Repose

[Aedan B]
I know we discussed keeping the spiders, but the habitats I have made for them are getting full. How are there so many spiders?

[Mary M]
Where did the pie go?

[Leo B]
Are you up for another dinner yet?

[Patrick G]
[Just a picture of the plaque hanging up in her room.]

[Public]
How long is too long for someone to be standing in the cemetery in the cold?

[locked to batboys (minus Tim)]

I've made a New Years resolution to be a better sister. People have been giving me reality checks lately, and I'm sorry I'm a shithead.

[locked to cat c.]

Wellllllllll. [She links her to the latest conversation with Eddie.] I guess he doesn't even know if he loves me anymore. So that's great. [...] What the fuck am I supposed to do?

[locked to cris m.]

Did you have a good Christmas? And thank you for the supplies. Clearly Atticus got to you already.

[locked to the gunster siblings]

[She sends a picture of the voucher for laser tag for the four of them.] when r we going!!!??!!

[public]

u all think i culd sell 1 of these letters on etsy for hella money?? its vintage*~*~*~

[Reece]
I just got home and I can't believe you. All of these presents. You are Christmas bananas. The animals all love you very much and Wyatt is going to be entertained until the end of time. Thank you so much, Reece.

[Dahl]
Dahl, thank you for the offer on babysitting. I'll be taking you up on it soon.

[Holly]
Wyatt and I ate the candy for breakfast. It was amazing, thank you.

[Daniel]
I'm sort of speechless, Daniel. I don't know what I did to deserve these earrings, but they're very beautiful.

[Back in town, she phones Patrick.]
[Ring ring]

[The Rex was loud and garish, red and gold, and with chandeliers hanging everywhere. Black tie required, and the gaming hall screamed. From the blinking, vertical sign lighting up its edifice, to the gaudy lights inside, it screamed. At night, lines wound around the block with silly young things waiting to get in and party with the wealthiest bastards in the Capital. It was always crowded, but it was the backrooms that really mattered. That was where business was conducted, and all the rest? Well, all the rest was fun and glitz of the gaudy variety. Cat owned smooth as silk clubs in New York and Rome, but that wasn't the point of this place. This place was a different kind of sin, and it glittered.

Cat was seated at one of the hall's many private bars, looking every bit like a mafia heiress and without a fuzzy sweater or a pair of UGGs in sight. She'd given instructions for her security to bring Dahlia back without checking her for weapons, which her security was not pleased about. And her security? Was everywhere, and they all looked more than a little unsavory - a requirement for a place like this, where mafia families intersected nightly with guns set on the tabletops plainly for everyone to see. The families owned this town, like they owned every major city they had deep roots in. Every pocket was lined, and it was all a delicate balance of negotiation and threats.

This place was a long, long way from a tacky theme bar in Repose, and Cat was hoping to snare herself a new head of security tonight.]

[Batfam+: Leena B, Misha B, Cat C, Tim D, Dick G, Sasha J, Stephanie M, Eddie N, Holly R, Con T, Abe W, Jason W]
I thank you each for your gifts. I hope the holiday treated you well.

[Locked to Jude C + Misha B]
I do not use leather, Jude, but it is the thought that counts.

[Locked to Louis D + Misha B]
I thank you for the gifts, Louis.

[Locked to Adrian M + Misha B]
Thank you for the mittens.

[Locked to Claire J + Misha B]
Thank you, Claire.

[Locked to the Carnival: Dietre A, Misha B, "Zeke," Dick G, Sasha J, Beau W, Abe W]
To those of you who came to the manor, thank you for coming. For those of you who did not, this is also fine. We resume our typical schedule.

[FLEET: Misha B]
Misha.

[Several days into the new year, when she's finally received all of her gifts, had a chance to look through everything, and hide it. Then she has to go through the process again, as she's moved from one level of the center to another. They tell her that the first part of her stay there is over, that her withdrawl dymptoms should start to ease, but there are still so many that linger. Nevertheless, she gets a new (not quite so spartan or supervised) room. And a tiny step up in "freedoms".]

[Dahlia]
hey. wanted to thank you for teh books. i'm still working my way throuhg the first one because my attention gets kinda fucked up, but so far so good. [...] i really apreciate it.

[Patrick]
[She's not the best at drawing, and her lines are a little shaky in addition to that, but she manages a "big-circle, two-little-circles" version of a mouse and puts eyes and a smiley face on it. Then it gets a speech bubble:]
thank you for the cute mouse. i keep it on the little shefl right by my bed in my new room. it makes me smile when i look at it.

[Daniel]
[This gift was unexpected in every way, and it means she doesn't quite know what to say in thanks. The necklace itself has been hidden as well as she can, tucked in her things. She's honestly suprised that they actually gave it to her, box and all.]
daniel,
thank you for the nekclace. it's beautiful. i hope you didn't spend too much on it, as i cant give a gift in return right now. i dont know when i'll have a chance to wear it but i'll keep it safe until then.
thank you,
marta (sunshine)

[The Martins]
thank you guys so much for the gifts. i'm not sure whne i'm going to get a chance to use any of it, but hopefully before anything expires. you really didnt need to get me anything, but thank yuo for doing it.
-marta

[Aedan]
aedan,
thank you os much for everything you sent to me for christmas. i think they didn't want to give me the tea, but they couldn't find anythign wrong with them, so i did get them. i'm kinda hiding all the food for now but i had jsut a little of the peanut butter fudge. i dont go outside yet, but i've been wearing everything else.
thank you,
marta

[Steve]
thank you again for evverything you got for me for christmas.
-marta