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Hot Potato (party log)

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.

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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.

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?

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.

[ 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.. ]

[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.

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! ]

[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!

[ 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?

[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.

[ 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! ]

[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.

[ 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? ]

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.

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! ]

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

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

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[ There's a slight pause, like Billy is actually contemplating the standard being set here, but then arrives at: ]

Someone you slept with more than once. [ Which may still kind of be a fling, but it's at least more serious than just a random one night stand! Besides, Chloe would never admit to any feeling ever, so this feels like the closest standard he can set that she can't wiggle out from. ]

[That's casting a broad net, Billy! Who in the criminal underworld doesn't love explosions?]

Oh, then I don't know, like… twenty?

Twenty?

[ Even Billy sounds surprised at that one! And he's not even really that much of a prude compared to most Victorians, given what he himself indulges in...

He blinks a few times, like he's trying to process this information. ]

And they were all like that? It is as if you have a type, Miss Frazer.

[When you spend most of your twenties alternately as a getaway driver and a sugar baby for the mob, you get to know a certain type of people!]

That's like saying you have a thing for sailors because you see them all the time.

[ Billy huffs. ]

The difference is that I have only shared a bed with one. [ God, don't even get him started, Chloe! Don't even joke about this! He might get a spontaneous allergic rash at the very idea of sleeping with the other men on the ship! ] And, frankly speaking, Cornelius does not even count as a sailor.

[Chloe recoils in horror.]

You married the first guy you slept with?

[Billy! You don't even know whether the sex is good!]

[ He sees that expression on her face, and he's giving her a very skeptical expression in return! Two can play this game! ]

What is wrong with that?

How do you even know what you like? What if you're settling and don't even know it?

[ Billy huffs. It almost sounds a touch offended - though not directly aimed at her. ]

I don't need to have some sort of relationship with people to imagine what it would be like to be together with them. [ God, there are definitely people out there he doesn't want to imagine it with in the first place! Spare him! ]

Don't you know who you are more or less attracted to?

Yeah, but sometimes people can be hot and still be horrifically disappointing in bed!

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