The York Gallery; Saturday [ 06/20 ].

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Deciding against slipping out of the gallery early to look into some of the stuff going on at the convention, Charlotte was content to be behind the reception desk at the gallery. Her successful ventures in decorating with Irulan had left her in an incredibly good and industrious mood, looking into a few shows going on back home and then flipping through her schedule book to find a good time to pencil in some shopping, and also planning out for when some new works from T&P might show up tomorrow.

The York Gallery is open!

[[ and OCD free, thanks to work stealth ninja-ing ]]

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[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Hello Charlotte!" Dale said cheerfully entering the Gallery with some baked goods from J'GOB. "How is the old work treadmill treating you?"

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"Even better now that you're here," Charlotte replied with unabashed sweetness, beaming as Dale came through the door.

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Dale grinned and chuckled as he leaned over to give that sweet girl a work appropriate kiss.

"Well that just makes my day!" Dale said cheerfully. "I picked up a few items at J'GOB for you and me to share. It's such a wonderful day I thought it would be good to spend together."

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"Oh, what'd you bring? I've been keeping myself busy, but that's all the more reason I can take a break, especially if it's with you."

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"Well I've got a couple of muffins and a few doughnuts," Dale replied. "I thought you might be in the mood for something blueberry. ish."

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"Dale, that's incredible!" Charlotte said, beaming again as she leaned over to return that sweet little work-safe kiss. "You know, I was just thinking to myself how something blueberry-ish would be really, really good right now! I don't know how you do it, sweetheart."

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"It's a gift," Dale said as he happily laid out the items on the desk. "Looking for a new show?"

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"...Possibly," Charlotte said, tilting her head a moment as she regarded her computer screen. "Maybe just one last big showing before the wedding. You know I've been helping Irulan decorate her place, and so it's just gotten me really inspired again."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well that's wonderful!" Dale said happily. "Is there anything I can do to help? For either the wedding or the show."

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"Oh, well, you know you don't have to," Charlotte started out by saying, before going into a rather smooth, "but maybe when I start to narrow some things down, I could run a few prints by you and get your opinion. Regarding the show, that is. For the wedding, I'm collecting a nice little portfolio of things for us to consider, from invitations, which we really do have to send out soon, to caterers to venues, and are you really sure you don't mind having it in Connecticut? It would mean a lot to my family, especially since the last one was in New York, and I just think it might be easier for all of our friend outside of the island to make it that way, too..."

That, and the idea of having Carrie or Miranda or (God help her) Samantha here was terrifying.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Connecticut is fine," Dale assured her. "Most of my friends are either on the island or will have to use portalocity anyway. I'm hoping that I can get my groomsmen here though communication back home has been a little difficult. However I have backups in place just in case."

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"Three," Charlotte reminded him. "You have to have at least three."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Oh don't worry," Dale said giving her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "I'll have all three available. I would never think of endangering your big day by messing up the count."

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The pat on the shoulder did wonders to calm even a neuroses like Charlotte's, although a neuroses like Charlotte's was pretty impressive, so she still held a slightly stressed look, faintly. Details. They'd do that to you. "More is okay," she reminded him, probably for the umpteenth time. "Just not less. I could easily find more bridesmaids, if you had other people in mind."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I think three will be perfect," Dale replied now moving from a shoulder pat to a shoulder rub. "I'll just have to make a call to Gotham city to see if Renee will be available."

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Oooh. Shoulder rub was even better than a shoulder pat. Charlotte smiled a little, relaxing into it a little. "Renee who used to work for you Renee?"

Very little, because that was also Renee who was also all young and hot. Although, really, so was Daisy, but Renee and Dale had worked closer.

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"Yes," Dale said continuing to work on the shoulder rub. "She might bring her girlfriend to the wedding. Is that all right?"

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"Oh, of course it is!" Charlotte said. "Do you think we should send them one invitation or two?"

It did work out rather nicely that all the hot young female cops at the station were lesbians.

...Yes, Charlotte still thought Daisy was a lesbian. She was special sometimes.

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Which is why Dale adored her so.

"I think one would be fine," Dale replied. "I believe they are still together and doing fine. You remember Faith, don't you? She used to work at the bar."

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"Oh, of course," Charlotte said, nodding. Of course she remembered. Faith was young and hot, too.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale seemed to end up with a rather lot of hot young people now that you think about it.

Must be the profession.

"Excellent," he replied moving the rub from the shoulders to the shoulder blades. "Have you finished your end of the guest list?"

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"Almost," Charlotte said, closing her eyes a little as she leaned in gratefully to the shoulder massage and moving away from hot young women in Dale's life. "It's kind of long, so I need to take it down just a bit. I mean, I don't want the wedding to be anything too big. Something smaller, nicer..."

By her standards, anyway, which was still pretty notable.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale had to chuckle at that. "And when you say smaller you mean... five? sixpeople?"

Yes. He was teasing.

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"I said small, Dale," Charlotte said, "not minuscule on a molecular level."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Seven then?"

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"There's more than seven people in just my family, Dale!"

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"We could just invite the ones you like," Dale teased.

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"I like all my family, Dale," Charlotte countered back, tossing a light thwap of her hand back toward him.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale chuckled some more. "Then we'll just invite the ones who will get us expensive gifts."

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"And they'll all get us expensive gifts, too," Charlotte said.

At least they should.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale leaned over to kiss Charlotte on the cheek. It was a little too fun to tease her sometimes.

"So what do you think our limit really should be?" he asked.

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Charlotte bit her lip. "Couple hundred? Hundred fifty?"

She had a very extensive social network, and already it was bleeding to death from the cuts she'd made.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale laughed. "Honey, you invite as many people as you want," he said leaning over to give her a hug. "The more the merrier."

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"Alright, fine, then," said Charlotte, "I can go back to my original list of just under a thousand."

Joking, joking! Mostly.