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[wynonna does not use the network often, and as she does so she's sort of making an informal wedding announcement, though she does not mean to, as her actual focus will become apparent soon.]

So. Has anyone just had the closets go completely rogue on them? Because I was looking for things to help me plan a wedding and somehow I ended up with this instead:

[she moves the camera to show off the siamese kitten she dug out of the closet along with some toys she pulled out for it after because she felt bad for it. it seemed so bored and restless.]

It's so cute I'd feel bad sending it back so I guess I am a cat-mom now? Which means this little lady needs a name. I'm pretty sure she's a lady -- I didn't see any balls on her.

[always a class act, wynonna.

but she has another thing she wants to talk about, so she adjusts the filters for the second half of the post, making it locked away from one doc holliday]

Okay, so if anyone is still paying attention to this, I have a question: it's my fiancé's birthday in a couple of weeks and I have no idea what to get him and when I asked for anon advice about him last year it worked out okay, so maybe owning up to needing the help this time will work too. Just what do you get for someone who is turning 167 anyway?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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[ Claire sets that one aside as one to go back to. ]

I made a tricky mess of a situation for myself. I found someone I thought I had quite a lot in common with, and we did. We enjoyed each other's company, truly. But after we were married we both went off to war. And then I fell through time and met someone I had more than just 'a lot in common with.' And that left me with two husbands in two different centuries and a guilty conscious each way. Both of them though, I can say, were lovesick.

[ She pulls another saddle now, plainer but darker leather. ]

That does sound like a mess -- not that I can talk. Back home I had made a right mess of things myself. Doc left town for a while, and I thought he died -- and then I ended up kissing someone else and he ended up getting taken from us -- and I never really got a chance to sort out any of it back home.

[it's the first time she's really mentioned dolls or the love triangle that had been happening back in purgatory to anyone, but it comes up naturally here.

at the third saddle, she grins]

I think that one's perfect.

Goodness. It does sound like you have a relationship with 'messy.' Although I will say I'm grateful for my mess because it's cleaned up quite nicely. And it looks like so far it is for you, as well.

[ Smiling, she tosses the first two saddles back to whence they came and then pulls out a simple but large gift box big enough. ]

He's very lucky, how much you love him.

I do -- messy was sort of my forte for a long time. It's weird to think I've managed to clean it up.

[especially considering her relationship with doc here in wonderland had mostly started as a desperate ploy for her to keep the one thing that was familiar to her close to her. and now, over a year later, they were engaged. who would have thought.]

I'm the lucky one, really. He's put up with a lot from me, and asked for very little in return.

He sounds a lot like Jamie, honestly. Do you know if the two of them ever met before Jamie left?

I don't think so -- Doc isn't always the most social of people.

[not that he's unfriendly per se (though he could be a right asshole when he wants to be) but going out and meeting people is not always on his list of priorities, she's grateful for the friends he has managed to make though, even some of them, like ray, are gone now.]

So, alike then, but also quite different. Jamie likes meeting people, likes telling stories and hearing them in return.

[ She smiles softly, fondly. She misses him so much, already, but she tries to remind herself that they will see one another again. ]

It must be hard, not having him here now.

[wynonna would be upset if doc went home, not least of all because she knew back home things weren't nearly as good between them. or good at all, really.]

It is.

[ And it will be even harder in a few weeks. ]

I spent two decades believing he was dead, so at least, this time, I know he's alive and that we have a life together when I return home.

I thought Doc was dead for a while -- but luckily not that long. At least you have something to look forward to, when you go home. Things are much better here than they were between us back home -- if he ever disappeared it would be hard to be comforted by the idea of him going back to how things were.

Then I hope the two of you are able to stay here for a long while.

[ Claire means it, smiling when she says it, and then helps get the saddle in a gift box, all ready to go. ]

You'll let me know if he liked it?

Me too.

[wynonna knows she should want to go home, that she needs to someday to take care of the curse, but she selfishly hopes that isn't anytime soon.]

I will. Thank you again for the help.

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