[HALLOWEEN PARTY!] -- [Open to ALL PLAYERS!] -- [IC Event!]

[kirktastic]

It had gone out as an announcement over a month ago, sent to every padd and station by one very excited Captain. A Halloween party! Must come in costume, must have fun!

Despite the hell that had been going on for the last few days, Kirk was determined that it still would happen. After a long discussion with the ship's quartermaster, along with a small army of crewmen who wanted to help, the largest rec room was decorated.

A huge buffet table had been prepared by the galley and sat spread out, all in Halloween theme. Green punch with floating eyeballs, cake decorated to look like a gravestone, a huge bowl of candy, a holographic severed hand that was scurrying around on the table top. There was even a bar set up with quite an expanse of liquor that had been secured on Risa.

There was a small seating area off to one corner, a huge dance floor, tables spread out for a real meal, and a small corner set up for music.

(OOC: Just like the thread with Risa... this is a party that's 'open' from now until Sunday night at midnight! Go nuts! This IS supposed to be IC, like the Risa party, so keep that in mind!)

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[de-forest.livejournal.com]

"Really?" De said, surprised. He had thought Bill would have delighted at the chance to get into costume. "...I'm surprised you had a problem with the replicators...I mean, if I managed to get this out of the thing..." He gestured down at his costume, and then looked questionally at Bill. Or the person he thought was Bill.

[original-fine.livejournal.com]

Jim shrugged and offered a sheepish smile. "You caught me," he said. "I guess I'm not so good with gadgets." He was starting to feel bad about foolish De, who didn't need this sort of thing, and went for broke. "Plus, Len refused my request to go as Greek wrestlers..."

[canadianbill.livejournal.com]

Bill smothered a cough in his command-braided sleeve.

[de-forest.livejournal.com]

"...Greek..wrestlers?" Actually, that wasn't too un-Bill-like a statement to make, but as Jim stifled a cough, De looked between the two of them, confused. Bill was better with gadgets than either him, or Len. Why was Jim coughing (or not-coughing) just there?

He looked at the two of them again, cocking his head to one side as he looked more carefully at the two of them.

[len-not-spock.livejournal.com]

It was at this point that Len... well, sashayed into the room, sliding himself into a chair next to his three friends.

Replicating that cigarette holder had been more than a little complicated, but hey, it was worth it for the effect alone.

[original-fine.livejournal.com]

He couldn't help it.

One, for the looks on all their faces. Two, for the image of Len--not Spock, but so like--in such a strange, un-Spock-like manner, with one of those ancient tobacco products, oddly alluring despite Jim's knowledge of the epidemic smoking had been in Bill and Len and De's time.

"Hello, darling." Jim leaned over and kissed Len familiarly on the lips before nuzzling the side of his face gently. And then turned to take in the effect.

[de-forest.livejournal.com]

De smiled as Len joined them, it was good to see him. He needed to spend some more time with Len...and then his eyes widened ever so slightly, before defaulting to an eyeroll as Bill leaned over to kiss Len.

Something was not quite right...Bill, had...somehow, tended to be less blatent about the fact that he and Len were an Item in front of De. De wasn't quite sure how Bill was managing to hold himself back, but it was probably a mixture of concern for De, and Len's influence on him. He looked at the two of them again, a bit more suspiciously this time.

[len-not-spock.livejournal.com]

The cigarette was, in fact, little more than a prop - Leonard had been surprised and pleased to find it already programmed into the replicator - apparently it produced entirely harmless water vapour which resembled smoke to a scary degree of accuracy. (It would, without a doubt, make someone a fortune if brought back to 2009.)

He had felt something was slightly off with Bill and Jim the minute he walked into the room, although at first not quite been able to put his finger on it - but the kiss left no doubt in his mind as to what was really going on here.

Should he play along? De looked somewhat confused, himself, and Leonard decided that it would probably be better not to have him played with for too long, although he could see the appeal.

So he expelled a leisurely stream of vapour and, quirking his lips into a smile, said, "Hello, Jim," as nonchalantly as he could manage.

[de-forest.livejournal.com]

"Jim..."

And looking over at Bill, dressed as Jim, "And Bill."

"You are in costume!" He looked down at his drink again. "Something didn't feel quite right," he muttered, "probably should have worked it out sooner," he continued, a little gruffly, although not without affection.

[original-fine.livejournal.com]

Jim immediately adopted something approximating Bill's best puppy-dog look.

"I'm sorry, De," he said, and his voice, at least, was sincere. "We would have told you."

He hoped he hadn't been too damaging to poor De's psyche--the temptation had been too great.

[[OOC - And should probably wait for Bill, eh?]]

[canadianbill.livejournal.com]

"To be fair," Bill reasoned, his voice lightening audibly to something more its normal timbre, "I did think you'd work it out in about two seconds flat. We're obviously way more subtle than I gave us credit for."

[len-not-spock.livejournal.com]

"We're all aware that you can act, although Jim does deserve some credit. Except for how he really doesn't kiss like you."

There was a lilt to Leonard's words, the way he rolled his rs that wasn't his usual intonation. He'd be the first to admit that his attempt at a Russian accent was pretty dire, but hey, it was Halloween and in spite of what Bill and Jim had been up to, it wasn't exactly known as a time for subtlety.

At the very least, he had no doubt, it would make Bill smile.

[canadianbill.livejournal.com]

Bill snorted into laughter. "Oh, doesn't he?" He stepped up close to Leonard, exaggerating the Kirkian swagger and enjoying his extra height. Even if he was still, dammit, half a head shorter than Leonard. "And how does Mr Russian Spy kiss, I wonder?" He paused. " - or are you supposed to be Scottish?"

[de-forest.livejournal.com]

De rolled his eyes at the two of them, and went back to staring into his drink.

[len-not-spock.livejournal.com]

"Look, I know it isn't the most convincing Russian accent in the world, but it's even less Scottish."

Leonard blew a plume of vapour into Bill's face. "And at this rate, you aren't going to find out."

[canadianbill.livejournal.com]

Bill coughed pointedly. "Well, the only Scot I ever knew was Jimmy Doohan. Who was Irish-Canadian. So..." He stepped back out of the circle of cigarette smoke. "I think you should go and Spy on that Starfleet intelligence person. He looks like he needs unnerving."

[len-not-spock.livejournal.com]

"He wasn't unnerved by my meeting him the first time," he pointed out drily. "Though you and Jim could probably do quite well on that front, I think."

[canadianbill.livejournal.com]

"You weren't a spy then, though," Bill pointed out. He grinned. "I bet he would be flustered out by me and Jim double-teaming him, though." He smirked at Leonard. "What do you think?"

[len-not-spock.livejournal.com]

"He absolutely would be," Leonard agreed. "Hence why you should probably do so."

[canadianbill.livejournal.com]

Bill grinned. "In that case, I think I'll wander over. He seems to be talking to that girl in the Wonder Woman outfit, just at the moment. Not that I blame him." He reached up to kiss Leonard briefly on the mouth, with an apologetic glance at De. "I'm going to go and be Jim at him, I think. You see what havok you can wreak with your spying thing." He paused. "Which is hot, by the way."

With a parting wave at Jim and De, he slipped off to see how his Jim impression would go over.

[ooc - I would link, but links fail me at the moment...]