049 ⇨ multioption

[brobeforehos]

[come early morning, a text comes up on the network for all]

Question for you, City: what's the most expensive gift you've bought while in the City, and did anything ever literally cost you an arm and a leg? Was it worth it?

What I'm trying to say is happy last-minute desperate christmas shopping.

[Throughout the day Mae can be found in several places:

CITY LIBRARY;

A librarian's job is never over? Apparently there's a rumour about a weed problem that might have reached all the way into the Library. She'll be on the lookout, but mostly trying to make sure no-one ends up doing anything lewd in her place of work. While hopefully (?) not doing anything more lewd herself.

CITY SHOPS;

Even Mae Crawfords need to shop for Christmas, great gifts don't just happen. Find her anywhere on the streets, carrying a variating amount of shopping bags. She has a lot of friends. But there's always time for a short conversation! No way is mistletoe going to ruin her plans today, she has beat this curse before. (She doesn't mind dispensing with a few seasonal kisses. It's been a while since her last one. Maybe it'll be her present to herself.)

OTHERS;

You pick a place, pick any place. Make magic happen.]

[ooc; Open to absolutely everyone. :D MISTLETOES!]

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ACTION BABY

[hexuality]

[Ginny is running through the shops as she always seems to on days like this. She's already run home and dropped off some things so her hands are more free and she's already run into people so she knows what today is. But she's not about to hide in her flat from it. There's shopping to be done! Christmas in a week! CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP.

And she spots a shock of pink hair turning the corner and she yells,]

Oi! Crawford!

ACTION INFANT

[brobeforehos]

[The irony of a witch going home to drop things off when Mae would usually suggest just making them smaller and carrying them in a pocket. But maybe she's that strategic when lazy, who knows. It's not the first mistletoee of the day, but Mae feels like she should make a warning.]

Fair warning, Weasley, my lips are irresistible today.

ACTION NEWBORN we should stop

[hexuality]

[She did make things smaller, she does it every year. But she got tired of dropping them all over the slush and ice when people grabbed her or she grabbed onto people and it's all very exhausting, okay. Ginny stops a few feet from Mae with an amused grin, hands in her pockets and shrugging.]

What, and mine aren't? Are we surprised? We're gorgeous. And have splendid luck with the mistletoe, probably.

ACTION POOPMAKER yes we should

[brobeforehos]

[Well, thank god all her purchases are in bags and wrapped up already, because one of those is definitely Ginny's and she wants it to be a surprise until it's actually time to give it to her. But that does make her smile.]

About the only time we do have luck, or get lucky, if memory serves.

[intheblanks]

[By lunchtime the mistletoe has strung itself between the streetlights and there are lines of shoppers performing some kind of accidental makeout conga along the trails. Chase has already written off shopping. He's out in front of the hospital with a stepladder, taking down some of the plants that have started crawling up the brickwork.]

[brobeforehos]

[She should stay away. She should stay the hell away, because what was that? The possibility of kissing Chase again? Nope, she's not going to go there; they're friends, and that's great, and she won't ruin it by letting herself linger on feelings that will never see any sort of satisfaction because he's got a girlfriend who would give Mae a run for her money and probably her life. While wearing heels. So she should take her own advice to Penny, and let that part go.

Only it's not the season to make good life choices. All she sees when she spots him at the hospital entrance is the fact that his ladder is shaking and looking unstable. The need to protect and rescue takes over the need for good life choices, and she's holding it stead before she can think I should stay away. So. Anyway.]

Nice view.

[intheblanks]

[She nearly makes him fall off the ladder when her voice comes out of nowhere, so thank goodness for the steadying hands. He can't look down through the armful of foliage, so he calls]

Want me to bend over a little more? Maybe you'll get a look up my skirt.

[brobeforehos]

[In her defense, she'd try to catch him but probably fail. She's sturdy but not strong, if you know what I mean. But the easy comment makes up for the stumble and she glides right through the following one.]

A lady's supposed to save a little mystery for the boudoir.

action; super close to the end of the day they think they're safe.

[studmuffin]

[ Stiles had actually meant to bring round the grocery bag earlier. It's full of nice things because Mae's a good friend and if you can't bring your bro a bag of candy canes and Christmas revelry in thanks for not mocking them missing their daddy than what can you do? But he's been trying to dodge mistletoe and little old ladies all afternoon.

It's so close to midnight he thinks he should be safe so he shifts the weight of the bag and knocks. ] Mavis, c'mon. It's cold out here.

action; excellent ohoho

[brobeforehos]

[He has great timing, for once. Mae's awake, even this close to midnight, going over every event of the day; boy has she gone around. It occurs to her briefly that the only friend she hasn't kissed so far has been Stiles, and they'd definitely cut it close twice, whilst in the forest and whilst in Derek's cabin.

And regarding that, she is in a state. She expects him to avoid her for a while, which makes for a very sad end of the day. Or would make for a sad end of the day, were it not for Stiles knocking on her door.

She rushes to get it, climbing over the armrest of her couch and almost slipping on the floorboards, yanking the door open and blurting out a,] Look, I'm so sorry about earlier.

action;

[studmuffin]

[ He pauses, looks at her, then shrugs. ] It was a curse. You didn't decide to make him your new sex toy out of spite. Now can you stop looking super worried and let me in? I bought stuff for you when I was at the grocery store and I got kissed by a woman several times my age and my foot is asleep.

[ Of course Stiles is maybe just a little jealous about the ease in which they had kissing. Jealous considering sometimes he thinks he's over Derek and then sometimes --. Well. ]

action;

[brobeforehos]

[It's a curse, sure, but there's been an awful lot of kissing happening lately as far as Mae's concerned with people who are in a relationship, and she doesn't want to turn into that sort of person. She doesn't want to turn into the sort of person that hurts her friends because she gets carried away during a pretty hot kiss.

So from this moment onwards, she is not going to think about that kiss as 'hot' in any way. Okay.]

You did that all for me? [She opens the door and lets him in.] I know I shouldn't tell you I ended up kissing the cashier when I bought the tinsel. Your sacrifice means a lot. And I would never make him my sex toy, I don't make people my sex toys.

[synanthrope]

[She's at work: she's gotten rather used to Mae coming in every now and again, to see Stiles. So she doesn't think anything of it when Mae comes in today.]

I sent him on an errand, he'll be back soon.

[brobeforehos]

[She's armed with a bag full of tinsel and other gaudy Christmas decorations meant not for her apartment but someone else entirely, and when she goes in search of her partner in crime, of course she ends up finding he's not there. And of course Saya is, why wouldn't she be when it's her place to begin with?]

Oh, well - I guess I'll just text him then...

[synanthrope]

You can set your things down on the table.

[She nods over to a worktable nearby her, and is about to head back to work when some of the tinsel catches her eye.]

What are you doing?

[brobeforehos]

[Well, she wouldn't mind a break, although the tinsel itself isn't heavy, per se...But it's probably not a very good idea to linger. Has she done things that have been good ideas today, though? No. No she has not.]

A little Christmas decoration. [Christmas pranking. There's a lonely sour werewolf out there who should be given some warmth, and maybe Mae is more interested in the idea now that she knows in some world (maybe all worlds) Santa is real.

Anyway. Christmas is the universal holiday for cheer and warmth, right?] All very innocent.

action.

[fiamme]

[Kori is shopping, of course. What is there to do in this city except shopping? And making sure Jason eats three square meals a day? Shopping and window shopping and breaking at least six different public indecency laws, but whatever.

She doesn't have that many bags today. Suspiciously convenient. Kori is checking her messages with half-interest when she spots the pink of Mae's hair ahead of her. She can't remember if anyone else in the city has pink hair - Mae is the only she's bothered to remember by name. ]

- Mae!

action.

[brobeforehos]

[There's no such thing as public indecency in the City anymore. Or at least there shouldn't be.]

Oh! Hey - Kori, is it? Can I call you Kori? We did go to the same school, briefly.

action.

[fiamme]

It is alright. I don't know anyone who calls me Koriand'r anymore, really.

[Except for like, her entire race of people. But they have to, because she's royalty.

At the mention of Hogwarts though, she grimaces. ]

I am trying very hard to forget about essays.

[anunluckypenny]

[Penny is on her way back from the grocery store, an environmentally-friendly fiber bag full of food in either hand. She knows about the curse. In fact, she has spent the better part of her day kissing people (the hazards of working in a public place), and it seems silly to worry too much about the mistletoe now.

It's difficult to miss Mae and her pink hair. Penny takes a quick look around for mistletoe--she's not going to be reckless--and, seeing nothing, goes to say hello to her friend.]

Hey, Mae!

[brobeforehos]

[She is a beacon to others today, and it's the pink hair. But Mae's learning there can be a good side and a bad side to it. Currently, on the street they have very little chance of being caught under one. So she waves, the bags in her hand jostling a little, and walks towards Penny.]

Hello, Penny. Groceries?

[anunluckypenny]

Yeah. The least exciting kind of shopping. Even the mistletoe's staying away from the grocery store. How about you? Christmas shopping?

( action )

[abscind]

[ like kori, jason is shopping — except it's for kori, which might explain his presence in the clothing shop. if anyone sees him and calls him out on it, he'll deny it ( or break their nose, depending ). fact is, jason todd is in a women's clothing store and doing his best imitation of a deer in headlights when he rounds a rack of expensive lingerie and slams right into mae.

which would almost be funny if he hadn't had years of training in stealth and quick reflexes. he's going to chalk it up to being completely out of his element and flustered. that latter part is almost a first, even, considering "flustered" hasn't come easily since he died and all. ]

Jesus Christ. Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going. [ isn't that an understatement. ]

( action )

[brobeforehos]

[Like Kori and Jason, Mae is shopping as well. Unlike them, she's shopping for herself. Jason finds her in the lingerie aisle, or bumps into her in the lingerie aisle, and it's too late for Mae to shove the generous looking cobalt blue bra right back on the shelf now, so she'll just have to deal with the fact that this hottie's going to see it. In her hand.

Hopefully, he won't do what others seem to be doing today and stare right at her tits expecting some sort of answer to the universe to pop out of them. They're great boobs, but come on - she's wearing a sweater!]

Do you always close your eyes when you pass by this section?

( action )

[abscind]

[ while jason lacks tact in most areas of his life, he only gives the bra a good look before his eyes are on her face. not that he usually has to worry about offending girls, what with the fact that kori usually walks around naked. it's almost become old hat. almost. the fact that mae's cute, curvy, and has a sense of humor doesn't help.

but he chuckles, brows knitting as he shakes his head. ]

I don't usually end up in this section in the first place. I was, uh, shopping for a friend. [ because that doesn't sound suspicious at all. sigh. ] It's not going so well.