The Estate, Sidra, Glacia, Thursday (Fandom Time)

[glacial_queen]

Winsol had been going on now for several days. The family had just decamped from SaDiablo Hall in Dhemlan back home to Glacia to continue the festivities in their own home. There would be several more days of formal events, but this evening was just for family and close friends (specifically friends close enough to be family). The children were tumbling around like puppies, a mix of Earth and Kaeleeran carols were playing from floating music spheres scattered throughout the suite, fires crackled in the large hearths, and food and punch and hot spiced rum were piled high on the sideboards throughout. "Happy Winsol!" Karla said, holding up her cup in a toast.

"Happy Winsol!" the room chorused back to her.

[Open to residents of Glacia, dear friends, and anyone who thinks they'd have gotten an invite]

Comments

[heromaniac]

Srs Bouncing!

"It's been forEVER!" At last since they'd been physically together. Phone calls totally didn't count with besties. "Happy Winsol, Happy Christmas!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Happy New Year, Happy Solstice!" Dinah chanted back to her, squeezing her tight. "It has been! Way too long! How's Texas how's your Barbara how's Jaime's family how are you?"

Dinah might have an idea about that already. (http://glacial-queen.livejournal.com/16984.html?thread=1536088#t1536088)

[heromaniac]

"Texas is hot, despite Jaime's whining, everyone's fine, and she's not Barbara, she's Orrrrracle. As she totally keeps reminding me. I still wonder what happened to make her so strict. Maybe because she doesn't have you guys with her?" Momoko still wasn't sure where Ms Helena was in Jaime's world. He'd SAID she was there...

"She keeps sending me on assignments, so I can't say anything bad about her though. My costume isn't being as weird as it was so I should be able to do real work again soon, though."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Orrracle." Dinah snickered and slung an arm around Momoko's shoulders. "Yay, costume working so you're working! Work it, girl." She grinned. "I really need to visit your Oracle at some point. And your Dinah. Excuse me, Black Canary." She paused, and then said: "And you know, you guys, because sometimes New Gotham *does* get cold, enough I might even admit it within Priestly's hearing."

[heromaniac]

"I call her Old!Dinah sometimes. Not to her face, of course!"

"My costume's not fully settled. The pantaloons finally changed to a skirt with tights and they haven't done more than change colour and length in about two months. And it's been six months since they changed while I was actually Blossom." Which had never stopped being scary, thank you. "But yes, I'm still a hero of Justice, just part time!" She gave Dinah a V-sign.

"And you should! Our futon is always available!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Just the futon, hmmmm?" Dinah said, humming in amusement. "I mean. Don't you guys have two bedrooms?"

[heromaniac]

OH NO YOU DON'T, DINAH LANCE!

Momoko was horrible at keeping secrets but she was totally awesome at being naive and obtuse. Ha!

"Ah! True! We could both use my room! Like old times!" Or rather, just like hangover times. "But if Priestly comes too, then he'll have to use the futon; I don't think Jaime would share."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

But Dinah would still tease you to blushing, Miss Akutsutsumi!

"I'm not sure Jaime would be up for that these days." She grinned. "Unless things are very, very different from what I think they are?"

[heromaniac]

"Different?" Momoko blinked at her, confused. "I don't think so; Jaime is still Jaime."

Oh wait! Did she mean... Her face cleared and she beamed a smile at Dinah.

"Don't worry! He doesn't have Practicals or anything like that for a while so his sleep hours are still totally normal. I'm usually the one who comes straggling home at weird times!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Momoooooo," Dinah whined, then sent through a touch on her hand: You didn't tell me! You didn't say! Okay you didn't have time since you got here but dude!!!!!!

[heromaniac]

Again with the confused look. "That I work shifts at two jobs and sometimes Oracle sends me to weird places?"

And why would that be a secr...?

... Waaaaaaaaiiit a minute.

Dinah had that look on her face. Dinah wasn't taking about... She didn't... Momoko had her own pitiful shields up, as well as her sugar levels, so that meant...

"Have you already seen Jaime?" Momoko ventured, testing her theory. "I managed to get him to come, despite it involving a winter coat and possible shin-kicking."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Karla has really got to stop doing that," Dinah observed, momentarily diverted. "And he and Priestly can take a vacation somewhere warm together... And yes, yes I have. His face, dude!"

[heromaniac]

"You would think that Sn Antonio would be warm enough, but," and here Momoko made air quotes and dropped her voice a bit to poorly imitate Jaime: "'El Paso has more than 300 sunny days a year and is ranked the number eight in the WORLD for perfect weather'."

She smiled and returned her voice to normal. "I tried to point out that San Antonio has less snow, but Jaime started blabbering about average and mean temperatures and humidity and... " she waved her hand. "I just stopped arguing and dug out my shorts again."

And then Momoko hesitated. Dinah was talking about his face, but... "You hugged Jaime, didn't you." Momoko facepalmed, blushing hard. "He totally needs better shields. I bet Karla figured it out as soon as our portal opened."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I diiiiid." Dinah was not here to talk about the weather! Dinah was here for hugs and gossip! And you were getting the hugs again, Momoko. "Yaaaaaaay," Dinah whisper-screamed.

[heromaniac]

"I warned him, too. He's totally getting teased about this." Momoko let herself get wrapped up in Dinah's hug, still covering her face as she sighed at her boyfriend. "You're going to make a big deal out of this aren't you? Can you at least not tell everyone?"

Not that Momoko didn't agree that it was a big (awesome wonderful wow yay moar plz) deal, but she was totally dreading payback for all that D&P shipping...

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not everyone. I won't have to tell Karla." Because she so had to have guessed by now. "And Priestly. Because. Well. What if Jaime needs to talk to a guy friend?"

And what if Dinah needed to squee a lot because the two of them had been M&J shippers forever, had just been a whole lot more discreet about it?

[heromaniac]

"Raven will know by the end of the evening, too, then," Momoko gave in. "I guess Priestly... is okay, yeah." Jaime better not complain since he's the one who told first. "But no telling Ms Helena or Ms Barbara or the others..."

"Ah!" She suddenly remembered something: "And no telling the boyos here! They'll tease me forEVER!" They barely knew Jaime.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Oh hell no. None of their damn business," Dinah agreed. They'd tried teasing her about Priestly a couple times, but since mostly things hadn't changed aside from sex, it died off pretty quick. "And if you wanna tell Barbara and Helena in person, that's fine by me."

Alfred, who knew. He was Intuitive. He may have already Intuited from whatever he saw in Momoko and Jaime the last time they visited.

"So? Everything went... nice?"

[heromaniac]

"Tell them in person?!" Momoko was firmly in the 'nope nope nope' camp about telling them about her sex life, thanks.

Well, it couldn't really be called a sex life. Yet.

"When things finally stopped interfering?" Momoko was going to drag you over to an empty sofa in an out of the way corner, Dinah. "It was! It was weird and awesome and silly and perfect and totally not at all what I expected."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Weird? And what things were interfering?" Dinah was going along for this because yay! "What were you expecting, anyway?" She remembered back to her first time with Jack. "You guys didn't blow up a hot tub or anything, did you?"

[heromaniac]

"What didn't interfere?" She made a pained and frustrated face, remembering. "The first time we didn't have any condoms."

"There was a world invasion attempt by some stupid dimensional thing," She counted off on her fingers: "Once Moshi started choking and throwing up blue slimy stuff (we still don't know what that was). Tim called Jaime to some huge important Titans meeting that turned into a week's stay at the Tower. I got sent overseas by Oracle. Twice I got called in to work to cover for the supervisor who collapsed (she's pregnant). There was the time Jaime's study group got their dates mixed up and came to our place on the wrong day. And there was the big test that he'd forgotten..." She listed off a few more of the unavoidable life coincidences that had delayed them and then shrugged. "It was totally like a conspiracy!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

By now Dinah was full-on snickering, because that was all hilarious. ALso, because they finally got it together to get together. "I bet the Moshi thing was something plastic; yay for your supervisor; and this is why Jack and I went to a hotel. Less chance of interruption." More giggling. "You guys. SERIOUSLY."

[heromaniac]

"Wouldn't that be impersonal, though?" Momoko shrugged and gave a small smile. "And going to a hotel when we had our own home, our own beds? That would be like sneaking out, saying we were doing something wrong."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Welll, the two of us were in high school, so." Dinah's grin didn't diminish. "On the other hand, we wouldn't have had a jacuzzi to wreck. But on the other other hand, at least the furniture in the room wasn't mine to replace..." AHem. "So. Nice? No complaints? Jaime seems really, really happy." Yay!

[heromaniac]

"You wrecked furniture? How--" Momoko stared at her friend and then waved her hands wildly. "Uh, no. No. I totally don't want to know."

"I don't have anything to compare it to, so how can I have any complaints?" She giggled "I didn't get to touch him enough? His jeans were harder to take off than I expected?"