A Broken Christmas

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The Widower Father (Claude Beaumont)
There is a long line of acting accomplishments beneath your belt, along with a hefty arrest record ranging from drunken disorderlies, DUI’s, possession, and the occasional assault and battery. You had a good time, no one can blame you for that. Because of this, you’re not allowed to drive yourself, and you’ve been in and out of rehab so often, that it’s become a revolving door with you. You got worse, after your wife died, and your family life seemed to fall apart even more than usual. After the death of your wife, your eldest daughter lost her fiance to her younger sister, which caused a rift there. The eldest daughter moved out, which left your house empty, and not being taken care of properly, since new love and all that. Your only son was making himself scarce, making friends with some who would say were of a dark nature. Then came the news that your youngest daughter, the golden child, dropped out of school suddenly, without any explanation, and refused to return home after the funeral. She was disowned for a while, but then you learned from your sister-in-law why the youngest had dropped out, and…Well…There will definitely be a few surprises for Christmas this year.

The Eldest Daughter (Naren Beaumont)
An artist at heart, you fell in love with a musician…Until he ripped your heart out by ******** your sister, giving her comfort that he should have been giving you. You couldn’t stand to be in the house after that, and you packed up everything, moving without a word to anyone. Your work has changed, turning nearly violent, which has earned you a great deal more money, since violence and sex sells far better than happiness on a canvas. You’ve also been going to therapy, and it is under your therapist’s orders that you are going home for the first time in nearly a year. You’re thinking of firing him when you get home, after all, he obviously wasn’t paying attention if he thought going home would give you some sort of closure…It would most likely only lead to someone going to jail for murder.

The Second Daughter (Chasity Beaumont)
A fashion designer, your clothes are worn around the world, especially since you’ve recently started designing the show clothes for your well known musician boyfriend. You stole him from your sister, and while you might hold a tiny sense of guilt for it, you wanted him, and he wanted you, or things wouldn’t have played out the way they had. You’re happy and content, if a little moody. Other than when your father reaches out to you, you’re fairly self-involved with your darling, and the only reason you're going home is because you were always a daddy’s girl, and he asked nicely. Apparently there is some huge surprise he wants everyone there for. He even hinted at the baby of the family coming home.

The Only Son (Tony Beaumont)
The third born, and only son, you learned at a young age it was best to keep your head down. You have a bit of a gambling problem, but you think that’s far more preferable to the drugs and alcohol your father indulges in more often than not, the artistic mood swings of your eldest sister, the sullen moodiness of your elder sister, and the isolation that your youngest sister seemed to bring on herself. You’ve always lived at home because your gambling problem doesn’t let you do much more, so it’s not like you can get out of the pending family reunion. You invited a friend with a cutting sense of humor in order to get through the holiday, but you might regret that.

The Baby Girl (Anna Beaumont)
The fourth child, you were considered the golden child, academically. You didn’t take to the arts like your father, or sisters, and you were far better adept at school than your elder brother. You went away to school, and studied abroad, where you met an artist of a different sort than the rest of your family. He was covered in tattoos, and perfect, considering what you had grown up with. You fell in love, and found out you were pregnant. The school wouldn’t allow you to continue your studies, but they told you that you could withdraw, and preserve your credits, so you did. As those proceedings were underway, your mother passed, and you went home for the funeral, and witnessed more drama than you wished to, before you ran back to be with your Forever and Always. Your refusal to come home, or explain why you dropped out resulted in your father disowning you, but you had your Forever and Always, and you would be having a baby soon. Shortly after your son was born, your aunt paid a visit, and discovered all your secrets you wouldn’t tell your family. Now you are going home, after your father’s latest bout of sobriety, and his attempt to mend the fences, bringing your son, and his father.

The Drunken Auntie (Rune Bellefleur)
You are the sister-in-law to the Widowed Father, and a former Beauty Queen. You married young, and while many would say you married well, you would beg to differ. The abusive relationship left you to fall into drink, and when your husband died, you continued to drink to drown out the memories, and the guilt that you didn’t feel bad he was dead at all. While you drink a great deal, you care about your appearance, and the appearances of your family. You try to fix things, though much of the time, you simply make things far worse. Your latest attempt at fixing things has resulted in this particular visit, wanting to make sure that your prodigal niece isn’t alone with her child and baby daddy when all the potential drama erupts.

The Slutty Cousin (Aine Bellefleur)
Your mother is a drunken beauty queen, but that is fine. You’re an ex-beauty queen yourself, though you were more known for purposely bombing the contests to make a statement rather than uphold the regal, and archaic traditions of femininity. You have a habit of sleeping around, and you don’t really care if anyone knows it. You are a model, and such things are pretty much expected. Your mother is making you come in for the family reunion, and threatening you and your brother with disownment if you don’t attend.

The Thieving Cousin (Seth Bellefleur)
You’re just out of school, and enjoying your new job. You don’t have a drinking problem, or a drug problem. You keep your temper in check, and you make quite a bit of money…Stealing things. You’ve been able to keep your sticky fingers to yourself recently, but only because you’ve been afforded the opportunities for much bigger cookies elsewhere. Your dear uncle often had things sitting around his house that he wouldn’t miss, so you don’t really resent the threats that come from your drunken mother about not attending this Christmas.

The Dark Friend (Ianto Kendrick)
You’re friends with the Only Son, and he invited you to come watch all this fun this Christmas, when the family gets back together…After hearing about why some of the drama was taking place, you decided to go, expecting a cat fight, at least, to cheer and jeer over-if not outright instigate. You are well known with handling business and financial matters, which was how you met the Only Son, who had gotten in over his head with gambling debt. You are the one to kick his a**, rather than let his father know what is going on when his habits get out of hand.

The Family Friend (Nathaniel Pierce)
You are a stuntman by trade, and have long worked with the Widowed Father. You are old friends, and while you may not know all of the children, you know the three eldest, and remember the youngest from before she whisked herself away to school, and seemed to fall off the face of the earth after the funeral. Your friend is supposed to try to stay sober until the shooting can finish for a movie the two of you have recently done, and post production is underway…You were asked by the studio to make sure he doesn’t have to end back up in rehab, and you’re looking forward to the fireworks.

The Agent (Annika Delacroix)
You inherited your most lucrative client when your former boss retired. You have to keep an eye on him, and try to keep him out of trouble. You’ve learned that big money means big egos, and big babies. After The Family Friend warned you about the potential superstorm of s**t that could fly, you’ve decided to join the family for the holidays, rather than risk missing all those extra zeros on your next commissions check. This will be your first time meeting everyone, having only met the Second Daughter, her musician boyfriend, and the Only Son before now.

The Musician Boyfriend (Mac Lochlain)
You had been in love with the Eldest Daughter, or so you had thought until you met her younger sister. As time progressed, you became closer, and rather than break things off and wait some time, you got caught in bed. Not like you could have fixed it, or that you wanted to. Your traveling kept you from meeting a number of relatives, and you’ve always been a little leery of the father because of his legendary temper. You’ve been able to time your visits around when everyone else would be about, but you couldn’t get away with it this time. You’re not looking forward to the holiday.

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Beaumonts' House


Claude Naren Chasity Tony Anna

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The Town of Aspen

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ANNIKA DELACROIX
location :: Beaumont House |♥| company :: Ianto, Anthony...
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She was spending the holidays on the job. Not like she had a family to visit for Christmas or Easter anyway. The drive to Aspen and the house of Claude Beaumont, famous drug and alcohol battling actor and his not-at-all famous son, had been dreadful. She dragged her suitcases up the front porch and knocked on the door. Normally she would have just barged in, but the visiting family might not appreciate it so much, and an unfamiliar dark-haired male answered the door. "Hi. I'm Annika Delacroix--" She smiled up at his blue eyes.

His gaze fell as bit low and took in what her shirt said. Ditched the boyfriend, kept the t-shirt. "You mean the shirtless drunk upstairs is yours?" He jerked a thumb over his shoulder as he asked about it. Sounded like a joke about the boyfriend she had had, but she wasn't sure who he was--Annika's eyes widened and she pushed past him to run up the stairs. Don't tell her Claude already fell off the wagon before the whole family got there! She made it to the second story hall just as the man stepped out of the shower. The bathroom door had been left open, they both stood in the doorway facing one another and she--

She gave a sigh of relief. "Oh." Annika straightened up and lifted her hand from the wall. He wasn't a half-naked drunk or anything, just naked Anthony. He didn't drink so much that she had seen before. "Sorry. I thought you were your dad." She gave a slight laugh, then realized how that sounded after she started staring. "Uh, no, the guy at the door mentioned... I'm just going to get my stuff." She looked away and turned back to the stairs. Her face was growing warm on the way down and with a second glance, too.

Annika returned to the door to find it closed and that the guy had brought in her luggage. She picked up the smaller case to set on top of the larger one to roll it. The guy was grinning and laughing at her face. She touched her cheek with a hand to feel how warm it was and to get herself to calm down. "Don't tell me, your name is Lucifer." She said.

He chuckled. "Ianto." He offered his hand and she shook it, but she knew already not to trust him... He took far too much pleasure in the embarrassment he had caused. She wouldn't be able to look Anthony in the eye for a while.

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~Naren Beaumont~
Location: family home ~~~ Company: Ianto, Annika, and Tony
Arriving

She pulled up in front of her father’s house. She had grown up here…They all had. Lots of snowy holidays, and more than a few Easters looking for eggs in the snow over the years. No egg hunts this time around. Just presents. She had refrained from buying knotted ropes in the shapes of nooses. Someone might think she was homicidal. Not that she wasn’t, but no need to put it all out there. The only good thing about this holiday, she’d get to see her baby sister. She hadn’t betrayed her. She’d be happy to see her.

She grabbed her bag from the trunk, and closed it before making her way up the porch steps, and into the house. She was family, she didn’t have to knock. Someone caught the door, and she met the blue gaze of a devilishly handsome man, and then the hazel looking gaze of a shorter, tanner woman. She recognized the woman from a picture her father had sent, his new agent. The other one had retired. She was surprised he hadn’t eaten a bullet with all her father’s shenanigans. The other one though. “Friend of Tony’s?” There was a nod. “Good for him, coming out the closet with such a handsome boyfriend.” She smirked and walked passed the couple, making her way up to her room. Tony was walking out of the bathroom, wearing only a towel. “Tony-Your boyfriend might get jealous.”

“Boyfriend?!”

"He wishes!" 

“I’m sorry? Are you life partners?” He was doing a very impressive impersonation of a fish. She chuckled, and threw her things onto her bed, along with her jacket. “Is Dad still on the wagon?”

“He was as of when he went to do extra shopping this morning. You’d think he’d be content buying her a plane ticket, but nooooooo.”

“Who?”

“Anna. Must have been a private jet, the amount he paid for a ticket. Damn. He’s a little too excited about her coming home for Christmas, given how pissed he was at her for dropping out.” Tony shrugged, and made his way towards his room. Naren couldn’t help it. She stole his towel and ran downstairs with it. He followed after, and only realized how stupid it had been halfway down, with his friend, and their father’s agent staring up at him. “I’m going to kill you!”

“You’d have to catch me first, little brother.” She laughed, and threw the towel into the laundry room as she passed it, making her way to the kitchen. “Any of you see a redheaded musician running around, feel free to catch him on fire.” Her father couldn’t promise he wouldn’t be here…

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~Claude Beaumont~
Location: family home ~~~ Company: Ianto, Annika, Tony, Naren, and Nathaniel
Arriving

He was humming, arms full of bags, and Nathaniel’s as well. They weren’t all just for the surprise, but the other one, too. He had also missed Anna’s birthday, so there were a few extra things in there, as well. Just for that, along with missing what’s-his-face’s birthday, too. Mac, he didn’t care to get Mac a present. He wouldn’t have Mac there if it didn’t mean that Chasity wouldn’t come. Besides…Things played out well, the family would be coming together to hide a body. Wouldn’t that make the fun family tradition?

He was needing a drink just thinking about it. He noticed Naren’s car in front of the house, and he went to open the door to find a naked Tony on the stairwell. “I understand that you live here, but we’re expecting guests, my son.” Tony turned even redder than Annika, and used his arrival to turn tail and run. “Nice tattoos.” His son flipped him the middle finger as he slipped around the corner.

“Hello, Daddy.” He turned to see Naren walking in, a tea in hand. “What’s all that?”

“Presents.” He quickly turned to keep anyone from seeing any names. It was a surprise. Tony lived here, and even he didn’t know. He had told Nathaniel because he had went shopping with him, and he’d had to explain the strange purchases in order to cover more ground quickly. No one else knew, aside from Rune, and he had no idea if she was telling her kids. She’d better not ruin the surprise. “I need to put them up for when Santa arrives.”

“We’re all a little old for Santa, don’t you think? Or are you still putting on the show for Tony and Anna?”

He just grinned, and had Nathaniel help him up the stairs to deposit the bags of wrapped presents in his closet where they would be out of sight. He didn’t want to ruin the surprise. “So, how do you think everyone will react?”

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RUNE BELLEFLEUR
location :: Beaumont House || company :: Aine, Seth, Annika, Ianto, Naren...
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"You're a s**t driver." She commented on her son's skill behind the wheel. He wasn't too impressive on the icy roads. He ended up switching with Aine to get them to the house in one piece. Soon as that was done, she was able to look out the window without worry and watched the neighborhood pass by. "Oh, look a dog." She turned her head to see the sweater-wearing puffball shiver in its owner's arms. They had a dog once.

Rune's attention turned forward when the house was within sight. She grew serious. The threats of disowning her children were all for the reunion. She would take them back once they found out the real reason she wanted them all together, and she hadn't told them that yet, they would find out with the rest of the family.

"Now we'll have a good, fun, family-filled Christmas so be on your best behavior." She said sternly, then started giggling to herself. "I don't have to worry about you two. My kids are angels." Rune waved it away. The statement was more towards herself than them, but sometimes, they could use reminders about how they looked. So far, they were all presentable even after such a long flight and drive to make it to Claude's house for Christmas. Aine popped the trunk and Seth started to get the things out of the back. She stopped him from grabbing the gift bag full of wrapped presents. "No, no, leave the presents until everyone is occupied then sneak them into Claude's closet." She whispered and closed the trunk.

She turned on her heel and stepped over a pile of snow for the cleared walkway, carefully climbing the slippery steps to reach the house. Rune knocked and opened the front door anyway. "Helloooo! We're here! Claude?" She called as she leaned in, and spied an unfamiliar couple standing next to the couch. She grinned and held out her hand. "I don't think we've met. I'm Rune, the aunt. Mine are Aine and Seth." She introduced herself and her children as they carried the bags in from the car

"Nice to meet you. I'm Annika Delacroix, Claude--Mr. Beaumont's agent." The girl corrected herself. She didn't seem much older than Anna. Well, that actually didn't mean much...

"Yes, he invited the agent for a family affair." The dark-haired man spoke her thoughts with a sly grin. Annika's eyes nearly popped out of her skull at the implication. Before she could say anything, he had his outstretched arm in her way and shook her hand. "I'm Ianto, a friend of Tony's." She nodded and smiled before letting him go.

A mass of curls in the kitchen made her gasp. "Naren!"

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Chasity Beaumont
location :: Airport |♥| company :: Mac
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Chasity had arrived a few hours earlier. She stuck around the airport to wait for her boyfriend's arrival, surviving on coffee and the food court, but his flight was now unloading and she was eagerly on toes keeping an eye out for his red hair. She saw him right out of the gate even with all the other people around.

"Mac!" She shouted and waved. He saw her and met her halfway as she jumped into his arms. It had been a while since she saw him last. He had been traveling and she was preparing a show in Italy. The holidays gave her a bit of a break with a chance to see him. She just had to ask really nicely to get him to risk being around her family and she had to threaten her father to get him to tolerate his presence at Christmas. "Thank you for coming. I know it's going to be really awkward, but... my dad asked me to be there, and I really wanted to spend this Christmas with you." Chasity said, moving her fingers through his hair.

He set her down on her feet though she kept close and a hold to him. "I saw a woman that looked like Anna with a husband and a kid."

Chasity turned to look. "Where?" She didn't see Anna anywhere.

He pointed, but there wasn't anyone where he was pointing that she recognized. "Huh. I swear, she looked jus' like yer sister, but had a kid, and a scary lookin' guy with her. Even by my standards."

She turned back and smiled. "Let's get your luggage." She reached for his hand and laced her fingers with his. "We'll see if it's really Anna when we get there. He said there was a surprise, you know." It could be anything. He wouldn't tell her no matter how much she begged and whined, so it could be her baby sister returned. She wasn't so sure about the scary man and child though. Sounded too out there for Anna, maybe.

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~Seth Bellefleur~
Location: Claude's house ~~~ Company: Ianto, Annika, Tony, Naren, Nathaniel, Claude, Mom, and Aine

He carried the baggage, and was met by two someones he didn’t know. Which was fine. The one, he was dressed a little on the expensive side, and when he said he was with Tony. “Finally come out of the closet, did he?” He heard familiar laughter from the kitchen, and carried the bags through the house, and towards the kitchen door. They always stayed in the guest house, not because they weren’t welcome in the house, but it could get a bit crowded with all the company, and guests. Add the tension from everything else, he wanted a place to hide when the sparks caught full flame.

He tossed his mother’s bags onto her bed, Aine’s onto the bed in the room across the hall, and his into the third room. When that was done, he went to see if everyone was otherwise occupied. Sure enough, Tony was dressed, and the agent looked like she wanted to find a hole to die in every time she looked towards Tony. Guess finding out hot slice of sexy being gay might do that.

“No booze. Uncle Claude is still on the wagon, but if Chasity brings you-know-who, I don’t see the sobriety lasting long.” Aine was smirking, leaning back against the doorjamb.

“Well, won’t that make for a bloody reunion?” He smirked. Naren was not known for staying calm. Unless she was medicated. She didn’t look super happy, so he doubted she was medicated. “Think Anna will be here? She was the normal one.” Not that it was saying much. In this family, you didn’t have to try hard to be normal.

“Iunno.” Aine shrugged, the soda getting tipped passed her lips. “I just hope no one here is cooking. I don’t think we need to catch the house on fire.”

“Anna is helping with the cooking.” They both jumped out of their skins when their uncle came out of no where. “Rune! Did you get your things into the guesthouse alright? I think the main house will be more crowded than usual. The two guest rooms are set up for Ianto, and Annika. Nathaniel seemed content with the couch.” He noticed his sister’s predatory gaze move over the one he assumed was Nathaniel. He probably wouldn’t be sleeping on the couch for long.

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~Mac Lochlain~
Location: Airport---Claude's house ~~~ Company: Chasity
Arriving

He’d seen them at the gate, and he’s called out to her. The woman had tensed, and quickly gathered a kid up in her arms, walking as fast as she could while a tall, dark haired guy looked around, as if trying to see what the blond curls were running from. Still…He could have been mistaken. Anna with a kid, without a huge wedding, and all the fanfare that went with it? Yeah…He couldn’t see it…Anna did things right. Or she used to…She had dropped out about a year ago, but with everything that was going on, everyone had a little breakdown now and then. Some handled it differently than others. Anna would probably be back in school before they knew it.

He had hired a town car to take them to Chasity’s because he hated driving in snow. He just didn’t like it. Rain was fine, but once s**t started freezing, he hated driving through it or over it. Nope! It wasn’t hard to get a trolley and get their luggage on it. He still wasn’t seeing the blond-maybe-Anna-girl or the other guy. Oh well. Chas was right, they’d see if it was her at the house, if she showed up. “Hey, yer sister is my ex-fiancé, an’ yer Da probably wants tae strangle me with my guts. What’s so awkward about that?” Seth had seemed pretty amused by it all. The only thing that had probably saved him from a drunken brawl was the fact that Chasity was involved…Anna had been the only one who hadn’t ever voiced her opinion on things, or whose side she was on. Maybe things wouldn’t be quite so bad…

“Ye ken I’d go through hell or high water fer ye, Chas.” He kissed her lips, and they made their way to the town car that was waiting. It was a bit of a drive he used cuddled up to Chasity. “Have ye talked tae yer sisters since the funeral?”

“I've only talked to dad.” Well, that wasn’t very reassuring. He’d at least like to know if they should stop for Kevlar vests on the way to the house. She obviously wasn’t a source of information in that regard. They finally reached the house, and he got the bags from the back while Chasity went to make sure no one was waiting to shank him. He slipped in through the door, and up the stairs before anyone could notice if he was there or not. He’d be safest hiding in Chasity’s room.

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NATHANIEL PIERCE
location :: Beaumont House || company :: Aine, Seth, Rune, Ianto, Annika...
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Claude wanted to know how everyone would react. Was it a social experiment or some sick and twisted daddy amusement he was going for? "Likely to lose their s**t, I think." He shrugged. There was a lot of drama in his family from one sister ******** another's boyfriend and everything from miscommunication to zero. Nathaniel was used to crazy.

He followed his friend down the stairs to hear the announcement about Anna. It seemed to shock the kids that were around a bit. "Good. I'm starved." He patted his belly, noticing a strange look from the niece like she was starving too and thought he was on the menu. He couldn't really process what to do about that, watching them shuffle into the kitchen as the second daughter arrived. Seemingly alone and without her luggage. He saw a head duck by the window... probably the boyfriend, so he called out to the family inside. "What Christmas movie we wanna play first?"

Nathaniel went into the living room to make some background noise besides chatter that could easily turn into screaming fits and cat fights. He was followed by the non-blooded guests first. "I don't know. There aren't any I would call really good, then again I haven't seen a lot..." Annika said, tapping her lip.

She had three heads or something because he never heard that before. "What?" He gave her a look and it was followed by a questioning one to the guy that came in after her.

Ianto held up his hands. "Don't ask Handsome. My first family-friendly Christmas."

Now Nathaniel shook his head. "Wait, wait--okay, Orphan Annies--" He addressed them. Annika muttered something. "I think in his case, it's Esther." And she was nudged by the other Christmasless b*****d. "We're gonna start with A Christmas Story."

Aine and Seth appeared as he was waving dvds around. "Jack Frost is good." Given her smile, it was hard to believe she meant a family friendly version.

"Play that one. I wanna see that one."

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~Aine Bellefleur~
Location: Claude's house ~~~ Company: everyone present in the living room
Arriving

She chuckled, and grabbed the remote to type in the name of the movie, and make sure it was the mass-murdering-snowman version. No need to get the happy daddy returning from the dead version. Boring! Might as well set the mood with some screaming murders at Christmas on the speakers. Someone came through the door, and it only took a glance to realize who it was. “It’s Chasity and the home wrecking manwhore.” Her mother snorted, using a napkin to catch his beverage at her slowly spoken words. “They should make a band with that name.”

Seth was chuckling, and when everyone saw the cover for the movie she had planned on putting up, the remote was taken, and boring Christmas Story was put on. “Ugh. No fun.” She ruffled Nathaniel’s hair as she shrugged out of her jacket, and hung it by the door. Now that she did a count, it seemed only little Anna was missing. Maybe she got fat, and that’s why she didn’t want to come home? Everyone could be a little critical, she supposed, but it was all in good fun.

She went back into the living room to await when the kid got his tongue stuck to the flagpole, when Seth stole her seat. She pushed him out of her spot, and slid into place, her legs dangling over the arm of the chair. She noticed no one was really watching the movie. “We could just put on Christmas music?” That seemed agreeable, so they found a satellite station, and started blaring contemporary Christmas Carols. They could save the traditional stuff for opening presents.

She watched Seth slip out the door while everyone was occupied, and she was nice enough to open the door so he could slip upstairs and put the presents in Claude’s closet…She made sure to follow him to make sure presents go to where they were supposed to be.

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IANTO KENDRICK
location :: Beaumont House || company :: ...Tony
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He watched a few minutes of the film with the others on the couch. Nathaniel was lying on the floor, Annika was sitting on the edge of the armrest and he was next to Tony's attractive female cousin. She must have been lying about it. "This was supposed to be a bloodbath. What kind of Jack Frost is he?" He said, getting up from the couch and going to find his entertainment elsewhere.

He heard it change behind him, but he was already interested in what was going on with the new arrivals.

As he entered the kitchen, he blocked in the silly blonde sister Chasity and gave her a rather charming smile. "I thought you'd like to know, your cousins are in the living room, given your interests in the taboo." He said and slowly stepped out of her way. She didn't bother with a second look towards him as she passed and, he assumed, went to say hello to her relatives.

"Tony, your family is so fascinating... but we're missing one, aren't we?"

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Chasity Beaumont
location :: Beaumont House, Kitchen |♥| company :: Dad, Naren, Tony, Rune, Ianto... Mac
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"Hello, Daddy." Chasity held out her arms to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. "It's good to see you." She pulled away to hug her brother, and her aunt. Her sister was on the other side of the island. She met her gaze though she was uncertain about how she would take to her trying to offer a hug.

For the moment, she turned her attention back to her father. "I brought my boyfriend." She stated and decided to get that business out of the way. He knew she was bringing him. It was the condition of her coming to join the family for the holiday and while it was likely the other family members knew of circumstances, she didn't think they would have as strong opinions on it as him and her sister.

"Yes, well..." He cast a look to Naren, who really did look like she might break something and use it for a weapon. "Hopefully the bloodshed will be kept to a minimum until Anna gets here with the surprise."

She nodded and smiled, turning to leave the kitchen. Her path was blocked by an unknown man. He said something she didn't like. She ignored him and went past the living room to her bedroom. Chasity cracked open the door and slipped inside. Mac was hiding, likely from Naren... "Anna is coming here with a surprise. We can go out when she gets here." She assured him that would be enough distraction and protection.

[Diandra Moon]

~Anna Beaumont~
Location: Dad's house ~~~ Company: Altair, Adair, people in the house
Arriving

She leaned forward, putting her head on the dashboard as they made their way closer and closer to her childhood home. Altair’s fingers clasped hers, and he gently pushed her back so her back was against the seat. She sighed. She felt sick to her stomach, her nerves were so bad. She’d told Altair about her crazy family, but he had reminded her about how his own father had stolen his fiance, so he was hardly one to judge about the strangeness of her family. It had made her laugh, but still…She looked over her shoulder at the backseat. Adair was starting to wake up from his nap. Jet-lag, and a baby…They were not friends. No.

“I know it’s our first Christmas. I would have been fine staying home---” He gave her a sideways look. They had nothing to do with his family, after what had happened, and now that Adair had the chance to get to know her family…Well…It wasn’t fair to deprive Adair of a grandparent…Still…It was going to be a tense first Christmas for their little unorthodox family. “I love you.”

He grinned, his hand sliding up from her knee. "Do you wanna show it?" He winked. "I love you. Don't worry so much." He took hold of her hand and brought it to his lips.

“If the roads weren’t so slick, I would.” She chuckled, her fingers sliding into his hair before she made herself take a deep breath. “I’m just---I don’t know how everyone is going to react, and if they are mean to you, I’m not staying here.” She’d warned her father of that. “Here’s the turn.” She pointed to the pretty drive, and Altair turned, taking them closer and closer to the house. Luckily, it wasn’t long until Adair had to feed again, so they could use that as an excuse to slip up to her room if everyone got overbearing. She wasn’t about to pop a tit out and feed the baby in front of everyone, family or not.

Altair parked the rental car, and she climbed out. She opened one back door, and Altair the other. She retrieved the diaper bag, and Altair retrieved their son from the car seat before joining her on the passenger side of the car. Once they were off the ice, Altair traded her Adair for the diaper bag, and she froze in front of the door. Should she knock, or just walk in? If she knocked, everyone would come running, and it would make it harder to get through the throng. A hesitant turn of the knob, and she pushed open the door, taking Adair inside, away from the cold, Altair right behind her. Some people were listening to Christmas music in the living room, and she noticed movement upstairs. Aine and Seth appeared.

“HOLY ******** s**t! SHE HAD A BABY!”