For Danny - Maid of Honor

[sluttylyingliar]

The sheer amount of crow that Rachel is going to need to eat now that she's decided to get married is just ridiculous. And she's really letting Danny have this one, because he was really, really right. Plus, now it's turning into an actual wedding, not just signing the book. It's going to be small and NOT a big deal, but it's still a wedding. 

And now she needs a maid of honor. She makes her way up his porch and bangs on the door, half hoping she's interrupting something awesome.

"Danny!" she yells, Jess strapped to her chest. "Are you in there? Are you naked?"

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[sluttylyingliar]

"I don't think you even need to get that dressed up, honestly," she says, rubbing a thumb along Jess's soft cheek. "I'm just wearing whatever white cotton dress I can come up with. Raylan will probably wear a suit. As long as you wear those indecently tight dress pants you like, I'm all good."

[haolehothead]

"I don't see how my pants are indecently tight!" he protests, keeping his voice down from the usual loud level he can achieve. "They're normal. They are a normal fit for my height and I'd like to see you find something better for me," he says, defensive as he gets.

[sluttylyingliar]

"Babe, there is not one thing I would change about your pants," she says, leaning to get a better look. The pants are normal, your ass is not. Your ass is fucking phenomenal. I am jealous of your ass."

[haolehothead]

"Don't talk this way around your kid or his first word is going to be 'a-s-s'," Danny warns knowingly, smacking at her with his free hand and trying to turn so that she's not just getting a prime look at the goods. "It's a behind. A rear. A posterior. Everyone's got one."

[sluttylyingliar]

"Not one like that," she points out with a knowing nod. "Anyway, do you think maybe the bakery could do a cake? I thought we'd do a small, quick something on the beach and then have a party at the house. Drinks and food and dancing. I just want it to be as low key as possible."

[haolehothead]

"Well, on behalf of my behind, I'm thanking you," is all Danny says, glad that they're moving on to other topics before this has the chance to get even weirder. "And I think Shari can definitely get you a cake. You want something special? Cowboy hat or something?"

[sluttylyingliar]

"Simple. Low key," she says, watching as Jess starts to squirm and fuss. "You gonna be completely mortified if I feed the kid in front of you?"

[haolehothead]

Danny hands him over gently, giving Rachel a look that implies he's seen so much worse. "I've seen Grace being fed a thousand times over the course of her infanthood, babe, you're not gonna scar me. Go for it. Just...don't tell Raylan, okay?"

[sluttylyingliar]

Rachel grins as she takes Jess, unhooking her nursing bra and hiking her shirt up until all Danny's going to get is a flash of underboob and her (almost) flat stomach.

Almost.

"Let's just hope that Steve doesn't bust on through here. I think this would weird even him out. So, you realize as the maid of honor, I'm going to need a speech, right?"

[haolehothead]

"Please, if he comes in here now, it'd just help to prove my point about his lemon-puppy face," Danny says dismissively, waving a hand to assure Rachel that they're in the clear and don't need to worry. "Also, I resent the implication that I don't give great speeches."

[sluttylyingliar]

"Yeah, but the speech needs to be comprised of something other than 'I told you so'. But, seriously, there's no one I'd rather do this," she says with a careful shrug. "It means a lot to me. This is all so far out of the scope that I thought I could ever have. It still doesn't feel real."

[haolehothead]

"You know I'm going to give you a beautiful speech. Didn't you like my vows, huh? I mean, okay, I probably threatened violence about two times too many to be romantic, but I think they were beautiful. I think they were a shining paragon of an example of what I can do."

[sluttylyingliar]

"I look forward to the amazing shit you come up with for us," she snorts, wincing a little as Jess nips particularly hard. "So, did you feel different after you got married to Steve? Like, did you guys feel different?"

[haolehothead]

"What, with Steve? No," he says, shaking his head because he doesn't really think that things got too different after the wedding. "I mean, okay," he says, a stupid grin on his lips, "I really like introducing myself to new people as Danny McGarrett-Williams," he says, stupid grin on his face. "I like it -- a lot."

[sluttylyingliar]

"Yeah," she says with a bit of a soppy grin. "We decided I'd take his name. Rachel Givens. Besides, our names are sort of weirdly similar. We're going to try and make the Givens name something less associated with child abusers and rednecks."

[haolehothead]

"I like that," Danny says, considering the name and murmuring it on his lips for a moment. "I mean, now you're pretty much condemning yourself to a life of being Mrs. Givens," he warns, eyes widening like he's going to doom her to a life of being an old wife.