She’s motivated and clever, but she’s also got an incredibly easy humour and kindness to her, and I just feel like they’d get on really well.

Dale Cooper  +  Benoit Blanc.  Listen. Listen. I know I spoiled this answer by putting it on your interest tracker but I need this. They both have very out-there ideas about how to solve cases. They’re both gentlemen. This would be a great pair.

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        ❛    you  came  from  an  all - boy  prep  school ?  that’s  so  fetch !    ❜   no  wonder  he  looked  so  neat  and  formal;  half  the  boys  back  in  north  shore  have  probably  never  considered  wearing  a  button  down  or  a  blazer  more  than  once  in  their  life,  if  they  ever  have.   guess  it  really  was  true  that  private  school  boys  had  a  different  kind  of  appeal.   ❛    what’s  a  preppy  like  you  doing  in  evanston ?   figure  they’d  have  better  smoothie  places  where  you  come  from  than  here.    ❜

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Well, that was certainly the weirdest wedding she’s been to in a while.

It was good, though. Delia had looked absolutely beautiful, and weird as the occasion had been at times, Midge is fairly confident her friend had (thankfully) ended up with the kind of perfect wedding day she deserved.

She’d been a little worried, beforehand. Not about anything to do with the wedding itself, really, but about herself. She knows she’s been a little... Touchy, since the dissolution of her own marriage, happy as she is with the new trajectory her life is now on. Certain feelings are still a little raw sometimes, and part of her had been anxious that those emotions would surface again at the first wedding she’d attended since her own ‘til death do us part’ turned out to be ‘til I decide to fuck my secretary do us part’.

She hadn’t voiced those concerns to anyone, but as it turns out she’d been worried about nothing - and she’s pretty sure that has an awful lot to do with the guy who’s suit jacket is currently draped around her shoulders.

Somehow, Tommy manages both to continually surprise her, and remain a rare source of consistency in her life. Maybe it’s the dichotomy of their stage personas - the ones they tend to keep up even offstage, around other people - and the way they can be themselves around each other. No one would believe that Tommy Hughes would offer to be someone’s wedding date just because they’d asked for one, but Miriam knows without question that her friend Tommy will do just about anything she asks. He’s said it himself, hasn’t he? He can’t say no to her.

She’s not sure what she’d do, if a day ever came when he could.

He hasn’t so much insisted on getting off the subway with her and walking from Cathedral Parkway to her building, as simply done it without comment as though this is what they do all the time. As though it makes complete sense for him to disrupt his own journey home to walk with her for the all of five minutes it takes to get from the station to her front door.

Hell, she doesn’t even know if he needed to get on the same line as her in the first place. And the absurdity of that - of the fact she wouldn’t be at all surprised if it turned out he’d got the subway with her just because, and the fact she knows him so well but doesn’t even know his address - makes her smile.

They’re at her corner, now. She can see the warm, welcoming light spilling out from her building’s foyer. Welcoming, yes, but not quite as much so as Tommy’s company is. She reaches to touch his wrist, to stop them from getting any closer to her door just yet; she’s not ready to go inside, and doesn’t really want their lingering to be noticed by anyone who might feel the need to tell her mother. She hasn’t explained her new career to Rose yet, she doesn’t need to explain Tommy to her at the same time.

“You’re a pretty good wedding date, Mr Hughes.” That smile hasn’t gone anywhere, as she stops and looks up at him. Her tone is the same teasing, easy one used to trade quips back and forth with him in bars. And if she’s honest with herself, the affection she feels as she meets his eyes isn’t new, either.

This isn’t the first time she’s kissed him. That was a hurried, sincere peck to his cheek as she’d thrown herself into his arms after she’d opened for him at the Gaslight (and she still remembers catching sight of a faint lipstick print she’d left behind once he’d moved into the spotlight). And then there had been New Year’s Eve - at the Gaslight, again, but this time a proper, if somewhat chaste kiss at midnight which had been followed by a quip about stoking the flames of the gossip that follows them around.

This is different, though. They’re not hidden away in some smoky corner near the side of a stage. They’re on her street, next to the building she’s spent almost her whole life living in. And right now, there is nothing she wants to do less than go inside. What she wants to do is stay right where she is, pull her friend close, and kiss him.

So that’s exactly what she does.

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