#47 - [accidental video/action]

[totallyinaband]

[Stephen is at his usual spot in the kitchen at The Blue Light today, apron and baseball cap on. He's working fairly quickly, chopping vegetables and periodically checking a few pots on the stove and something in the oven. The radio is on (not playing Christmas music, thank god) and he's humming along occasionally. What he has failed to notice is

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[withloadedguns]

[So this is the Blue Light, huh? Everyone talks about it on the Network. It's different from his usual places. It's not really to his liking. Not completely. But he's up in the City today and, well, thirst knows no location. Hence the beer.]

[ooc: I tried to resist, but I failed.]

[totallyinaband]

[Stephen comes out of the kitchen to bring someone else their lunch when he notices Cowboy smoldering in a corner.]

Hey man.

[withloadedguns]

[A familiar face--that's something.]

Hello.

[totallyinaband]

[Collecting some glasses while he's over here.]

Haven't seen you here before.

[withloadedguns]

Haven't been here before to be seen.

[Of course.]

[totallyinaband]

You getting a drink?

[withloadedguns]

Just waiting on another beer.

[And trying to avoid that mistletoe which, sonuvabitch, is creeping around inside.]

[totallyinaband]

We have a complaints box if you need it.

[Going to get him another one, though.]

[withloadedguns]

I don't think I will.

[He's not too picky, really.]

[totallyinaband]

Good. We're under new management, so I figure he have an excuse.

[Coming back with your beer. Aaaaand there's no one else in the bar, so he might as well sit down.]

[withloadedguns]

[He won't tell. Sit down, take a load off. It's better than doing nothing.

Taking a gulp or two.]

You putting up with--

[He points vaguely at the mistletoe growing from the ceiling. Stuff's too damn close.]

--all this all right?

[totallyinaband]

Fuck. I thought it was just outside.

[withloadedguns]

Looks like it got in.

[...and it's creeping right overhead... Damn. Not this again. And he can't stop leaning in--entirely too close, entirely at the wrong angle (or the right angle, if one prefers), with entirely too much purpose...]

[totallyinaband]

[Oh fuck. Is he going to...? Stephen freezes.]

[withloadedguns]

[Yes, he is. He can't fight the curse any more than anyone else can. And maybe it's better to endure it, get it over with, and then go on. Like being sick. Or anything else.

He leans in closer, close as he can, too close. One hand gets itself tangled in the collar of Stephen's shirt (habit more than anything) to drag him just a bit closer (if that's at all possible by now). His eyes fall shut, and he swoops in to close the last distance between them and catch Stephen's mouth in a kiss...]

[totallyinaband]

[There are a few seconds of AHHHH TERROR WHAT'S HAPPENING before the mistletoe kicks in, and then Stephen is surging forwards, grabbing a handful of that vest he's always wearing to kiss him back with gusto.]