[party post] And to all a good night

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[OOC: Annual winter post. :3 Both Decembers, the comments have been up in the thousands. The post is open all of December until January for all/any winter/holiday shenanigans. Quick reminder, you are encouraged to tag around, tag to other threads as well as making your own. Feel free to spam! :D]This December in Chicago is as filled with

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[mrkingofhell]

There is certain King of Hell who is not in the Christmas mood today

[idontgethurt]

Damon has no clue about this, Chicago. Honestly. Mystic Falls did not have stupid snowmen walking around and reacting. It did not have reindeer, which Stefan would love to chow down on if he were around. Well, he'd gotten into drinking human blood again when Damon left, but he'll never stop making fun of his brother and his tendency to drink animal blood.

He raises an eyebrow as he sees Crowley again. There's the tiniest smirk on his face as he maintains his distance.

"So. Who pissed in your cheerios this morning?"

The hellhounds aren't around this time, but Damon doesn't let himself forget that Crowley is still dangerous. King of Hell. All of that.

Chicago is not the place where you can go around making enemies like he did in Mystic Falls. His worst enemies there were human for the most part. Everyone else was his enemy because they were going after Elena so it was more on a peripheral sense.

[mrkingofhell]

Crowley is very much the same, Damon. Rest assured, any more snowmen who get close enough to thinking about hurling any more snowballs at him will most definitely get the same treatment as the first. Honestly, is this a joke? Monsters and all things awful is what Crowley deals with, not bloody walking snowmen.

Dusting the last of the snow from his coat, he turns at the familiar voice. Tsking softly, he rolls his eyes. "How about the whole city," he replies dryly, "Or that Rift, both seem good right now,"

And he's sad there's no hellhounds this time. Castiel is a killjoy, seriously.

He puts his hands in his coat pockets and tilts his head slightly, "Ever seem to notice this place is nothing more than a pain in the royal backside?"

[idontgethurt]

Damon hates the city, hates the reminders of Christmas everywhere. The mistletoe can be fun assuming it's someone he'd want to kiss under the mistletoe. He is talking to Crowley, mostly to keep an eye on him. It's not like he's going to be bros with someone that threatens to make the life of someone he gives a damn about a living hell.

It's why he's careful about what information he releases, careful to not go in there, fists swinging for once.

"So the whole city took turns this morning pissing in your cheerios?" He smirks slightly. "That's dedicated pissing."

Damon keeps his arms folded across his chest as he smirks at the question.

"If someone didn't notice that, I'd say they had a severe case of delusion. Chicago lives to be the pain in everyone's ass. It's a party."

[shethrewstones]

Scarlett also isn't in the Christmas spirit. It's the first Christmas she's spending away from home and now more than ever she doesn't want to be in this freaky city.

Quickly heading back home from school, freezing her fucking toes off, some guy in a ridiculous candy cane costume hands her a leaflet for something. She turns her nose up it and scowls, and the guy innocently told her she should smile more with a wishing of a merry Christmas.

"Piss off, mate," she tells him as she walks off, "Christmas is fucking stupid,"

And then some mistletoe popped out of nowhere above her head. It takes her a while to notice, she's not even sure what the hell's going on. Stopping, she growls in frustration as she tries to violently bat it away.

"Oh, for fuck's sake," she mutters, "Can't be fucking bothered with this."

[caughtwithin]

Seth raises his eyebrow at the chick with the anger issues about Christmas. There are always going to b a handful of people that the holiday pisses off. He does not get it, but it's also not in him to be like HEY CHRISTMAS HAPPINESS AND WORDS.

Because there's a lot of stuff that Seth's not all that happy about, it doesn't matter what other people say. Sometimes he's just angry about it, depressed about it, scared about it. Rachel always believes he can overcome the demon in his head, but he doesn't think it's possible.

Normally, Seth would not kiss someone... also simply because a mistletoe appears over their head, but the Rift is not giving him much choice. He heads over her way... and yeah, will try to kiss her despite the fact that he does NOT kiss strangers on the sidewalk, okay?

It's not what he does.

SORRY SCARLETT. He will understand if she punches him.

[shethrewstones]

Christmas in Chicago is going to suck. It's perfectly fine to have anger issues over it. Well, Scarlett has a lot of anger issues. So.. technically it's extra anger issues or something. Um. Just, all the anger issues ever.

It's also her anger issues over the current mistletoe over her head that make her too distracted to notice Seth approaching. She's still trying to get it away, but the mistletoe's out of her reach and she's just that bit too short to get at it. So she's mostly scowling at swearing at it.

Next thing she knows, someone's walked up to her and kissed her. ... Oh. Oh. ... Wait. Hold on. Why is this happening? Who is this guy, why has he walked up to her and why is he kissing her? There's a brief pause of bewilderment and then she's pulling away, shoving him back.

Alright, the guy's sort of fit. But this is. Scarlett doesn't like the shit Chicago pulls, no way.

"What the fuck, lar?!" is the first thing she manages to stutter in shock.

[caughtwithin]

SETH HAS NO CONTROL.

As soon as he pulls back again, Seth is feeling the inward spazz in his head over the fact that he just kissed some random stranger, and he had absolutely no control over it. AND WHAT IS THIS.

HOW IS THIS OKAY?

WHAT SHOULD HE DO?

"I-" Seth steps back when she pushes at him, and he shakes his head. "No, no. NO, no I didn't-- I uh, I didn't-- No, it the- IT MADE ME. THAT IS EVIL MISTLETOE over your head. I wouldn't just kiss you on the sidewalk without your consent, I'm not that kind of... of guy. Not that you're not pretty or anything, because you are just- I do not force my lips on anyone...yeah."

[magicandpudding]

Wrapped up warm against the coldness of December, Luna is heading for Grant Park. She plans on practicing spells. Being in a Muggle school means she’s no longer learning wizarding lessons like she would in her home world. But that doesn’t mean she wants to stop using magic. Not at all.

But what she finds instead when she gets there is that the snow is rainbow coloured. She's very impressed by this, even though she doesn't realize what it actually is. She's just going to stand and admire it.

"Oh, wow," she breathes, "This is wonderful!"

If someone could tell her it's edible, that would be appreciated. Luna likes sweet things and the narration is very sure she'd like this.

[shellbreaking]

Mark has been out in the cold since he saw the rainbow snow. His instinct is to actually eat the snow despite not knowing off hand if it is. In fact, he eats snow on a regular basis even when it's not ice cream. Once he discovered it, he bought a whole pack of spoons and headed out into the park with them.

As a scientific mind, he has observed the ground, the 'snow', the ice cream, and he's seen how it's been protected by the Rift. None of the ice cream seems to be dirty at all, even when he tries to make it dirty, the dirt bounces right off.

He notices Luna, suppresses a squeal because LUNA LOVEGOOD and hands her a spoon.

"It's tasty wonderful!"

[magicandpudding]

Luna is glad Mark has come prepared. She might have been able to transfigure a spoon out of something in her bag, but it doesn't hurt to do things the old fashioned way. She's still staring and admiring the snow when he comes across her. His enthusiasm about the snow makes her smile, but she blinks owlishly when it comes to eating it.

He's holding out a spoon and it does look like it might taste as good as it looks. She takes the spoon with a nod of her head in thanks, but she still pauses to consider.

"But wouldn't it be a shame to eat it?" she asks him with a small tilt of her head, "It looks so wonderful as it is,"

[shellbreaking]

Mark takes another bite of the ice cream from his spoon. It is glorious. Rainbow sherbet really tastes like what rainbows would taste like if rainbows had a taste. He imagines it'd be just like this flavor. There's no telling how much he's eaten already since he's capable of eating quite a lot.

Like his cousin and him used to have contests over eating, and Tim would always win, but they would put away a lot of food in that short amount of time.

"No, it would be more of a shame not to eat it, and look! More is falling from the sky!" Mark opens his mouth, stick out his tongue and catches some rainbow sherbert. Pff, he's totally an adult.

[askthemoon]

Not all the unexpected snowballs come from the trees or the snowmen. There's a rather cheerful Marauder hiding his wand with one arm and shooting spells. They're all a bit of playful mischief, adding to the snowballs being thrown around or cause snow to avalanche off a branch, the occasional streaks of light -- nothing worse than a couple of quickly ended dance-inducing jinxes.

He's enjoying both watching and contributing to the snowball fight enough, and a little wrapped up in competition with one of the snowmen -- both trying to pin their volleys on the other -- so he hasn't noticed the mistletoe popping up over his head yet.

[smithnjones]

Martha's quite used to these winter shenanigans after four years in the Rift. She's participating in the snow ball fight as well, and she's been hit quite a few times by various snowballs. Martha laughs as she's hit by another, and she notices Remus in the mess.

She notices mistletoe, and she's accustomed to how they have a habit of following people in the Rift. Of course, she isn't going to tell him that. She'll simply walk up to him with a "Hello" before she leans in to try to kiss him.

It's when she pulls up that she points up. "Couldn't shun that holiday tradition now, could I?"

[askthemoon]

Remus looks rather pleased when he sees Martha walking up to him, and he's about to return her greeting when, quite suddenly, he's being kissed. It's not exactly expected, so it takes him a moment to stop being completely confused and just decide to go with it.

When Martha pulls away, he follows her pointing and laughs. "Of course you couldn't," he agrees, shaking his head, and then fixes her with a warm smile. "Hello, Martha. How are you?"

[smithnjones]

Martha has to laugh slightly at the confused expression on his face. She pulls back with a smile as she watches the confusion turn into laughter when she points out the mistletoe.

"I apologize if I took you by surprise there," she says after a moment, folding her arms across her chest with a warm smile of her own. "Hello. I'm quite fine. I do love winter in Chicago. How are you?"

[handswillwork]

Before Chicago decided to start its December shenanigans, Abby was a little sad that she and Gabe were staying in Chicago for the holidays. They had their reasons -- he was busy at the garage, she really didn't want to go without him, and their parents weren't going to the major family gathering this year anyway, so they would have had to choose one or the other -- but she likes family on the holidays.

A couple of days into the Rift's celebration? The sadness is entirely gone. It's hard to be sad when you've just had a snowball fight with a tree.

Laughing and covered in snow, Abby notices the sleigh nearby and stops to examine and give a pat to the reindeer before taking a seat. The reindeer perk up, but they're not taking off quite yet.

Maybe they're waiting for a second passenger.

[edgeofhorizons]

Jess steps up to the sleigh. It's a beautiful sleigh with actual reindeer attached to it. Honestly, she wouldn't believe it if this weren't Chicago, if this weren't Chicago in December. She stares from a distance before she shakes her head and walks up to the reindeer in turn.

"In Chicago, everyone gets a reindeer attached to sleigh," she says with a slight smirk as she slides her hand over the reindeer's nose, petting the reindeer too. "Welcoming gift this month."

She looks sideways at Abby. The small smirk slides into an almost devious smile.

"So, for my wild and irresponsible idea of the day, lets just get it out of the way now, want to see where this thing'll take us?"

[handswillwork]

"It's a new and interesting way to travel, at least," Abby says with a smile, leaning forward against the front of the sleigh and watching Jess say hello to the reindeer. "That's something I'm always looking for in a gift."

She sits up straight at the question, matching Jess' smile with a mischievous grin. "Yes," she answers enthusiastically, and pats the bench next to her, taking hold of the reins. "Hop in."

[edgeofhorizons]

Jess looks sideways at her with a laugh. "Yes, I think it is, but the question is in the Rift, where will it take you? You can't trust magical forms of transportation you see around here to let you have any control," she says as she rests a hand on the reindeer's nose. It's warm, soft.

She smiles in turn, glancing over at her. Her grin brightens at the sight of Jess'. "I was really hoping you'd say that," Jess says before she steps into the sled beside her, sitting on the bench. "Okay, you have the reins. I think this is the point where you... do something with them. I honestly haven't spent enough time around animals to know."

In other words, she has no idea how to make reindeer move.