[OPEN] You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant

[failedparenting]

Who: Jo Harvelle, Ray Palmer, John Winchester, and YOU!
Where: The Bar!
When: Backdated to Thanksgiving
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It's a Thanksgiving party! And everyone is invited!
The Story:
[This was supposed to be a family thing, okay? Just family.

John normally scoffs at the idea of family get-togethers, or apple pie, picket fence traditions, but he realizes that now, for the first time, he’s got almost his entire family for a Thanksgiving. And add in Jo with her husband, it’s practically a respectable crowd for a holiday. Mary loves the idea, but when he tells Jo about it, of course she’s got to insist on more people. They’re family too, she insists, hers and Simon’s just like she’s family to him. He’s not so crazy about it. But he sure as hell likes Michonne and Simon, so he finally relents. They’ll have to do it in the bar for the space, but it fits, for them. Feels almost like a hunter party, and he knows that Ellen would’ve approved.

Plans are made, food is cooked, and just when John thinks they might pull this off without some kinda bizarre event going down, Jo makes one herself- why not just have a party for everyone?


He’s really not crazy about that one. She insists, says another guy wants to make his own feast but there was an “incident”, and….yeah. Jo. Fine, fine. Just stop needling. So that’s how they’ve gotten here, a guy with a dislike of family holidays on principal, a bartender who loves too many people, and a superhero who can’t cook sweet potatoes hosting a dinner together.


Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, try not to die.]

Comments

[shrinkage]

[ from across the room, ray catches sarah's eye and gives a little wave.

hey-- who doesn't like a little "long-distance" flirting? (oh crap hopefully sarah does!)

your move, pretty girl. ]

[blackbirdsing]

[ Her smile when she sees him is a mix of things - being glad to see him, being happy to see him (which is completely different, thank you), relieved he's here and then a touch of something else. That something else has her ducking her head a little, hair falling in front of her eyes as she bites her bottom lip.

Is this right? Is this long-distance flirting working? ]

[shrinkage]

[ oh no she's better at this than he is-- a fact you definitely should have anticipated, raymond. because part of what makes sarah special to him is the ease with which she makes living in the chaos look.

the way those wisps hang down when she dips her head, modest and yet fully aware of her faculties.

ray's smiles widens, eyebrows furrowing into mock suspicion.

are you seducing him from afar, sarah weller? (check yes or no.)

((please check yes.)) ]

[blackbirdsing]

[ Oh, absolutely yes, and she looks back up at him, eyes meeting his directly now and she mouths hi, with another little grin before turning to put her pie down. She's abandoning pie, heading over to him with wine glasses, one in each hand.

She is neglecting pie, Ray.

When she gets to him she hands him a glass as she leans in to kiss the corner of his mouth softly, speaking low like what she's about to say is some big secret between them in a room of people, even if it's not. ]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[shrinkage]

[ ray hunches down and returns the peck before straightening back up. wine in one hand, he slips the other around to rest against sarah's back, letting a thumb trace little circles absently. it's so hard to sit still normally, even more so when his beautiful girlfriend is nearby. ]

It is, now. How was your family's dinner?

[blackbirdsing]

[ One of her arms loops around him as well and she smiles at the morning and afternoon she just had. ]

Well, it was Jane's first Thanksgiving that she'll remember, so Kurt really went all out. He's been cooking since yesterday, and she thought it was fantastic. The only thing missing was a big parade for her to watch, but that's okay, she'll get there.

[ She loves the little circles. He can definitely keep doing the little circles. ]

[shrinkage]

[ consider those circles circled forever!!! ]

Oh, that's great! You should've told me, I bet we could've put together a Wonderland parade...

[ though considering how ray's attempt at making people a holiday dinner went??? probably not the best idea. ]

[blackbirdsing]

I think right now, they aren't um...upset that I'm not in their apartment anymore?

[ Sarah doesn't want to think about what they're doing while she's not there but there was definitely very little argument over whether or not she should stay and keep contributing to 'family time.' ]

This was really more about Kurt and Jane than Thanksgiving itself, which is fine, I get it. She's had a really hard time. But I'm glad you invited me to this.