video;

[cruelwonder]

[When the NV turns on, it's being held very awkwardly and the view is skewed. Alice comes into view and behind her are several young children talking all at once and rather loudly. She tries to shush them, and Jack's voice can be heard nearby with another boy's. She laughs.]

Jack. Jack! It's on!

[She tries to turn the NV so it will get both of

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[quackery]

[Gleeeeeee. The biggest of smiles.]

Congratulations!

[cowboy_newsie]

Thanks, kid. Oye, and now you can tell everybody!

[Thomas-- now sitting in Jack's lap-- squirms, peering up at Ahiru.

"Who's that!"]

Shush. Go and play or somethin', jeez.

[quackery]

But you already did!

[Aww, little kid. She smiles and waves at the camera.]

Hello!

[cowboy_newsie]

Well, yeah, but there's people bound to miss it.

[He scowls as Thomas waves back, grinning.]

Nobody listens to me round here-- yeah, I'm talkin' to you, you think you ain't in trouble?

[quackery]

Maybe you should call them if they do!

Oh, Jack, don't scold him!

[cowboy_newsie]

Yeah, well, he deserves it, he knows what he did.

[quackery]

It isn't his fault, he was just really excited!

[Smiiiile.]

Weren't you?

[cowboy_newsie]

Course I was.

[He ruffles Thomas' hair, but it's with a faint smile.]

We both were. Are. Jesus, there's a lot to think about, though.

[quackery]

What kind of stuff?

[cowboy_newsie]

Er-- I don't know. Where to have it, all that kinda stuff.

[quackery]

You should have it somewhere really pretty and big and nice!

[cowboy_newsie]

[He snorts as Thomas makes a disgusted face. "Girls."]

We'll see. It won't be for a while, anyway, so I guess we don't have to decide right now.

[quackery]

[Her ideas are the best, okay, Thomas can put a sock in it.]

You have to tell me as soon as you pick when! And where, too!

[cowboy_newsie]

Course I will. You're the first to know everythin' about this weddin', you know that?

[quackery]

Well, good! That's the way it should be.

[cruelwonder]

[She smiles back at her.]

Thank you. You're Ahiru, yes?