Title: Katty Laundry
Type: Deleted Scene
Explanation: SIMBA gave me a bit of an idea for this, and I had to write it. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see as much of the Jamisons as I would have liked, due to pacing and other things of the sort.
Katharine gingerly took a large wet shirt and pinned it up. Celeste smiled, catching it before it hit the ground.
"Here, do it more like this," she said, demonstrating to Katharine how to pin the shirt up without getting it dirty.
Michele and Steve were standing on chairs on either side of Katharine, talking to her and through her as they pinned up clothes in orderly rows.
"What does your Daddy do?" Michele asked Katharine, securing Mara Leigh's diaper to the line before grabbing a pair of Pete's pants.
"He's a king," Katharine said, awkwardly clipping one of Michele's small dresses to the line and glancing at Celeste for affirmation.
Celeste nodded.
"What does a king do, 'zactly?" Michele asked curiously.
"Fights in wars!" Steve was quick to supply, almost falling off his chair and into the wet laundry in his excitement.
"Yes," Katharine agreed. "But they also make laws and make sure that the kingdom is happy."
"That's a big job," Michele observed.
"Yes, it is," Katharine said, pulling another piece of laundry from the basket and starting to hang it up.
She froze when she saw what she was holding. Michele noticed that she had stopped working and looked over.
"What's wrong?" she asked innocently, then saw the offending article of clothing. "Daddy's underwear is the biggest," she commented, then returned to pinning up one of Celeste's dresses without missing a beat.
Celeste couldn't help laughing, though she covered the sound by flapping a piece of laundry loudly, as if to rid it of wrinkles. By the time she'd wiped the smile off her face, Katharine had pinned the underwear to the line, and was now looking more carefully at what she was grabbing from the basket.
If Michele and Steve had more underwear to hang up, they never noticed.
Coming next: What if Katharine did die?