+ Happy New Year +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone on the Real side!
Where: Ball room
When: Dec 31st from 8 pm to 12:00 am
Rating: The party itself is G; please warn for anything above that.
Summary: The White Queen has put together a formal ball for the Reals, after having to endure the magic going cattywhompus.
The Story:



[ The White Queen, true to her promise, has put up decorations of black, gold, and silver for the Real side in their ballroom. There is lively music that shuffles songs for every time and all worlds represented in the mansion, food that covers all palettes and tastes, and plenty of alcohol. The dance floor is large while some space is set aside for tables and chairs for sitting.

One minute before midnight, the lights will dim, a countdown will begin, and at midnight precisely, fireworks will be visible through the windows as gold confetti rains from the ceiling.

Happy New Year, Wonderland ♥ ]

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[teamfun]

Louis considers Juliet one of the "better" adults in...well, existence. He doesn't exactly trust her yet, but she's okay and that counts for something. As such, he'll wander over with a hearty thumbs-up and a lopsided smile.

"Happy new year, and may I say, solid congrats on winning the Pinkest Dress Ever Award. Watch out, Barbie, you've got a rival."

The jokey shit-talking is absolutely a sign he likes a person, honest.

[holyshihtzu]

"The closet didn't quite get the shade I was going for, but I thought it was fun," she replies, barely even fazed by the comment. Juliet's wardrobe back home largely consists of pantsuits for work, so when given the opportunity to dress up, she definitely went full out.

Maybe a little too full out.

"Happy New Year. Can you believe this party? The White Queen is definitely trying to make up for what happened."

[teamfun]

"Oh yeah, if you're going for fun, then you hit that nail right on the head."

So says the kid who wears a ratty trench coat pretty much all the time. Honestly, he'd of worn it today if he thought ht would have gotten away with it.

"It's pretty sweet. As bribery to convince us to be less salty about fucking with our heads, it's pretty good. I'm almost bribed."

[holyshihtzu]

"Almost," Juliet agrees. It barely qualifies, but she's pretty certain the White Queen was genuine when she said she was trying to help and not hurt them. Intent does mean something to Juliet, as does honesty, so she can't harbor too much anger at the situation.

"Speaking of fun, I hope you're having plenty."

[teamfun]

The White Queen hasn't convinced Louis yet, that last Event was a nightmare that's going to haunt him for a good long time. But a good party is at least a half-decent way to apologise. He grins, giving a thumbs up.

"Sure am. It's not as rocking as your Christmas shindig, but we live with what we get, right?"

[holyshihtzu]

"Really? That's the best compliment ever. Seriously."

This is a pretty great party, but Juliet definitely is pleased by hers being better.

"At least I managed to do it before... Whatever that was." From what she's researched, she's not sure that counted as a normal event.

[teamfun]

"What can I say? I calls it as I sees it."

Though making Juliet happy about it is a bonus. She did her best to make everyone else happy, she deserved some of her own, too.

"Yeeeah, that was good timing. It would have been way harder to enjoy a party while floating through an empty void."

[holyshihtzu]

Louis is the best kid. Having him around even makes her miss her nephews a little less.

"It would have really messed with my decor." She grins. "Besides, Christmas has always been really important to me. Just because this place has changed where we are doesn't mean it has to change us."

[teamfun]

He does his very best.

"Boy, would it, nothing puts a dampener on a fun time like an empty void with windows into pain and suffering" he smiles at her comment, nodding. "Yeah! Okay, so bad shit happens, but we still gotta be us, you know? We can't let it turn us into shitty people, just because it puts us through shitty things."

[holyshihtzu]

"Nobody has been mean to me since I arrived. Hopefully, that means most people don't turn into complete jerks even with what we're up against here."

She's really enjoyed all of the people she's met here - even Gren, who tends to be the most unapproachable of all of them. She feels like she managed to win him over, anyway.

"I'm glad you know that, too. I'd hate to see this place have that effect on you." He's a sweet kid, and deserves far better than any of this.

[teamfun]

"I've not had to deal with any dickheads either, honestly."

There's a couple of people who are especially protective over Clem, but he can understand that- he actually likes they care enough about her to try and protect her. None of them have been dicks about it, either.

"It's okay, it'll take more than some psychological warfare to turn me into an asshole."

[holyshihtzu]

"I can't think of anything that would turn me into a jerk, either," she admits, scrunching up her nose thoughtfully. "I mean, not that I can't hold my own when I need to. I definitely almost axed a crazy bitch to death once." She pauses. "It was self-defense."

[teamfun]

Louis squints at her, because she kind of looks like the sort of person who couldn't swear at a puppy. But then, AJ looks like the most adorable child on the planet and he's a few seconds away from shanking someone at any one time.

"Wow. Only almost, though?"

[holyshihtzu]

"Shawn stopped me. Well, him and my partner. I don't know if I would have actually done it, but when someone tries to kill you? You kind of turn into a different person."

Granted, he probably knows that already. If nothing else, being at the SBPD teaches Juliet knew things about herself every day.

"It was a case I was working on. I was undercover and she had killed a couple of girls already and I was next. She's where she should be now and I guess that's what matters."

[teamfun]

"You don't have to tell me that."

His reponse is at least good natured. Oh boy, does he know that one already. He's pretty certain once he goes back home, he'll learn it a whole lot more yet.

"Wow, so this was some real serial killer stuff? I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing knowing you're next. Sure, you can prepare for it, but also, hey, there's a crazy-ass killer after you."

[holyshihtzu]

"Yeah, and if I hadn't stopped her, I'm sure she would have taken out the entire sorority if she had the chance."

Yeah, she said that.

"I was top of my class at the academy. It didn't prepare me at all for what I had to really deal with once I became a detective."

[teamfun]

"Wow, she sounds like a real piece of work. Good on you for stopping her."

Better to avoid a messacre, after all.

"Guess there's only so much you can be taught before the real world throws you a doozy. But hey, you lived! You get to add it to your life experiences and use it to help people if it happens again."

[holyshihtzu]

"I'm pretty thankful I made it through. It was my first real experience, going undercover and dealing with a killer one-on-one. It was almost fun if it hadn't been for all the murder."

That probably sums up most of Juliet's work experience, now that she thinks of it.

"Hopefully I won't have to go after anyone here with an axe, but from what I understand it can get pretty intense."

[teamfun]

"It's pretty impressive, I mean, I'm pretty dang impressed. It's one thing doing it as a seasoned detective, it's a whole other thing altogether to do it when it's your first real time doing anything like that."

He laughs, because hooooo BOY.

"Most of the stuff I've dealt with so far has been super fun adventures into our own heads and regrets which- rude. But yeah, Clem told me there's all kinds of things that happen here which risk our lives. The axe thing might not be such a bad idea."

[holyshihtzu]

"Next time I'm going to try to stick with my gun."

Which she definitely sleeps with very close to her now that she's learned a little about Wonderland and its whims.

"It was a huge growing experience for me, and I got to be a sorority girl for a few days so at least that part was fun!"

[teamfun]

"Well, they do always get the job done."

He doesn't sound all that convinced, but guns aren't his favourite thing ever. Between getting shot still relatively recently and the whole Marlon thing, he'd very much rather keep his distance. Still, he knows they have a place in the world. In the right hands.

"Having no experience being a sorority girl, I'm just gonna take your word for it, because honestly all I know is what happens in comedy movies and I'm like eighty per cent sure most of that isn't real?"

[holyshihtzu]

"Not that I go around shooting people, either. I haven't actually shot anyone yet, and I really hope I won't have to."

At least she is a couple years out from the first time she pulled her gun, which was one of the scariest--and exhilarating--things she had done since she started with the police. Her confidence has grown a lot in just the last year alone, something that she would thank her partner for.

"It wasn't all that different. I wore a lot of pink and got my nails done." She sighs. "Too bad this place doesn't have a nail salon, we could splurge on some mani-pedis."

[teamfun]

"Me either. It's something I'm trying really hard to avoid. I mean, it helps I can't hit the broad side of a barn door- so my continued streak of not shooting anyone looks pretty safe."

Until he goes home again, anyway, but that's a whole other mess for a whole other time.

"No shit? Well look at that, for once, Hollywood didn't lie to me," he chuckles. "Y'know you'd of thought someone would have put that down as a business idea by now here. I mean, we got rooms for everything, right? I guess maybe there isn't a big demand? Most of the girls I know probably wouldn't go for that."

He's pretty certain Violet would rather eat another horse eyeball than get her nails done.

[holyshihtzu]

"Most of the time, I don't even bother. But living someone else's life for a bit gives you a little perspective."

At least, it did for Juliet, but she's well known for throwing herself deeply into her undercover roles. Much to Chief Vick's chagrin, since she's the one who has to justify all of Juliet's expenditures.

"I'm impressed by the number of businesses here at all, honestly. We don't have to work, and we don't have to buy anything, so the fact that people still want to create and maintain places where we can come together and obtain some semblance of normalcy is really comforting."

[teamfun]

"I guess it does. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes. That's how the saying goes, right?"

And living someone's life when the stakes are that high? That's more like walking five hundred miles (la da da da) in someone else's shoes.

"I know right? People saw they get free stuff and decided 'well, might as well make normal things for people to enjoy'," he misses normal- weird as Wonderland is, this place is far more normal than he's used to- old world normal, anyway. "It's...nice."