This Can Only End Well (Sept. 1st)

[stauncherhearted]

What: Dinner party! Hope you like appetizers for dinner. And wine. And disaster.
Where: Nancy's flat in Enfield
Who: Eames, Arthur, Cooper, Kyle- time to meet the boyfriend, everyone!
When: September 1st.


Though the affair is set to be somewhat casual, Nancy has spent hours on that Thursday cleaning her flat, preparing food, and generally getting ready. Thursday night because Friday nights tended to be good nights for business, so she wasn't sacrificing nearly as much if she had everyone over on a Thursday.

The idea she'd had was to introduce everyone to Cooper officially. Get Eames to see that it was a great idea to date him, and maybe Kyle would be completely smitten with the idea of Cooper's existence in her life and allow Nancy to invite the vampire in to their future apartment. Cooper was important to her, she loved him. And she wanted others to see what she saw in him as well.

When the first guests arrive, Nancy's already had a glass of wine in her hand, ready to play dutiful hostess immediately. There's wine, magically chilled, as well as whisky and gin and some beer. For food, it's a lot of little appetizers, finger food, really. She has no idea what she's doing, truthfully, and just hopes that everyone has a good time.

Oh, and she made a cake.

If you're wondering where Juliet is, she's trying to eat the shrimp.

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[emotioneater]

Cooper accepted the liberal pouring of whiskey. This is definitely the ticket to getting relaxed and ready to mingle. He takes another swig as she identifies the unknown man in the room. "That' Kyle?" Nope, he is not going to get visibly jealous over the fact that Nancy apparently wants to move in with a Calvin Klein model. He manages just barely through sheer force of will.

A small smile, which is made easier with the alcohol in his system, makes its way across his face. "I'll have t'get to know him better." Not that he doesn't trust Nancy, but her taste in men tends to be...questionable. He's included in that category by everyone but himself.

[stauncherhearted]

She's lucky, it takes two of these men more than one bottle of whiskey to get them drunk.

She's really proud of him, though. He's smiling, look at that! "I hope you do," she says earnestly, and leans in to give him a whiskey-flavored kiss. "Kyle's a good friend." They have different opinions about a lot of things, but they can generally discuss them like adults. Sometimes. "And I'd really like it if you two could be friends."

[emotioneater]

"I'll play nice, don't you worry." Friends might be a stretch, but he can at least be cordial and polite. Nancy had invited these fellows here for a reason and Cooper would be loathe to spoil her good time. He kisses her back, nibbling gently on her lip. She was special to him. The last time he'd been in a serious, adult relationship had been years ago. He was stubbornly determined not to mess this one up.

"I'll start makin' the rounds after my glass is less full." It also meant there was more likely an oppportunity for him to say the wrong thing and piss someone off, but thems was the brakes.

[stauncherhearted]

Nancy grins into the kiss, hardly realizing how gross the two teenagers on the couch must have been. Just be glad she wasn't in his lap, as she was often wont to do.

"Good," she tells him, "Thank you, Cooper. I love you. I really, really do, okay?"

[emotioneater]

"I love you too, Nancy." God, it feels so good to have someone to say those words to. He means them too. He'll do anything for her, which is how he had ended up here to begin with. He wouldn't be the good little vampire for just about anyone else.

[stauncherhearted]

And he was the best little vampire, honestly.

"I'll let you finish your whiskey, play hostess a bit." She gives him a warm smile. There's already promises of really great sex if he behaves written in her sparkling eyes.

"Don't take too long, love."