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[invisibyron]

WHO: Everybody! Everybody, and Patricia.
WHAT: The first annual Europe Day Party, aka EU New Years, aka Europegate, aka The French Revolution. Decadent decay, imperialism, wine-drinking, scone-waving, Manet/Monet slurring, nouveau bossa nova, big maps, Eurocentricism, themed booze.
WHEN: Friday evening; party starts around nine, starts around

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Neil and open open open -a little before 12:00 am

[off_the_hookah]

Midnight, and Neil knew he had to get going or else he was going to turn into a pumpkin. Or something like that. At the very least he was going to feel like crap the next morning, getting up early to go to the airport. But he couldn't help himself - it was a PARTY! And a Byrons' Party at that. He'd actually started saying goodbye about an hour and a half ago, but was distracted from leaving at every turn. At least Neil had enough willpower not to partake in too much alcohol. Instead, he occupied himself with the French cigarettes his hosts had set out like candy in dishes all around the room. That, and purposely stalking Patricia and Marie to get one of them to dance with him. Obviously, he was a glutton for punishment.

When Watts had said that he wasn't going in a kilt, Neil decided that wearing his would be predictable. Instead, he opted for the ridiculous: wearing a horribly fake mustache, a montera (bullfighter's hat) and carrying a red cape, he spent the first part of the evening speaking English with a horrible

Neil and Harrison and open open -a little before 12:00 am

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Re: Neil and Harrison and open open -a little before 12:00 am

[off_the_hookah]

There was something about Harrison that made Neil go all parental. It was like a reflex. He was also concerned about how Harrison's condition would be in the morning, when they'd have to leave at the break of dawn.

Smiling back at his fellow Wonderlander, Neil made a show of whipping his cape around (and almost smacking somebody behind him with it by accident), and then said in a dramatic voice, "Si! Eet ees moo-wee bueno, Señor Harryson, thees drink of which you speeeak. But do you theenk you have had eenough?"

Re: Neil and Harrison and open open -a little before 12:00 am

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Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

[one_fry_short]

Re: Neil and Harrison and open open -a little before 12:00 am

[off_the_hookah]

Upon hearing the young lady introduce herself, Neil's eyebrows shot upward and he grinned. "Cassie! So you're the lovely young lady that's captured Harrison's heart away?"

He glanced down at the hand, which was at a bit of an odd angle, and then he looked up at her face, realizing she was blind. Was this something Harrison told him about and he'd forgotten? Or was it the booze that made him forget? Without skipping a beat, he took Cassie's hand and instead of shaking it, he lifted it to his lips to kiss. He then slipped the rose he'd been carrying all night into her hand and leaned over to whisper into her ear, so Harrison couldn't hear, "You're a good influence on him."

Smiling, Neil looked over at Harrison again. "Going to England IF you can get up in the morning. I don't want you to miss this holiday!"

Re: Neil and Harrison and open open -a little before 12:00 am

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Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

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Re: Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

[off_the_hookah]

The double entendre might've been an innocent slip of the tongue for Harrison, but Neil's filthy mind caught hold of it and caused his smile to hike up a couple of sly notches.

"I'm SURE she does." He gave an exaggerated wink to Harrison and nudged him knowingly with his elbow. "She was just telling me about somebody named Argos, licking you awake. Harrison! I never knew!"

Re: Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

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Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

[one_fry_short]

Re: Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

[off_the_hookah]

It was amusing for Neil to see his fellow Wonderlander blush, and looking between the couple, he considered them as well suited. Listening to Harrison speak, Neil slipped a cigarette into his mouth and quickly lit it and remembered what he had told him on the compendium. There was always a chance the relationship wouldn't last for as long as either of them hoped - Neil's jaded experience taught him that lesson well - but at least right now they were happy together, and that was important.

"You're not a stamp. Stamps are square." Neil told Harrison this while using both index fingers to trace an invisible box between them, using the colloquial meaning of the word to tell Harrison in a round about way that he thought he was 'not a square', but 'cool'.

"Square and flat," Neil continued. "And you're definitely not flat. As one can plainly see, there's more than one dimension to you." Neil smirked, hoping that neither Harrison nor Cassie was too drunk to pick up on his double meaning.

Re: Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

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Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

[one_fry_short]

Re: Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

[off_the_hookah]

Once Harrison had disappeared from view, Neil turned his attention to Cassie.

"He's head over heels for you, m'lady," he said plain and simply.

Re: Neil and Harrison and Cassie -a little before 12:00 am

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