Stackhouse Residence - Bon Temps, Louisiana [Saturday evening, Fandom time]

[justwantsquiet]

When guests arrived at Sookie's girlhood home -- now her brother's house, though she'd descended upon it over the last week in a fit of Pinterest-driven decorating -- they would find all the makings for a simple country wedding. The big tree out back, where she and Jason had climbed as children, and under which Bobby had built her a snowman several

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Arrive! [8/3]

[justwantsquiet]

Show off anything fancy you might be wearing, complain about the fact that once again you are somehow in Sookie's hometown in THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, WHAT THE HELL, look for Bill in the bushes, etc.

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[vanillajello]

Of course Kate was here. And looking excited about it, too. (And pretty, in her dress, but that was less important in the grand scheme of things.)

And okay, maybe she was a little weirded out to be at her high school roomie's wedding already. But not a lot. Since she got teased about being practically married to Bod all the time anyway.

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack greeted her with mildly surprised raised eyebrows -- he'd almost forgotten Bobby had been her roommate.

"Hello there," he said. "They made everything look lovely, didn't they?"

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[vanillajello]

Two years of occasionally having to get extra blankets because Bobby's powers were acting up. They'd been the best roomies.

Kate grinned at him. "Hi! They totally did. Reminds me a bit of Aunt Charmaine's first wedding, except even prettier." A beat. "And hopefully more successful."

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[bitten_notshy]

"Even if it isn't, at least we'll get a good party out of it," Jack shrugged. He'd noticed the open bar on his way in. "But I hope it'll work. Maybe this is their forever."

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[vanillajello]

"Maybe." She was optimistic about it. If not too invested. Still smiled. "Of course to beat Char's first wedding, all they have to do is actually get through the ceremony. So they'll definitely be doing that, at least."

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack laughed behind his fist, also not terribly invested in the entire issue. He liked Bobby and Sookie, but he was mainly at the wedding as a bridesmaid's boyfriend. "But it's a much better story if they don't," he said lightly. "-- what happened to your aunt?"

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[vanillajello]

Kate waved a hand. Super old news. "Her fiancé decided that he couldn't handle her bing pregnant with another guy's baby. At the altar. I don't know, it was just a day for getting rid of douchey dudes."

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[bitten_notshy]

"You'd think he would have figured that out before the wedding day," Jack sighed. "But I guess better then than after the baby was born."

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[vanillajello]

"Yeah. Plus, she's married to her baby daddy now and they seem pretty happy, so..."

She shrugged.

"Everything turns out okay eventually, right? I mean, look at us. We could be better, but after everything, we could also be way worse."

Like, dead.

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[bitten_notshy]

"I'm starting to wonder if I could be better, actually," Jack said, only half joking. "I'm alive, I like my life, and according to Derek the shape-shifting is a mark of distinction in some societies."

Completely insane Beacon Hills societies, but still.

"Anyhow, point taken. What's new with you?"

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[vanillajello]

"Not much," Kate shrugged. "Boyfriend, dog, job. All the same, really." A beat, as she dug around her memory for anything newsworthy. There wasn't much. But! "Ooh, but I do have a new tattoo?"

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[bitten_notshy]

"Where and what of?" Jack asked, glancing her over to see if he could spot it.

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[vanillajello]

"Lemme show you!"

Kate put a hand on his shoulder for balance as she lifted one foot off the ground, to show off the inside of her ankle. There, a few inches above the edge of her shoe, was a small tattoo. Just three letters. NBD.

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[bitten_notshy]

"Clever," Jack said, once he'd decoded the letters. "I like that it means one thing to people who know you and another to the rest of the world."

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[vanillajello]

"Exactly," Kate beamed as she put her foot back on the ground. "Plus, God forbid, if we ever break up, I can just shift over to the acronym meaning and never tell anyone new the truth."

Yes, she'd thought this through. She didn't want full names on her body, not even when she couldn't imagine breaking up with the person it belonged to.