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Domino is sitting at the bar again, even though there's no bartender. She's not drinking, instead she's reading a book she'd kept tucked in her belt during the previous day's meeting. She knows she could ask for any number of amusements from the Bar, but she's not in the mood. A nice, relaxing book is all she needs.

She looks quite pleased about something, but it's impossible to say what or why.

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Nathan wandered up to the seat next to her, and settled down. "Pardon me, miss, but would you look at this for me?"\

A small black box settled in front of her, possessing a silver ring with a single red stone in it.

Domino looked at the box, laughing a little. "Testing the Bar's capabilities already?"

She did put her hand over the box, but she didn't open it just yet. "It'll be weird. We remember the other world here. With what's coming, whatever it is, we might wind up being on opposite sides."

"True, but it'll be fun. And maybe we will. We've been on them before. Doesn't change how I feel about you. It never has." He nodded. "Will you marry me, Domino?"

Domino tapped the top of the box, giving the question the consideration it deserved. "Eventually. I'm not really in a rush, but what the hell?" She slid the box back to him. "But you have to do this properly and put the ring on for me."

Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani'son Summers, the man called Cable, rose from the seat in front of the bar, and stepped back, then sank to one knee, and when he spoke, his voice was soft, but clear.

"Domino, I've known you for a long time. We've been friends, allies, enemies, lovers, soldiers together, and soldiers on opposite sides of fights too many to number. I've seen the best of you and the worst of you, and you've seen the same of me. We've hurt each other, and we've healed each other, and we've walked an awful lot of paths together. Life with me wont be easy, and I can't promise a happy ending, but I can promise I will always love you, until death, and beyond."

He smiled softly up at her.

"Will you marry me?"

Domino smiled, feeling a lot sappier than she'd thought she would.

So Domino, who had more names than hairs on her head, and no lineage or honor to speak of, extended her left hand. "I can't promise I'll love you as long as you'll love me. But while we're together, I'll love you as hard and passionately as I can. I don't know what's going to happen, and I don't want to until it does, but I do know that I want you there when it happens, every time it does, even when it's my fault, and even when it's your fault."

She laughed a little. "But we are never having children."

He slid the ring on her finger, and kissed both ruing and finger. "We'll talk about it." Then he rose, and he kissed her, and wrapped his arms around her.

And dipped her, during the kiss. Just because.

"That's what you-" She didn't get to finish the sentence, but it wasn't a big deal. She wrapped her arms around his neck, holding him tight. The future was probably still messed up, and they would have a ton of shit to deal with to make this work.

Then again, most people did. They just had issues on a grander scale.

When the kiss broke, a a large glass of beer and a piece of very chocolate cake was waiting for both of them, and Nathan grinned. "Thanks, Bar."

He lifted the beer to Domino. "To us, no matter what the damn future may hold."

She laughed, tapping her mug against his. "To Milliways, for finally getting our act together for us, too."

Nathan laughed and nodded, and tossed his drink back. "Absolutely!"

he set the beer down and kissed her again, before turning to the cake. "Now that looks like good cake."

She nodded. "It does, actually." She grabbed her fork. "So, do you still want to try fishing again?"

"Sure. Why not? You?"

Nathan lifted his cake and devoured it in two bites. After several enjoyable minutes, he turned to her.

A blue pony in a cape and a wizard's hat trots by levitating a pinwheel.

Okay, that's something you don't see everyday. Domino peers over her book, watching the pony go by. "Yeah, I've kind of missed that."

The pony stops, turning (the pinwheel turns too.)

"Missed?"

Domino giggles. "Yeah, I was gone for a while. I don't think I met you, but you're. . . you fit the theme, here."

Trixie considers. Does she fit the theme, or does the theme fit her?

She decides they are complimentary!

"I must have come while you were gone," she says. There is no good place to put the pinwheel, so she keeps it floating.

"Probably. I've been gone for a long time." Well, she feels like it's been a while, anyway. "So do you and the pinwheel have a name?"

"I am Trixie! The-"

Here her introduction hits a roadblock. One does not be publicly humiliated, have one's home and stage destroyed, and pick up like absolutely nothing happened.

"-great magician."

You'd have to know her to know that though!

Domino's willing to take that at face value. She can't make pinwheels floats. "Nice to meet you. I'd shake your hand, but. . . yeah."

She laughs a little. "What kind of stuff can you do?"

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