1st Annual Halloween Block Party!

[iam_senpai]

Perhaps it's the leaves of fiery golds and oranges drifting on the breeze, or the sight of various hard squash being mangled into festive ornaments, or even still the bowls of candy left out simply everywhere in the Nexus that signifies the import of today. Regardless of when you take heed, Halloween has come to the Nexus.

Neat little handmade signs and fliers of all kinds lead to a particularly festive sectioned off block with the Crossroads Cafe at the center. The brick building has more than its fair share of decorations hung from every available windowsill and door. Hanging skeletons, jolly Jack-O-Lanterns, orange and black streamers cascading down and blowing to and fro in the crisp breeze.

The doors are propped open just waiting to beckon you inside. What are you waiting for?

((See the OOC post if you have any questions! Backtagging and threadhopping are fine. Come on in and have a blast :D ))



Coats and Costumes
The Cafe
Bonfire
Dance Floor
Haunted House
Side Halls and Storage

Comments

[smartass_captain]

"Oh, the guy who owns this place is a cop. And...he doesn't much like me. It's gotten better but we didn't meet under the best of circumstances."

Jim reaches for a knife to cut out the top of his pumpkin.

"I'm sure he'd give us candles to display these bad boys though. Since it's an attraction at his party and all."

Joanna's costume makes Jim smile all the more again while he works quietly next to his best friend. She'd look adorable in an outfit like that, Jim's certain. He wishes not for the first time he could get Bones more time with his little girl.

"So, you're saying we should make you the wolf or the hunter?"

[shetooktheplanet]

"Someone who doesn't like you?" He says with overt sarcasm dripping from his voice. "You don't say."

It hasn't been taking Leonard all that long to work on the jack-o-lantern that he's been carving. He has good hands, after all, and has spent much of his time at the part uninterrupted because people aren't all that familiar with who he is. He also doesn't have a disposition that says 'hey come talk to me' either. The doctor is much more of a talk at your own risk sort of man.

"I think she's trick or treating with someone dressed as the wolf, so the hunter seems like the best choice."

[smartass_captain]

"I'm sure we can wrangle that out of the spare costume bits in the coatroom after we're done here. You were more'n halfway to done when I got here and I picked out an easy design that shouldn't take long."

Really prepping it takes the most work. Scooping out the insides and all.Jim is careful to roll up his sleeve when he does that part. Normally he wouldn't be careful but these aren't his digs and he does have to return them after tonight.

"....Is saving the grandma optional then?" His knee knocks into Leonard's gently even as the words are out of his mouth, to assure the other that he's joking. Jim's opinion of Jocelyn has always been a bit skewed since he only ever hears about her when Bones has to vent to someone about something or other she'd done. That hasn't happened much since their first year at the academy when Bones was still climbing out of his alcohol fueled depression, but Jim's fiercely loyal and his loyalties liem squarely with Bones.

[shetooktheplanet]

It hasn't gone unnoticed - in the years that they've been serving in Starfleet together - that Jim is almost irrationally protective of Bones. Always the first to jump in and defend him. Always the last one to hang onto a grudge when he thinks someone wronged the doctor. It's kind of ... nice.

With Bones often beating himself up so much, it's a good to have the guy that's in his corner no matter what. He doesn't let on how much it means to him, but with Jim, he doesn't really have to. His friend knows him through and through.

"I think Jo is probably a little young to be a junior officer, so we might have to have 'grandma' around for a few more years yet."

[smartass_captain]

"Fair point."

Jim is quick to point the knife he had been pointing at Bones to illustrate his point anywhere else before he gets lectured about safety and being an idiot. As soon as he'd done it he could feel the look that would be coming, so away it goes to be inserted into the pumpkin instead to get on with carving out this goofy face he'd drawn.

One of these days Jim's going to put that PINpoint of his to use and figure out the coordinates that will get them to Georgia so Bones can see his little girl. Ideally wihtout Jocelyn breathing down his neck for the entire visit. Hell, he could bring Jo to the Nexus or even the ship for an afternoon if he wanted to. Or Jim would be happy to lend him the keys to his family home in Iowa. He wants bones to be able to see his little girl and, truthfully? Jim wants to meet her too.

Whatever Bones has been saying has gone in one ear and out the other with the sudden 'I'm scheming something' face Jim has adopted for the last minute.

[shetooktheplanet]

There is a bit of look that he's getting from the doctor over that flagrant knife waving. For a place with a so-called anti-violence field, he's sure treated the wounded around here with regularity. Bones feels like a look that's sharper than that carving utensil is enough for Jim to get his point.

If he find himself having to medically stabilize someone at this party, it better not be because of something stupid. Frankly, it would be nice to relax and not play doctor for a while.

That said, if they could adapt some nexus tech to get Leonard a little more time with his daughter? He'd be perfectly alright with that. Mixing technology of different worlds comes with an inherent volatility, but if you look at advances through the last couple of centuries ... a lot of it came from learning what other sentients had and modifying/refining it for another use.

He'd do just about anything for his little girl.

[smartass_captain]

It's got to be all kinds of satisfying for Bones to see the captain of the goddamn Enterprise flinch slightly under that withering glare. That's right, even Jim knows better than to make Leonard truly angry. Now if only it worked on Spock, Bones might be able to go a day without anyone irritating the hell out of him.

But then where would the fun in that be?

"What do you think?" Jim pokes out the last little chunk of pumpkin he'd cut out with a wiggle of his finger before turning it so bones can see. Now, Jim is rubbish at this sort of thing. Wrapping gifts, remembering occasions. It's quite obvious he wasn't exposed to 'happy celebrations' much as a kid. But he's made a genuine effort here and all for a girl he's never met.

"Think she'll smile? It'll make yours look even better I think."

[shetooktheplanet]

Slightly? The way his looks can make even the most bullheaded people freeze in their tracks is a point of pride. He fully expects that his looks are going to keep Jim in line, though, because they always have.

"I think that we have a fine pair of jack-o-lanterns, Captain."

There's a part of Leonard that will always feel a little broken up about the way things turned out with Jocelyn. They weren't meant to be together, that much was clear after a while. It stings, though, knowing he can't give his daughter that happy union of her two parents.

But he does what he can. His efforts must be working on some level because she always seems happy in the videos she sends to him.

"I think so." Leonard explains that, "the last picture that she drew me was a butterfly."

[smartass_captain]

"Come on, let's get you dressed up and get these pumpkins lit."

Jim claps his best friend on the shoulder and grins brightly enough to light up the place all on his own. He's excited by the opportunity to make Bones' little girl happy and doubly so to be helping in said endeavor. He'll lead Leonard back to the coat room that doubles as spare costumes and props and accessories so he can begin shuffling through the boxes and racks.

"She's gonna be so happy her dad dressed up as the huntsman. Joining in on her theme. Being there for her...as much as you can be." It's his fault Bones can't go back and see her. Jim knows it is. He'll just have to make sure he figures out the PINpoints enough to make them able to visit. He's bound and determined to, now.