Gathering: New Year's Eve Gala

[concierge]

The annual Nexus New Year's Eve gala began at 8 in the evening. Too grand to be contained by the lobby or dining hall, the gardens at the front of the hotel were employed, with long strings of white lights forming a twinkling canopy from the front doors all the way to the hedge maze. The weather was temperate and calm, and the night perfectly clear.

Drinks were served at various bars set up throughout the gardens and lobby, with champagne cocktails being the specialty of the night. Wheeling through the crowd was a bartender with golden cart providing warm drinks on the go: Tom and Jerrys, rum punch, negus, and Irish coffee.

Crisply-dressed wait staff wove through the collected guests with an abundance of hors d'oeuvres for all different tastes. The Bistro remained open with a limited selection of items for those who were wanting something more substantial.

Above the front doors was hung a large, gold-rimmed clock counting down the last hours, minutes, and seconds of the current year.

Comments

[only_hope]

"I suppose it would be all right," Obi-Wan said, mulling it over. "Nobody knows I'm out there aside from you, anyway, and I rarely check in on Luke since I want to ensure he grows up without any outside influences. We'll be close enough to monitor that nothing goes south on the Lars farm and have some time to ourselves. Though, I have to warn you...Tatooine is awful."

[tooktheblack]

"I was just a bit wary," Jon said, laughing softly. "I have to be cautious when trying new things. Sometimes it can end up to cause you irreparable harm. This time, however, it seems to have worked out for the best."

[havecourageandbekind]

"No, I haven't before. It never occurred to me to make a gown for anyone but myself," Cinderella admits. Still, it's something she could do in her spare time to help earn her keep in the Nexus, she thinks, and that's something that will benefit everyone. She likes to know that she isn't taking charity and she's working for what she earns.

"I could, though. If someone wanted something I made, I could make them something."

[alegalsuperhero]

"I think I can manage," Rachel says, taking a hit and smiling a little when it just seems to relax her some instead of making her go insane or, as Harvey had described, making her want to eat a house. Maybe that comes later.

"How long does it take the hunger to set in usually?"

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[trulyoracular]

"Responsibility isn't the greatest, but sticking around when you're immortal and they're not?" Olaf gives her an uncharacteristically sober sad smile. "I'm tired of funerals. I'm tired of watching my kids grow up and age and die. I can't do it, not anymore."

[theprodigaldoctor]

"You're there, it's got to have some perk," Chase says, aware that he probably comes across like some cheesy line in a book, but he's happier when he's with Ben than he is on his own, alone in Jersey, still working for House. "Maybe you could sort of mark off a door here that leads to you and I'll stop by, keep you entertained and try and make Tatooine a little less awful?"

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[sawny]

Jamie laughs a little, more relaxed and more comfortable with Martha than he's been with anyone in a while - and certainly more than he's been with anyone else here in the Nexus. "I think I'll take the mending over the cooking. I ken how to cook well enough to keep myself and others alive but I canna save a life. I value that skill more than anything else, I think."

[only_hope]

"That could be easily done. I have never had trouble going back and forth," Obi-Wan said. "I could easily leave the door propped, if you wanted, and you could stop by. It's not much of a place but it is quiet and isolated so there's no chance of us being disturbed."

[notgivingyourmoneyback]

His face bends in a slight frown. "No, it's not that. I just haven't met anyone who so readily offers themself to be 'anything I want' and actually mean it," he says. A slight grin tips his mouth upward.

[notgivingyourmoneyback]

He grins at her question. "That depends on how much of a lightweight you are."

[theprodigaldoctor]

True, he'd probably get bored eventually if that were his life, but not if it's something he's doing just once in a while. Chase gives Ben a warm smile and nods. "Sounds like a plan to me," he agrees, not paying much mind to how it sort of sounds like getting a key. "So, want to find some place private for our countdown to midnight?"

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[legendthatwas]

"So they aren't, then?" Martha said, a little taken aback. She reached out and put her hand on Olaf's shoulder. "I'm sorry, I hadn't thought it through. I gather from a friend who's pretty...er, long-lived, that that's damn rough."

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[legendthatwas]

Martha had to stop herself from saying 'och, Jamie' involuntarily--she didn't want him to think she was mocking him, she'd just heard 'och, Martha' way too many times from Ails, one of her flatmates at uni. "Hey, eating's a damn big part of staying alive," she pointed out. "But there're a few things you can learn to do, doctor-wise. Anyone can be a first aider, do CPR, as long as they've got a steady head in a crisis."

She was fairly confident Jamie was one of those people.

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[trulyoracular]

"It's not easy," Olaf agrees, feeling like it's a solid understatement, but he'd rather not fixate on the past. "Besides, I've found it much, much easier to enjoy myself with one-night stands," he says with a wink. "No permanent attachments, no heartbreak."

[nebaritralk]

"Irreparable harm, from a simple drink?" Of course she could've slipped something in it if she'd wanted, but she wasn't going to point it out, and why would she have wanted to? "You need to relax, Jon."

[nebaritralk]

"Like I said," Chiana answered, smile stretching into a grin. "Boring." She takes another drink, steps closer to Harvey, looking up at him. "What would you want me to be, Harvey?"

[notgivingyourmoneyback]

He smirks at her. Most of the people he's spent intimate time with, he wouldn't consider boring.

Her question is still intriguing though. "Hmm. I'll have to think about that one," he says. The first thing that came to mind was 'naked', but that seems like such a waste of an answer. He's going to have to ponder this one a bit before he gives her a response.

[nebaritralk]

"Think," Chiana echoes teasingly. "I ask you something like that, and you wanna think." She steps closer to him, free hand sliding down his chest. "I think I'm losing my touch."

Re: Martha Jones - OTA

[legendthatwas]

Martha, to be honest, has always had trouble with one-night stands; she eventually gave them up about a year into uni as drunken pulls had lost a lot of appeal the less she drank. The less she had time to drink.

"No heartbreak, easier said than done," she retorts with a smirk. "Could be leaving a trail of broken hearts behind you, you'd never know!"

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[sawny]

"Aye? Well, if you've a mind to teach me, I've a mind to learn." Jamie has always been of the opinion that a good mind is in need of a whetstone and that even the keenest intellect wants for sharpening once in a while. He feels that learning some of Martha (and Claire's, at that) trade might give him something to occupy his time while he bides in the Nexus.

"I'd like to know how to save a life with something more than just my wits."

[alegalsuperhero]

"I am so not a lightweight," Rachel scoffs. She doesn't know if she will be or not as this is her first time but something that makes her up as much as her eyes or her freckles or the timbre of her voice is her tenacity and inability to back down from a challenge. This isn't exactly the type of challenge she normally tackles but her competitive spirit puts a gleam in her eyes all the same.

"I could go toe to toe with you, I bet."

[only_hope]

"Absolutely. I have no intentions of everyone seeing us engage in such an old and venerated Earth tradition," Obi-Wan teased, grinning a little at Chase as he did so. "Besides, I intend to take it quite a bit further than just a kiss. We might shock the more reserved among our company."

[tooktheblack]

"You are not wrong," Jon said, barking out a short laugh. "I am well aware that I am entirely too serious for my own good. I just come from a place where people are looking to have you killed for any transgression. I'm used to being more than a little wary and paranoid about those around me."

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[legendthatwas]

"Excellent," Martha says; though she's sure the hotel staff are all first-aid trained, it certainly can't hurt to have a good first responder about the place, particularly one who doesn't just up and leave periodically by chance.

She slurps the last out of her glass. "Though I'm assuming you know how to bandage things up, somewhat, if you've been in battle?"

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[sawny]

"I do," Jamie confirms. "And I ken about those wee buggers what make ye sick. Germs, aye? Ye must have wine or fire to keep them out, from what Claire tells me. That sounds about right, doesna?"