"Okay," he says, and smiles, and hugs Nathan.

"Conveniently, I haven't had any emergency timing needs lately. I'll leave you to the rest of your newly-mated leave," says Bella, and she waves.

"Congratulate your sister for me," he says, waving back.

"Sure." And she teleports away.

"And everyone was so worried you wouldn't get along," scoffs Nathan.

"Confounding expectations is fun," the Joker says cheerfully.

"Is something going to change when she's gotten to expect you to be all well-behaved, then?"

"Nope," he says. "'Cause I do get along with her."

"Well, that's good then. It's never fun when the new mate and the old friends don't like each other."

Grinning, the Joker kisses him.

Mmm kisses. There are some trees next to this here highway...

Ooh. Trees. They should go have sex against one!

Why, that's exactly what Nathan was thinking!

The tree may be somewhat the worse for wear after all this.

To be honest, the Joker is a little surprised when all is said and done (well, mostly done) and the tree is still standing.

"Didn't want to knock it onto the highway and cut off a lane of traffic," Nathan says when he sees the surprise on his mate's face. "Besides, it was serving as cover from prying eyes."

"You're so thoughtful," he giggles.

"Always, babe."

He fixes their clothes with a square, and they're on the road again.

[Hi, Emmett!] he says brightly. [Awwwwww, congrats to all three of ya.]

[Hey, as long as I have you on the sort-of-a-phone, Nathan's New Mate, have you got an actual name? Bella just keeps calling you "the joker", like it's your title or something,] Emmett says.

[Nope,] he says serenely. [You can call me the Joker too if you want. Or you can call me something else.]