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[Filtered away from those who would wish harm to the bride and groom]

The Honor of Your Presence
is Requested at the Marriage of

Lois Lane and Clark Kent

Saturday, the Fourteenth of April

With Reception to Follow.

Please RSVP below.

[Voice, Same Filter]

Smallville and I figured it was long past time we set a date, so this is making it officially official. ... That is, assuming that the castle manages to put itself back together again by April, because if this is going to be the new standard around here? We might need to think about relocating the ceremony somewhere where the cake won't abruptly turn into a feral tiger. I mean, nothing against tigers, but this wedding? Is going to be circus animal free.

But for now, I'm going to go ahead and assume this is just one of the castle's usual bouts of temporary insanity and it'll allll blow over by tomorrow. Or... next week.

... At least by April. Right, Paradisa?

Right.

[... ???]

... [Uhhhhh. What. The. What. After a second, she adds uncertainly:] ... Hello...?

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I was.

Had you picked a date? [he's really, really afraid of what might be her answer.]

I had. Unfortunately, I have not had a year to laze about before announcing it.

[He's not sure where to start... he could explain how every date that Lois had picked previously for anything relating to her wedding had been... castle-jacked or worse, but that didn't really make things any better.]

I don't think anyone in this castle can just laze about for a year, Molotov. Any date that gets set in stone tends to get hijacked by someone else or the castle itself.

I'm positive Lois didn't intend to block a date for someone else. She just picked and there is no official Paradisa Wedding planner to hire. No one that is in charge of booking the church or the ballroom.

It's an honest mistake that could've happened to anyone.

I'd also like to point out that the castle tends to have a literal translation to some very... odd phrases and 'April showers brings May Flowers' has actually happened in the castle. [Rain. Lots of it.]

What if I was to help you secure a date in May or if you'd prefer sooner, I actually know a handful of people that can pull off something pretty fantastic on short notice. [He... had a wedding here. Once. Engaged twice, but details....]

I don't want to push your hand, Molotov, but I don't want you to have your wedding, your day marked with the memory of this argument. [Please, let's just stop this before it elevates to explosions and dress sabotage.]

Oh, nyet, of course. Why should my friends and wedding party have more than two weeks' notice? That suka has only been engaged for a year. There has not been a single day in that time that this wedding could have happened already, right? Well, I do seem to remember last April being surprisingly devoid of magical inanity, but surely a blyad' such as this one could not have done this then.

My wedding will not be marked with any poor memories. I cannot say the same for anyone else.

[FROWN. There is no need for language like that. Oliver speaks Russian.]

Molotov, I don't think there's any need for name-calling here. I'm trying to help.

I can understand that two weeks isn't enough time, I was just offering a suggestion and I would still like to help you. If you would want my help, that is.

As for last year, if I'm honest, she'd planned her engagement party for late in March and that was delayed, because someone from our world arrived. Someone dangerous that put all of us on a bit more aware. It distracted a lot of us around then. Like most of us here, stopping and actually picking a date to do anything requires a lot of faith in the castle.

I can only apologize, Molotov, and try to help you work around this.

I will always call a mandavushka a mandavushka. If she did not want to be called names, perhaps she should not behave in ways that beg the insults.

Are you really trying to evoke sympathy? I could not possibly care less if her engagement party was interrupted. She has already admitted to me that this will only be her first wedding, and that it does not even matter if they do not get to be married here. Some of us, on the other hand, do not get the luxury of marrying in our real worlds, and thus we do not have a year of time to waste on selfish frivolity.

But you need not worry about helping me. In fact, it would probably be more prudent for you to worry about helping her.

I am helping her. I also thought that I could do the decent thing and actually offer up help to you.

I'm her Maid of Honor, but that doesn't mean my help is exclusive to her.

If you want to behave this way, toward me, who has not done anything but offer up an apology and help - then I'll just step away from this completely and wish you luck.

I am really not the one you should be wishing luck to, Mr. Queen.

[You get the last word, Molotov - because Oliver isn't going to participate in continuing this conversation.]

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