[NYE Party] happy new year and lots of fun

[nascensibility]

Who: EVERYONE, but especially you!
Where: Wonderland Ballroom
When: New Year's Eve
Rating: PG - PG13 (will change if applicable)
Summary: New Year's Eve Party
The Story:

[ Previously in the month all residents received an invitation to a formal event: a black tie affair to ring in the New Year. The ballroom and adjacent areas are decked out for the party starting at eight o'clock sharp, meticulously planned and executed, glittering décor to match the no doubt glittering attire as music pours into the halls from the dance floor.

Bars flank each side, service for all manner of alcohol unless a minor requests something, and the primary setting stage features an enormous clock for the countdown. ]




[ Where will you be when the clock strikes midnight? ]

Comments

[morethan084]

[Looking down when Peggy put her hand on her waist, Daisy straightens up in an attempt to look a little less, well, ungraceful.]

Did you take lessons? When you were a kid I mean.

[mucked]

-- Only if you count Friday evenings down at the pub as 'lessons,' [ peggy counters with a bit of cheek.

all in all, daisy isn't doing so bad. these steps are easy ones, and peg hasn't added in any flourish or difficulty. this dance is an indulgence -- more for daisy's sake than her own -- and she won't show off for the sake of showing off. ]

[morethan084]

Well you're pretty good.

[Daisy snorts softly at that. Still not quite believing that she didn't have actual lessons at some point.]

You go to the pub a lot?

[mucked]

I used to.

[ and isn't that the truth. once the war hotted up, it wasn't as though her life was bursting with opportunity to go and drink and dance and cavort. the fellas did, yes, and she rolled her eyes and waved her hand while they did so. but that wasn't always an option open to agent peggy carter.

sometimes, even the certifiable badasses have to toe the line of optics. ]

You'd think it would be easier to sneak off the campus at a girl's school than an army installation. And yet. [ her smile ticks. ] Even so -- once the war started, I did a lot less dancing.

[morethan084]

Wait. You went to an all girl's school? Was that how it was back then? Girls only and boys only?

[Even if she hadn't dropped out of High School, Daisy doubted they actually talked about that in history classes.]

[mucked]

[ back then. peggy manages not to roll her eyes too hard, thank goodness. ]

Not in every instance, no. But mine was.

[morethan084]

How was that? I can imagine a lot of drama probably went down.

[Girls were nasty to each other. Especially at that age.]

You can spin me, you know, if you want to.

[Please switch it up from just going around in a slow circle.]

[mucked]

Oh, it wasn't so bad.

[ but perhaps it's easy to say that when you were the popular one -- the school hero, a position carved out with daring and lawlessness. how many switches did they break on her before she earned that place?

either way, she leads daisy into a sharp and dramatic spin. ]

In that regard, the army was damned worse.

[morethan084]

[Daisy can't help but laugh when she's spun around quickly. This was probably the most fun she's had in months.]

I guess that's saying something then. Although, guys would be useless without us around to help them.

[mucked]

Some of them, certainly.

[ momentum brings her back into peggy's arms with a bit of force -- a bit of a bump. ]

They're not all dreadful. Somehow.

[morethan084]

[As soon as she knocks into Peggy, Daisy is quickly trying to move back to give her space.]

I guess a few of them are okay.

[Daisy knew who probably came to mind for Peggy at least.]

[mucked]

[ truth is, she's got a few worth sorting into the 'not dreadful' category. especially since arriving here, where suddenly she's confronted with a cavalcade of disarmingly decent and sensitive men. not what she's used to dealing with, frankly. and all her old tricks, her strategies to be underestimated by them, have a tendency to backfire.

dangerous, really. ]

Every rule has its exceptions, after all.

[morethan084]

Yeah, I've always been kind of bad about following the rules.

[Especially if she felt like following the rules ended up hurting others.

Another song ends and Daisy was surprised that Peggy was still going, but maybe she was just waiting for Daisy to offer up a break.]

You want to go sit for a while?

[mucked]

-- I wouldn't mind a breather.

[ so the stop. they separate. and peggy stretches her arms ahead of her as she angles for a table -- grabbing a glass of something on the way. ]

[morethan084]

Out of shape?

[Daisy teases, knowing full well she isn't. She isn't sure what Peggy just grabbed, but she takes one of the glasses too and follows behind her.

Dropping into the seat with a grunt, Daisy adjusts her dress a little as she's very much at risk of a wardrobe malfunction. She should've thought up some tape to go along with this dress.]

This is the second New Years Eve I've celebrated here. Well, that I can remember.

[mucked]

[ the teasing gets only a smile -- brief, tight in its corners. but it takes root as something more earnest the longer she goes. she settles by leaning forward in her chair, one elbow on the table. ]

Two too many. [ a beat. ] If you don't mind me saying.

[ some people do. ]

[morethan084]

[She definitely does. In fact she laughs bitterly at the statement.]

Yeah. But, I guess there's some upsides to being stuck here.

[Daisy looks over to Peggy, genuinely happy about what she says next.]

I mean, it's not like we would've met otherwise.

[mucked]

[ -- it's such a beautiful night. and it wouldn't be fair, really, to spoil it with dark talk. peggy very nearly scolds the woman for what she doesn't quite say. truth is, she already knows she's dead some year after 2012. maybe she doesn't know the exact year -- but it's exact enough. ]

My dear, [ she huffs a sigh, ] I don't know what to tell you if you think meeting me, here, is any kind of silver lining.

[morethan084]

[Daisy laughs softly at her comment, not thinking of how what she had just said could’ve upset her. She just meant they would’ve never crossed paths in general. Daisy didn’t even know about SHIELD up until 2013 anyway.]

Just take a compliment.

Oh, and before I forget, remind me to get you that lipstick we were talking about. Seriously a life changer.

[mucked]

You know where my room is.

[ one of the few who do, actually, and that's only because on the very first day she arrived in wonderland peggy had felt safer bringing people to her rather than going out and finding them. back then, it hadn't felt like her room. it hadn't felt like intel worth protecting. ]

Perhaps you ought to come drop some off. Some day.

[morethan084]

[Eyebrows rising up at her offer to come to her room, Daisy lets out a soft laugh as she adjusts the way she's sitting.]

Wow. A dance and now you're offering for me to come by your room?

[Daisy knows that is not what she meant by that, she just felt like being a cheeky little shit.]

[mucked]

I did say perhaps and some day. [ a puff of breath. ] Besides, I've been told I ought to try and be a touch more social. Apparently it's good for my health.

[morethan084]

Oh yeah?

[Considering she had to be told, Daisy wasn’t sure if reading her about it was good or not.]

Who said that?

[mucked]

-- A man who's got no business lecturing me on anti-social practices, I'm afraid. [ a beat. ] Have you met Tony Stark?

[ she doesn't know how 'famous' he is, necessarily, in his own time. ]

[morethan084]

[Daisy nearly chokes on her drink when she mentions his name.

Wiping her mouth with the side of her hand, Daisy only has to look at Peggy to realize she wasn’t being sarcastic]

Yeah. I have. I’m surprised you didn’t put him in his place.