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[obligatoryass]

Logan checked the door one last time, just to make sure it would continue to open to Neptune. How embarrassing would it be if it didn't open? Or worse, opened somewhere boring, like Indiana.

Fortunately, the Neptune Grand is right on the other side, and he leaves the door open a crack, just in case Bar should decide to play a cruel, cruel trick on them both. But it seems the trip is likely to go off as planned.

He turns as he hears a knock on the door and goes to answer it.

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[obligatoryass]

Logan laughs. "No, no, the marriages only last month. Celebrities here get together, split up, and then trash talk each other in the press."

[kitchen_maid]

"I . . . that's not the way we do things in my world," says Amy, as nonjudgementally as she can manage.

It sounds really strange to her.

[obligatoryass]

"That's good," Logan says. "It's a crap way to do things."

To say the least. And it leads to weird, screwed up families. Like his! It's not dysfunctional AT ALL.

[kitchen_maid]

Honestly, his life might have been better if his parents had split up and started trashing each other in the press.

"Yes, well," says Amy, "if you'd ever been to a royal wedding, you'd know why no one would go to the trouble of having one for the sake of six months."

[obligatoryass]

True enough. A mesy, public split has to be better than murders and suicide.

"Fair enough," Logan says. "I mean, I don't understand it even here. They throw these lavish things that cost millions, and then just break up anyway. Stupid."

[kitchen_maid]

Amy shrugs. "I really can't imagine meeting more than one person I'd want to go through all that hassle for."

But then Amy isn't getting married as a publicity stunt.

"Anyway, I think you'll enjoy the reception," she goes on, looking for a way off the topic of Hollywood marriages. "Just watch out for all the girls looking for husbands."

[obligatoryass]

"You wouldn't imagine it, but...it happens."

Grateful for the segueway, Logan grins. "I think I can handle them," he says. "Especially since I come from a different world."

of course, this could help out somehow. Get extra points. Don't think he hasn't thought of it.

[kitchen_maid]

"I have little doubt you can handle it," says Amy, amused. "It's just that some of them can be rather . . ." she trails off, looking for a way to put this.

". . . pushy," she picks, finally. "But in a very fluttery way."

[obligatoryass]

"I'll be pushy back," he says, smirking. "In a very direct and probably off-putting way."

It's a talent, really.

[kitchen_maid]

"Good," she says. "I shouldn't like to think that you'd find yourself inadvertantly bethrothed to the silly daughter of some earl or other."

What? It could totally happen.

[obligatoryass]

"That's a scary scary thought," he says. "I'll do my very best to avoid it."

[kitchen_maid]

Amy laughs. "Even if you do, she'd have a hard time tracking you down later for a wedding, I should think."

And eloping isn't something daughters of earls do.

[obligatoryass]

"True, but what if she pined her sweet sillly heart away waiting for me?" Logan shakes his head. "I'd feel terrible, and we can't have that."

[kitchen_maid]

"Oh, she'd just drift around looking elegantly and properly gloomy for a bit and then meet a handsome knight and be swept off her feet," Amy says, airily dismissing the poor hypothetical fiancee's hypothetical heartbreak.

[obligatoryass]

Logan pouts. "I'd hate to think I'm that forgettable. Though not actually being a knight probably loses me some points."

[kitchen_maid]

"Possibly," says Amy. "And it's not that you're forgettable, just that silly girls have not especially good memories.

"And if you ever do want to actually be a knight," she says, "I might be able to pull some strings."

[obligatoryass]

Logan beams. "If I ever want to really impress a girl,I will let you know."

[kitchen_maid]

Amy nods. "It can be helpful to know a person who has the authority to bestow titles."

Or will be married to a person who has the authority to bestow titles. Which, in this case, will pretty much amount to the same thing.

Amy stops to look out over the ocean, holding her hair back out of her face.

"I think it's good to know people with boats, too," she decides.

[obligatoryass]

"No doubt," he says. "To both. And any time you and Perry need a break from being king and queen, and want a chance for some ocean time, consider yourself invited."

He doesn't know about their forest hideaway, of course, but he knows Amy well enough to know that she wouldn't mind having another place to go and hide out for a bit.