Jason grins, despite the situation with their missing friend, 'cos yeah, things with Fred are good. "Well," he drawls, guiding Sookie over to the couch to sit down with him. "I'm askin' her to move in with me over Christmas. I got, uh, a puppy and everything. And then the master plan is that I ask her to marry me sometime in the spring."

He has an arm around his sister's shoulders, and he peers sidelong at her to see what her reaction will be. Good, he thinks, though who would have ever suspected Jason Stackhouse of wanting to settle down?

But here he is.