Solstice Party at 33 Apocalypse Avene, Weds Evening.

[icecoldfrost]

The sun had barely begun to set when the house on Apocalypse Avenue lit-up like a small supernova. Each of the zombie lawn gnomes each had their own little candle in a cup, and the walk up to the house was strewn with fairy lights between the trees.

In the backyard, you would find wine, mead, fresh fruit, sparklers, and pretty much anything else required for your midsummer solstice party. There was more food in the kitchen, of course, and rather than the traditional bonfire, the residents had rigged their own burning sun in the center of the backyard.

Merry meet and welcome on the longest day!

[Open! If you think you got an invitation, you did! Townies, students, alumni, teachers...all welcome. Up ridiculously early for maximum SP.]

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Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"Stop that. I can hear you, and I can kill you with my mind," Emma reminded him. "Besides, that's a snack I only get when it suits Fandom."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"You aren't going to kill me with your mind when there are people around," Jack told her, and hoped he was right. "All right, then, if you ever fall madly in lust with a girl who isn't me, you can have that snack, too."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

This would be Emma, turning bright red and looking like she wanted to sink into the floor.

You were dead, Jack. Dead.

"Jack!"

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"Emma!" Jack said, imitating her tone. "What? I don't think anyone is listening, and if they are they shouldn't be."

He could guess what.

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"I try to give you a treat, and you tease me!" Emma was still rather pink, thank you, and trying to ignore it. "Maybe I should make you share your snacks instead, since that's much more likely than me falling madly in lust with anyone."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"I know that," Jack said, going a shade more serious. "And I wasn't teasing you -- not just teasing you, anyhow."

He sighed, went a bit pink himself as he considered the possibilities. The idea of Emma with a woman held a certain ... prurient appeal, yes, but he also didn't think he was entirely wrong when he detected a hint of Sapphic attraction in her. Not enough that she'd necessarily ever act on it, but he owed any urges she had the same consideration she'd offered his.

"We're together," he said in the end. "That took us long enough to figure out. Let's handle the care, feeding, and sharing of hypothetical outside interests when they become less hypothetical. Men or women."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

That required Emma admit that her attractions were NOT just limited to Valentine or Random Acts of Fandom. Or possibly just a round of getting really really trashed with Kennedy. Which was something she should do anyway, but was sounding very attractive right now. Shopping and drinking. Away from boys offering dangerous things.

"If you wish to focus on the care and feeding of me, I won't object," she laughed, taking the change of subject to flutter her lashes at him. "More mead might not be a bad start, or wine, or cakes. Although then I may fill up to the point I fall asleep, and that would be tragic."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

Jack inclined his head in a nod and reached a hand out for her empty cup. "Of course," he said. "I've only had a little bit of mead myself, so at last one of us will be on his feet until the guests collapse."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"I am perfectly steady on my feet!" Emma objected, which might have been belied by the way she was leaning on him slightly. She was...just tipsy enough to be extremely affectionate. That. Yes. "Mutant metabolism, darling; I'll still be drinking when everyone else has passed out."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"So no taking advantage of you?" Jack said, leaning back slightly. "I could claim to be disappointed."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"You say that as if I wasn't perfectly willing," Emma laughed. "Although I never mind making you work for it...perhaps your seduction skills have grown rusty with disuse!"

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

Ah. A challenge.

Jack straightened himself, passed a hand over his shirt to smooth any wrinkles. The truth was, he had let himself slacken over the last several months: no more.

"Perhaps you're just not used to being seduced anymore."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"Perhaps you're quite right." A challenge, then, and Emma smirked at him from under her lashes. "I do believe my paramour has begun to take my affections for granted. I'll have to change that."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"I'd say anyone who doesn't take special care to keep you, deserves to lose you," Jack commented. "Look at you. You're glorious."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"Oh? 'Glorious' isn't a word most people use to describe me," Emma demurred. "What sort of special care do you think I need?"

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

Jack tilted his head to the side in mock-serious consideration of the question. "You need someone who will let you know every day that you're glorious -- and spend the other twenty-three and a half hours trying to keep it from going to your head," he decided. "And kissing, I think."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"Kissing is supposed to keep my ego in check?" Emma's smirk grew slightly wider in delight. "That doesn't seem very productive."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"No, no, it's all part of a very clever plan," Jack told her. "You see, I tend to find kissing distracting. It keeps one from thinking entirely about oneself."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"So you lure sweet girls into dark corners with pretty words about our glory, and then ravish us with kisses so we can't preen. Clever, but it won't work forever," Emma teased. "There are only so many darkened nooks to use, and so many lips to kiss."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

Jack looked at her from under his lashes. "I think there are enough to keep me satisfied for quite some time."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

Dammit, he was pretty when he did that. "Enough corners, or enough lips?"

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

Jack smiled, edges of his lips curling up. "Enough of either. Why, do you see a shortage?""

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

Emma looked around, pretending to consider it. "You aren't Jono's type," she mused, "or Wyatt's... kissing Karla would mean a pack of angry boyos, and Isabel is an engaged woman. And Kate might hit you."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[bitten_notshy]

"Kate and I would laugh," Jack answered. "But of the others, you're right. So I suppose it comes down to the two of us."

Re: The Backyard: Mingling

[icecoldfrost]

"So you'll espouse my gloriousness, then?" Emma asked, laughing quietly. "Fill my head with fancies and then make me forget them all? You think you're that good to keep me occupied all evening?"