Fandom Post Office, February 9 (Tuesday)

[filleauloup]

It had turned out to be an eventful morning for Éponine, who'd had to break up an argument (all right, it was a glaring match, but a very potent one) between one of the delivery turtles and the Alot of Junk Mail that had been sitting out back.

"I'm on your side, 's it happens," she ended up telling the turtle, "but we can't just toss out mail addressed to other people even if it's pointless and silly and no one reads it. It's against the law and they've got to do that themselves or I'll be in trouble for it, so you'll just have to come around through the front door until all this gets delivered and that creature goes away, there's nothing for it."

Then she laughed sharply and shook her head. "Agreeing with a turtle! I ought to be surprised it took this long for that to happen."

[OOC: OCD-free but open!]

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[throughaphase]

"Am I interrupting something hugely important?" Kitty asked when she walked in.

[filleauloup]

"Oh, hardly," Éponine said, looking a touch more cheerful at the prospect of someone to talk to. "There was a bit of a problem with deliveries earlier but it's sorted now. It's been quiet, so you won't see me complaining about interruptions, not at all."

[throughaphase]

"Oh good. Because I was coming to see if there were more RSVPs waiting for be here so you didn't have to haul them out to me." At least there didn't seem to be a lot left from the people she expected to answer.

[filleauloup]

"You only don't want me getting the idea to ask for free drinks for my trouble or something of the sort," Éponine teased, laughing. "Well, all the mail's sorted for the day, only I hadn't delivered around your place yet, so I'll just hand over yours now, how's that?"

[throughaphase]

"That'll work, thank you," she said. "Though you still might get a free drink out of it."

[filleauloup]

"I was only joking," Éponine said quickly, just to dispel any notions that she'd been making an active blackmail attempt of some sort. "But I wouldn't turn the drink down, if you offered. One moment."

Making a 'wait there' gesture, as if Kitty would just disappear or something, she hurried into the back room and came out with a bundle of mail that she placed on the counter. "There you are, everything going to your place."

[throughaphase]

"Thank you so much," Kitty said, doing a quick scan to see what was there. "I have to say though, I'll be glad when I can stop dealing with RSVPs."

[filleauloup]

"It's a lot of work, being so formal about invitations," Éponine said thoughtfully. "I don't understand it much myself, but then it isn't the same as meeting up for dinner some evening, is it?"

[throughaphase]

"It is, but with a lot of people in a limited space when I only have vague ideas of how to put everyone in it," Kitty said. "Some of it's fun. Other parts I can't wait to be done with."

[filleauloup]

"I didn't realize how much work goes into a wedding," Éponine admitted. "There was a bridal suite at the inn we had, when I was a kid, but it didn't much get used for that purpose. But! It isn't as if you'll ever have to do the unpleasant bits again after this, I hope, so maybe it's worth the trouble in the end."

[throughaphase]

"I refuse to get divorced and he knows better than to die on me so I am not doing aaaaany of this again," Kitty said. "And it's not so much work if you cut it down to the basics. Thank god."

[filleauloup]

"I'll remind him of that, shall I, if it comes to it? Not dying on you?" Éponine, no.

[throughaphase]

"I'm not sure you'd have the chance before I kicked his ass for trying," Kitty said matter-of-factly.

[filleauloup]

Éponine almost snorted with laughter that time. "See if you wouldn't, too! I'd trust you to do that, I would. Well, I'm not worried then. D'you need any help with any of the arrangements left?"

[throughaphase]

"Yes," she said emphatically. "Even though everything has just fallen out of my head just now."

[filleauloup]

. . . so maybe Éponine snuck a quick look at the floor on the off chance that had been a literal expression. Hush.

"You just tell me what's got to be done, then," she declared. "Soon's you remember what it is, that is, and I'll see it's taken care of."

[throughaphase]

"You are the best, and I will definitely take you up on that. Maybe I'll throw a 'help me with this thing' party with you and Allie," Kitty mused.

[filleauloup]

"How d'you like that! Wait until after I agree to sweeten the deal," Éponine exclaimed, shaking her head in comically exaggerated disbelief. "That's nice, that is, even if I'd have done it anyway."

[throughaphase]

"Thanks," Kitty grinned. "But this way you'd get pizza or whatever too."

[filleauloup]

"And it wouldn't be nice of me to turn that down," Éponine said solemnly.

At least until she cracked a smile right at the end.