Nolan Home for Wayward Refugees, 33 Apocalypse, Friday Evening

[not_in_the_book]

The menu finally planned, the guests on their way -- or already arrived, and dinner already cooking, Ronan felt prepared for dinner.

The smells -- and sounds -- coming out of his kitchen were probably enough to make his guests mouth water, but that was, really, par for the course when it came to Ronan. And no, you weren't allowed into the kitchen to help.

[Up early-ish for SP; open to all the Wayward Refugees, OCD on its way!]

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After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

Where you may retire to the living room to relax.

Re: After Dinner

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes you guys make me think I should learn to cook... Then I remember that's part of why I'm friends with you in the first place."

Re: After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

"I do try to stay useful," Ronan agreed, laughing a bit. "Thanks -- I have a lot of fun doing stuff like this."

Re: After Dinner

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Thank you for the invitation," Parker said, craning her head up from where she was collapsed in the couch. "I could use the break... how have things been since the world re-asserted itself?"

Re: After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

"Here?" Ronan asked. "Pretty quiet, really. Helped Nita and Kit take care of a couple of things over Christmas, up in Long Island, but it was pretty minor stuff. Nothing world-save-y.

"Oh! I'm doing radio now!"

Re: After Dinner

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker laughed. "What day? I want to know when to download the podcasts. And are the squirrels as persistent as they're reputed to be?"

Re: After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

"Tuesdays!" Ronan told her, laughing a bit. "And yeah, it's -- they've pulled me in a couple of times, recently, whether I wanted to be or not. This last time just ended up with me actually getting a weekly spot."

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

"I have some absinthe," Jack announced, from the spot on the couch where he was sinking into a food coma. "Direct from Paris, 1902, if anyone's interested."

Re: After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan considered that for a moment. "What's the proper way?" he asked. "Pouring it over heated sugar, isn't it?"

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

"Pour it over sugar into water," Jack nodded. "There are special glasses for it, but I think anything you have would work."

Re: After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan nodded, getting up and heading back into the kitchen. "Scotch glasses should work," he suggested, calling over his shoulder as he went through the doorway. "Although -- careful with quantities, I believe, yes?"

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

"Right. We'll have to switch to something a little less potent if we want to have that drunken orgy," Jack called after him.

Re: After Dinner

[not_in_the_book]

A couple of clinks as Ronan collects the glasses, and then, as he returns -- bowl of sugarcubes and pitcher of water following behind him in what's a rather blatant use of wizardry -- he retorts, "And here I was thinking to avoid the absinthe-fueled orgy."

He paused.

"Not that I'd object to an orgy with all of you, but I'd rather be in full, or at least almost full, control of my faculties at the time."

Re: After Dinner

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker turned her head to look at him for this, interested. "Isn't that stuff toxic? Or is that just if you drink an entire glass?"

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

"I wouldn't make a habit of drowning myself in it," Jack said. (Actually, he wasn't sure how any alcohol would effect his new constitution, so he'd been careful even with the wine at dinner.) "But one drink, once in a while? It shouldn't do any harm."

And this is how peer pressure works.

Re: After Dinner

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker considered. "What the hell. I've never had that particular poison. I'll bring vodka with me next time... and if it's straight from 1902, it would be a crying shame to pass it up."

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

Jack grinned and started arranging the omgmidded supplies. "I didn't have a lot of time to drink while I was there," he said. "But I got around enough to see that movie with the artists living on the stuff likely wasn't too far off."

Re: After Dinner

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"If I see gremlins, I'm blaming you," Parker warned, sitting up with a smirk. She studied the sugar, the spoon, the glass. "Although it has to be safer than the things I've seen people ingest at Burning Man."

Re: After Dinner

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel shook her head. "I'll pass. That could only end in tears."

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

"Not a drinker?" Jack asked, though he should have noticed she'd passed on the drinks with dinner. "It's all right. Honestly, I like the idea of this better than the taste anyhow."

He was not a fan of anise.

Re: After Dinner

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Sadly no. It's an alien side effect. One sip and I'm pretty much plastered," she explained. "I'd prefer not to embarrass myself too badly."

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

"It would be horrible if you did anything unbecoming to your dignity as an almost-married lady," Jack said, with a twitch of his lips.

Re: After Dinner

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel couldn't help but snicker. "You mean like the absinthe fueled orgy?"

Re: After Dinner

[icecoldfrost]

"How is that even a question?" Emma asked, making a 'gimmie' gesture with one hand. "I can't even remember the last time I had a drink before tonight."

Re: After Dinner

[bitten_notshy]

Jack fixed a glass for Emma and passed it over. "Poor girl. Here, this should help."