Puck's a mental case, literally, which means that right now Lilly is stuck taking care of both babies. Well. At least until the people she's been bribing show up. In the meantime, she's got one baby on each hip and a small parade of waitrats holding her stuff and following her around while she looks for a spot.
She really wasn't expecting to see any High Kings.
He still winces, just slightly. "Yes, I've been horrible. It's just--easy, to unplug from Milliways. So much happens here, so quickly. Of course, the consequence is that when you evade the day-to-day madness, you get it all at once when you do finally return, which of course brings me 'round to "why on earth do you have those children?""
He gives her a Look. "This might be more fun for you if I knew you slightly less well than I do. What dreadful person was giving away babies to drunk people?"
"We were completely sober at the time of our wedding. And the 'dreadful person' was the kids' actual father. He didn't seem harmful, just a few epaulets short of a parade."
"Well, then, perhaps it's better you have them." That keeps wanting to be a question mark. "And who the devil is there that you would marry without the benefit of mind-altering substances?"
"Well, I didn't marry Puck on purpose," Lilly says.
The duh is implied.
"We were just sharing his bizarro honey peppercorn snack and then Coyote splashed gin on us and then Jack Sparrow popped up like a freakin Jack in the box all hi, in Nigeria you'd be married so why not here too and I was still processing when the Prince threw his babies at us and Puck caught one."
"This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. If I'd been hanging about the bar, that could've been me, and I jolly well think it's better you married to Puck than me."
"You know, none of my former husbands ever complained. It's not a fate worse than death to be accidentally married to me, no matter how you make it sound."
Peter has to rewind what he just said and re-parse it before he can figure out what she means. "Better you than me, Lilly, is what I mean. I don't think I was cut out to be a fairy bride."
Peter drinks some water, not making exact eye contact. "Look. I'm not saying there weren't any productions of Midsummer's at school, and of course it was all chaps there, but I never got the part of Titania, I promise you."
"Not with bloody Henry Wicket about the place."
Surely that is not a lurking smirk. Everyone knows Peter has no sense of humor.
"Oh, Peter. That's terrible. What a waste of your talents!"
Lilly looks deeply concerned and is not in any way smirking too.
"But you don't have to live with that disappointment anymore. I happen to have a stage and a Puck and it'll take me about ten minutes to fill out the rest of the cast. When can you be fitted for your wings?"
She really wasn't expecting to see any High Kings.
"Peter?"
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"I, uh, haven't seen you for a while."
It's not as accusatory as it might have been once. She's heard from Lucy of his work with his ward.
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"Wedding present," she says casually, waving the waitrats to deposit her stuff in and around Peter's table.
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Lilly lifts her chin.
"We were completely sober at the time of our wedding. And the 'dreadful person' was the kids' actual father. He didn't seem harmful, just a few epaulets short of a parade."
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The duh is implied.
"We were just sharing his bizarro honey peppercorn snack and then Coyote splashed gin on us and then Jack Sparrow popped up like a freakin Jack in the box all hi, in Nigeria you'd be married so why not here too and I was still processing when the Prince threw his babies at us and Puck caught one."
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"This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. If I'd been hanging about the bar, that could've been me, and I jolly well think it's better you married to Puck than me."
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Lilly rolls her eyes.
"You know, none of my former husbands ever complained. It's not a fate worse than death to be accidentally married to me, no matter how you make it sound."
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"Oh, I don't know, Pete. Some rainbow wings... some flowers in your hair... you'd be so pretty!"
Yeah. Giggling now.
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"Not with bloody Henry Wicket about the place."
Surely that is not a lurking smirk. Everyone knows Peter has no sense of humor.
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Lilly looks deeply concerned and is not in any way smirking too.
"But you don't have to live with that disappointment anymore. I happen to have a stage and a Puck and it'll take me about ten minutes to fill out the rest of the cast. When can you be fitted for your wings?"
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Peter has learned it's important to put your foot down early and often, with Lilly.
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