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[emouvoir]

In the height of summer, Daneca is in charge of planning the annual movie in the park. The set up is simple, all she has to do is find the supplies and figure out what movie to show. Which is why in late August, the sun starts to set. (It doesn't really "set", but Daneca calls in a favor with a certain god of the sun to dim the bright summer light to something better.

Something with ambiance.)

Stalls of food and merchants renting and selling blankets ring the park by the lake, lit by fairy lights and Chinese lanterns, and the screen is nestled beneath a pair of looming oak trees that offer a bit more shade for the movie. It's a double feature this year -- The World is Not Enough and Casino Royale. Someone couldn't decide between Pierce Brosnan's James Bond and Daniel Craig's James Bond and someone -- cough, Elena -- offered the brilliant compromise of "why not both?"

Both. Both is good.

So tuck in. Enjoy yourselves! Enjoy shirtless Daniel Craig, you know you want to.

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hana | ota

[nelipot]

Hana is on a date.

She and Rafe are one of those cavity-inducing couples where they still ask each other out on dates and actually get dressed up for them despite the fact that they live together and see each other every day and have no need to actually impress each other, but they do it anyway. In this particular instance, Hana left for her date right from work, which involved doing a quick shower and change at the temple before she makes her way out to the field to see about getting a spot.

Or if Rafe already beat her to it.

Either way, she's weaving her way through the crowd, pushing herself up on her toes to try and see if her date is anywhere to be seen, as well as checking out the various merchants to see if there's anything worth buying.

Also, she has funnel cake. She couldn't help herself, really.

[rumpot]

Rafe is not the least bit surprised to find Hana has located the funnel cakes.

Thing is, he also got her a funnel cake, so now she has two funnel cakes to enjoy for the evening.

If that doesn't call her attention, then maybe his arms waving about in the air will. The place is more packed than he expected, but he's found them a perfect spot aways away, and brought everything they might need with him, including but not limited to: a picnic blanket, a picnic basket with various assortment of goodies, and a pillow or two. He's crushing this whole boyfriend thing.

Don't even lie, he is.

[nelipot]

So much funnel cake. Hana is a happy girl, which means Rafe is definitely crushing it.

She catches the sight of his arms waving and she makes her way closer, meeting him with a grin and a kiss once she gets close enough.

"This place is way crazier than I thought it would be."

[rumpot]

Rafe brightens at the sight of her. He reaches for her hand, fingers twining with hers, and he gently tugs her down to the picnic blanket with him, never once breaking their kiss. His all too warm lips press against her own, soft and slow and heated all at once.

"I'm starting to think they'll just take any excuse to host events at this point."

[nelipot]

"Well, they gotta keep us busy somehow," she says as she settles, shifting so that she fits comfortably against his side but not bowling him over with her weight. "Otherwise we would either go nuts and murder each other or find ways to blow up the city accidentally."

[rumpot]

Let it be noted that Hana called it long before the splodey moment actually happened.

"That's true," he acknowledges, the words a murmur against the top of her head. He smiles against her hair, a bit, a surefire sign there's teasing to come. "You wouldn't really murder me, would you? Here I thought I'd be an exception."

[nelipot]

"I would never murder you," she agrees with a small smile. "You are exempt from the murder rule."

However, she would totally shift into tiger form to rip the throats out of anyone else who tried to. Hana is generally not a violent person, but she also has zero tolerance for people who try and hurt her family.

[revenant]

During one of those breaks in between movies when Noah and Rafe are off having boy talk, Sarah plops down on the picnic blanket across from Hana unceremoniously, cotton candy in hand. If funnel cakes are Hana's thing, cotton candy is most definitely Sarah's.

It's a thing from when she was a kid. It always felt like she was eating clouds.

"So, serious question. Marry, fuck, kill: Pierce Brosnan!James Bond, Sean Connery!James Bond, and Daniel Craig!James Bond."

Sarah asks the difficult questions.

[nelipot]

That is an incredibly difficult question. Hana sighs heavily as she leans back to think, because this is a question that requires very serious thought.

"Well, I feel like marrying Daniel Craig is a recipe for death, so I'm going to just bang the hell out of that and walk away. But I think the problem is, marry James Bond just seems like trouble waiting to happen, in any incarnation."

[revenant]

Sarah tips her head to the side, considering this very valid point. She leans back along with Hana, until they're laying on the blanket side by side. Shh, the visual is the cutest. "Okay, let's assume that in this hypothetical world, hypothetical!Hana is all about trouble."

[nelipot]

"Well, hypothetical!Hana will still bang the hell out of Daniel Craig, marry Sean Connery, mostly because he's Sean Connery, and unfortunately kill Pierce Brosnan. I am unashamed to admit that it's probably retribution for the way he slaughtered her favorite songs in Mamma Mia the movie."

Hana has very strong feelings about ABBA, okay? They were an integral part of her musical education.

[revenant]

While Sarah does not have the strong feelings Hana does where ABBA is concerned, she can readily agree there was butchering going on in the movie. Thanks a lot, Pierce Brosnan. Thanks for nothing. "Hypothetical!Hana has good taste. That's true of real!Hana too, though."

There's just good taste all around in this group.

[nelipot]

"It is true." She smiles softly as her eyes find Rafe in the crowd and watches him as he chats with whoever he's chatting with. "I am a big fan of going with my gut." And her gut says that she needs to hold on to her boyfriend for a very long time.