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

[theprodigaldoctor]

"Well, I mean, before I only sort of liked you," he deadpans, tugging Ben along with him as they walk. "And now I really like you," he says, hoping the emphasis can be heard. "I'd say that ever since you visited me back in Jersey, things have been getting a little more serious, for me. What about you?"

[only_hope]

"Since then, at the least," Obi-Wan agreed. "Perhaps earlier. Sometimes the time runs together. Do you know what it's like? To have met a person you mesh with so well that it feels like you've known them much longer than you actually have?"

[theprodigaldoctor]

"Not really," he admits freely, seeing as even with Cameron when he'd married her, it hadn't been a right away thing. It had been hard and he'd pushed and pushed, and eventually she'd relented. he should have seen that as one of the first warning signs. "I mean, not until this. It's felt easier than a lot of my past anythings."

[only_hope]

"I think, if it's something meant to happen, it comes easier than most things. I have always felt that strife in relationships is because something is going against the will of the Force itself. It makes no sense to push against the flow that way," Obi-Wan said. He watched Chase carefully, eyes trained on his.

"It doesn't feel that way with you."

[theprodigaldoctor]

"Well, we've kept things good and casual," Chase points out, which does feel like they've done the adult thing about it, even if it's maybe not the most romantic way of going about it. "Got to know each other and made sure the physical chemistry is there," he says with a warm smile. "I don't think any of that's a bad thing."