What there is to be done about Sean Cassidy and his apparent loathing for their situation, Nate doesn't know. In all likelihood, there's nothing at all any of them can do, if he's so thoroughly emphatic in his beliefs that he'd punch Brad (More than once) even after talking to his daughter about their impending nuptials and what it all means. ( Read more... )

All afternoon, Nate had been turning over how to present the idea of Brad an himself as married couple to Remy. On the surface, it didn't seem that much of an issue, simply a matter of vows exchanged, a note on record, changing very little about the everyday workings of their lives. But as a married person and as a person who had just proposed to ( Read more... )

Cross-posting this here, since it's locked on the main community and it's nice to have the chronology here.

Following the events of Opposite Plot, detailed here and here.

( Epic link drop is epic )

It will be really nice, Nate thinks, when all the important conversations he has to have with the people he cares about aren't the sort that make him feel vaguely nauseated in anticipation. To be fair, it could be much worse -- Remy has been more understanding about the entire situation with Brad than Nate ever could have hoped for. That doesn't ( Read more... )

Half the night Nate had been up, turning over the facts that had revealed themselves during his awkward conversation with Brad. Nate doesn't regret having pushed the issue out into the open -- Better than trying to ignore the un-ignorable, and constantly wondering -- but now, in the light of day, he has no better idea of what to do with it than he ( Read more... )

It was the quiet bistros comment that had stuck. Movies and quiet bistros are scarce on the ground, Remy had said, and while there was only so much that could be done about the first, the second wasn't completely unattainable. While Nate isn't quite skilled enough to conjure up an entire restaurant, a reasonable imitation of the ambiance can be ( Read more... )