AN: This is the drabble I wanted to open with, and even then when I dashed to finish it yesterday (which I did over on AO3) because it was the official Kippea Anniversary. Anyway, this is based off of Queen of Boos (only found on AO3) as well, with permission by the author, and so is the next one. ENJOY!^.^

If Peach had to pick out one word for how this evening's dinner with King Boo was going, it would have to be… interesting. Mainly because she feared for his nonexistent liver.

Ever since he had gotten used to consuming things, especially any of her baked goods, he suddenly became fascinated, more so with the consumption of alcohol as of late, though he had already expected and respected that she was not a drinker, he went out and got a whole plethora of various wine bottles, eager to try them all….and he had already downed five whole bottles like they were nothing within the past half hour. Hence why she feared for his nonexistent liver.

There were a few other boos at the dinner table this evening, mostly the ones who also enjoyed consuming things. The evening was fine enough for the moment, as King Boo was being as charming to her as usual, and as social as she could guess he usually was to the other boos at the table, as he occasionally asked one of them to fill in an informational blank that had him stumped for a conversational moment, though it was usually Booreaucrat who answered him.

The Boo that sat across from Peach currently, Terrence, one of the many transfers from Lady Bow's mansion, eyed the king as skeptically as she did.

"He's gonna get tipsy any moment now, I know a guy who drank just as much as his majesty did, but he didn't make it past six." Terrence had managed to whisper to the Boo beside him, Terra, (another transfer), yet loud enough for Peach to hear, but somehow King Boo didn't hear it.

Sure enough, King Boo only managed to down half of bottle six before it seemed like a switch was flipped. As was immediately indicated by the fact that his purple eyes suddenly shrank being barely visible in the darkness around them before widening just a little above normal, and he himself strangely shrunk in size to the average Boo size, much like the first time he dealt with Luigi in a Mansion of his own design.

Secondly, after he set down the bottle for a nonexistent breath of air perhaps, he had seen Peach out of the corner of his eye and thought the lighting suited this beautiful goddess of a woman. His magic, the bit of it that was tied to his emotions seemed to be equally unpredictable with his new mindset of unpredictability, which was a hundred times worse than drunk fu, as hearts were clearly and literally visible on either side of him as he turned to her and put his head in his nubby hands, emphasizing that he did have cheeks. It actually made him somewhat adorable and distinctly squishy looking.

"You visit the mansion often, gorgeous?" He slurred in an almost purr, but was otherwise unmistakably in absolute awe and adoration. As if he were honestly surprised that a pretty girl like her was even in the mansion. He was also smiling while biting his bottom lip with his unibrow raised in interest, and looked a little bit like he was on the verge of giggling giddily.

Peach laughed in mild surprise, and though she was confused and flattered at the visible hearts around him that were clearly directed at her, she decided to humor him.

"Well, I would hope to assume so, since I live here."

"You live here? How have I not noticed you?" King Boo asked, looking and sounding genuinely surprised.

Across from Peach, Terrence started to uproar with laughter while a mixture of groans and giggles came from any other Boo at the table. Peach herself sighed incredulously and rested her cheek in her hand, restraining herself from rubbing her temples.

"It's going to be one of those nights, isn't it?" She asked no one in particular, and the off handedness of it only made Terrence laugh harder, enough to roll out of his not really needed chair.

Suddenly King Boo turned into his more human form with a simple poof, making it obvious that he was drunk enough to not care about his usual theatrics for the sake of being showy. That got the attention of everyone at the table.

Even Terrence managed to stop laughing, only to whistle a singular note and off handedly comment, "Wow, he cleans up nice."

"Dadgum, I didn't even know he could do that. Wait…can we do that too if we wanted?" Kaboom asked curiously.

"Only if your magic is as strong as his Majesty's in any degree. I've heard its actually quite draining for him so he doesn't do it often…not that he would need to anyway." Booreaucrat offered in her most casual of tones, adjusting her specter-cles.

As much as Peach wanted to join that particular conversation, even if only to inform them that King Boo had told her he would only be able to keep up with the appearance for about a week at most, but she was too distracted at the fact that King Boo was actually in his human form for once, which she was really happy about. To the point where she was tempted to address him with a 'well, hello handsome.'

"Oh, that's right, you do live here." King Boo said with utmost clarity and a snap of his fingers since he had them (though it took him a few tries), it was hard to tell by the way he said it, if he was even joking before. "And now you're mine!" He over exaggeratedly purred with a rawr.

"Ok, that's enough booze for you." Peach quipped, thankfully having finished her meal and physically excusing herself from the table just to see what he would do in turn.

"Boos? Oh no, I can never have enough of them in the mansion, they help boost my magic after all." He replied with a rather smug smile, physically excusing himself from the table as well after taking one more swig from bottle six, and suddenly another switch in him was flipped as he reverted back to his normal round and regal self and usual big size, but stopped floating altogether.

He gently let go of the bottle which was apparently just about empty, and had this really stupid looking grin on his face as he tucked in his nubby arms and started rolling, he rolled past Peach and through the wall, giggling giddily the entire time until he couldn't be heard because of him having gone through the wall.

Terrence was absolutely losing it, if he weren't already undead, he would have died laughing. Meanwhile, Peach and everyone else were just stunned stupid. Somehow the princess was able to find some words of common sense.

"I guess I better go after him to make sure he doesn't hurt himself or anyone else….Who wants to help me since I can't follow him through walls?"

"I'd be mighty happy ta help, Miss Peach!" Kaboom volunteered cheerfully. Even though he told her that she didn't have to make his requested red velvet cake fancy after the Bowser incident, she went out her way to make it the prettiest darn thing he had ever seen in a dog's age, and though he was already loyal and supportive of her presence in the mansion, she earned his utmost loyalty to her tenfold for that gorgeous cake alone.

"I'll come too, but only because I wanna see what he does now that he's lost whatever marbles he had left!" Terrence, managed to say, after finally gathering himself but burst into laughter again by the end of his statement.

"I might as well join this little brigade as his majesty's action secretary." Booreaucrat followed suit.

"Alright then, let's go." Peach said with determination and headed out the door. The three Boos followed, though Kaboom zoomed ahead for the sake of figuring out which way King Boo went.

Kaboom did find him but by the time Peach caught up and rounded the corner, King Boo was already gone, and it went on like this for quite some time, Bootiful, Boodonkulous, and Boofoon even joined in the search as the original party came running after the rolling king.

At one point they lost him altogether, not a single passing Boo had seen where he went. It wasn't until they heard a loud and obnoxious and overly done howl that they managed to figure it out. He was on the roof for Grambi's sake.

"Bloody hell, he's howling at the moon!" Booreaucrat complained, covering her nonexistent ears like everyone else. King Boo was just that obnoxious.

"Oh great! The last thing we need is for him to get the idea to shapeshift into a werewolf!" Boodonkulous quipped for the sake of putting the idea out there as an incentive to really get the King to calm down.

"I don't think even his drunken mind would go that far." Peach offered. "For now let's just hope he stays there long enough for us to get him down."

With that, Bootiful and Boofoon helped teleport her to the roof, the others following suit, only to find poor big ol' Boolossus was also covering their nonexistent ears, looking like they wanted to smack King Boo but still respected his authority to not do anything.

"Boolossus! You have my permission to smack him back down here!" Peach shrilled as best as she could over King Boo's awful howling. Thankfully Boolossus heard her and looked grateful as they nodded to her, before merely bopping King Boo down toward her and the other Boos. However, because Boolossus was so big and actually quite strong, the bop was more of a volleyball spike as King Boo careened into the rooftop, leaving a crater five feet from Peach's feet. Somehow King Boo was only dazed, being solid enough to feel it at the very least, but not enough to fall unconscious.

"Thank you Boolossus, I'll bake another batch of cookies for you tomorrow, and I insist! We've been after him all night." Peach told the colossal Boo and insisted quickly before they could deny the necessity of a generous gift. At her insistence, and the little explanation they just smiled and nodded gratefully again, secretly quite proud that she would be their Queen someday soon.

Meanwhile Peach quickly knelt down beside King Boo to look him over since even she knew he took the hit. Surprisingly, that was when his dizziness wore off and he latched on to her, smothering his face in her lap before looking up at her as he started to babble sweet drunken nonsense.

"MY PEACHY PEACH! PRETTIEST of PEACHES!" He shrilled happily, and at Peach's insistent shushing for him to quiet down, he actually did, but he continued babbling regardless. "Peach, peach, peachy peach, you're so, you're so peach…"

"Could one of you teleport us to that one couch that's in that one random hallway? Knowing him, he won't actually want to be seen like this." Peach requested as she looked to the others over her shoulder.

"Such a good spot! Guess I'll take them there." Boofoon offered, floating upside down as always. "Hang tight to him if you can." They suggested as they floated closer to her.

Peach did as she was told, kissing King Boo's forehead in an effort to shut him up, which worked as she simultaneously hugged him so they could be teleported properly. The next thing she knew she found herself on the very couch she had described in the only hallway in the mansion that was big enough to have it against its wall in the middle of the hallway itself. King Boo was still happily face first in her lap, having switched to the average Boo size somewhere along the way so he'd fit better.

"Are you single?" He asked up at her, still slurring as that 's' was actually held a little too long.

"No…" Peach replied hesitantly as the question came out of the blue to her, but then he started welling up with big globby tears as his face contorted to absolute horror and sadness as if his nonexistent heart just broke, and she realized he asked it out of the blue because he was still very much drunk, so she quickly made amends by correcting herself in a continuation. "I'm not single because I'm your fiancée, dear. You're my silly balloon, remember?"

"Your….silly balloon…? Oh~! That's right! I am! And you're my Peachy Peach!" He slowly managed to piece together, still slurring his s'. He then turned into his more human form again with a simple poof and cupped her face. "Hmmm, I like you, I like you a LOT Peach! Peach peachy peach you're…..soft." With that he changed back to his average Boo size and he plopped his face into her lap again.

"Pardon, majesty, but if there's anything else you need just ask." Booreaucrat spoke up, startling Peach at first, having forgotten that the others would most likely teleport themselves just to check up on them.

"Oh, thank you…um… I can't remember if there's a small remedy for preventing a hangover or not…" Peach replied unsure if she remembered wrong or not.

"Doesn't lime juice work?" Bootiful suggested hesitantly, a bit unsure herself.

"Sure does, and thankfully I snagged a lime before we left the dinner table!" Kaboom cajoled cheerfully as he procured a lime from under his cowboy hat. "Here, this should calm him down a little better." He said as he offered Peach the lime. In turn, Peach stuffed the lime in King Boo's mouth and thankfully he ate it without question, he made a twinge of a face, but otherwise relaxed even more after the tartness settled.

"Thank you, Kaboom, I'll bake you another red velvet cake for helping me wrangle King Boo tonight." Then she had an afterthought of an idea. "Oh, Booreaucrat, if it's not too much trouble, could you get a list of all the Boos who helped us, and if they're the type who like to eat, what I should bake for them? You included of course."

Booreaucrat's specter-cles, which reminded Peach of Nastasia's own seceratary-like glasses, hid the surprise in her face, but she adjusted them with a smile as she got over her flattered shock, Princess Peach was going to make an excellent Queen of Boos.

"You're too kind, your Majesty. But I will do it regardless, and for the record, I myself am partial to a lemon meringue pie." Booreaucrat finally commented dutifully. She then made a small bow and discussed with the others of their preferences, Peach managed to overhear that Boofoon and Boodonkulous also wanted chocolate chip cookies like Boolossus, and Bootiful wanted chocolate chip muffins, which in turn gave Kaboom the idea of changing his red velvet cake request to red velvet cupcakes since he really didn't want her to go through too much trouble with the icing, especially since his request would now be buried under all the other possible orders. Terrence wanted a key lime pie, since the lime gave him the idea for it.

Then Bootiful came over and patted Peach on the shoulder.

"Good luck with him, sorry he's such a pain sometimes."

"It's alright, Bootiful. Despite everything, I still had fun tonight. Besides, I got to learn that even when King Boo is as drunk as a skunk in a bunk, he's still definitely in love with me." Peach replied with an amused smile. She and Bootiful then shared a few girlish giggles with one another, and then Bootiful and the others had to return to their duties throughout the mansion. Thus, Peach was left alone with a still very drunk King Boo.

"What in the world am I going to do with you, silly balloon of mine?" She sighed in exasperation, stroking his forehead and all the way up to just before his crown. He then suddenly lifted his head and apparently had heard her.

"You could always be my bride and marry me!" He chirped cheerfully though still slightly slurring and sounded rather sleepy otherwise, and his sleepiness was proved as he turned to lay his head in her lap on his left side.

"I'm already going to do that silly. Though we still haven't discussed a wedding date yet. But in the condition that you're in, I don't think you'll remember it when you're sober again." Peach replied with a small chuckle.

"I want my Peachy Peach to be happy! Peachy Peach gets to pick the wedding day of bliss~!" King Boo gushed happily, pushing his nubby hands to his cheeks as if fantasizing about it already, but his train of thought switched tracks somewhere as he kept babbling away. "Peachy Peach BEACH! Such a good course! Too bad I suck at 50 CC and I don't have feet so I have to use my magic to reach the pedals invisibly! Why am I in the heavy class anyway? I shrink purposely so I don't have to be as big as a BEACH BALL just to fit in a kart!"

Peach had no words for this particular topic change, she honestly had no idea why he was in the heavy class, because even as he lay his head, if not half of his body because of the average Boo size he was currently in, on her lap, he didn't feel all that heavy. Still he continued to babble and she ended up getting some interesting information that must have been true since his babbling led him to complaining.

"A big beach ball who isn't even a very good king! Soooo lazy am I! Boosley does ALL the paperwork because I make him do it! So much work to do but do I do it? Nooo! I just want to play with my Peachy Peach ALL DAY whenever she has the patience to put up with me!" On and on he complained about the odd thing of things he had to do but was procrastinating in doing, such as talking to Boovelope about the letters she hasn't been getting, but he didn't want to talk to Boovelope because he didn't like the fact that the Boo messenger's eyebrows were bushier than an average Boo's. His emotional magic even procured an image of the eyebrows in question and he pawed at them as if he were a cat, they actually shredded with his movements as if he were actually clawing them to shreds, and she had to stifle her giggles at how cute it was.

Then he switched gears again as he praised how proud he was of Peach for standing up to the Boos that had scared her before by staring them down, and was still impressed of how well she stood her ground during the Bowser incident, and even summoned Boolossus with the Boo Bell he gave her in case of emergencies where he could not help her himself for whatever reason. Peach was flattered by his praises, and then he trailed off entirely and soon just fell silent, she was startled by the odd silence and looked around to see his face, only to find that of all things he had drifted off to sleep.

Peach clicked her tongue in surprise and then finally thought about the current situation as a whole. As far as she knew, he still wouldn't want her to go into his room even just to drag him there herself on the off chance that he would actually fall asleep, and as she shifted to get into a more comfortable position, she felt him snuggle closer as if not daring to let her go anywhere since her lap was completely his pillow.

"Alright you silly balloon, I'm not going anywhere." She playfully grumbled to him under her breath as she decided that this couch was apparently where she was going to be spending the night if only for his sake. She didn't want him to wake up too startled by his different surroundings.

However as Peach tried to get comfortable, just managing to swing her legs up on to the couch with King Boo still not moving even an inch away from her lap (he was practically glued there as if he were a cat), she found herself uncomfortable with her back against the arm rest, as there weren't really any pillows that would help support her, just dinky little ones that could only support her lower back.

Fortunately, she heard the sound of a Boo appearing, and looked to find a little knight in shining armor who was actually dressed like a cowboy. Kaboom had a pillow and two blankets in his nubby little hands.

"Terrence said you might need this, since he stayed behind invisibly just to see what other stupid drunk things his majesty would do, so don't take it too hard on him for being a bit of a stalker." Kaboom said softly, having taken note of King Boo's sleeping form, though knowing the King probably wouldn't wake up for anything in the state he was in, Kaboom wasn't going to take any chances.

"I'm not entirely surprised, and I don't doubt that gossip is going to flow all over the mansion about this despite getting him somewhere secluded for the sake of his reputation. No one's going to let him live this down, huh?" Peach replied, gratefully taking the blankets and pillow off of Kaboom's nubby hands as he offered them. He even helped her get situated by helping her slightly lift King Boo enough to get her blanket to cover her, he even got the other dinky little couch pillow to help cover her feet (she had slipped off her heels when she decided to fully lay on the couch). The other blanket was to cover King Boo, and Peach nestled much more comfortably against the pillow Kaboom had brought.

"Oof! Now that ya mention it, yer right! Nobody's gonna let him live this down, and everybody's gonna know by morning, and I'll bet a jackalope passing by on it!" Kaboom cringed for King Boo's sake, agreeing with Peach entirely.

King Boo giggled in his sleep and his emotional magic was somehow awake enough to actually conjure a jackalope with a small audible poof, and it hopped by until it got far away enough from them to dissipate in another poof.

Peach had to stifle more giggles at both the fact King Boo was even able to do that in his sleep, and at Kaboom's face for being so surprised that it even happened. When she eventually gathered herself, she finally spoke to Kaboom.

"Thanks for the pillow and blankets, Kaboom. I really appreciate it, and thank Terrence for me too, the next time you see him anyway." Peach said in relief of finally being comfortable on this couch. Then her eyes looked to the side in a somewhat disdainful glare as she continued. "I'll give my warning to him personally about spying on the king in a compromised state."

"Yer mighty welcome any time, Miss Peach! I won't keep ya, so you sleep tight with sweet dreams now." Kaboom chirped cheerfully and started floating away and around the corner and out of sight.

Sure that she was completely alone with King Boo, she sighed with exhaustion at the night's entire chain of events as she turned back to look at the ghostly king completely curled up in her lap. She stroked his forehead with the back of her hand and couldn't help but idly think that she must be crazy enough in love with him to chase him down, even with help. It was then that she realized just what exactly she just thought. Peach then wondered just how long she may have offhandedly applied the word 'love' to King Boo. In the end she decided it didn't matter too much, except that she was perfectly fine with the idea of marrying him now. He was way more ideal than Bowser, that was for certain, and if anyone was going to be his better half then it might as well be her. She softly chuckled at that thought as she closed her eyes and easily drifted off to sleep.

As the morning came, King Boo finally opened his purple eyes groggily, and froze when he immediately felt something on him and underneath him. He was quick to deduce the blanket, but whatever was underneath him had him the most startled. Especially since it moved, along with sounding off a very familiar feminine groan. It was definitely a body, and he knew all too well of whose it was. He knew it was Peach, and the gentleman in him hoped and prayed that they weren't in his bedroom or hers, as that just wasn't proper since they weren't married yet.

What bothered him even more than that little possibility was the fact that he tried to remember how the two of them even got into this position, but he came up with nothing. He remembered drinking his delicious sixth bottle of wine, and finding Peach extremely gorgeous that evening…and then nothing! He came to a horrible realization then.

He was a Grambi forsaken blackout drunk.

Cautiously, he peeked out from under his blanket and was immensely relieved to find that they weren't in his bedroom or hers, they were on that one couch that he had decided would look good in a hallway big enough for it. Still….that just left the lost time of how in the stars above that he ended up actually falling asleep on Peach's lap of all things.

Suddenly the ethereal sound of barking could be heard, and the polterpup with ears came bounding down the hall, drifting around the corner like a pro kart racer. Spoopy, as Peach had so lovingly named him, barked again as soon as he was sure that he had caught Peach's scent. It startled Peach awake, and she woke up in time to find Spoopy absolutely covering King Boo in slobbery ghostly doggy kisses. She couldn't help but burst into giggles since King Boo, who was still average Boo sized, caught her eyes and then begged for help from her since Spoopy was being so merciless in giving his doggy kisses.

"Alright Spoopy, that's enough. He's awake!" Peach eventually managed through her giggles.

Spoopy ceased his kissing assault on King Boo but turned to give Peach one before dashing off down the hall again and around the corner.

"Are you alright, you silly balloon of mine?" Peach asked him, still through giggles since he was now humorously wiping off the dog slobber.

"Yes, thank you dearest." He replied, managing to wipe off the last of the ghostly dog slobber. "So, riddle me this, what in Star Hill happened last night that we ended up here?"

"Well, how much do you remember?" She asked back just to make sure.

"Not much… just the rest of the bottle…I think… and finding you absolutely gorgeous in the lighting of the dining room, and that's literally it." He explained, remembering as best as he could.

"Heh, well you ended up flirting with me a lot after that bottle." She told him with a small chuckle.

"Of course I would. You're my fiancée!" He countered lightly in his confusion.

"You asked me if I was single, and when I said I wasn't you began to cry… oh but that was before you fell asleep clinging to my lap. You actually first started with forgetting that I lived in the mansion." She explained a little.

"Oh lovely, not only am I a blackout drunk but I'm an amnesiac one too." He groaned in embarrassment.

"And a silly one." She added quickly.

"Huh?"

"You had only drunk half of the bottle when you first started flirting with me, even turning into that human form of yours at one point, then you drank the rest of the bottle, turned back into yourself and started rolling through the halls. There was no way I'd be able to follow you through walls so I asked for volunteers, and Kaboom, Booreaucrat and… to some extent, Terrence came to the call first. We kept loosing track of you so Bootiful, Boodonkulous, and Boofoon joined in the search." She explained with slight exasperation. Shaking her head as she thought of how to word the next bit. "Then at one point none of us could find you, and we were asking everyone who had seen you roll by. The only reason we even found you was because you were howling at the moon on the roof, and annoying poor Boolossus even…and are sure you feel alright this morning?"

"Yes…I feel fine. I'm a ghost, sweetie. I don't feel pain, unless I make myself solid enough to take the hit politely." King Boo told her mostly out of confusion, but also because he trusted her with that little tidbit of information.

"I figured as much…I had to give Boolossus permission to bop you down from the highest spire, and they were so strong that they kind of spiked you like a volley ball, and you left a crater on the roof." Peach chuckled nervously, tugging at the fingers of her gloves. She hesitated on continuing, especially at his groan that showed that he was humiliated at himself. However, she powered through because she had to. "Then I thought to bring you to this couch, to get you out of being seen by anyone else in the mansion." She continued on with the rest as it happened, the lime to keep him from getting a hangover, and here he was without one, no headaches to be felt. Then the flirting again, he liked that of all things his drunken mind came up with a delightful little nickname to call her affectionately, Peachy Peach. And of course she had no choice but to gently get on his case about his complaints of work.

"I know how stressful it is to work in politics, but that doesn't excuse that things need to get done. While I'm flattered that you'd rather spend time with me, you need to take care of your own like any respectable leader." She left it at that on purpose, she would've brought up herself as an example but because of the current agreement that he made, she wasn't able to go home for even a little bit yet. Knowing him, he probably wouldn't let her until after they were married. She noted his cringe during her whole spiel, she could only hope that he was actually agreeing with how right she was but was being stubborn about it.

"Also, my idea for a wedding date was July seventh, but I'm willing to compromise for whatever idea you had." Peach said quickly to lighten the mood a little since he quite obviously didn't want to discuss his work business with her. It did the trick of distracting him as his eyes lit up, instantly in awe that she even had thought of it even a little.

"Star festival as the reason? July seventh it is, my dearest Peachy Peach." He all but purred happily, taking her left hand in one of his and kissing her ring finger. He had been in existence for at least a couple of hundred years to remember the yummy star bits that fell from the sky specifically on that day of all days, and he explained to her as such so she wouldn't be confused as to why he agreed to that date so quickly. She couldn't help but kiss him as thanks for liking her suggestion of a wedding date. He happily indulged for as long as gentlemanly possible.

Peach also had to tell him of her promise to all the Boos in the mansion to bake them something as thanks for pointing her and the rest of the search party in the right direction so, he most likely wouldn't see her for a few days.

Much later Booreaucrat gave him a copy of the list she had made for Peach of those very same Boos, and suggested to give each and every one of them a raise, herself included. King Boo looked after her in absolute confusion, because technically they were all getting that raise partially in whatever Peach was baking for them. But he complied regardless since Peach was so adamant about thanking them in the first place.

And naturally no one in the mansion let him live his drunken spell down, constantly singing the first bar of Sonic the Hedgehog's City Escape whenever they passed by him. And the gossip stories got more erratic each time someone told them to someone else, like a terribly long winded game of telephone.