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

[conning]

"You did some of the sneaking," Neal says, giving Malcolm a tiny nudge with his hip. "You recruited me."

When Kate asks her question, he makes a softly ironic noise. "You'd be surprised at the number, I think."

[abrightboy]

Okay, he did do that part.

Malcolm breathes out a laugh at Kate's question and Neal's answer.

"He just wants everyone to be safe," he assures her. "It's his way of trying to make sure people are safe."

[bossyboiler]

"Maybe I would, Neal. Is that how you introduce yourself to people when you don't feel like flashing that charismatic smile of yours?" She looks back to Malcolm. "You have to admit, it's a weird way to go about it."

[conning]

Neal offers up said charismatic grin. “Maybe it’s more a commentary on the kind of people I knew, in a past life.”

He gives Malcolm’s temple a little kiss. “Tim’s a teenage boy from another dimension. I’m pretty sure that gets him something of a pass on weirdness.”

[abrightboy]

Malcolm's eyes flutter up to Neal's face in the wake of the kiss with smile. "I've been accused of going about things in a weird way," he tells Kate. "Sometimes unconventional is the way to get things done."

[bossyboiler]

"There's unconventional and then there's just weird." Tim is weird. Malcolm is slightly less weird (in his own ways.)