WHO: EVERYONE!
WHAT: Valentine's Sweetheart Dance
WHERE: The Jazz Club
WHEN: 8pm-whenever people stumble home
Here it is folks. The big dance at the jazz club. Remember, 40's dress is optional, but not required. And if your character doesn't have a date to the dance, that's okay! Everyone is welcome.
The club is set up to look like an old fashioned
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Wisely, Moira wore a coat from the time Zak had arrived, so he hadn't seen her in her dress yet. He could however see her completely pulled back hair (something he would have to thank Lulu for later), as well as her shoes, which brought her already formidable height up a few more inches, and jewelry. The coat was longer than the dress itself. She'd kept the gift for him in her purse until later.
Lulu had taken Clarice by the arm as they had headed out. She was in a dress reminiscent of the forties with her blonde hair teased to match the correct era.
"Isn't this going to be awesome?" Lulu said to Clarice as she put some of the things she and Kaylee had baked onto a table.
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"So, Clarice, what do you do when you are not serving amazing pie?" Chuck asked, still very curious about her.
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"Well, um... I have a dog," she offered, risking a glance up at him. "Safina. She likes the snow a lot so, so we go to the park." Clarice liked the snow too. Once she'd gotten used to the cold (as much as it was possible for one born and raised in the tropics), she found the trips to play in the snow nearly as much fun as the puppy did.
What else? There was something else she ought to be doing with her time, and she still felt guilty that she wasn't. "I thought I should go to school. But it's a problem. Since I don't have any legal guardian, and all my records say I'm almost thirty and I finished school and I live in the Bahamas." She ventured a helpless sort of smile.
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"Wait, but-" he said, thinking aloud when something struck him.
She died when she was still in high school, and ended up here.
"So how old are you, really?" Chuck asked, now a bit concerned that this very sweet girl was far, far too young for him.
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FIFTEEN?!!?
Granted, she had been though a lot in her life, which would make anyone grow up in a hurry- Chuck knew that all too well.
"Well, maybe I could help," he considered, trying to cover his surprise. "I mean, try and get you some ID that shows your real age, so you can go to school and all. And find someone to list as your legal guardian-"
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"Thank you. That might - I mean, if I could get ID somewhere... Moira one time offered to say she was my guardian. It's a problem because my parents are alive." Her voice got quieter, but she was looking up again - partway up, anyway, about his chest level - so it wasn't impossible to hear her. "But they're not... my parents. They wouldn't know me. So..." She gave a tiny shrug. "I guess sometimes Aternaville complicates things?"
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It was so sad, to Chuck, that Clarice seemed to be all alone. Even though his parents were gone as well, he'd always had Ellie to watch out for him and take care of him.
"Well, we could get around that. I mean, make up a new identity for you, somehow. I mean, keep your name and all that, but like, hack into the records and give you a new birthdate and change your parents names or something. I could at least try?" His hacking skills were pretty good, and he could always ask that Matt guy (that he still hadn't gone to see yet) for help, maybe.
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His suggestion gave her mixed feelings. It was sweet of him to try and help, and it might let her go back to school, but she wasn't sure about changing her identity. Silly of her really; as she'd just told him, the versions of her parents in this world weren't her parents, and the her wasn't her, so the records of her weren't properly hers anyway. But she couldn't help feeling like if she pretended to have other parents, that she'd be giving up the last link to her actual mother and father.
It was silly. And irrational. She should be sensible about this. Chuck was trying to be nice and he was probably on to something.
"...maybe. That... could really work. Thank you."
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"Thank you for the dance," he smiled, leading her back towards where they'd been talking with Lulu.
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"No, oh no, thank you," she demurred quickly embarrassed but smiling as he led her back. "I guess we did all right, then? But I'm sure Lulu will be much better."
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Lulu was still standing by the edge of the dance floor, and Chuck nodded as they approached.
"Well, I have danced with one lovely lady," Chuck said, using his smoothest 'Charles Carmichael' voice. "May I ask the other for a dance, now?"
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"I think you might be allowed to, yes." The blonde grinned, looking over at Clarice, seemingly for permission.
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When they got in, he took Lulu and Clarice's coats, but not Moira since she was still wearing it and not allowing Zak to see her dress. "I still say this is unfair. You've seen mine." Zak offered the coat check the coats, including his own, then turned to Moira. She got that quirky look and crooked sort of smile in hopeful waiting.
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