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 Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:41 pm
"Are there that many new trainees? How much did I miss??" The shabby man looked suddenly panicked.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:43 pm
Al wasn't sure who this was and what they might have missed so instead of a useful answer, he returned to smiling awkwardly.
Then decided to change the subject a little, "Let's go see people then?"
He offered his hand.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:51 pm
Well, at least following the younger trainee was better than hovering at the wall feeling awkward and out of place. He kept a firm grip on the strap of his guitar as he was lead forward, but didn't take Al's hand. He just needed to get his bearings back, that was all.
Suddenly, it occurred to him he hadn't had a chance to get anyone presents, and his face paled. "Hell!!" A quick glance to his acquaintance and he cleared his throat, "Nothing, nothing! Yeah, uh... lead the way, ahahahaha!"
Hopefully the gift of music would be enough. It was always enough, right?
He did know a few Christmas carols- maybe not the super religious ones...
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:02 pm
Al lead him right up to Rep, Harrison, Rin, and Melvin. Smiled at their gathering, "Hi guys! This is.... um." He gestured at Jerry while looking confused. He might have needed help.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:02 pm
"Heh," Harrison tucked the mistletoe in his back pocket as Rin slathered Melvin a second layer of lipstick. He looked with considerable skepticism at Melvin's noodle arms and Rin's...remaining arm. "You guys are gonna hold down Jordan? Been doing a lot of keyboard lifting recently?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:06 pm
Rep cackled in a very unmanly fashion at Harrison's comment.
"Also wow Rin, that ******** desperate to proxy kiss us both, that's pretty ******** impressive."
When Jerry - or what looked like at the very least a hobo dressed in Jerry's clothes - was brought up to them, he stared.
"Where the ******** have you been you dumb s**t?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:08 pm
Jerry's expression seemed to crumble as Rep spotted him, tears practically exploding forth as he lurched forward to throw his arms around the angry ginger with a frantic moan, "IT WAS AWFUL I MISSED YOU GUYS SO MUCH OH GOD THEY JUST KEPT POKING AND THERE WERE THESE WEIRD THINGSTHATSCANNEDMYBRAINANDIDON'TEVEN OH GOD-!" he hesitated before pulling back with furrowed eyebrows, "Are you wearing lipstick?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:11 pm
Melvin lifted his chin for Rin to inspect, hoping that she would help wipe off the remaining lipstick and keep him looking somewhat normal for the rest of the party. Instead, he was kissed three times in even darker lipstick than what he was already stained with, and then on the lips.
Now looking a bit too red all over, he just looked at her smug smile. "Just - Why? Why would you do this." He said, feeling defeated by the collective lipstick kissers and wiping his lips before huffing at Harrison.
"I took down a polar bear once. Rep was there to vouch on that. Between Rin and I, we could at least bring Jordan over." Sun or not, that was at least 2 Life hunters against 1 Sun. He grumbled a bit. "Lab equipment isn't light." Especially when most were a 100 years old and weighed a ton.
Then some hobo came to them, and Melvin just stared before taking one step closer to Rin and away from said hobo.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:14 pm
Rep really wasn't expecting to be glomped by Jerry, it wasn't on his Christmas wishlist for that year even a little bit. But at least it was confirmation that underneath the horrendous amounts of scruff there was the very familiar wiry Sun hunter he recognised.
He tried to decipher what the ******** could have happened to him from his string of rambling commentary. "Was it aliens? Were there ******** probes? Did they put anything in your butt?"
At the question about lipstick though, his expression changed, stern and serious as he seemed to consider something.
He very quickly changed his mind, there were some things you just didn't kiss, even for a laugh. Jerry was one of them.
"Aye, I'm wearing lipstick." he said. "Keep bringing it up and you'll be wearing it too."
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:17 pm
"Sorry, sorry, I bet you both could take him by sheer force of intimidation," Harrison guffawed.
He pulled Melvin close again, then wiped up a bit of the lipstick off his cheek with his thumb.
He released Melvin, then pressed the thumb squarely on Jerry's forehead.
"Too late. Join the party. Merry Christmas."
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:26 pm
Rin snorted, "gotta make sure what's mine is properly marked." She referred to Melvin's current waxy red marked state. She nodded with approval. He looked better in her shade anyway.
Then Jerry- wow, where the ******** had he bee-... nevermind. She stared at the sobbing wailing man as if he'd gone completely off his rocker and into a ditch.
Rin decided not to argue with Harrison, simply arched her back, stuck out her chest and placed her hand on her hip all while giving him a calm leveled stare. Talk was cheap and she intended to prove herself if she had to.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:28 pm
Al simply looked from person to person with a massive dopey smile plastered across his face. He brought Rep a good thing, he supposed.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:48 pm
Jerry flinched as Harrison reached toward him, as though the Moon was about to stick some sort of hidden needle into his forehead, but at the feeling of something greasy and he assumed to be as red as some of their lips, he looked upward and cross eyed as though trying to see his own forehead and laughed.
"Ahah... ahahahahhaha... ahahahahahahaha!!! I MISSED YOU GUYS MERRY CHRISTMAS! Seriously, though, is there any like... champagne or wine or beer or even freaking rubbing alcohol-?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:02 pm
Harrison needed to stop grabbing him unless he was going to help, but for whatever reason, Melvin wasn't too worked up over being half-hugged. It was a rare time his brain didn't cringe like a cat to water, and he let it go. When Melvin was about to ask Rep WHY was it that when he asked the same question, he got kissed, but when this guy did it, he just got a warning - when Harrison gave him a little bit of red to match.
Well, it was a start. "Just because I'm Life, doesn't mean anything. You're in Moon. Maybe we should spar sometime and I can show you." He was actually curious to see Harrison actually fight.
If Melvin was any other person, he would have returned the red to the assholes here, but that was out of his abilities. Instead, he nudged Rin. "Whenever you want to grab that guy." He said, meaning Jordan, to prove to the Sun and Moon they could handle one guy. Just because they weren't all brawn didn't mean that Lifers couldn't handle their own.
When he finally put two and two together with this shouting, sobbing man, he was a bit surprised. "Is that you, Jerry?" He wasn't sure, but asking about drinks, the shirt, and now that he saw it, the guitar, seemed to say a lot. Still, this was one step way out there for Jerry on the unkempt level.
"There is no booze here. You could win a bottle of beer at that wheel, but that's it. It's a rare dry party."
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:25 pm
“No,” Shiloh said, as he pushed Ian playfully. “What is with you and Maebe and your brains always in the gutter. It will be a very nice card for a very nice girl.” He glanced over at Maebe, who looked somehow even surlier than usual, and tried to stifle his laughter a little. “Okay, well, the card will be nice anyway.” He watched then, as Ian spun the wheel and collected his prize, a bottle of beer. Ian seemed happy about it, and though Shiloh smiled back, he wasn’t quite so sure. Sure, alcohol sometimes led to pretty amazing things but Ian had also downed a considerable amount when the incident had happened, when he didn’t know that Shiloh could see. “Maybe, save that for later?” Shiloh asked, gesturing at the bottle. He didn’t intend for his words so sound sly, but they ended up sounding that way anyway, considering the last time the two of them and alcohol had been involved, not that he really minded if it happened agan. But if Ian wanted it now, Shiloh wouldn’t argue further. It was only one beer, and Shiloh was sure it couldn’t hurt. He nodded his head, and still holding Ian's hand, wandered over to where Maebe sat. "Hey Maebs, I brought you a present," he said cheekily, handing her the 'Get Well Soon' card.
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