MCA #1 | Saturday Morning into Afternoon

[defenderofdesmoines]

On Saturday morning, bright and early - like, so, so hatefully early - Annie ventured out to make good on a stupid promise she’d made. All right, it wasn’t a stupid promise, but it was one Annie was really regretting now, because she knew how bad it had looked when she’d left. So much glitter. So many spilled shots. She herself had straight-up poured beer on the floor at least once and had to actually replace a lightbulb. Who knew what had become of the various reindeer?

Plus, she knew there were almost certainly people in there who would need carbohydrates and coffee to get through this day, just like she would. So, Annie made her way into Rey’s apartment, laid out the assortment of bagels and donuts she’d picked up and set a pot of coffee on (caf was a mystery she would ask Rey about later, but she’d noticed the coffee in the pantry before she’d broken it.) Then, she made a few trips back up to her own apartment to grab her vacuum, that glitter thing Barry had made her (bless you, Barry), a case of water bottles, and a bunch of cleaning supplies.

By the time she was done, the coffee was too, and Annie still kind of wanted to die, but at least the people waking up here would have caffeine and water and carbs at their disposal.

[for those waking up here or kindly helping to clean! please hold for just a touch of OCD and we are good, ping at will!]

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Wake Up [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

Did you spend the night here? Perhaps in a racecar bed?

There is coffee, water, bagels, donuts, and plenty of aspirin to help you, all laid out on the bar top (which had been the first thing Annie cleaned.)

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[fates_jaye]

Jaye did in fact wake up in a racecar bed in last night's clothes with a Santa hat on the pillow.

When she finally trudged out she asked, "Whose apartment is this?"

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Rey's," Annie answered from where she was slumped inside a hoodie and clutching a cup of coffee for dear life. "She's not here right now."

Lucky.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[badassprodigy]

By this time the cheap Santa suit was pretty much done. And somehow the Santa beard was more of a white sweatband around Barry’s head.

On the plus side, he was the little spoon with Summer.

The major downside was the hangover he had because he was a lightweight and never had ever had that much to drink in his life.

His eyes weren’t even open when the memories of last night started flooding into Barry’s brain.

“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck,” he groaned. But very quietly.

But yes, that was his good morning to the world.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Shhhhhhh," Summer whispered, ironically probably louder than he had been, though not by much, into the sticky-damp spot where she had most definitely drooled on his neck at some point. "If she knows we're awake, she'll hear us."

She'd been sort-of awake for a while at this point, actually, and had spent the whole time very much pretending she wasn't.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"There's coffee," Annie called softly, hearing that. "And aspirin."

She'd get to all the Santa stuff in a minute. For right now, she was hungover enough, herself, to be merciful.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[shutupandkillsomething]

Cade had literally no other place to crash, so here he was, on the floor of the lanai, shirtless, drenched in glitter and cuddling a light-up snowman.

"Where am I?"

Sadly, this was normally the first question Cade asked upon waking. Cade made poor choices.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Rey's apartment," Annie greeted him. "Want some coffee?"

She wasn't cleaning up any of this glitter until people stopped tracking it everywhere.

"And maybe a shirt?"

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Speaking of poor choices...Summer had been sort of squinting at the guy who Annie had been talking with out on the lanai with that weird familiar feeling, like she'd seen him before, but she just couldn't quite place i--

--oh.

Ohhhh.

The shirtlessness actually helped!

And Summer was suddenly super invested in the coffee over this way, the coffee was suddenly very important, yes.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[fates_jaye]

"See I'm not the only one that had to ask that," Jaye said, to herself? Maybe just in general?

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Eventually, Summer would make it to where the coffee was and she was going to cling to that coffee, and try desperately to keep from looking around as clarity descended with shocking revelation as to exactly what sort of insurmountable task they had ahead of them.

It was not working.

But at least they didn't, like, have to freeze time for, like, a whole month or something just to get it done before someone's parents came home!

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Good morning, welcome to the worst day," Annie greeted her from deep inside her hoodie and behind a pair of sunglasses.

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[stykera]

Stark waved the hand that was currently holding a donut in Summer's direction.

"Morning."

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[stykera]

Stark had spend the night here, not on a racecar bed (that would have been quite awkward since it had been occupied by Jaye), but on the floor cuddled up to an inflatable reindeer. The reindeer had seemed like a good pillow alternative at the time. Of course, at the time he'd just meant to sit down for a few minutes. Instead he'd fallen asleep and slept like the dead. Well, not quite like the dead. He would know.

When he woke, not in his own bed, he sat up quickly and looked around wild-eyed before the glitter and decorations made sense and he remembered where he was and relaxed. Sort of.

"Oh." He rubbed at his eye, then pushed the reindeer away. "Not a pillow."

Re: Wake Up [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Morning, Stark," Annie greeted him, with no enthusiasm whatsoever because she had none, today. "There's coffee and food."

She was also sort of glad that at least one reindeer had served a purpose.

Clean/Repair the Apartment [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

If you’d like to stick around, or if you showed up later to help with this part. Grab a trashbag or a broom, clean up the copious spills, and mod your cleaning supplies at will.

There is also still so much alcohol. Take some home if you can stand the sight of it.

Re: Clean/Repair the Apartment [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie was going to be in the pantry for awhile, replacing a broken bulb up on a stepladder.

Yes, she still had her sunglasses on. It helped.

She was also kindly waiting to use the vacuum until everyone was at least awake, because she was a nice person, you're welcome.

Re: Clean/Repair the Apartment [12/5]

[grenadesandohana]

Steve'd had a designated walker, God, Danno, but he had been promised a chance to use the glitter cannon, so here he was looking a little worn around the eyes but otherwise surprisingly okay as he let himself back into the apartment at too-damn-early o'clock.

(He was hiding the hangover so hard. SO HARD.)

"Coffee! Non-eggnogged coffee!" he said as a small herd of clopping (so much clopping. Whhhhhhy the clopping) mini-horses cantered into the apartment with him, dropping marzipan.

Re: Clean/Repair the Apartment [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Oh, I hate that," Annie greeted him, glaring at the horses. "Oh my God, I hate them. We have coffee and we have donuts and I want to die."

She totally had the glitter cannon for him, though, laid out proudly on the bar top. And she was hoping that Steve just didn't notice that the glitter in it perfectly matched what had been shot onto his lanai, whoops.

Re: Clean/Repair the Apartment [12/5]

[stykera]

"Why do you have tiny horses?"

Stark, you should know better than to question these things by now.

Re: Clean/Repair the Apartment [12/5]

[stykera]

Stark had agreed to help, even though he hadn't been the one firing any glitter cannons all over the apartment.

He had a bag in hand and was currently collecting oh-so-many abandoned solo cups.

Sparkling Clean Apartment! [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

Eventually - like, well into the afternoon - the apartment was as clean as it had been before anyone had ever inflated a reindeer in it, with the added bonus of a couple of brand-new scented candles that Annie had lit, just to help add to how shiny and clean it was, and as a gift to Rey for letting her do this.

Plus it helped with the lingering beer smell. It was too cold to have the windows open for that long.

Re: Sparkling Clean Apartment! [12/5]

[thatwaslucky]

At some point, when the all clear had been given, Rey made her way back over. She was wearing last night's leggings and tank top and had Poe's sweater in hand so she didn't wreck it, and anyone who was still here was catching sight of her in an incredibly rare ponytail.

She did blink a couple times, like she wasn't sure if her eyes were playing tricks on her. "This is better than I expected."

Re: Sparkling Clean Apartment! [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Ta da." Annie actually even took off her sunglasses to gesture with them, ending in a little flourish. (It was a very little flourish, since she was still really hungover.) "We did it!"

Would not have been possible without the glitter vacuum, seriously, thank you forever, Barry.

OOC [12/5]

[defenderofdesmoines]

I live everyone in this bat, too. :D

This has been SO FUN, you guys.