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Luke ambles into the bar, wearing jeans and a T-shirt, and settles down on a barstool, looking around at the rest of the clientele.

It takes him a minute to recognize her. She looks different -- less flouncily dressed, maybe a little less carefree. But he grins, asks the bar for two glasses of lemonade, and tries to catch her eye.

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He glances over and puts an arm around her. "Hey yourself. You all right? You seem a little worn out."

"My best friend got kidnapped by a pirate, Peter and I got in a food fight last night, and I realized the wedding' supposed to be tomorrow, and I'm not even half ready." She headbars a few times, Bar producing a square green pillow after the second time.

"Hey, whoa." He catches her by the shoulders. "None of that, love. Okay. Um... which of those should I be reassuring you about most urgently?"

She just sighs. "I don't know? I don't even know what's going on." Val's head? Meet pillow. Again. "There so bloody much to plan, and I'm worried about Alanna, and as always, Peter's being a bastard, and I think my head's going to explode. Clean it up if it does, ok?"

"Okay, first of all, we can postpone the wedding. No one will throw things at us. I promise. So let's do that." He runs one hand gently up and down her spine. "And beyond that... okay, let's start with the pirate. That sounds like probably the more immediate problem. What pirate? What happened?"

She smiles. "Yeah, postponing would be good. I just don't want you to think that I haven't been doing things because I don't want to marry you, because that's so wrong, I've been doing scads of stuff, it just crept up on me." She takes a breath, biting her lip. "And as for Alanna, I don't know. I was doing something, and I looked up and saw her being carried out the door by the pirate. She looked drunk, and was obviously being taken against her will. The pirate's name, I think, is Jack Sparrow. That's all I know." She sighs.

"I know you have. You've been incredibly busy." He leans over for a kiss. "Whenever the wedding is, it'll still be wonderful, I know it."

"Now, pirate. Do you know if there's anyone else here from his world? Because if you're wanting to run off and rescue her, you'll need someone to open the door."

"I don't know, actually." She sighs, kissing him back gently. "I don't even really remember what world he's from. He's just a pirate from a world. Somewhere." She instinctively leans toward him. "I hate sitting here frelling helpless when I don't know what's going on."

"I know you do, and I wish I could just dash off and bring her back and make everything better." He wraps his arm around her once more, keeping her close. "Well. You know his name, at least. Maybe we could put up a sign on the board, asking for anyone from the same world as him to get in touch with us?"

She leans up and kisses him. "Yeah, that'll work." She looks up and just facepalms. "Or, they just walk in the door, and make my entire worrying silly." She sighs. "Well, that's one crisis averted, and I feel stupid." She bures her face in his chest.

He glances over at them, then turns back to Val, grinning affectionately. "Don't worry about it, beautiful. I'd have done the same thing. Hell, I have done the same thing. Glad to see she's all right."

She grumbles. "Yeah, well. I worry too much. This can't be good." She curls up in his lap, snuggling against him. "Why do you put up with me?"

He snorts, holding her close. "Because you're beautiful, amazing, brilliant, and inexplicably in love with me. What's to put up with? All I see is wonderful?"

She blushes deeply, He is always able to make her blush. "Perhaps one of these days I'll actually believe all that." She kisses him deeply. "I guess for now I'll just be happy that I have the most wonderful man in the world in love with me."

"It's amazing, what we've found here, isn't it? I never knew I could be this happy." He kisses her back, just as deeply. "I'm so glad to have you, Val. I can't imagine anything more wonderful."

"It really is amazing, Luke. I didn't know it was possible for me to be this happy, either. It's a beautiful dream come true." She kisses him again, gently lingering in it for a moment. "You're perfect. I love you so very much."

"Mmm. And I love you." He wraps his arms tightly around her. "I'm so glad to be marrying you."

She snuggles up even closer. "I'm still stunned that you proposed, love. I totally wasn't ready for that." She pauses. "I wasn't expecting any of this, but it's so awesome"

"I wasn't expecting any of it, either." He half-laughs. "I thought this would never happen to me. I still can't quite believe it."

"I was certain it wouldn't happen to me." She kisses him again. "I'm just amazed. I'm going to be your wife, and I'm going to be with you forever."

"Absolutely forever," he agrees, with another kiss.

She blushes. "I'm the luckiest girl ever. I don't understand it. I really don't." She wraps her arms around him and just holds him. "I love you so very much."

"And I love you." He sighs, resting his chin gently on the top of her head. "It's been a long day. What do you say we go back to our room and just relax for a little while?"

"I like that idea." Val stands, holding out a hand to take his. "Let's go, love."

He takes her hand and follows her to the House of Arch.

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