defenderofdesmoines | MCA #1 | Saturday Morning into Afternoon

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MCA #1 | Saturday Morning into Afternoon

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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"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.

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"Did you... replace the apartment somehow?" Rey asked, looking up at the ceiling in case of glitter.

"I wish," Annie sighed, replacing her sunglasses because lights were still not her favorite. "Barry gave me this glitter vacuum thing, and that took care of a lot of it."

"That's cheating and I have to thank him," she said, and speaking of which, she set her lightsaber down on the counter since she didn't have a belt right now, and yes at some point last night she had put a cozy on it. Why? Who knows. "Thank you for doing this."

"Of course," Annie said, waving a hand. "Thank you for hosting."

And accepting a million deliveries, and blowing up inflatable reindeer, and standing by while people shot glitter cannons indoors....

"How are you feeling?" Annie - if it was not obvious - felt like like death warmed over, but slightly worse.

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Rey paused, like she hadn't ever had a reason to describe how she physically felt.

"Like there's a bantha ramming around in my skull and like if I move too fast everything will be terrible."

"The bantha is in my stomach, but yes, same," Annie agreed, vaguely remembering Summer's description of banthas and deciding that was accurate. "There's a lot of aspirin and ibuprofen here, still. We drank some of your...caf." She wasn't a hundred percent sure that was the right word, but that stuff was her new favorite thing.

"That's fine. I've had water and aspirin," she said, very slowly taking a seat on one of the bar stools. "How bad was it in here this morning?"

"Glitter on the ceiling bad," Annie told her, like that wasn't definitely Annie's own fault. "I had a bunch of help, though. Summer and Stark both helped clean up, and Steve's been rapelling up and down the lanai."

Might as well warn Rey that that was a thing that was being done, now.

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"...Okay, sure," Rey said, starting to nod and stopping about halfway there when she realized that was a bad idea. "Do I want to know what happened to the reindeer?"

"I honestly don't know where at least four of them are," Annie told her, shaking her head very slowly. "Stark used one as a pillow?" It was in the corner, still! "And a couple are deflated."

And two of them were down on Steve and Danny's lanai, actually, probably supervising all that rapelling.

"I've been told Kitty and Master Skywalker need one each. I can take care of that."

Did Christopher and Juliet both need a reindeer? MAYBE.

"They're basically party favors, then, perfect. And I already took the leg lamp upstairs," she added. Where it was displayed proudly in her window!

"Thank you. I can't get over how normal it looks in here," she said. "Did anyone touch the trip wire?"

"Not that I can tell," Annie said, and she figured she'd be able to tell if someone set off a trip wire, and seriously, it was a mark of how long she'd been in Fandom that she didn't even think it was that weird. "It's probably going to smell like beer for like, days," because there had been several spills, "but I think the candles are helping?"

The trip wire was to set off silly string, and it was at this point that Rey realized that she was not going to attempt to dismantle it today and would have to either go back to Silver's to sleep or would sleep on the sofa.

"I do like those. Where did those come from?" Had they been in a box?

"Me." More specifically, though, they'd come from White Barn, because Annie was pretty basic and not ashamed of it. "Consider them another thank you gift. I told you I had more!"

"You really didn't have to do that. But I appreciate that," Rey said. "I'm honestly impressed at how prepared you were. I wouldn't have been considering things like beer smell at all."

For some reason.

"I may have even overprepared, and yet I still, somehow, didn't anticipate everything," Annie admitted. "The lightbulb in your pantry is new, by the way."

And she'd double-checked that the lock still worked, too, though why anyone would need a locking pantry was beyond her.

"What happened to the lightbulb?"

Yes, Annie, explain that.

"It broke." All on its own, with no one's stupid drunk help. "Also, did you know that door locks? Like, why."

Radio (of course it had had to be Nina) had already busted her, whatever.

You know what Rey'd head couldn't take today? Nina radio. That would be for tomorrow.

"What'd you do in my pantry, Annie?"

"Just a little kissing," Annie sighed, not even able to blush over it today, who even cared. "But like the door locked and Diego had to pick the lock to get us out, no big deal."

She thought that was so cool, actually. So, like, it was kind of a big deal that way.

"I'd ask if the lock is okay but I don't know why that's there to begin with," Rey admitted.

"It locks from the outside," Annie said, like it would somehow be less weird if it locked from the inside? "Like, if you ever, like, trap something in your apartment, throw it in there."

It didn't seem unlikely, here. Though if Rey knew how to set up a trip wire she probably didn't need Annie's advice, there.

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