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Chloe Frazer ([personal profile] desperate_times_right) wrote in [community profile] singillatim2024-10-14 09:42 pm

Hot Potato (party log)

Who: Chloe Frazer & any and all party people!!
What: Harvest Celebrations/Halloween Party/Ruby’s Birthday/Rat Marriage/Big Communal Cooking Party so Chloe doesn't burn down her house
When: October 12
Where: At Chloe’s house on Greene Street

Content Warnings: Food descriptions, probably.
Other Notes: Feel free to make this a mingle and reply to other characters!

Chloe had wondered whether to go through with the harvest party once Lalo had disappeared, but as they say, the show must go on. There's still a lot worth celebrating, and people need something hopeful after the mess last month. Luckily her house had made it through everything all right.

The poster had said to wear a costume, so she's hoping to see a lot of those, and she’d recruited some people to help her put together the menu exactly to Lalo’s specifications, so unfortunately no one is safe from British Potatoes. There are even candles for the birthday cake.

Chloe herself is dressed as a sexy lumberjack, with one of Lalo’s old flannels tied in a knot under her breasts and denim cutoffs made from the jeans Kostya had gotten blood on (shh). She's got a fire roaring, because otherwise she’d freeze.
friendsfordinner: (smirky little shit)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-01 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Course I'm a smooth talker! I know what I'm doing."

That being said, Hickey's demeanor is very obviously 'now give me more compliments.'
friendsfordinner: (i am the only person finding this funny)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-03 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I asked nicely," Hickey answers, with an annoyingly little smug smile on his face. "But nah, he'll show up every now and then. He's shy, not a misanthrope."
friendsfordinner: (oh hey what's that? a bear?)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-03 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Who could Chloe be possibly accusing of being the center of attention??? Who could she be talking about, certainly not Hickey!

It's Hickey and they both know it.

But Chloe's comment about how you would be able to celebrate if you lived now catches Hickey's attention. There's a moment's pause before, "I'm glad we're able to celebrate. Back home, I gave him a ring, but it's not like we could talk about it. Here...I don't mind being open about it all."
friendsfordinner: (smirky little shit)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-04 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hickey gives Chloe a little nod...before admitting to a moment of sentimentality.

"'S nice," he says, like it's just casual conversation. "There's plenty of my circumstances that people will judge." The Englishness. The Victorian era. The colonialism of it all. "Nice to know that there's one less thing to worry about."
friendsfordinner: (i am the only person finding this funny)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Never thought I'd be the sort to indulge in it but hey, I'm not complaining."

Shrug!
friendsfordinner: (oh hey what's that? a bear?)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-06 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And almost immediately, Hickey asks, "What, you got someone in mind?"

Drop the hot gossip, girlfriend!
friendsfordinner: (i am the only person finding this funny)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-07 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"So it's someone back home! Go on, who! If they show up here, I'll make sure that they pass muster."
friendsfordinner: (oh hey what's that? a bear?)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-09 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"In that case, I hope they either show up here or if you vanish like some of the others have, you go right back to them."

There's a small little pause before,

"Course, I'd prefer you stick around a bit."
friendsfordinner: (quietly plan that mutiny)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-09 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's good," Hickey says, with a nod. There's a moment as he thinks things over before deciding to be just a tiny bit vulnerable.

Only to Chloe, though. Rest of the world can fuck off.

"Billy needs more mates. I know a lot of people judge him cause we're together, but he's more than that. The more mates he can have who don't know anyone from back home, who can judge him based on what happens here and not what happened back home."
friendsfordinner: (just kind of a blank stare)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2024-11-09 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Trust me, I wasn't going to let him stay at home."

Even if Billy's default mode of dealing with a party is 'wallflower.' Nuh uh. No chance of him staying home tonight.