ℂ 002 ] [ out for cake
Today is Caroline's eighteenth birthday. If anyone had ever told her that she'd be turning a year older in an alternate Chicago, she would've thought they were crazy. This time last year things had been so different, but they just seem to continue changing. Which is why, for tonight, Caroline is seeking out a tiny bit of normal ( Read more... )
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He attended Veronica's party that was thrown for her, but this seems to be a much smaller and more intimate setting. He is touched that Caroline thought to consider him, but he has no criteria as to know what would be deemed acceptable for the situation.
He asked Libby. Libby handed him a cupcake and told him it was meant to be a gift.
It all seems simple enough.
At exactly the time he was told to be there, Castiel appears in the middle of the restaurant, looking around the room for a sign of the blond, before making his way over and handing her the cupcake. "I was told it was customary to bring a gift."
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There's no Bonnie. No Tyler.
It's jarring, but she's trying to adjust. She's made new friends, just not the usual dozens. Castiel is one of them and as he awkwardly hands her a cupcake she smiles up at him.
"It's perfect. I appreciate it and I'm glad you came."
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How the place is vaguely reminiscent to the Grill, or the closest thing one could get to it, anyhow. There was no way she was missing Caroline's birthday, and she's in attendance, with a wrapped gift in hand, scanning the place for sight of the birthday girl.
Jeremy and... yes, Damon, are not too far behind.
Worry not, Caroline. Elena had the talk with Damon about his playing nice tonight. Yes, Elena, that'll get him in line.
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It went about as well as one would imagine. He looked at her like he didn't know what she was talking about before insisting that yes, he is always on his best behavior. She has nothing to worry about. Something about how little faith she has in him (which is ironic if one thinks about how much faith that she has always had in him in every other area).
He's walking in behind them. It mostly has to do with scoping out the area. Damon takes in the entrances and exits, listens to some conversations happening around the restaurant.
So far, it seems fairly normal, which means Damon trusts it even less.
"Do you want something to drink?" This question is made to Elena after she's likely said hello to Caroline. "See? I'm capable of behaving."
Damon, it hasn't even been an hour yet.
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She wants that for one of her best friends.
"Damon, we just got here," Elena reminds him with that knowing look in her expression. She won't give him any props until the night is over and nothing has happened, and the barware hasn't suffered for it.
The last time they were in a place similar to this one, he got into a fight with someone for sleeping with their wife.
Also, track record.
Elena thinks she has the right to be concerned.
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She should get a day of doing whatever with her friends while he keeps an eye out because... that's what he doe.
"But so far, I've been more than extremely well behaved," he reminds her right back, and he knows why she would feel the need to have that talk with him after all.
Though he has to say, he had no idea that woman's husband would be at that bar. Hell, he didn't know she was married at all. It didn't really enter the conversation before they had sex with each other.
Damon has a way of making women forget about their significant others sometimes (not compulsion, just by being him).
"Feel like home?"
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It's a party in a public setting. Their track record for parties is not a good one. Someone ends up dead most of the time, and Chicago is just as unpredictable as Mystic Falls if not more so because the threats can come from anywhere at anytime.
There is enough going on and enough that he has to worry about, he wasn't going to let Elena attend the party alone. It sounds like a recipe for kidnapping or disaster.
Damon ordered a drink, and he's sticking to the back, not because he's listening to Elena's little talk but because it gives him a better view of the entire restaurant this way so he can see if anyone suspicious enters.
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He doesn't know that Damon really isn't the kind of person that he should make attempts at being social with, but that's not really Castiel's problem. He's alone, and Castiel feels this makes him an easy target to approach.
So he does.
"Hello."
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Damon looks up when Castiel approaches. He has not seen the guy since the whole incident where... he saved his life- his unlife, and Damon proceeded to not believe a word that he said.
"If it isn't Mr. Glow Worm, himself..." He says with a small smirk. "Swooping in against any more dark, cloaked figures lately or is that just a May thing?"
So about Damon behaving? It may actually be impossible.
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Case in point:
" ... I was unaware that the dementors had returned to Chicago."
Confused angel is confused.
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Two -- she likes spending time with Sam. That is a given.
Three -- she's still feeling awkward about the whole 'naked Damon in her room' thing, plus newly added tension with Angel falling through the Rift, and she needs to remind herself that before that happened, she was happy. Is happy. And none of that has to change.
Granted, walking in the door to the party and seeing Damon across the room? Not what she is expecting. Which may cause her to stop dead in her tracks a little awkwardly. With Sam right behind her.
Maybe this isn't such a good idea.
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He still hasn't sorted out how he feels about the Angel thing. He doesn't shove his feelings down like Dean has a tendency of doing, but that doesn't mean he's all that great at them, either. He's been a moody thing, but he's agreed to come along because he also likes spending time with Buffy.
That's also very much a given.
"...What's Damon doing here?" he asks, glancing over at Buffy. Small world is very small.
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Besides, Damon is clothed. Buffy can make it through this without her imagination getting in the way.
Probably.
Hopefully.
"I ... don't know," she says, before turning and glancing back to Sam. "I didn't know Caroline knew him."
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The guy was naked.
And had to be oh so charming about it.
"How did you meet Caroline?" he asks instead.
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(It's also not really in her likeness, but it is at least vaguely Caroline shaped. That should count for something.)
When he arrives at party, he looks around and sees a few familiar faces, but none that he knows really well. Personally, that's what a party is for. And out he goes, into the foray of being social.
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"Shawn! You made it!"
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"Thank you!"
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