Santa Claus is coming to town

[afallenstar]

Who: Secret Santa participants, but also EVERYONE!
Where: Town Hall
When: Evening of day 24
What: Present giving! The Secret Santa reveal, and anyone who wants to have a christmas party is welcome to join too!
Notess: Party style thread guys, so go nuts. No order, everything is chaos, tag to your hearts content, feel free to break off into separate threads, and no spiking the punch! Also I think she's sort of mentioned it to a bunch of people but want to do me some lovely favours and handwave the actual name drawing? I will backtag if people want but it seems a little pointless to thread that out.


There's another message on the network that morning from Anna, just audio again. It's about as garbled as her first one regarding the Secret Santa idea, but for anyone who is listening closely enough they'll make out a few details. Namely this evening, town hall, and bring your presents before she shuts it off.

She's spent the rest of the day trying to do what she can to make the place look nicer. She's hardly got Christmas decorations on tap, but she's done what she can with what she has all the same. There's paper snow flakes up around the place, some of the food from her house placed in bowls to make it more party-appropriate, and it's no fir but she has relocated a small tree from the edge of the woods and placed it in the hall. Barely decorated, not even the right kind of tree, it's the best she can do with the resources she's been given.

Now all there is to do is wait for people to come.

Comments

[gloryisbullshit]

He's about to protest: no deal. That's not the point, it doesn't count. But she brings up her system and he snorts. "Come on! That's a little, uh--what's, um." A beat while he thinks of the word he wants and oh-so-sneakily gets an arm around her waist. "--profane! Fuckin profane, man!"

[onteamdyson]

"Hey, it's not officially the holidays without a little profanity!" So sneaky. She still noticed. Just gonna count that as an extra present.

"Clearly I'm gonna need all the points I can get. So come on. Cough it up. Give me a number."

[gloryisbullshit]

"Mmm, fifty. And twenty for the..." He lifts the box up to eye level, getting another look at the gloves. There's a sincere little sigh proceeding by a less sincere smirk. "Twenty for the gloves. Right?"

[onteamdyson]

"Oh em gee, whatevs, the gloves are at least a forty! At LEAST!" Her arms fall from around his neck but she stays close. Real close. Still smiling. She hangs onto the hem of his shirt and just watches everyone else.

"You're freakin' stingy with those points, Party Poison."

[gloryisbullshit]

"Yeah, well I dunno how you're gonna use'm, right?" He'll just keep his arm where it is for now, thanks. "Thirty. Are you drinking?"

[onteamdyson]

"Thirty-five! And yes. I should be drunk right now. Why can I still walk straight? This is a problem." A problem that needs to be remedied! She pulls the dufflebag off her shoulder and sets it down near Donna's present. That shiz will be fine. "You can leave your stuff in the bag and I'll drop it off at your place later if you want." His arm can just stay there as long as it wants. Whatever.

[gloryisbullshit]

"Thirty-five!" He lifts his parcel in a cheer. "And fuck yeah, I'll keep it here. You know I like my hands free. You know where the new spot is?"

[onteamdyson]

Successsssss-- wait, what? New spot? She purks up, tugging on the hem of his shirt. "No! Where? You moved? Why did you move? Is your room on the first floor? Is the dragon lady still with you, because then I gotta keep using the window. And if it's not on the first floor, that means more climbing."

[gloryisbullshit]

"Nah, nah! It's me and the boys--KK and Ghoul, and uh, the other Kid. Blue. You know Blue?"

[onteamdyson]

"Pfft-- yeah. I know him. Freakin' adorkable much? How the hell did you get a house full of all the coolest people. Not even fair. I mean, Phil's pretty cool but Clint's a total dork half the time. Not even me and Galen can cool-balance it out." But hey! No scary dragon lady. Bonus. Front door it is. "Is it still close?"

[gloryisbullshit]

He has a few skeptical face to make, the first being a reference to Kid Blue as any version of adorable, and the second being a reference Galen as any version of cool. (He's not.) Party nods, fingers curling to poke gently at the insides of her wrists, slide up into her palms where she hangs onto his shirt. "Not far. Look, lemme know when you're done here and I'll show you. Make a date."

[onteamdyson]

Galen is cool! He's totally cool and-- DID HE JUST-- HE SAID DATE. He just totally said date. The word date came out of Party's mouth just then. Woah. No. Play it cool, you freaky loser. Ahem.

"Yeah, sounds good. Whatevs." There. Sooooo cooool. "Stay out of trouble. I'll find you after."

[gloryisbullshit]

"I'm like the anti-trouble." He assures, hands coming up like surrender. "I dunno why you even had to give the warning!"

Now excuse him while he goes to pick a fight with Wallie. And Sharon. He's got this under control, seriously.