OPEN Valentine's Day Plot

[thebiddingbaron]

WHO | Everyone
WHAT | Baron sends Valentine's Day gifts to Tribute Tower.
WHEN | Valentine's Day!
WHERE | Tribute Tower
WARNINGS / NOTES | Warnings for drug use and all of the things that go with that. Possibly also sexual themes. The OOC post for this is here.




On the morning of February 14th when the Tributes come down for breakfast they're greeted by an impressive holiday themed spread. Pink and red baked goods, chocolates shaped like hearts, beautiful red and pink flowers, adorable stuffed animals all line the table.

On the table is also a sign in cursive that reads:

To our beloved Tributes, Victors, Mentors, Escorts and Stylists. Enjoy your holiday. -- Bartlett Industries

Most of the sweets are completely harmless, but if the Tributes taste the chocolate covered cherries or caramels they find themselves suddenly acting very strangely...

Comments

[tailforbrains]

Seeing Draco actually smiling for once made Neeshka smile, too. Then again, a lot of things were making Neesha smile right now. So when he wandered out into the snow, not exactly past her bench but within hailing distance, she hollered, "Hello, blondie!"

And she waved enthusiastically, too. Apparently on whatever special holiday this was, she was happy to let bygones be bygones. Whether he felt the same way remained to be seen.

[mudbloodhater]

Very little could damp Draco's mood, he thought. He didn't know why he was so cheerful, just that he was, and these chocolates were to die for. And that was really what mattered. Popping another one into his mouth, he glanced around curiously before noticing Neeshka with some amusement. She was waving.

Apparently he was popular today; he rather liked that.

Offering a brief wave back, he cut a quick detour, steering himself over to her and her bench, and dropped himself onto it in a graceful tangle of long limbs. "'Lo," he greeted casually before adding for good measure, "I'm not that blond, you know."

[tailforbrains]

"Oh, that's just silly, you're very blonde," Neeshka laughed, flopping back her own self now that he was seated. Maybe he was less grumpy today than usual! Excellent! That meant he wouldn't be as likely to be a jerk, or so she hoped. "You are blonder than anyone I've ever seen, besides this elf wizard guy from the Greycloaks anyway, and you're no elf."

[mudbloodhater]

Grumpy was definitely the last word that could be used to describe Draco that day. He almost cracked a grin at her comments, rolling his eyes melodramatically though the smirk tugged at his mouth; there was no chance it could be taken as a genuine eyeroll. "How d'you know I'm not an elf? Maybe I am. Especially if he's a wizard, too; maybe I'm actually that bloke, and you didn't realise."

[tailforbrains]

"You're kind of lacking the pointy ears." Neeshka reached over to playfully tweak his nearer ear. "And what elf would want to hide their ears? Maybe they aren't as pointy as mine--" She twitched one intentionally, grinning more widely. "--but they're still pretty impressive."

[mudbloodhater]

"Maybe elves where I come from don't have pointy ears," he told her, gasping a little, but not swatting her hand away as he might've done were he not plied into cheer by chocolates. And then he added, reaching over to tug gently at her ear, "You could put an eye out with that thing, you know."

[tailforbrains]

Neeshka leaned her head into his tug, grinning still. It didn't hurt, so why the hells not? He was being nice! And the blonde was rather pretty, to be honest. "Do you have elves where you come from?" she asked with a giggle.

[mudbloodhater]

Being pretty had gotten him this far, and there was no way he was above using his looks to further himself even more. Draco merely gave her a grin, far too wide to be natural, and let his hand fall down about her shoulder casually. "Well, we have gnomes and fairies and a handful of other things that remind me of elves, and that's close enough."

[tailforbrains]

Hey, if he wanted to snuggle, she wasn't adverse. She slid over half an inch under his arm, up against his side, and her tail coiled down around his calf lightly. "That's pretty neat. We've got gnomes, too. Ours was a bard." She rolled her eyes, thinking of Grobnar. "And he was weird. Funny, though. We only ran into fairies now and then, though, and usually they were tiny, annoying things...."

Ramble, ramble, ramble.

[mudbloodhater]

Oh, brilliant. Thinking about it, Draco hadn't actually had a proper snuggle in months - not since before the school year really got underway, and before he broke things off with Pansy. It was still nothing short of completely weird to realise that this girl had a tail, but providing he merely kept his eyes averted from the thing, it was a lot easier to just ignore it and give into the fact that letting people within his personal bubble wasn't that bad. Sometimes.

"A gnome-bard. That sounds horrid. The ones we have all sound terribly Scottish and utter things like 'gerroff me' if you happen to have an infestation you have to get rid of. We never did, of course," he interjected, letting her ramble and rambling in turn. Rambling over each other, really. "Fairies are always and universally tiny, annoying things. I had a professor once, he let loose an entire cage filled with bloody pixies, would you believe? They plucked one of our classmates right out of his chair, all the way up to the ceiling. Horrid professor, he was. Went and Obliviated himself, I heard - I can't think of a more deserving bloke."

[tailforbrains]

And Neeshka hadn't had a proper snuggle in pretty much ever, so this was bliss, right here. She'd had a lover or two, when she'd lived in Neverwinter, but they generally weren't the snuggling kind. "Yeah, he wasn't really that great at singing. Not bad at playing, I guess, if you like that kinda thing. What's Obliviate mean? Sounds messy."

It sounded kind of like the eviscerate spell Sand liked so much, which was, indeed, messy.

[mudbloodhater]

Snuggles for everyone. It was decided. "Who in the hell decided he ought to be able to sing and play at all? I'd think that someone would have told him he was rubbish at it at some point, though. Or else made fun of him behind his back until he figured out his failings." He wrinkled his nose a little, shrugging one shoulder. "Terribly messy. It erases parts of the memory when done properly. His wasn't. Erased absolutely everything. Poof."