A Nice French Restaurant on the Mainland, Saturday Evening

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So, it had been five years since Clint and Kitty's first date... okay, five years and one day, because insurance companies were the worst and they'd both spent way too much time on the phone yesterday to focus on an anniversary dinner. But, today had been a lot more calm, and Clint had found a nice place away from the island that smelled lovely and didn't really serve a lot of seafood.

"I hope this place is okay. You'd think after all this time, date nights wouldn't make me nervous, but old habits die hard," he said with a smirk.

[For the lovely wife!]

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"Does it help if I say I already like you and you're definitely getting lucky later?" Kitty smiled.

Seriously, he was the cutest.

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"That helps a lot, along with you being willing to marry me," Clint said, laughing. "As a warning, I told them it's an anniversary, so I'm hoping you get some kind of chocolate at the end of this. Probably not enough to make up for the last few weeks, but still."

[throughaphase]

"You are the best husband," Kitty said, and she extremely meant that. "The last couple weeks have been pretty terrible, but you're still around so I count them as a win."

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"Where would I go, besides some place that smelled less? I almost wished for another weird rain storm," Clint said. "But then I thought whatever the rain was might just mix with the shark smell, and that would make things worse. So, I'll settle for helping you put the bar back together. At least that'll all be done at some point soon, right?"

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"Yeah, we're getting there," she sighed. "We have a roof again! And I went and got flooring, Googled on how to install it, so that's my project for the week."

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"Are you going to need some handsome manual labor?" Clint asked, grinning at her. "I know a guy willing to work for pizza and he might even take his shirt off if you ask nicely."

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"Sure, if you want to." Please want to, she had no idea what she was doing. "I'm already asking nicely about the shirt thing."

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"Then I'm all yours," Clint said. "We should probably get as much done as we can before you have to think about the bar and students."

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"It's too soon. Just too soon," Kitty said. "I have to stop doing this to myself."

[Now in the right place wtf.]

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"Aww, but you're a good teacher, and the students always like you," Clint said. He reached over to try to give her hand a reassuring squeeze. "You're going to be great and you know I'll help with anything you need, right?"

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Kitty squeezed his hand right back. "And I love you for it. Also, I'm copying my old syllabus so at least it gives me a few weeks without thinking. Well, except for the worry that no one will want to take it, but I think I'm used to that part."

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Clint laughed and shook his head. "Nah, at least a few of them will sign up because you sound cute."

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"That is an awful reason to take a computer class," she pointed out.