CS ff: “Lethologica” (Epilogue) (au)

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Summary: Maybe if they could think of the perfect word to describe their friendship, everything else would fall into place.

Rating: M

A/N: Happily Ever After motha fuckaaaaas! Here’s an epilogue!

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“It looks like I shoved a balloon under my dress,” Mary Margaret
grumbles as she props her feet on the chair across from her. Her baby shower is
due to start in an hour, and the guest of honor has been ordered to rest while
Emma and Ruby put the final touches on the decorations and centerpieces.

Killian is somewhere in the banquet hall’s kitchen with Will and Belle,
along with four new members of the catering staff. Not only is this the
flagship event, it’s also a dress rehearsal for the kitchen and wait staffs that
have been employed at the hall. Some of them, such as Killian and his other
leads, will work both locations when duty calls. A couple of the other staff
members from both teams have also signed up for double duty, but the rest are
all new hires. The latest wave of tourism has brought along vacationing college
students looking to make a few bucks while they crash in a beach town for the
summer. Others, like the ones wearing new chef’s coats, are recruits from the
latest class of Killian’s alma mater. This shower will be just the smallest
taste of what they can expect to follow with the larger weddings they will
eventually cater in the hall.

Other than the sighs of Mary Margaret’s exasperation over the size of
her belly, or the swelling of her feet and ankles (“They’re hankles, guys. They’re what you get when you cross hams with
my ankles. Hankles.”) the hall is silent for the moment. David is on his
way back with Mary Margaret’s slippers, as it only took five minutes for her to
realize that she did not want to be
wearing the sandals whose straps were already cutting into her feet.

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