compass points you home (closer to me)
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When Stede formed Lighthouse Wedding Planning, LLC, the last event he imagined himself organizing was his ex-wife’s wedding to her long-standing boyfriend, Doug.
Stede just stares at Edward for a beat, gaze flickering to ink, leather, eyes, and all back around again, and – and that was definitely something, most certainly a look. “Well,” Stede says, voice pitching high over a crack. “Do you know the bride and groom?”
“Never met them a day in my life,” Edward says. “What about you?”
Stede’s left eye twitches. “Yes. I know them.”
And by God if that doesn’t sound like good, old-fashioned drama. “Oh? Do tell, mate.”
Stede pauses. “The bride is my ex-wife.”
Edward whistles through his teeth. “Fuck.”
“Quite.”
In which a group of vendors must work together to give Mary and Doug the best day of their lives - and perhaps fall in love for themselves at the same time.
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- Part 1 of compass points you home (closer to me)
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Edward announces to the kitchen staff, “Whoever fixes my neon sign outside gets a raise.”
All the commotion of the lunch rush ceases. Everyone stares at Edward, then each other. Jack is quick to raise his hand. “I call dibs.”
“The hell you do,” Izzy says from where he’s bent down to delicately situate salad fixings. “You’ll get bloody electrocuted. Edward, let me do it, I’ve worked on cars before –”
“That’s not the same thing,” Jack scoffs.
“Electric cars, you dumbass,” Izzy shoots back.
“You mean robot fuck dolls –”
Edward hates to admit it, but he was stupid enough to think that having his first date with Stede at his own restaurant was a good idea.
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- Part 2 of compass points you home (closer to me)
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“Let’s go over some basics to filter out some properties,” Lucius suggests. "Edward, will you be wanting… bathroom sinks?”
Edward’s brow furrows. “Um. Ideally, yeah.”
“Mm,” Lucius nods. “Yeah, a lot of the older clients are going for that.”
Worriedly, Stede asks, “Does this omit kitchen sinks if he gets bathroom sinks?”
“Tit for tat, really,” Lucius says. “What about bathtubs versus showers, Ed?”
He shakes his head, already overwhelmed. “Just give me a lake where I can swim with the dogs, and I’ll be fine.”
In which Edward must find his forever home with a little help from his friends. Or: the Gay Pirate episode of House Hunters.
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- Part 3 of compass points you home (closer to me)
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All Stede’s wanted from the moment he met Edward was to be close to him – in any way and all the ways possible.
“I’ve never…” Stede gnaws his lip.
Edward squints. “Don’t you have two kids?”
“No, I don’t mean –!” He buries his face in his hands. “I’ve never with another..."
Realization seeps into Edward’s expression.
“With another man,” Stede finishes in a miserable whisper. Edward is silent and unreadable. Stede begs, “Say something.”
Inspiration dawns on Edward’s face as he rubs his chin. “This really brings out the artist in me.”
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- Part 4 of compass points you home (closer to me)