Hot Potato (party log)

[desperate_times_right]

Who: Chloe Frazer & any and all party people!!
What: Harvest Celebrations/Halloween Party/Ruby’s Birthday/Rat Marriage/Big Communal Cooking Party so Chloe doesn't burn down her house
When: October 12
Where: At Chloe’s house on Greene Street

Content Warnings: Food descriptions, probably.
Other Notes: Feel free to make this a mingle and reply to other characters!

Chloe had wondered whether to go through with the harvest party once Lalo had disappeared, but as they say, the show must go on. There's still a lot worth celebrating, and people need something hopeful after the mess last month. Luckily her house had made it through everything all right.

The poster had said to wear a costume, so she's hoping to see a lot of those, and she’d recruited some people to help her put together the menu exactly to Lalo’s specifications, so unfortunately no one is safe from British Potatoes. There are even candles for the birthday cake.

Chloe herself is dressed as a sexy lumberjack, with one of Lalo’s old flannels tied in a knot under her breasts and denim cutoffs made from the jeans Kostya had gotten blood on (shh). She's got a fire roaring, because otherwise she’d freeze.

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe sniffs again but does laugh a little at the assessment.]

Yeah, seems like he missed his calling. That’d be nice. Thanks.

[Billy really is one of the only ones here who gets it. Maybe just him and Raylan.]

With everything going on I didn't even get to tell you the shit we got up to a few months back.

[notarat]

The.. 'shit'?

[ It's repeating terms like these that truly make Billy sound Victorian. He sounds like an elderly person as he echoes it back to her, like he's pronouncing some foreign word.

Still, he seems more than willing to hear her out about this, ushering the two of them over to a table to sit down together as they speak. ]

Is this more of your wild gossip, Miss Frazer? [ Look at this guy, pretending like his eyes don't light up whenever they're gossiping together. ]

[desperate_times_right]

[That does make Chloe smile a little. Don't pretend you don't care about gossip, mister!]

Do I have another kind?

[notarat]

[ He shrugs. It's a tad nonchalantly - very jokingly, by Billy standards. Definitely more loose than he is with most people. ]

Perhaps you could disappoint me for the first time. [ It's always possible!

Though not very likely. Indeed, Chloe's gossip is usually exceptionally good. ]

What did you do?

[desperate_times_right]

I don't think you went to the poker game back in the summer. Lalo and I went, though. I noticed him and another guy making eyes at each other over the game, so I invited them both back 'round to my place after it was over.

[notarat]

[ There's a little shake of his head when she mentions the poker game. Indeed, he wasn't there. As if Billy ever voluntarily goes to a social gathering without getting dragged there.. ]

.. both of them?

[ Give him a moment to process. ]

Were you attempting to set them up together? [ Lalo did seem kind of shy about the whole homosexuality thing, so Billy could at least kind of see why Chloe might take the lead. ]

[desperate_times_right]

[It's too bad, really. Chloe thinks Billy would probably be great at poker, considering his role on the ship and having always had to hide his feelings and opinions. He probably could have cleaned up.]

A bit, I guess. They were both so nervous about it that I figured it would never go anywhere on its own, right? They didn't leave me out, though.

[notarat]

[ . . . . .

It's almost as if you can hear the Jeopardy music playing in the background while Billy seems to be trying to figure out how that sort of thing might work. He's not stupid enough for it to take him too long, but he does need a visible moment.

It's part of being Victorian, really. ]

So you are saying you got quite some attention. [ He finally concludes, seeming to have figured out enough to at least arrive at that idea. ] I can't imagine you minded that very much.

[ It's said a little dryly, because.. Chloe, girl, he knows what you're like. It's not really annoyed, since he doesn't mind, but it sure is a typical Chloe thing. ]

[desperate_times_right]

You're right, I didn't mind it at all, but I've got to admit I was walking a little bow-legged the next day. Probably good that no one attacked us.

[notarat]

[ He raises an eyebrow. ]

That good?

[ Sure, it's not like he has any idea how those men are in bed, but Billy is rightfully skeptical of most people's abilities in there, honestly. ]

[desperate_times_right]

Of course.

[As if Chloe would ever settle for less.]

There are a lot of things you can get from two guys that are impossible with just one.

[notarat]

Is there? [ Now you've got him thinking, Chloe.

Especially when Billy never really thought of this before. It's hard enough to find one guy to have decent enough sex with, let alone two.. ]

Are you saying I have been missing out? That I should have been considering more?

[desperate_times_right]

Sure, though I don't think you've got the parts to try all the things I did.

[She snickers.] And now you're married, so maybe you two aren't so adventurous anymore. Two little old grandpas.

[notarat]

[ Oh, now he looks offended.

Not deeply so. Just the sort of offended you look when your friend says something awful, really. ]

We are absolutely adventurous.

[ Ugh, he just doesn't want to be compared to a GRANDPA!! Don't compare him to old man Crozier.. ]

You know what Cornelius is like. [ Billy may not be convincingly called adventurous, but fortunately his husband's reputation saves him in this one particular area only.. ]

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe raises her eyebrows.]

Are you?

I thought I knew what he was like, but he got married so maybe now it's all candlelight and “I love you” or whatever.

[notarat]

You think the two of us are like that?

[ Billy almost seems surprised this time. He's pretty sure they don't exactly give off that vibe to anyone, but.. who knows. It's not like he often gets third party assessments of their relationship that aren't just 'why are you two even together' in general. ]

He has never even told me those words once. [ Not that Billy seems bothered at all as he says that. It's just factual! ]

[desperate_times_right]

[Honestly not a surprise. Hickey is a lot like her, and she never says that shit either unless she’s running a con.]

Well, I don't know! My other friends got boring when they got married and they're the only married couple I know!

[notarat]

[ Dang, Chloe. You're judging him based on one other couple? If Billy didn't like you this much, he'd be offended at the very thought! ]

Are those people even anything like Cornelius and I?

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe gives him an arch look.]

Well, they're graverobbers.

[He can determine for himself whether that's like them or not.]

When I met them we were being shot at by a helicopter.

[notarat]

[ Look, that first statement? Fair. Even if Chloe doesn't remark more about it, it's fair. And also literally correct.

But that isn't what Billy focuses on. Instead he gives her a confused look before asking: ]

What is a helicopter?

[ Please, girl, you can't mention these things out of the blue! You should know by now! ]

[desperate_times_right]

[That wasn't the most important part!]

It's a flying vehicle that can take off straight up. The guns are mostly meant for shooting at cars.

[notarat]

[ It is now!! It is the most important part when it's allowing him to avoid getting called out! ]

And you met them in the middle of that?

[ What was even going on, Chloe. Is this normal in the future? ]

[desperate_times_right]

Okay, to be fair that's when I met her. I met him a few years before that in a castle that blew up. He was sort of my boyfriend at that point.

[notarat]

How many men have you had a relationship with that enjoyed blowing things up?

[ Most hypocritical question of the year.

And it's not even like she said he caused it, but-- you know! The culprit is often still in the vicinity! ]

[desperate_times_right]

Depends. How serious does it have to be to count as a relationship?

[The culprit was in the vicinity, but it was Chloe.]