"Do you remember when we first met?" She asked, taking a sip of her beverage- a strange one to be sure, something called a coconut was used in it.

Square as usual, Reginald just had some soda.

"Of course. A couple of Abani men were getting all too personal with you- who was clearly uncomfortable."

She chuckled, "Then you came in to save the day, playing off-duty-cop and in your most chivalrous, dutiful tone..."

"Oh no."

Saladin reared back, brow furrowed and face mocking-serious, "Stand back from the Lady, she's clearly not into you. Any further pursuit will be met with legal action..!"

Sal couldn't help but laugh at the silly memory. Silly in retrospect anyway. At the time she was scared stiff, and it was good that Reginald came by when he did.

"Though if I didn't look a fool then..."

"Yeah?"

"I sure did a week later." Reginald blushed, peering away as he took another sip of his drink.

Sal stifled a cackle. She knew full well what he meant- how hard she led him on when she tried to repay the favor a good week later.

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Oh, hon, where do I even start with this..? What can I even say that does you any justice? You are without any doubt in my mind the most positive force in my life. I would be completely and utterly lost without you as my compass in life.

We've had so many good years together- and even the bad shit we went through- never at each other, but carrying each other through the hard parts, made for good years. Because of you, I'm still here today.

You never questioned me for who or what I was, never guilted or shamed me, never made me feel bad, never made me feel I was like a freak. You accepted my changes to myself both present and future despite knowing me as somebody else for the last five and a half years.

You're the best friend I'll ever have. The Chewie to my Han, the Yin to my Yang. There's nobody else on Earth like you.

There's almost nothing you could do that would actually make me angry, you've never really slighted me, never gone out of your way to hurt me.

You've been better to me than anybody else, my mother, my father, my brother or sister- shit the only thing that's been as unquestionably pure to me have been my cats throughout the years.

But you've always been there to anchor me when I'm ready to float off to the pearly or brimstone gates, always keeping me rooted in reality- even when I'm so ready to just let everything go.

I'd be wrong not to love you in your entirety.

Don't worry, it's sisterly, platonically mind you. But you've earned my affection time and time again. There's nobody else in this reality I care about more than you.

And I just want to thank you for being the best friend I could ever have.

Thank you for seven years of happiness.

-Kara.

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