Who: Lulu, Moira, Clarice, Troy, Neil, Bod, Castiel Ianto (and if Ianto feels like inviting him, Jack), and Richie
What: Christmas Eve dinner + celebrations
When: Christmas eve, seven or eight PM ish
Where: The Lulu/Moira/Clarice abode
Rating: C for Christmas
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmassssss )
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She opened it to see Troy dressed very nicely with a bottle in hand. Putting on a smile, she ushered Troy into the house. "Happy Christmas," she said, trying not to be too antisocial.
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He took a necklace with a crystal pendant at the end out of his pocket. "The guy at the store said this would draw positive energy to you, I figure since it's winter in Canada we can all use a little extra positive energy."
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"Calm down, alright? It's just a meal with a friend." He took Bod's hand with the one not holding the shopping bag, and started to lead him toward Lulu's. It was an amusingly poetic bit of irony. Bod had lived in a graveyard, had stood alongside ghosts and ghouls and all manners of terrors, both dead and alive. But he was petrified of Christmas dinner.
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I can do this, he thought to himself. I'm just going to pretend that I'm totally fine, and no one is going to know that I am a ROILING MASS OF FEAR on the inside. And everything will be okay. ...Right?
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At this point, they were at Lulu's door. Neil squeezed Bod's hand for a little addition of reassurance before ringing the doorbell.
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"Richie! Hi! Merry Christmas, come in!"
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Outside, in the bitter cold, a very warm feeling Ianto stood bundled in his black greatcoat with a blue hat on his head. The hat had a bobble.
Occasionally, he shot glances over towards his dinner date, smiling sheepishly and feeling like a stupid schoolboy. There were worse feelings he could be having, he supposed.
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There was a potentiality for hijinks. Or a few very awkward moments. Or some strange amalgamation of them both.
Jack's smiles in return were warm and after a moment, Jack withdrew a hand to rest on the small of Ianto's back. He stamped his feet in the cold. Hopefully there'd be an answer -- and soon. It was bloody freezing.
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"Ianto!" Lulu grinned happily seeing her friend looking happy and adorable. And with that hat. She couldn't help but give him a huge hug. Lulu was very glad he was back. She was about to give Jack the same sort of hug before she remembered that this Jack didn't know her. Mid-hug she stopped and stuck out a hand. "I'm Lulu. It's nice to meet you." Even though she'd met him already. Goodness, these sorts of things never got less awkward. "This is Bod. Oh! And Merry Christmas. Can I take your jackets?"
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Well, what was done was done. It was Christmas Eve, and everyone was here, and her presents were bought and wrapped whether they were acceptable or completely wrong. She started to gather them up awkwardly in her arms, then thought better of it.
Laying her hands on top of the pile, she concentrated hard on a space under the tree that had been empty. With a sudden glitter of pink lights and a muted BLINK, they vanished, and reassembled themselves beneath the gaily lit Christmas tree ( ... )
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"Hey, so, um, I have a little something for you." He took a small box from his pocket. It was giftwrapped too although his giftwrapping skills weren't the greatest ever. "Merry Christmas."
Inside was a silver locket in the shape of a heart, with a picture of Troy and Clarice together. He'd asked her to pose for it ages ago with exactly this in mind.
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When he held out the small box, her eyes flicked from him to it and back again, then a smile blossomed across her face and she took it almost reverently. "Thank you. Oh, this-" She held out the flat package she still held. "-this is for you?"
Inside was a music book. The songs were widely varied, but all on the same subject. And someone had carefully handwritten, on the inside of the back cover, the lyrics to a song not from the book. This song was one Clarice would have sung for Troy, if she'd had the nerve to do it, which she didn't. Still... she hoped he understood the things she wanted to say with it ( ... )
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