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Love, Lies and Voldemort

The Lianca Recaps

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Episode summary: Episode Summary: Bianca and Maggie visit the beach, where Maggie insists that she'll help Bianca out with her whole pregnancy; Maggie doesn't care that people might think she and Bianca are a couple.

Maggie and Bianca flit onto the beach with ice cream in hand. They giggle a bit about how they'll get to play house in their new apartment, but Binks tries to tell Maggie not to come with her when she leaves town. Maggie tells her that she wouldn't just be doing it for Bianca: "I'm doing it for me. Did it ever occur to you that I want to be with you?" The cherubs of BAM BFF rejoice; meanwhile, the Lianca gods grumble and grow restive.

Speaking of love, puppy and otherwise, BAM are still on the beach, where Maggie tries to convince Bianca to have her along for her pregnancy party. She'll be her Lamaze coach, help her exercise and eat right—"please, how could I possibly pass up this opportunity?" Hee, okay, that was funny. Good one, Liz. They hug, but Binks thinks things could be "kind of weird"—they'll be alone, not entertaining visitors: "people are going to think that we're a couple." Maggie smirks inscrutably.

Maggie doesn't care if "some crazy homophobes think bad things" about her and Bianca. Hey, (a) it's not a bad thing to be a pair of lesbians, and (2) it's not like only "crazy homophobes" think that two women who live together and keep to themselves are a couple. I mean, Maggie's fitting the U-Haul profile quite well so far, and I should know. But Binks is more worried about, you know, somebody being interested in Maggie—what then?

Maggie will make sure that "the guy" gets the right idea, she says. Binks is skeptical. "I'll flash him my feminine wiles," says Mags. "I'll be like—" she rips open her overshirt to reveal her tank top underneath. Binks thinks that would work, and Mags self-deprecates that it wouldn't. She knees over to SuddenlyPensive!Bianca and puts one hand on Binks's thigh and another behind her to instruct her stomach, "tell your mommy to stop worrying. The three of us are about to have a crazy adventure. And no one has to know the truth."

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