The Hellfire Club's Yule Ball, Christmas Eve, New York City.

[icecoldfrost]

This year's Yule Ball at the Hellfire Club was even more exclusive than usual, and that was saying something. The fact that Emma had scored an invitation - and hadn't forged it, thank you very much - meant that when it had arrived in the mail, it had sealed which party she and Jack would be attending on Christmas Eve. You didn't get an invite to the Yule Ball and stand them up. She'd penned her regrets to the other invitations, and that was that.

And the Club itself was bursting with light and Christmas cheer. The tableau vivant from the charity ball were back, but this time they were scenes of Christmas and morality plays.

Well, as much a morality play as it could be, when the angels were practically wearing see-through gowns, but it was the Hellfire Club. The roaming carolers were dressed, mostly, the holly and the ivy were hung, and mistletoe was strategically placed about the building.

There was spiced cider, roasting meat, and networking with the city's elite, all within the traditional Victorian atmosphere that the Club boasted. Only the elite members wore traditional garb, as their guests dressed in their modern best.

Enter the Club, and do as ye will but harm none, on Christmas Eve.

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Re: Private Room(s)

[bitten_notshy]

Something must have gotten caught in the boytoy's throat just about then. That was surely the only way to explain the fit of coughing that overtook him.

It was fascinating, the judgements people made when they didn't realize you could hear them.

Re: Private Room(s)

[all-in-hellfire.livejournal.com]

"Poor kid looks like he's bit off more than he can chew with the Frost girl," Leland laughed. "He still looks familiar, but I can't place him."

Re: Private Room(s)

[all-in-hellfire.livejournal.com]

"She probably just told him something scandalous about someone in the room, or made a joke at Miss Southern's expense," Shaw remarked. "She's a telepath, Leland, she's not going to say things where we can hear them; she knows there's more to the Club than the idle rich."

Re: Private Room(s)

[all-in-hellfire.livejournal.com]

"You could have mentioned she was a telepath before I did all my research for you!" Leland was furious. "Dammit, Shaw, I keep saying I think I've seen her somewhere before, and you don't think to tell me she's a telepath?"

"Now I'll have to have your Tessa check my brain and make sure she hasn't been tampering."