Bat-Family Christmas!

[foreverbouncing]

WHO: Bat-family! Tag yourselves in. Threadjacking encouraged! No posting order.
WHERE: Oracle's Place.
WHEN: Christmas Day, All Day!
WARNINGS: ...Bat-Family Christmas?
SUMMARY: It's Christmas! There are gifts and way too many decorations and Christmas cookies and Christmas dinner and it will be awkward and awesome and Christmasy.
FORMAT: Whatever?

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Bat-Mingling!

[foreverbouncing]

[Pre-dinner stuff, gift exchanges, sitting around talking, arriving early or late? It all goes here!]

[reluctantlegend]

Josh at least has the good sense not to laugh or smile at that glare.

"I think you're lucky that Charlie didn't want you to do something like kidnap Santa," Josh said as he began to help her untangle herself from the lights.

[batghoul]

"Not so loud," she says, afraid that he'll give Charlie ideas. Well, at least kidnapping Santa would only involve going to the nearest mall and tying up a fat man. Perhaps with Christmas lights.

[reluctantlegend]

"It's fine," he said, shaking his head as he got one of her arms free. Josh was pretty sure Charlie wouldn't kidnap Santa.

"Kidnapping would be bad, and Charlie doesn't do bad. So I think you're safe from kidnapping duty."

Re: Bat-Mingling! Open to everyone

[reluctantlegend]

Josh is there, mostly trying to not look like he's standing in the corner by himself while he is indeed, standing in the corner by himself. The last time he was at a party he got stuck there for several days. The only reason he's here is because it's Charlie's party, and he's a good, supportive boyfriend like that.

Plus, maybe he'll meet a few more of her friends this way.

[foreverbouncing]

"Hey you," Charlie had a grin on her face as she came up to him, reached up to stick a gold Santa hat on his head...and then leaned in to give him a kiss.

"Merry Christmas."

[reluctantlegend]

Josh ducked a bit so she could put the hat on him and flushed a bit when she gave him a kiss. The kissing thing was still new and exciting enough that quickly, public kisses like that made him feel a bit sheepish.

"Merry Christmas to you too," he told her. "This place looks amazing."

[foreverbouncing]

"Thanks!" She grinned up at him once she was happy with how the hat looked, leaving her arms around his neck for a moment. "I kinda think we need another tree though."

she twisted around, leaning back against him lightly as she pointed towards an empty spot, the same one she'd been discussing what Cass earlier. "A little Charlie Brown kinda tree right there."

[reluctantlegend]

His arms wrapped around her waist while held onto his neck. He really liked the feeling of her so close to him like that, it made him smile even more.

"You totally need another tree there," Josh agreed, even though he thought she had gone on tree overkill about two trees ago. "A little Charlie Brown one."

[foreverbouncing]

Charlie wasn't very good at being still, but these moments were nice enough that she tried. She was only tapping her foot lightly on the floor (she didn't even realize it) as she leaned back against him. "But if I get it, I'll have to decorate it and the party already started..."

She sighed. Maybe she'd just get it afterwards. It wasn't like there was a rule, right? You could always add another tree. Of course, she wasn't sure how long before Babs and the other girls got sick of the decorations anyway...

Charlie would've kept the lights up forever, if she could.

She wrapped her arms around his lightly and half-turned to look up at him. "Everybody I invited is coming, did you see?" She's honestly extremely surprised.

[reluctantlegend]

Josh appreciated the still moments that much more, because he knew they weren't easy at all for Charlie. And he tried to never get to frustrated if she could only stay close to him for a bit.

"Yeah, I did see," he said, grinning down at her before leaning in to kiss the tip of her nose. "It's because they know you throw an awesome Christmas party. Speaking of which... do you want to open your present now?"

[foreverbouncing]

Did somebody say presents? Charlie giggled at the kiss and then practically bounced in place at the question.

"Now is always the perfect time for gifts." She stated firmly.

[reluctantlegend]

"You suuuure you don't want to wait?" he teased, even as he pulled the small wrapped box that contained the tickets out of his back pocket and handed it to her.

[foreverbouncing]

Charlie didn't know what to expect, really, but she just smirked at his question and took the box eagerly. And then promptly shook it next to her ear, listening to it, trying to figure out what was in it.

Finally she just gave up and opened it without guessing, yanking the wrapping paper off and nearly dropping the top as she pulled it off. When she saw the tickets though, she just froze up for a second, her eyes wide.

"Dude. ...Does that say Disney World?"

[reluctantlegend]

"Yeah," Josh said, grinning even more. He was pretty sure Charlie would love the present, but he was worried maybe she had some weird, random aversion to the place for some reason.

"It's for three days and two nights before we go back to school. I even talked to Barbara and she said it was okay for you to stay the night so long as you bounced back home once a day to check in. I mean, obviously I got us separate rooms..."

[foreverbouncing]

She is remarkably silent for a good twenty seconds or so as she just sort of stares at the tickets, half-listening to what he said. Disney World. Holy crap. She'd bounced there once, outside, but she hadn't gone in...and they'd never been able to afford it when she was a kid and...

"You are the best boyfriend ever." She finally said, quite firmly, and then promptly hugged him.