Lyn's birthday party [open to all!!]

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Gunnar really had never done this for anyone before. A birthday party? He had never celebrated his own birthday so he wasn't sure how to properly celebrate one. So when he took it upon himself to throw her one, he wasn't quite sure about the mammoth task he has decided to take on. There was a huge cake from Paris, from the best bakeries in France, there was Russian food, stuff that he got from Moscow. There were streamers and decorations to remind her of home. He had even gone so far as to stalk her to see who she would hang out with in order to deliver the invitations. It was a day that no one seemed to be doing any major training, but already a few people had come by to drop off some presents. Mercury, with a huge plate of sandwiches and fresh fruit from all over the planet, Mars had dropped off a shield that was much too big for the little girl to use. Somnia had dropped off a special blend of herbal teas and candied fruit. Gabriel Caulder, the pluto boy from first cohort dropped off a leather quiver and arm guard. Charlie had brought by a new short sword for Lyn to use. The pile of presents was stacked to the ceiling.

He looked at the book he had borrowed on how to plan a birthday party. IT was somewhat old and out of date, but it would suffice. There were plenty of games to play, pin the tail on the faun, a pinata that was shaped like a cyclops, and there were other games to play with prizes. Even an invitation had been placed upon the alters of the gods should they wish to attend. He even went as far as to purchase her a party dress that the book said was required for the birthday girl to wear. There were hats, plates, silverwear, napkins.... he felt like he was missing something. Well other than the party guests and the birthday girl, ah-hah. Gunnar then returned to his own apartment before returning, bringing with him a rather large present and a few smaller ones to add to the growing pile. He was rather satisfied with the outcome thus far, though he was a tad bit worried that he had gone over the top with the foods and cake and the decorations and the little russian eggs on the table tops.

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ooc: yay birthdays! ic: 437 tag: gunnar, anyone/everyone! credit to oblivion it's your birthday! ta-da!

march 17th: a very special day indeed! the birthday of a particular third cohort member: lyndis sinclair. his baking/cooking partner, third cohort buddy, partner in crime, and just someone who put up with him in general. at first, he had just been thinking low tone: give her a cake, a russian dish that she liked (and that he had practiced making), some self grown flowers, and a little present. of course, he could always bug their new centurion to give her the day off and such, but that didn't all go through. instead, he caught wind of someone celebrating an entire a birthday celebration. a party! it seemed right up little lyn's alley. it would be awesome! ryan hadn't ever had anyone at his parties, and it had been rare that he had gone to any, but he was pretty sure he had a vague outline of how things like it worked. you ate, hung around with friends, played games, and gave presents. pretty much what he did with lyn on a regular basis, minus the gift exchange. that being said, ryan arrived with three boxes: one with baked goods, another with the russian dish, and another that held a wrapped present. he nearly dropped all three when he got on location. "......dear gods...." he muttered, keeping his mouth open for a few minutes before remembering to shut it. it was... quite extravagant. so much to see. if he hadn't known better, he would have thought a wedding reception was about to go down. a grin flickered across his face as he saw the mounting pile of presents. he hadn't been the only one to give food as a gift. a stack of sandwiches and exotic fruit plainly said "Mercury" all over it. ryan crouched down and put his gift near the growing pile. food wise... well, as if there wasn't enough food already, but still. an amused look flickered over the son of ceres' face as he placed down a plate of cookies, a short cake, and yet another russian dish. well, he'd eat and try plenty of that stuff today... gods, he'd be feeling it in the morning. ah well, if anything, training helped work off food. as his eyes wandered around, they fell onto an individual. a visibly older male, he seemed to be the only one besides Ryan in the room. "Hello!" Ryan called, smiling. "Was this all you?" he asked, curiously, head tilted and still trying to look at all the decor and food placed around the space. Well, whoever did this, it was a work of art: no doubt about it.

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It was cute that Gunnar wanted to plan a birthday party for the little sister he kind of adopted. Even if he wasn't too keen on his own birthday party, or Tessa finding a special way to celebrate it. Strange man even denied having one. He had his birth records of course. Along with whatever medical treatments he'd gotten, though it seemed he didn't put much in the folder until he began to see her. Perhaps because he wasn't fond of seeing doctors in the first place, like everyone else in the legion. Though it seemed the horror of getting burned rope taken from your skin didn't leave the girl any less hyper and excitable. She hadn't gained an aversion to the infirmary either, which was always nice. Of course she didn't like having the cover on her arm that kept her from scratching at it, but it was for the best. Freshly healing burnt skin wouldn't heal back well if you kept messing with it. She seemed rather sturdy for a girl her age, going on the quest that seemed to wipe the smiles off of everyones face. Ethan and Lyn seemed to be the ones who came back with their personalities in the best shape they could be. Lyndis came back from the quest with synthetic fibers burned into her skin, burn blisters which had been popped, and then lost Edmund, Nick, and still managed to keep going like a little energizer bunny. Tessa sometimes felt bad when she compared herself to Gunnar or Lyndis, or a number of other legionnaires. She hadn't half the problems they did, and still couldn't smile as brightly or sincerely as they did She had heard Gunnar very clearly when he said he may have gone over board with Lyndis' party, but this didn't seem that bad. Though her own birthdays, when her parents remembered, had a tendency to be for social gatherings and a way to show off. That wasn't what Gunnar was going to do though, she knew him well enough. This was simply a large reason for him to give the girl gods knows how many presents, and she didn't want to try and figure the money he would spend on a party that made him think he may have gone over board. She hadn't spent too much money on the gift she got the girl, a little gold and pink sapphire hair comb. Only here to spend a little time before going to the infirmary for her shift, she still have maybe thirty minutes. Cutting it a little close, but that's okay. She was normally in a good bit early, today they could wait until it was actually her time to be there. Settling her box among the presents she looked around. She wasn't the first one there, it seemed one of her cooking instructors was present. Same cohort as Lyndis as well if she remembered correctly. “Gunnar, Ryan hi!” she smiled and gave a small wave as she walked towards them. Ryan may recognize the name from Tessa's talking about her boyfriend, she wasn't sure though.

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Notes: Yay for Party!!!

A birthday party... Josh couldn't remember the last time he had been in one, at least not a party for a child. It was something that he would have not wanted to attend, not in his mood, not when he was almost a walking dead. But when he got the invitation to this one, he couldn't help but smile, it wasn't a common party, it was Lyn's party! That little girl from third cohort, that little one that had performed a miracle that no one in camp had been able to. She made him smile and laugh again, she reminded him why he must be alive, why he needed to get his head back on his shoulders and act as a roman, not a poor broken heart teenager, even when he still was one.

After taking a shower and shaving his shaggy beard, he dressed in a common way, but with clean clothes, he was going to celebrate her birthday! celebrate that she was alive and that he in a way was alive because of her too. His little sister as he liked to call her... recently but he liked it. Then he thought of a good present for the girl, well... if Gunnar was the one organizing it, it would for sure have the best stuff from around the world, so it wouldn't be cool to repeat the presents. Then he sat on his bed and thought about it, he remembered their time in the quest, the things she would like and not. Then he smiled in a sour way and thought that her perfect present would be to bring Ed back... or her father, but he couldn't do either.

then he smiled widely and in a poof he vanished from his room in his hideout. moments later he teleported into Disneyland in California, it wasn't that far from the Camp, so the migraine wasn't that bad and he only got a slight nose bleeding, that after a couple of minutes stopped. He walked around He bought some plush toys, a tigger also the little version of Merida, and also a mickey mouse. Then he poofed back to his hideout, he grabbed a small leather bag that he had bougth for her, but with his stupid depression he hadn't given it to her. Then he grabbed some metal wires and some nice small precious stones, he sat at his desk and started working on them, he wasn't a Vulcan kid, but Mercury was also the god of invention... so he didn't made it so bad.

When the small necklace and earrings were ready, he put everything in a box and teleported to the place where the party was going to be held. he wipe the blood from his nose and breathed deeply, then walked into the room and looked at gunnar there, Tessa his girlfriend and also that Ceres son. "hey! good day!! he place is impressive! What did you do? hired a buttler from England?" he said walking in with the huge box in hands. "where do I put the present?" he asked Gunnar and then nodded at Ryan and smiled at Tessa.

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“I'm no good for you.”
“I will not hate you.”

I will be brave
I will not let anything
Take away
What's standing in front of me

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Tag: party people
OOC: lol Ed

Like a little bunny hopped up on sugar and caffeine the small girl from third cohort bounced around. Birthday. Everyone had to be happy on their birthday right? This was new. This was going to be very new. She knew it! At home there would be a party, but she tried to not think about that. Tried to not think about how she couldn't share her birthday with her family in Russia. Nope, this was to be a happy day and all bad thoughts could go bury themselves in the forest! Gunnar made her a birthday celebration! Her big brother, and hopefully people she cared about would be there. As many as could come at any rate. She bounced and turned, joyfully getting all the daily things she had to do out of the way. Exciting, very exciting. As she was making her bed she heard something.

“Happy Birthday, Lyndis”

She dropped her blankets where they were and whirled around. “Ed?” A small shimmer of light could be seen behind her but that was it. No one was there, but she heard him. She knew she did. Looking around she tried to see. The shimmer had only been there a second, all kinds of colors. Maybe it was the rainbow thing? Maybe she was fooling herself? Didn't Ed say he didn't care? She stood there glancing around a little bit before slowly turning back to her bed and tucking the edges into place. The old linen she picked up, quiet and without as much of a bounce in her step as she walked to the place she was supposed to put them. Where they would be cleaned in whatever special way they were supposed to be.

That's it. Ed called her. End of it. This thinking and arguing with herself was silly! A wide smile came across her face puffing her cheeks up and she giggled happily before bounding to her party. Not even little bounces of joy, she leapt and twirled and hummed as she went to where Gunnar told her to. Ed was crazy, she was pretty sure of that by now. He said he'd never hate her, and she believed that. Ed didn't show emotions very often, but he showed them when he said that. She didn't trust his no emotion face. Not really. Which meant maybe, they could save Ed. Like she agreed with Josh, to bring them all back. Ed, Nick, Jeremy, and Rhiannon. The first three where more for her own sake, and Rhiannon was for Josh. Lyn saw his shaggy face, and he was sad like she was. Maybe Rhiannon said something to him too. Lyn would have to tell him, emotionless faces you can't trust. Not really.

A squeal of excitement came from the birthday girl as she looked at all the streamers and food, and the giant pile of presents. Then suddenly she rammed full force into Gunnar's chest, jumping off the ground a little as she did to and gave him a big hug. “The cake is huge! I like the ribbons, and the little doll thingies on the tables, and the copia fruit thingy and fruit, and people, and DID YOU SEE THE PILE OF BOXES?!?!” she spoke almost as quickly as a Mercury child, but also spoke in complete and fluent Russian.

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Yes, well he did suppose that he had slightly gone over board. Delicacies from all over the world as well as dishes that would be familiar to Lyn. He wanted her to love this and while it truly didn't take much work, he felt exhausted. This must be what parents felt when they planned their own children's birthday parties. Though Gunnar knew for sure that his own parents didn't bother with birthdays. They weren't important enough to celebrate, however the pride of a job well done, a good death was always something to celebrate. Gunnar nodded as the first guest had arrived, Ryan if he remembered the boys name correctly. He was a son of ceres and a strange little lad at that. He was a bit of a hippie for lack of a better word. But he was Lyn's friend and so long as the boy did nothing to hurt his little sister, Gunnar would have no reason to think ill of the boy nor would he have a reason to plot his imminent demise. Tessa showed up, confirming the name of the boy. He was right, it was Ryan. "Yes, Ryan, I did do this all, but I did have a tad bit of help." He stated with an emotionless voice. "Good morning Tessa." He said, a small smile betraying his face as he took her hand and greeted it with a kiss atop it. Suddenly it seemed that Josh Rogers had shown up out of nowhere. "Good morning Josh." Gunnar extended his hand for the son of Mercury to shake. Despite the bit of tension that was previously there, Gunnar was glad that the son of mercury was able to make it to lyn's special day.

Suddenly there was a fluffy ball of hair that had attacked his midsection. Looking down, he saw his favorite little sister. Lyn seemed happy, she did after all full on body tackle him. He back peddled, only taken by surprise by the happy little child. She spoke rather quickly, in Russian no less, but Gunnar was able to catch bits and pieces of what she was saying. He couldn't help but smile as he hugged little Lyn tightly and spinning her in a circle. "And what would a birthday girl be without her party dress?" He said, producing a nude dress with a black lace covering it. Maybe he should have picked something a bit more colorful, after all, lyn was quite the personality. But He figured that she would like it regardless. And it was pretty, or at least he thought so. "I also think that Mr. Mercury brought you some presents and there's plenty of food. I do hope you enjoy it." Gunnar said with a smile as he pat her on the head, replying to her in Russian.

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ooc: haha he's finally talking ic: 472 tag: everyone! credit to oblivion it's your birthday! ta-da!

the more he thought about it, the more he realized how badly the legion needed a party like this. not even a party! just something where something got celebrated. something where people just got a chance to hang out with eachother, have a laugh, and not worry about training or anything. they needed mental health days. maybe he could talk to tessa later about implementing them. how insane could a person go from training day in and day out? even though ryan had liked school, it could get a bit stressful, day in and out. perhaps it was just like that in the legion and training. physical training and the mental stress of an impending war. day in and day out. at least now they had something fun to do. something to look forward to. seeing people smile. making people laugh. showing them that they were special. "Tessa!" He looked over to her as she called another name. Gunnar. He had heard the name dropped once or twice during conversation. Something like boyfriend or something. Ahhh Jason must've loved that. Tessa with a boyfriend. Ryan looked over at the only other male present. So that must have been the infamous, shadow man, Gunnar. This was the only time he had ever seen him and matched name to face. "So you must be the Gunnar. Mr. Invisible, only known though mentions," Ryan laughed, sticking out his hand. "Nice! Looks like quite an accomplishment, even with help!" he grinned, looking around at all the lavish decorations. So what if it was a bit over the top? Lyn deserved something nice and special. Especially during a time like this. a smile flickered across ryan's face as he saw yet another person walk into the party. Joshua Rogers? Yes. Josh, from what Gunnar had just said. yes! Ryan was on point today! Fifth cohort, son of Mercury, ex-quest member. Not that any of those titles really mattered. Just a way to keep tabs on people. Cohort and parentage didn't really mean much. Just a way to divide them, really. Underneath, they were all the same: demigods of the legion. He gave a respectful nod back. "Nice to finally meet you in person, Joshua," he smiled. Like nearly everyone, he had heard the name tossed around, but had never met up with him. He supposed that's what he got for being in a legion with around five hundred people. then lyn came running in, speaking at 100 mph and... in a different language? yeah, that definitely wasn't english. oh, right! she was a native russian speaker. maybe he should learn a phrase or two. whatever it was, Gunnar seemed to understand her. He even talked back to her in... probably russian too. Something about a dress, most likely, since he took one out. Ryan grinned. "Happy birthday, Lyn!"

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I    used    to bite     my tongue and hold     my breath Everyone ::tag 429 ::words Hair thing ::Notes

Tessa blushed a bit as he kissed her hand, and that tiny smile. He was always such a gentlemen, and though he had the best poker face she'd ever seen with everyone, but those little smiles he gave her made her feel special. Perhaps it was because she was the only one allowed to have them. She once thought he was cold and distant, but with the way he held certain people, the way he treated them with great care she could tell he was very selective but once you were his you wouldn't have to worry. “Yeah, Ryan this is...my boyfriend Gunnar.” red was certainly Tessa's color of the day “Gunnar this is Ryan, he's a great herbal remedy medic. He'd be better if he stopped sneaking soap bubbles to the kids in the infirmary.” she said in a bit of jest. He was always known to the younger campers as Bubbles for it, the ones that he blew to get their attentions away from the pain or stress. It didn't take very long for Josh to show up as well, he was in pretty bad condition when Rhiannon had disappeared. Though his body healed he seemed to be worse off for a while. She would have wondered how someone could do that to themselves just because a girlfriend or boyfriend left them, she wouldn't have understood. Not before Gunnar, and though she'd have to admit she couldn't do that, even if Gunnar did leave. She had prepared, or at least prepared as best she could, for when he did decide to leave her. Josh looked good though, he was cleaned up and he had come to her about quitting smoking. She looked at the little fuzzy ball of hair that had lodged itself into Gunnar's leg, if it was for this little girl that he cleaned himself up that was good. Tessa wondered what magic this child had that got Gunnar and Josh to love her so much, her excited words brought a small laugh to Tessa. Though she couldn't understand them.”Josh, you made it. How are you doing?” Again she couldn't help but smile and giggle as Gunnar spun her around like a little princess. His father must have been quite a man to raise Gunnar this way, and his grandfathers were good men as well. She met them on several occasions, more than her own grandparents, and every time they were very polite. Lord Pluto had even taken a gift she gave him and made it into a tie pin. That was a bit surprising.

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