[ Being picked up by a driver from the airport isn't an unfamiliar experience for Benedict, and it doesn't seem to faze Kate either, which means they get an extra hour or so's respite before he has to brace himself for the Lancaster family welcome, which...
Is also very subdued and basically a non-event.
He keeps his arm around Kate's shoulders as they walk up the drive to the main entrance, where the housekeeper is waiting for them to show them to the room they've been assigned for the duration of their visit — technically, since Benedict moved out at fifteen to join the Temple, and then later the Guard, the room that he grew up in is no longer "his," but instead reverted back to its original form of a generic child's room, ready and waiting for either the next generation of Lancasters or a guest bringing a child along in tow — while a footman and the driver deal with their bags.
Etiquette dictates that he should let Kate enter their room before him, but he's a little bit suspicious of the easy acceptance his announcement of a girlfriend received, and he can't quite shake the belief that somehow, even though she's not even in the country right now, Gwen will have found a way to prank him.
What awaits them is no prank, but it is something Benedict hadn't quite considered:
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Date: 2021-10-11 07:25 pm (UTC)Is also very subdued and basically a non-event.
He keeps his arm around Kate's shoulders as they walk up the drive to the main entrance, where the housekeeper is waiting for them to show them to the room they've been assigned for the duration of their visit — technically, since Benedict moved out at fifteen to join the Temple, and then later the Guard, the room that he grew up in is no longer "his," but instead reverted back to its original form of a generic child's room, ready and waiting for either the next generation of Lancasters or a guest bringing a child along in tow — while a footman and the driver deal with their bags.
Etiquette dictates that he should let Kate enter their room before him, but he's a little bit suspicious of the easy acceptance his announcement of a girlfriend received, and he can't quite shake the belief that somehow, even though she's not even in the country right now, Gwen will have found a way to prank him.
What awaits them is no prank, but it is something Benedict hadn't quite considered:
One single solitary king-sized bed. ]
Somehow this possibility slipped my mind.