Christmas Party! Millitimed Vaguely to "Sometime Around Christmas"

[kitchen_maid]

Anne and Amy have been very very busy over the last week or so, transforming their usually simple white room into the perfect place for a Christmas party.

There are garlands of holly and balsam strung around the room, leading away from the wreath between the windows (and there's a grumpy looking crow, perched in the middle of the wreath, trying to figure out how to get the red ribbon from around his neck). A Christmas tree, candles ablaze, stands in one corner, with presents tucked under its branches.

Welcome, dear friend, to Anne and Amy's Christmas party.

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Re: The Christmas Tree

[obligatoryass]

"More like a stalker," Logan mutters, drinking. "When I didn't want to leave last time - I was in the hospital, at home, after the bridge thing? - it wouldn't go away. Totally annoying."

Re: The Christmas Tree

[dead_hooker_2]

"Wow. Your stalker is a lot more interesting than mine was."

You haven't really arrived until you've had a stalker.

"I mean, the story is. The door itself is probably pretty boring."

Re: The Christmas Tree

[obligatoryass]

Logan laughs. "Your stalker," he says, "Was the most pathetic individual ever. I really wanted to give him money so he could buy a proper dinner."

Lucky Logan!

"The door? It looked like the Neptune cafeteria one, actually. It just went home, though."

Re: The Christmas Tree

[dead_hooker_2]

"I think stalkers are, by definition, pathetic."

Trina will not have her stalker belittled. Not after all the work she went to in order to get that story into the tabloids.

"I've never noticed you not being around for weeks at a time."

Not that she necessarily would have.

Re: The Christmas Tree

[obligatoryass]

"Good point," Logan says. He won't go any further. Trina gets very protective of her stalker's reputation as 'scary.'

"Mostly I'm not," he says. "You've noticed you seem to arrive home about the time you left, whereever you meant to go, right?"

Re: The Christmas Tree

[dead_hooker_2]

You'd find it scary, too, if the best you can come up with for a stalker is a guy named "Laurence." That says very scary things about your lack of career.

"I seem to, I guess."

Re: The Christmas Tree

[obligatoryass]

"Same thing for me, no matter how long I spend here."

Except for the summer, which he was...there and not there for at the same time. It's weird, and he doesn't want to get into it.

"It's good, but it also kinda sucks. Sometimes I'd like to fast forward and get to the end of the seasonyear, you know?"

Re: The Christmas Tree

[dead_hooker_2]

Such is the problem created by the schedule, really.

She looks at him.

"Yeah, I think I do."

Fortunately, there is still plenty of punch.

And if that runs out, well, there's a whole bar downstairs.