undergrounds | This Can Only End Well (Sept. 1st)

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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Arthur knows a Kyle from Hillingdon, and he wonders if the supernatural world of London is really so small that it's the same man, but he'll find out soon enough. "Well, I guess some introductions are in order, then," he says, gesturing for her to lead the way. He's heard enough about Cooper to know he already doesn't like him, but he's going to give him a fair shot on the surface at least.

Too bad, because you're going to meet Cooper now, and like it. Why will no one give the guy a shot? He's got an amazing heart, just a terrible temper, but they were working on it.

"Well then," she says, and steers him across the small living room towards where Cooper was still working on a whole bottle of whiskey. He and Eames were going to drink her out of house and home, which she supposed was fair, because she was going to do the same to them. At least both of them had the good sense to use a glass.

"Cooper- this is my good friend Arthur. Arthur, my boyfriend, Cooper." She beams at both men in turn. It's exciting, all her favorite people meeting one another.

Cooper was making the rounds, and thus far, he's actually been acting decent to the rest of the fellows Nancy has brought to her party. Granted, that's mostly just the whiskey helping him along, but still, things could have been going a whole lot worse. There's no dents yet from trying to throw someone in the wall, which is always a plus.

And Nancy just looks so happy that he can't possibly bring her mood down through acting like a silly ass. So he shakes Arthur's hand in a brief but firm manner, putting on one of his more charming smiles. "Pleased t'meetcha."

"And you as well," Arthur says politely, his smile not reaching his eyes. It's like the face he makes when he's meeting clients - a little tight but not entirely cold. He doesn't take his eyes off Cooper as his hand drops back to his side and he slips it into his pocket.

"So, how long have you two known each other?"

Nancy reaches her hand for Cooper's, gently entertwining their fingers. She squeezes them gently, a gesture to show that she is on his side.

"Year and a half, about." She will not tell him how they met.

Well, he's not out and out insinuating things about Nancy like the last time Cooper got introduced to anyone (thank you, Cesare), so overall, this situation is already going much better than Cooper could have hoped.

"We've been dating since June," Cooper adds in. He won't be adding on how that happened either. So far it has been a precarious balancing act, letting Nancy still continue her work while dating. No wonder she's waited this long to formally introduce him to her friends.

"Hm," Arthur says, as if that's an interesting fact, nodding his head and wishing he had a drink to distract himself with. He can't think of any questions that wouldn't be completely inappropriate in their current setting so he's moved on to exit strategies.

He flashes a polite smile to Nancy and says, "I think I should go get myself a drink."

Aaaand that's how it goes. Great. Nancy's smile tightens and she nods, gripping a bit harder on Cooper's hand. Awesome. Great. Super great.

"Alright, there's plenty to drink." She tries to keep the wince out of her voice. So that went really. Really well.

Cooper doesn't say anything. Hell, since there was no bloodshed involved, he considers that to be close to being a success. He squeezes Nancy's hand and gives her a sympathetic glance. His eyes say, 'Sorry, sweet-pea. Can't win 'em all.' She can bring all the horses together, but she can't make them drink.

This Can Only End Well (Sept. 1st)

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