Happy Birthday to Meeerrrrrreeeeeeeeee [Open Mingle]

[abrightboy]

Who: The residents of ADI Apt B1 and YOU.
When: January 18th, from early evening onward.
Where: Apartment B1 at the ADI complex.
Summary: Tim Drake discovered Meredith Idlewild's birthday is today (by snooping in her stuff) and her boys decided to throw her a little surprise celebration since she, you know, looks after them and shit. Ofc neither of them knows how to do that, really, so Malcolm has recruited Neal Caffrey as Party Planner.
Warnings: To be added as necessary but none to start.


Thanks to Neal's intervention, the party Malcolm and Tim are throwing for Meredith is very nice, with tasteful decorations and good wine, alongside fancy finger foods and even fancier cocktails. Neal mans the 'bar' personally, mixing drinks for anyone who'd like to try one.

Malcolm and Tim will try to be social. It's for Meredith.

They did use Tim's connections, too. He recruited Jeff to slip invites onto people's desks if they work at ADI and take some over to Bonnie's. Meredith deserves maximum appreciation. The invites instructed everyone not to say anything to Meredith. When she comes home, it's meant to surprise her.

Early evening: SURPRISE!
When Meredith gets home, get ready to shout!

Mid-evening
Mix, mingle, eat and drink.

Late-evening
Your hosts will arrange a cab if you can't make it home; they already have a police lieutenant sleeping on their couch and tonight has been a lot of peopling for them. If they need to carry you down there... they're more capable of it than their slight frames would suggest.

Comments

[aelwyn_aberration]

The honest answer is, of course, yes. She has enough self awareness to know that what she feels for Mercy is in fact romantic. But it's helpless and doomed for a lot of reasons. Her ears do twitch a little and go a bit pink, but otherwise she maintains a cool facade.

"There's plenty of people I'd sleep with, if that's what you're asking. I'm not exactly picky in that regard," That's true enough. Callisto, for one, is hot in a deranged kind of way. And she's already hooked up with Jeff. Beau, obviously, because she has eyes and Beau has biceps. Tim could be fun to put in his place. Meredith, Yelena, Wanda and Abby all probably consider her out of their age range, but she'd be into it because of course she would. "I don't do romance, though. Too messy. It's like signing yourself up to getting hurt."

Because her one experience in the area was just so regular and normal.

[henchgal]

Who among them hasn't hooked up with Jeff, though? He's kind of like the bicycle of ADI. We love him for it, or perhaps despite it.

(And who also hasn't had a crush on Beau. Those muscles...)

"I know what you mean, about not doing romance. Safer not to, really. But I'm thinking of risking it this time. I'm tired and want someone to lean on a bit."

[aelwyn_aberration]

Her and Jeff first meeting was pretty much just traumatized slut to traumatized slut communication, so it's something she appreciates about him.

"I'll spare you the cynical love is a chemical con job spiel then," She smiles. She's envious, really. "Who's the lucky boy, then? I assume this is the hookup you were referring to?"

[henchgal]

"Ches. The guy who reached out on the network about training and trading skills. I met with him to talk office management skills, and we got off-topic."

In their defense, training did happen before that!

[aelwyn_aberration]

She smirks.

"Office management is a famous aphrodisiac. Who wouldn't in your shoes?"

[henchgal]

"Hey, baby. Lemme teach you how to set inbox rules in outlook." She puts on a fake seductive voice, before bursting into giggles.

[aelwyn_aberration]

She was doing well until Meredith broke into giggles and then she similarly broke down. She wipes a tear away from her eye.

"I stand by it. Natural aphrodisiac. He never stood a chance."

[henchgal]

Once she's able to do words again, and after a large gulp of wine:

"Actually, from what I've seen? He's got a major boner for competence. Being good at what you do, and being able to break that down for him and show how it's useful."

[aelwyn_aberration]

She raises an eyebrow, sipping her own glass.

"See, all my data on men suggests they love explaining things to women who are smarter than them," Aelwyn is biased by the fact that her social circle consisted of elitist elven academic pricks for the first fifteen years of her life. "Must be a rarity."

[henchgal]

Meredith snorts softly, because...well, yes, most men. "Your data's not inaccurate, but trends don't define every member of a population. For whatever reason, he's an outlier."

[aelwyn_aberration]

"I guess in fairness most of the men I've known are elves, and we're very annoying in general," She smiles.

"It's a good thing you found someone," For now, before he disappears into thin air and breaks your heart. "I hope it works out."