At the Wedding Pt 17

"That one is "Mustard"," Starfire said pointing at a yellow-brown raptor.

Walt blinked and peers then points at another big brownish-yellow raptor. "Then what's that one Lil' Star?"

Starfire smiled snd started pointing at the penned raptor. "That's "brown Mustard"," she continued pointing at other raptors. ""Mustard the second", "Yellow Mustard", "Spicy Mustard" and then "Mustard the Third". Then there's "Horseradish Mustard" who likes to kick, "Hot Mustard" there likes hot days, "Dijon Mustard" is the fancy one, "Honey Mustard" is the sweet one, the kind of greenish one next to "Mustard the Fourth" is "Wasabi" and then..."

Walt gave Penny a look and she giggled. It was just as Walter had told her. Starfire had a tendency to "name" her favorites after her favorite condiment as well. That's why Walt had tried to somewhat gently round up the "Mustards". Someone had thoughtfully gifted Starfire and James and Co a bunch of their old dinosaur friends... of course there were plenty that weren't as well. It had been a longtime ago and the raptors had been fruitful and multiplied. Still... "I think that is very sweet! What a wonderful gesture!"

Starfire smiled happily smiling. "It is and they're such sweet little Bumgorfs!" She sighed. "I almost wish we could be taking them on the moon of honey with us!"

Walt shook his head. "They'll be here when yall get back from Risa. Besides yall aren't going to want children along on your honeymoon," he smiled. "Except of course the beautiful one yall are carrying that is! I'm so happy for yall."

Starfire smiled and patted her belly. "Did you hear that little one? Your Great Uncle Hoss is right my beautiful little bumgorf and he can't wait to meet you!"

Penny smiled happily. "Many people have names referring to colors from my world. Mustard is a type of color."

Starfire grinned. "I was considering that of course but James said he'd like other sandwich spreads too so we've been toying with Vegemite and other names as well... names on earth are funny! Very creative! It would be nice to use the And'r name as well abd please Mother and Father but-" she sighed looking up at her father who was having an animated discussion with one of the knocked over statues while her mother tried dragging him away back to their table.

Walt smiled. "Don't worry about it. Everyone is going to love the kid as much as we love you and Jimbo. No matter what yall name it nothing's gonna change that, Lil Star."

Pemny nodded putting her arms around them both. "Walter is correct! Everyone will love the name you pick because they already love the baby."

Starfire smiled happily and hugged them both. "Thank you both for that! Excuse me... I really should help my Mother. I will see you both for the dancing later!" With that Starfire excused herself but Penny called out, "Star!" And tossed her another small bag of cookies waving.

Starfire smiled happily getting more Mustard cookies, Penny had been thoughtful enough to make more just for her and she and the others kept sneaking her some throught the festivities. She was a very good friend... and exactly the kind of person that Uncle Hoss deserved.

"They're pretty special, huh?"

Starfire smiled and saw Raven. "Yes... very special and wonderful!"

Raven hugged her though she had to float upwards to do ot comfortably in her shorter size. "Congratulations, Starfire. I think you got really lucky too. Your new family seems pretty special too."

Starfire smiled happily hugging her. "Thank you! I think you got the luck too!" She smiled. "They'd have made great Titans."

Raven smiled and nodded. "Yes... Penny and several of the others remind me of you so much everyday. Just... wonderfully special in so many ways."

Starfire smiled but nudged Raven. "And who is Walt like then, hmm?"

Raven blushed but then surprised her by laughing. "At first he made me think of Robin which was a funny moment I should tell you about sometime! He's so... incredible that way. But then the humor and annoyingly getting a rise out of me made me think Gar... but then I really started to see him for himself. There's similarities here and there but Walt is... just Walt."

Starfire smiled and shared a happy nod with her old friend. "I know just what you mean."

Raven smiled thinking about James. "I'm sure you do!"

"Oh!" Said Charles Gardner hurrying to their side. "Hello, my dears! Haven't seen, Walter have you? I need a wizard- aha! There he is!" He bustled over to Walt's side looking around. "Trouble!"

Walt started looking around hand sliding towards his weapons. "What trouble, Chuck? Monsters? Demons?"

"Worse!" Charles said ducking behind his large friend. "Relatives!"

Walt blinked peering around then cussed up a blue streak! "Oh hell! It's Lucyfur!"

"Who?" Penny asked following Walters gaze to a sharp faced woman with a face like an old cat.

Walt frowned and Charles made a face like he tasted something awful. "Lucinda Gardner-Peach of the Peachville Gardners! Or Lucy if she had any friends, which she doesn't, so we all call her Lucyfur!"

Walt nodded. "Which fits in more ways than one! With that bad catgirl mod she looks like 'grumpy cat' and not cute at all. I should have known when I saw Leonard and some of the other Peachville Gardners around earlier. How bad you want to avoid her, Chuck?"

"Bad!" Charles said. "I am ready to gnaw off a limb to escape if I have too!"

Walt chuckled but nodded. "Not the worst idea. We'll call that plan B." He gave a low whistle and heard a bark and started getting ready. "You're lucky it's a wedding and trouble already started. I was already carrying a number of things." He pulled out a potion vial from his pocket and Penny picked up Zwei when he came running over. Walt handed the small bottle over to Charles and waved at Zwei. "Drink that and turn yourself into the dog quickly."

Charles blinked. "A corgi? Really? Couldn't I become something cooler or maybe Penny could hold me instead and can't you do something cooler than a polyjuice-" he swallowed as Walt gave him a cross look. "Right, right. Don't meddle with the actual wizard or compare you to those hacks."

Walt nodded. "Just concentrate on the dog. If you turn into a raptor I'll have to hide you with the others. This is the good kind. Much better and more effective than polyjuice. All your clothes and items change with you and you'll keep your mind and wits. It's not that Potterstuff is bad. It's just so basic. Someone gets the ability, puts a few scant years into studying properly and then thinks they're an auror or a dark lord. To a real wizard who's put a couple lifetimes of study in it's a wee bit laughable at best if not an actual insult." He saw the look on Penny's face and asked, "What?"

Penny had watched in amazement as Charles quickly was transformed into a corgi that looked similar but different to Zwei. His markings in particular were vaguely reminiscent of Charles facial features and moustache. "Magic," she said as Walt picked up Corgi-Charles. "You really are a wizard... so why have me study under Obi-Wan?"

Walt smiled. "It works differently from different places. I'm not familiar with the magic of the maidens obviously. I don't meet the prime requisite not being a maiden myself." He winked and she laughed. "Plus I had correctly assumed it was about control and focus. Honestly that's true for all 'magic' and Jedi disciplines and teachings are great at that. I use some of them myself for concentration and focus."

Penny smiled and nodded. "I have other questions but..."

Walt nodded. "Here she comes... better let me do the talking. No need for hiccups. Just pretend to laugh." He watched her nod and he braced himself for am unpleasant random encounter. Maybe she wouldn't engage? "So that's when I asked the minotaur, "Where's the beef?", eh?"

Penny blinked not getting the odd reference and then Zwei and Corgi-Charles both barked so she laughed.

"Will," said Lucinda Gardner-Peach.

Walt ignored her. "So then Theseus said-"

Lucinda stomped her foot. "Don't you dare ignore me, William!"

Walt blinked and pretended a surprised smile. "Oh, hello Lucinda. Didn't see you there. It's Walter, actually remember-"

"That's not important, Bill!" Lucinda cut him off snatching a drink from a passing waiters tray. "Where's Charles? I saw him come this way."

Walt stopped pretending to smile. "What seems to be the matter now?"

"My dress is what is wrong!" She motioned to herself as if it should be plain as day.

Walt nodded looking at the rather simple but familiarly colored toga and some bundle of something wadded up in her hand. "Ah, yes. Very becoming toga. How nice to see a-"

"If you say "classic" I'll gouge your eyes from your sockets, you simpleton," she growled and hissed.

Walt did pause slightly. Her nailsdid d resembled claws. "Alright," he sighed quickly tiring of the nasty harpy. "What's wrong with it?"

"It's not my dress, dolt! It's one of the tablecloths!" She spat.

Walt looked at a nearby tablecloth while patting Corgi-Charles who's tongue lolled out in doggy laughter. "Hmmmm... I do believe you're correct. How frugal of you, Lucinda."

"This is my dress!" She held up the wadded bundle in her hand shaking it out. It revealed what once was no doubt a dress of the finest silks... but it had clearly seen better days. It was frayed and tattered and looked like it had been stained with blood. Several stitches had been pulled out. Walt noticed two other obvious things as well. First was that it likely wasn't an entirely "appropriate" dress for a wedding traditionally. It certainly would have been both gauzy, filmy and extremely revealing... and secondly Lucinda likely did not have the kind of body he'd want to see wearing it. She wasn't hideous... just tackily fake and cheap. The tablecloth toga dress- "Looks like an improvement to me."

"What?" She snarled. She shook the dress. "Do you know what this is?"

Walt nodded. "Of course, I do. It's a rag."

"Don't be cheeky!" She spat. "It was a custom piece from an exclusive atelier! Crafted by hand by blinded elven seamstresses from arachne silk! A one of a kind creation! And then that 'thing' dared to use while it was unattended to stop some idiots bleeding and pulled the stitches to sew up the hapless schmucks wounds!" She pointed.

Walt followed her pointing finger in surprise as she pointed to his Curie and smiled seeing her still treating a few patients. She'd changed out of her dress completely and into her Vault Tech Lab Coat suit. She'd likely kept it in her inventory in case of emergency. Infact it looked like she'd used her own dress she'd previously been wearing to bandage a lady's head and fashion a sling for a man's arm. "She's a sweetheart."

"That thing is just a fictional video game tramp with a bad accent." She snapped causing Walt's eyes to narrow and Corgi-Charles to whine sensing the storm coming. "A living fuck doll for some overgrown yet underdeveloped basement dweller! One who didn't have the sense to teach it not to talk back to It's betters, not to touch things that didn't belong to the slut and to properly apologize and instead made excuses when I struck it-"

"Enough!" Walt boomed loudly. The world got dark, like his anger was a black hole and drew the very light itself towards him. "Lucinda Gardner-Peach! I will allow you to say whatever you like. I certainly don't agree but I recognize that you're probably upset about some character touching your dress which you probably had off at the time where ever you were slutting it up you two bit trollop! But you attempted **** upon my dear friend who was trying to lend aid and help in an emergency? Doing her medical duty? My Curie?!"

"Bill!" She said with less confidence than before. "How dare you take that tone-"

"The name is not "William" or "Bill", you vapid, little trashy guttersnipe!" He thundered looming darkly over her. "It is Stark! Walter Stark! And if you were a man who'd struck my dear Curie or any of my characters..." he inarticulatly growled watching her blanch as the color drained from her face. "But seeing as that's not the case and I do have potentially hundreds of witnesses to your act and your confession I will see you in court. I hope you have some damn good lawyers you shrew. Don't disappoint my legal team. They get nasty when they're disappointed!"

Corgi-Charles growled and Walt took a deep breath. He sees Curie shake her head and he lets it out and says a touch calmer. "But seeing as it's a wedding... if there's no permanent damage I'll let it go settling for an apology."

Lucinda pursed her lips but she realized Walt was exactly the kind of person who'd pay a million dollars just to drag her through the mud. "Fine," she spat. "I apolo-"

"Not to me you adlepatted nitwit!" He cut her off. He knew there was no way in hell she'd ever apologize to Curie directly but maybe... "To them," he said gesturing to the rest of the wedding party.

Her eyes narrowed furiously and Walt wondered briefly if she'd do the sensible thing or not. She finally faced the direction of the others and vehemently said, "I apologize."

Walt smirked. "A bit lacking in sincerity but that'll do, Lucinda."

She sneered and actualy spit on his boot before storming off in a fit of pique. Corgi-Charles barked. Zwei barked in agreement. "They're right you know," Penny said.

Walt nodded and wiped off his boot. Even Penny didn't need a translation for that one. He didn't either. "I know, my dear. I know. Another enemy made. I really should write a book on making friends and influencing others someday... but I honestly couldn't care about gnats like her." He looked at Corgi-Charles. "Honestly I have no idea why your cousin married that shrew but it's no wonder he's gone missing for so long. I'd run away from home too!"

Corgi-Charles sneezed and grinned. Zwei barked a laugh. It was true. Bitches will be bitches.

Walt set Charles down. "Now if you'll excuse me." He walked over towards Curie offering her a hand up and looking at the palm print on her face. "Are you alright, my dear?"

Curie smiled and nodded letting him pull her up. "I am fine and more importantly the patients are as well. I am sorry about ze dress. Eet was unattended on ze table. Silk thread is excellent for stitching of ze wounds since ze ancient times of- Mhmmmm!"

She wrapped her arms around Walters neck as he kissed her. He kissed her passionately. "Walter," she panted. "I don't wish to cause ze scene-"

"Dance with me?" He asked. "Please?"

She blushed. "But I'm not dressed nicely now for ze occasion and I'm dirty and eet iz not appropriate-"

Walt carresed her face. "You're lovely! A vision! An angel! Perfect!"

Curie blushed. "You are ever ze charming sweet talker, 'lady killer'... oui. I shall be happy to dance with you but zere eez no music. Ze band is still setting back up."

Walt smiled. "We don't need music... just the beating of our hearts, ma chérie."

Curie leaned her head against his chest listening to his heartbeat. "Oui, mon chéri." They danced together for awhile. Finally Curie whispered. "I talked with Penny... about joining in..."

Walt nodded. "I see. So you've decided?"

Curie nodded and sighed. "Yes. I know ze timing is... poor but-"

"Shh," Walt said strocking her head. "You let me worry about the timing. Things will be incredibly busy for awhile."

She chuckled. "Zat ees putting eet mildly! But when you have ze opportunity?"

He nodded. "I have to go to your world eventually. If you came along..."

She smiled. "Like our old adventures together? I think zat sounds superb! As horrible as life could be there we did have a grand time together, oui?"

Walt smiled happily. "Oui. We certainly did. I should start at the beginning though so it might take a little while. I'm not sure you'd want to follow me back that far... and honestly as bad as someone messing about with that world could be it's not one of the more disturbing ones. Other wirlds concern me more."

She shook her head. "I do not mind. I shall patiently wait. I am quite good at waiting."

Walt nodded. "I know... but I won't keep you waiting long... one way or another."

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