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The rain seemed never ending, but that never stopped Ellie from doing anything before. She'd found decent clothing for the weather - umbrella included - earlier that week. It made for an actual pleasant walk most days when she could enjoy the weather without being soaked by the time she got to the Compound

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Chuck had managed to brave the weather too, coming up to the compound for a day of Call of Duty. He didn't know if Karen would be around or not, but maybe it would give him a chance to perfect a strategy or two. They didn't really get too many rainy days in southern California, but somehow Chuck thought it'd be a good way to spend the day.

...like a lot of other days.

He smelled the donuts on his way to the stairs, and wasn't surprised at all to see that Ellie was the culprit.

"Hey! Donuts!" Chuck said, eyes immediately on the pastries before he looked up to acknowledge his sister there, "Donuts...and Ellie. But mostly Ellie."

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"Doughnuts," she repeated, looking a little amused as she glanced up over the magazine to look at her brother. "Glad to hear I'm placed above them. Looking to be a taste tester this morning?"

She was pretty sure she didn't even have to ask.

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"Sis," Chuck said, walking up to lean against the counter next to her, "I think by now you'd know that I'm pretty much always up for a taste test."

Especially if it meant doughnuts. Or pretty much anything that Ellie'd made.

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"I ask just to be polite," she replied, grinning faintly. She motioned him over to come look at what she was looking at in the magazine. "Do you think we could manage to make these little boxes to put the wedding favors in?"

They seemed easy enough - it'd just take putting tiny boxes together and decorating the outside. It wouldn't be exactly the same, but she thought she could figure a way to make it close.

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Chuck leaned over to take a look. He figured it was only a matter of time before he got sucked into helping Ellie plan her wedding. Actually, he was surprised it had taken as long as it had.

"Those are like party favors, right? Stickers, noisemakers...?" He asked.

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"Yeah, exactly," she nodded. She didn't know what they'd do for favors when they couldn't just run out and get things. "Something fun, you know? For people to bring home. It doesn't need to be anything special."

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Chuck didn't know a whole lot-- or anything, actually-- about planning wedddings, so the whole wedding favors thing was entirely new to him. He took a second look at the boxes in the magazine and considered them for a second.

"I don't know, sis," He said, "They seem pretty simple to me. You know, if we could find some cardboard or something."

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"I think there's plenty of that in the storage area," she said, though she was mostly thinking outloud. It was something she'd have to check later. "God, there's so much to plan for. It makes me wish there were at least some stores around here sometimes."