Gathering Post - Christmas Eve Party

[londoncallingmods]

Merry Christmas!

You are invited to celebrate the season with Finlay Flynn and Willy Silver.

 

When: Christmas Eve (5pm – Midnight)

Where: Making the Modern World - The Science Museum

RSVP: By Email (SBMNGR@ldnmgmt893.co.uk) Before 19/12

 

Upon entry you'll be given a ticket for one free drink. All drinks after that are 5 each. There will also be a free buffet in the dining area.

 

Dress code: Casual, but tidy please!

 

Raffle: Come wearing a festive sweater and you will automatically be entered into a raffle to win a 65 inch TV.

 

Donate: Bring three tins of canned food to be donated to the local food bank, and receive an extra drink ticket.

Look forward to: A live DJ, live music, an appearance by Santa, gift bags with deluxe swag, and the company of old and new friends!

 

(OTA! Happy holidays! If you know Fin, Willy, Phouka, or Winter, feel free to assume they gave you an invite. If not, you can say your pup got an invite through a friend of a friend, someone who knows someone, ect. It IS invite over (no gate crashing pups please, Fin's a giver and would want everyone to feel included), but the pups hosting the party are pretty active and I believe they know almost everyone in the game. And the people they don't know surely know people who do. Even if you only met them once, you got an invite somehow! This gathering post is open all week, and beyond!)

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[akatawitch]

"What's the difference?" she asked, genuinely curious. It was something she'd heard before, 'I love this person, but I don't like them,' but that sounded like a bunch of nonsense to her. She ragged on her brother Chukwu a lot, but ultimately they called each other regularly because they liked each other and loved each other.

[whispersoflove]

"Everyone deserves love," Anael stated, working out how to explain it even as he spoke. "Down to the meanest, cruelest people. But I'd hardly enjoy spending much time with them, I should think."

[akatawitch]

Sunny didn't think she understood that at all, and she didn't pretend to either. "How can you love someone you can't stand to be around?"

Your father never wanted a daughter.

[whispersoflove]

"How can you not love someone?" Anael replied, not a challenge but a statement about himself. "My - default setting is different, maybe?"

[akatawitch]

The question wasn't a challenge, but it unexpectedly cut Sunny to the quick. Caught off guard by her own reaction, she felt tears spring to her eyes. She blinked them away, tried to hide the whole thing behind a sip of her drink.

[whispersoflove]

Hurting her had been the last thing on Anael's mind, and he stepped forward instinctively, laying a hand on her arm. "I'm sorry," he told her, honest sympathy in his eyes. "I did not mean for my careless words to offend you."

[akatawitch]

Sunny shook her head. "No, no, it's not you. I'm not offended. It's..." She quirked a tiny, humorless smile, realizing she was about to unload on an angel of the Lord and pulling herself back. "Well. It's not you."

[whispersoflove]

"My words have caused you pain, whatever the underlying cause," Anael stated softly, leaving his hand light on her arm. "If I can help in any way..."

[akatawitch]

Sunny shook her head again and made herself smile and say as flippantly as she could, "Oh, no, my father doesn't care about me is all."

[whispersoflove]

"I'm sorry to hear that," Anael told her honestly, aching for and with her. At least he knew that God Loved him, for all that They were still angry with him. Or at least, he imagined that They were, for him to still be denied Their presence.

[akatawitch]

Sunny shrugged and finished off her drink. "It's not new. I'm used to it." Only that had probably come out with more bitterness than she'd intended.

[whispersoflove]

"It still hurts you," Anael stated, then frowned, and shook his head. "Forgive me. I should not prod. Tonight is a night for the love we have got."

[akatawitch]

Sunny neither affirmed or denied it, looking into her empty glass before asking softly, "Am I horrible if I hate him back?"

[whispersoflove]

"You're not horrible at all, Sunny," Anael told her on the same tone, warm and intimate. He was not sure that she would want to hear that hate did not exist without love, or that she would see it for the comfort it was.

[akatawitch]

It wouldn't have been the first time she'd heard that bit of truth. But it was one thing to know it and another to feel it.

Perhaps it was the way he was speaking to her, or perhaps it was because she was drunk enough that her sense of propriety didn't much care, but the question, "Can I have a hug?" fell out before she could stop it.

[whispersoflove]

Anael smiled at her then, honest and friendly. "Any time," he assured her, and moved his hand to her shoulder, stepping closer to wrap his arms around her. If they had not been in public, he would've folded his wings around them, too, but this would have to suffice.

[akatawitch]

Sunny put her glass down so she could do this properly, tucking her head over his shoulder and putting her arms around him. She could be a lost kid for just a moment, right?

[whispersoflove]

She could be a lost kid, if this was what it was, for as long as she wanted, if you asked Anael. One of his hands wound up in her hair, cradling her head without holding it there, and he kissed her hair, his embrace loose but warm.

[akatawitch]

It had been a while since Sunny had been properly hugged. Not side-embraces, not shoulder pats, not that weird thing white people did where they barely touched you, an actual hug. She'd missed it, she realized. She sighed and relaxed, let herself close her eyes for a moment.

Taking a few deep breaths Sunny steadied herself before she lifted her head and pulled away. "Thank you."

[whispersoflove]

"Any time," he told her again, eyes bright and full of his love for her.

[akatawitch]

Sunny turned pink and ducked her head. "I think it's about time I went back to the dancing."

[whispersoflove]

"Of course," Anael easily agreed, with a nod. "I hope our paths meet again soon, Sunny."