Stark Industries, Saturday

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Sometime in the middle of the night Howard's totally awesome mustache disappeared, only to be replaced by a 5 o'clock shadow that George Michael would be jealous of. And he'd somehow managed to get eyeliner on that was so perfect, women might be jealous of his skills. So, he had that going for him today.

That and his illicit alcohol smuggling business that kept the Starks in power on this island. Screw the rules, he had money! And a large selection of fine alcohol saved up from when he moved in!

He looked out the window of the show at his domain, thinking of his future wedding that would once and for all bring those damned Skywalkers under his heel. Where they belonged.

[[Open speakeasy is open!]]

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[solo_sword]

The way Jaina figured, it never hurt to check up on things. If you didn't, things often got out of control, like they had with that explosion at the rival diamond mine in Puerto Rico that she still would claim no responsibility for. Damn mobsters.

"I thought I would find you here," she said when she arrived.

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"You and half the world." What did that even mean? "How is my stunning fiance?"

The one firmly in his grip and not at all plotting behind his back. Because who could plot against that eyeliner? Who?

[solo_sword]

Jaina would never plot against him like that, just like she'd never plotted against any of her other fiances!

"Better, now that you're around," she replied. She might have tossed her hair a little, because it was really fantastic hair. "I came to see how things were going."

And maybe to spy.

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It was pretty fantastic hair...

"The Winchesters won't even know what hit them when our wedding happens." Their surprise wedding. "I can just see their faces now..."

[solo_sword]

Howard wouldn't know what hit him, either.

"Sometimes I think that's half the reason you proposed," she said seriously teasingly.

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"Only half," Howard replied, circling around her so he could put his hands on her shoulders and look off at some spot on the wall so the audience could see both their faces without him seeing her look evil. "That dress you wore was the other half."

[solo_sword]

That was totally why she'd worn that dress.

"Maybe I should wear it more often," she decided. Though probably not around him, because she was fickle like that.

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She was a temptress! He could never resist one.

"As soon as we say 'I do' tomorrow, my will changes." Tony didn't know. Tony couldn't know.

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"Hey, boss," Jack called, slinging a suspiciously clinking bag back over his shoulder as he came in. "We got shipment of diet soda today."

Or rum.

It was probably rum.

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It better be rum or Howard would have to pay some brooding loner to break Jack's knees. But the loner would have a change of heart and fall in love with Jack instead.

Like the last time. Ugh.

"We'll need extra for tomorrow," Howard said, taking a swig of 'Diet Coke' even though it was way too early for drinking. "We have a... celebration."

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"Do we? I love celebrations! Drinks all around!" Jack replied happily.

"Like...fruit juice!" he tacked on unconvincingly.

[solo_sword]

"And so do our lives." Especially his. She'd just enjoy hers more with all that money and one more threat against the Skywalker name and fortune out of the picture.

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But it was loooooove!

"It will take time for them to accept us," he warned her. "Especially... my son."

Who looked about the same age as him.

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"Yes, plenty of fruit juice," Howard said, looking out a window at Jaina. Or nothing. It was possibly nothing.

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"What are you looking at, boss?" Jack asked, tilting his head to look too.

[solo_sword]

"Don't you worry about him. He'll come around to the idea, I'm sure of it." Or, you know. Not.

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...crap. Why did someone have to ask that?

"The island. It will soon belong to the Starks and the Starks alone," Howard said, pulling that out of nowhere. "The Winchesters, the Luthors, the Skywalkers... they don't even stand a chance."

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Odds were on 'not' here.

"You're so brave, my turtle dove," Howard said. "After all those husbands of yours dying tragically. You never let it break your heart."

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"They never really did," Jack assured him. "Is that what the celebration's about then?"

[solo_sword]

Her only true love was one Charles Bass, and somehow she'd never married him yet. Someday they would be together!!

Someday...

"I guess I'm sort of a romantic," she said. "Maybe I was never really meant to be with any of them."

Okay, that was true.

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Charles... Stark-Bass, you mean?

"Your love is too much for any of them." But not him. Check out that five o'clock shadow. It could handle aaaaaall the love.

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"There is going to be a wedding," Howard confirmed. "And then... a funeral."

No, he didn't realize it would be his.

"A funeral for the Skywalker supremacy on this island."

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"Sounds like we'll need a lot of...fruit punch...then. You got Jaina to agree on a date finally?"

Jack paused. "Is this going to be a double wedding with your kid?"

Because that wouldn't be creepy.

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"A surprise double wedding." Which was even better.

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"But not you," she said with a smile. Well, at least till tomorrow.