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[everyone_takes]

It probably wasn't exactly the catered party Reggie had been looking for, but it was still a party, which was exactly what Kate needed. The past month had been fucking weird, between everything that had happened with Esther and all the stuff on Halloween, most of which she was neatly repressing and avoiding at all costs. Parties always helped with the whole avoidance thing.

Especially parties where there was tons of alcohol with which to get totally shitfaced.

They hadn't bothered to decorate, but there was food and there were drinks and Kate had even decided she'd share some of her stash -- the one she actually hadn't touched in months -- with some of the guests if they were nice. She'd also realized that having a party where shit was likely to get out of hand with a gun nearby was probably a bad idea, so she'd locked it up and had given it to Danny for safe keeping, a move she thought Harley would approve of.

Especially since the last time she'd held it, she'd shot someone.

But she wasn't thinking about that tonight. She was thinking about the amazing party and the amazing drink she had in her hand.

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[everyone_takes]

Kate couldn't help but smile at that, glad she'd picked Reggie to move in with them and glad they'd decided to have this party. That she was a little stoned was certainly helping to mellow her out, but sometimes all a girl needed was a compliment.

"You're a good friend," she said, not the sort of thing she told people lightly. "Most dudes are total dicks, but not you."

[mantlethemagnificent]

"Yeah, I'm a catch," said Reggie, just beaming, and not about to refute an obvious truth like how awesome he was. "One in a trillion, basically. Guess we both lucked out, huh?"

[everyone_takes]

"Totally, because I'm awesome, too," Kate said, seeing no point in pretending she thought otherwise. Alice might have tried to drive it into her that she wasn't anything but a slut, but she wasn't having any of that. Especially not here. "No wonder we found each other."

[mantlethemagnificent]

"Like attracts like," Reggie said, nodding enthusiastically. "It's like, a law of nature or something. Just don't ask me to get into any dweeby details about it."