Antigua, Saturday Night

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Kathy's kotatsu had died an undignified death and the repair (something about proper voltage) was complicated enough to require several days of work. Faced with a girlfriend sad about the cold and, more importantly, faced with a girlfriend's frigid feet, Dante had made the executive decision that they needed a tropical vacation. Immediately. So last week, he'd basically shoved the entire household through a portal that opened to a small island in the Caribbean, complete with blue ocean, white sand, and an all-inclusive menu that contained more fruity booze cocktails than actual food items.

The week had been fun, in a lazy, let's-not-do-anything way, which had also had the side benefit of short-circuiting Kathy's "Christmas Crazy." She'd sprawled in the sun and read trashy novels and swam in the ocean and practiced her Spanish without a care. In fact, she'd lost track of the date until they were talking about returning home tomorrow and she realized that, oh shit, today was her birthday. (And also Dante's, but they didn't talk about that.)

A quick conversation with the resort, some handwavy phone calls to invite guests, and more fairy lights than a grown woman should really need and their little villa was turned into a tropical wonderland birthday party.

[Open! If you think you'd get a phone call (for either Kathy or Dante), you did! Dante modded with permission. No OCD]

Comments

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante... was not gonna go talk to Kathy's dad. That felt like a real good way to get a dadly lecture or something.

He was going to raise his glass in greeting to the guy on his way to the grill, though. Just ignoring Eliot would be weird.

[vdistinctive]

Eliot nodded back. "Dante. How's it going?"

[rebelseekspizza]

Dammit. See, that's why he'd always told Kathy politeness was for suckers.

Not that you could tell by the easy way Dante turned, flashing Eliot a grin. "Doin' pretty good," he said. Totally not his birthday. "Thanks for coming, I know Kathy's excited."

[vdistinctive]

"Wouldn't miss it. What have you all been up to? When not tropical vacationing it up."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Eh, the usual," Dante said, with an easy shrug. "Anders's been doing his thing at the clinic, Kathy's studying, and me, I've been kicking demon ass and helping clean up the city."