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It's still sort of hard to believe.

There are only a few people Kate has gone out of her way to tell about the fact that she and Newt are actually, seriously, for real engaged and it's not because she doesn't want to tell people, but just that she sort of wants to hold onto it on her own for a little while. She wants it just to be hers. She'd never really imagined herself getting married, but then, she'd never really imagined there was someone like Newt out there for her, so she knows plans change.

She knows things about her life, her family, she knows about the things she's done since coming to the island. The same sort of thing has happened to other people, too, and she's always been a little nervous, but it had turned out to be a good thing. She feels better for it. It's proof that her family, while irrevocably fucked up, is also still hers, no matter what happens to them. And even if she's not there with them, they love her, and she's okay. She's not as terrible at being an adult as she thinks.

So she's going to marry him even though her family isn't here to be with her, because she has other family now. People she loves, people she needs, people who are just as important and people she needs to tell about this whole thing.

So she sends a text asking them to meet her that evening at the really awesome diner not far from her apartment building. And she's nervous when she gets there, but she smiles in greeting and waves, and the ring flashes on her hand in a way she's still not used to.

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Kate gives a snort of surprised laughter at that before she says, "If anyone is gonna need that, it'll be Newt." She'd never describe herself as calm, really, but she's pretty easygoing in the ways that matter. A wedding isn't something she's going to get totally worked up over, but Newt might.

Mostly Newt might get worked up over the food. And he'll probably want a kaiju themed cake.

"True." Of course, if he ever managed to get out of it, Newt would probably want to give it some kind of crazy upgrades or something. Which would either be brilliant or a terrible idea.

"Let me know if he gets out of hand. I'll loan it to you for a day or two."

"He would never be able to get his heart rate down low enough to get it off," Kate says with a snort of laughter. "He'd be stuck in it forever." Which is funny in theory, but she kind of likes being able to put her arms around her boyfriend -- fiancé, she has to remind herself -- now and then. "He's way too excitable for something like that."

She's pretty sure she wouldn't be able to get her heart rate down low enough either, but that's not even because she's particularly high strung and more that she's not exactly in top physical condition.

"Which would be kind of a bummer on your wedding night," Alex teases back. She wouldn't really put Newt in the straitjacket, not without some modifications to the thing first. They really would have to rely on drugs to get him out of it.

"But you could always threaten him with it. Can he even talk without having his arms free to move?"

Kate's lips quirk into a smile that she tries not to make too suggestive before she says, "Do you think he ever stops talking?" She loves him so much and she loves his enthusiasm and she loves that even in the middle of a moment that might render most men totally speechless, he can still find something to say. Not only because it's usually something super flattering about her, but that tends to help.

"He's pretty expressive, though, huh?" she asks, her smile softening.