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WHO: Ate & George
WHEN: Monday? Tuesday? HELP, CHELSEA.
WHERE: Ate's apartment
WHAT: Cheer up and look how pretty I am!

"Puppy, quit it!" Ate told the dog, pushing him out of the way with her foot. George was going to come downstairs and Ate was going to cheer him up. She understood how he felt - the darkness had been kind of a buzzkill for her as well. There was no good hunting of her type on the streets when everyone was panicked or hiding out in their homes. The last thing Ate needed was for people to start being wary and thinking about their actions. How was that supposed to help her out?

She was currently looking dressing herself in the the outfit that spoke a lot about her own recklessness, and when she heard someone in the apartment she called out, "Just gimme a minute!"

She'd left the door open so George could come straight in and with a twisted arm she managed the zip on the dress and grinned. When Ate emerged from the bedroom it was with an expression of rather sweet happiness and in a wedding dress.

"Well?" she asked George, doing a slow turn. "What do you think?"

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George honestly hadn't been sure what to expect when Ate asked him to come over. To call her unpredictable was putting it mildly. But his jaw actually dropped as he saw her in the wedding dress.

"Woah, you look amazing!" he said, grinning.

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Ate grinned, pleased with the reaction from Redcrosse. He wasn't like some normal guy, after all. "Yeah?" Ate asked, half-turning again. "It's real girly, but..." She smiled again and did a little curtsy. "Kinda reminds me of what I was wearing when we first met, don't you think? Big crazy skirts."

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"Yeah, it is a little like the old times," George said, still beaming. He leaned forward to give Ate a careful hug, not wanting to mess up the dress in any way. "You look gorgeous, Ate."

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"Well, duh, sugar," Ate said, but she was grinning widely and accepted the hug. "White's not really my colour," she admitted, going to look in the mirror on the wall and tilted her head as she considered her reflection, "but I like dress ups."

She looked over at shoulder at George. "You coming to this wedding, cupcake?"

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"I'm coming, I promise," George said. He paused. "No one's going to get, like, stabbed or ritually sacrificed, are they?"

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"I'm wearing white," she informed George, her tone making seem as though he couldn't be very bright to ask such a question. She looked down at her dress and frowned. "I can't remember why I'm doing this though." She looked at George. "Do you know why I'm getting married?"

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"Uh." Oh crap. Sometimes Ate just did things and George was never one hundred percent clear on why. He was pretty sure marriage was one of those things. "I think you thought it would be funny."

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Ate considered that with narrowed eyes and then said, "alright," as though George was clearly the one to know these things. "The only other time I did this it was for real, so this is different."

Then she smiled brightly and moved back towards George, wrapping her arms around him and pressing close. "I'm soon to be a taken woman, Redcrosse," she purred. "You're gonna miss your chance with me."

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George laughed and kissed her on the forehead. "I'm currently spoken for. Our love can never be."

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Ate nuzzled his throat and then drew away, spinning a little to test out the dress. "You're always spoken for," Ate told him. "You saints are so busy with having sex."

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"I think it's mostly just me having it for all of the pantheon," George said self-deprecatingly. "I think you'd like Wrath, though. She likes to punch things. Her sister was the one being weird at you earlier."

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"Oh, right," Ate said, remembering. "Her sister was that weird bitchy one!" Then her face darkened and she said, quite seriously, "I wanted to test out my new scalpels on her face."

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"Please don't," George said, rubbing the bridge of his nose. "That would get me in a lot of trouble."

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"Then you better tell her not to annoy me again, sugar." Her smile was almost sweet but she was quite serious.

"So," Ate said, throwing herself down on the couch, "why you afraid of the dark, cupcake?"

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"It wasn't the dark," George said, leaning back against the wall and looking down. "It was the things in the dark. They weren't good for sanity in general."