InsaneJournal

Summary 1st to 15th May 2009
I'm going to try and get these done PDQ after the fact so placeholders may be listed as just that. If they are filled later, or if there's a thread that isn't complete and later builds into something massively plotful, please comment to say so.

Anyway

1st May - only one post today and that's the massive Spring Ball. All kinds of potential plot developments and many muns took a lot of trouble over finding just the right outfit for their pups. The links that say 'dress' are worth clicking on if you like that kind of thing.

Entrance
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9008682#t9008682 - Deacon and Charlie arrive and decide that they haven't been uncontrollably macho enough lately.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9009194#t9009194 - Jazz is next in and is greeted by Andy who tells her all about Jane's hard work, then Jane arrives and she and Jazz move off chatting. [I should point out here that Jane has had a rough week what with Avery being an ass then Ruprecht being aggressively nasty and Andy shanghaiing her into helping with the ball, so turning up at all is an act of bravery worthy of a medal, and she has decided that she can no longer stay at the Manor but is going to run away from home in the morning. Mkay?]
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9018410#t9018410 - Anghara and Alec arrive complete with baby monitor, though they have, naturally, left baby Gavin with a competent babysitter.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9020458#t9020458 - Anastasia and Trevor look like two million dollars, but all is not right Chez Wentworth.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9023530#t9023530 - Emma arrives in a sexy new frock and meets and chats with Logan about driving and dancing before scaring him rigid.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9023786#t9023786 Erin arrives looking great but sadly is all alone.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9024298#t9024298 - Spencer and Rozy arrive in matching what nots.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9024810#t9024810 - Adam and Icene enter next trailed by Joe the Woe who isn't happy to be there, even though he looks as good in his distinguished way as either of the other two. Adam persuades him to dance with Icene while he fetches the booze.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9028906#t9028906 Thomas Avery makes a sophisticated entrance fashionably late
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9111082#t9111082 - brief guest appearance from Cambion and Colly who are pounced upon by Marek for the usual lirtation.

Bar Buffet and Tables
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9013034#t9013034 - Jimmy has designs on Andy's virtue much to the amusement of Max. Andy doesn't think it's funny and neither does Erik.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9026858#t9026858 Kara has a busman's holiday by the bar.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9028650#t9028650 Emily and Vincenzo drink and eat and schmoop.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9029674#t9029674 - Adam waits for Joe to bring Icene back and Emma approaches and chats to him because, apparently, he was available. Ouch.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9034538#t9034538 Jane runs into the 2nd worst possible person, Avery, who is predictably vile. Jane actually stands up for herself which infuriates him so much he's even viler and she has to flee. Charlie overhears, calls him a tit and laughs at him until he goes away too.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9056810#t9056810 - Tristan's date, provided by his mother of all people, has disappeared and - I detect a theme beginning to appear - he is approached by Emma who is still trying out her flirting wings.

Dancefloor
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9025834#t9025834 first up are Spencer and Roxy and - whoohoo - he proposes, complete with ring, and it's PINK! Natch she says yes.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9028394#t9028394 Joe dances with Icene, sort of, and they talk about his recent interest in model making.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9149482#t9149482 Charlie is the next one to get the full benefit of Emma and makes all the right noises, not that they really count from him. He also offers her a sympathetic ear or shoulder if she ever needs it.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9158954#t9158954 immediately post Emma, Charlie gets Cindy and they talk about sex until he gets embarrassed and asks her to dance.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9030442#t9030442 Andras and Andy compliment each other, Andras moans about his arid love-life and agrees he won't touch Andy up because he's scared of Erik.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9045802#t9045802 Jane and Memphis dance and flirt in their cautious and sweet way and he reflects on how hot she looks and she reflects on how she's leaving all this behind on the Morrow. However, in what is probably an act of subconcious self sabotage, she does ask the way to the lake!
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9068586#t9068586 - by way of contrast Jazz dances with Thomas and they very nearly do it standing up.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9124906#t9124906 - Marek dances with Colly, briefly.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9126442#t9126442 - Emily and Vincenzo dance, contemplate the possibility of a holiday, and discuss pheremones.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9151530#t9151530 - Emma prowls the edge of the dance floor, in search of new prey. The men flee like wildebeest!

Gardens
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9010218#t9010218 - Security is on the job! *shakes head* not like that, sheesh!
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9029162#t9029162 and they ignore Lucas and Ricky who chat about how awful the people are in the Manor and pass a spliff back and forth. Ricky also grumbles about his chronic lack of poon tang. Lucas says he's not looking in the right places for it.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9031978#t9031978 I thought Emma had finally hit paydirt when she finds Lucas but Lo! the boy is a gentleman under his rebellious exterior. Instead of swapping spit they swap life histories. The thread isn't finished and ends on a very pertinent question.

Edited to add - RESTROOMS sorry guys, I'd forgotten I'd put this here. Gardens are normally the last section.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9019946#t9019946 - Gavin is hiding in the restroom and meets Joe who is hiding from Emma also in the bathroom, and they remember each other from a pants related incident!
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9027626#t9027626 - Spencer nabs Jazz on her way back to the ballroom [because nabbing her just outside the ladies would be pervy] and makes it clear he wants her! To apply for a job, of course, what else would a happy recently engaged man want her for? {Shaddup Avery} He's also dying to tell her his news and she squees appropriately.
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/421930.html?thread=9030954#t9030954 "Balls were always fun for the ghosts that lived in the mirror" *snickers* yeah, right. But today Emily is pausing to touch up her warpaint when Manny comes out [Marek's been out for years] to say hello. She seems to have got over her fright of him and they have a nice little chat before she goes back to the dance.

And THAT is FINALLY the end of the ball!

2nd May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/422379.html - Jane gets up early and does her runner, but is considerate enough to leave a note for Jazz.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/422568.html - Jazz finds the note and is suitably appalled. She enlists Memphis's help to track down Jane, he remembers her asking directions to the lake [remember the conversation about the lake?] and they are justifiably worried. If she'd asked for the loan of a bit of rope and a sack of bricks, they'd have been frantic. Luckily they find her after some nifty tracking on Memphis's part, and take her and her iffy car back to the Manor for the time being.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/422744.html Emma and Amarie go to Sanctuary. BAD girls!

3rd May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/423413.html we has a Paula shaped placeholder.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/423092.html Jane has a cold and takes the day off.

4th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/423610.html - Spencer rings home to tell his mother than he's engaged.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/423790.html - Travis is minding his own business in the lobby when he gets the full benefit of Bad!Emma.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/424110.html - Jazz submits a job application a little late but she seems confident.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/424222.html - Deacon and Charlie took Nia to the lakehouse for the first time, had a grand time, and have begun to consider the future. Smut alert so if you read you may want to skip the middle section.

5th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/424652.html - Weekly meeting at Sanctuary and there's trouble in store for one of Max's lieutenants who has been skimming the profits - again. It's agreed they need to get him in for a 'talk'.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/425092.html - Roxy collects mail and thinks about her nuptials.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/424744.html - Anghara and Alec discuss the Emma situation.

6th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/425368.html - Jane 'does for' Mr Avery and this time holds her own despite his carping. Then Lucas comes back and tells her that the maid who covered her job on Sunday was reduced to tears too. Whoa! Bad-Ass!Avery.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/425529.html - Jazz and Lucas have a little plot going. Shhh, don't tell.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/425947.html - Jazz fixes up Avery's apartment.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/425999.html - Anastasia takes Gavin clothes shopping, and it's a successful trip even though he's so nervy.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/426870.html - Flashback to Anastasia and Trevor's youth. She offers to paint him, he offers to pose nude, they go to the art rooms at night, he gets nekkid and - smut alert.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/426525.html - Fin is in the mail room and is teased by Andras, meets his neighbour Icene, and chats amicably to Emily.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/427070.html - Charlie chats to his mum about visiting in June and how he's not sure if they will be able to because of the situation with Sam Quaid still being missing.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/426407.html - Avery now knows his apartment is being messed with and has a fair idea who is doing it.

7th May No entries for this day.

8th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/427358.html - Max disciplines his recalcitrant employee by shooting him in the leg, then insists he pay him back, either by compteting in a high stakes, and illegal, street race or by putting his daughter in a whore house. He opts for the former.

9th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/427554.html - Anghara rings Emma for a little chat.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/427833.html - Emily is on the roof with her cat and is joined firstly by Anastasia for a debrief about the ball, then by Charlie. Thomas is in the Auberge and is joined by Andy.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/428373.html - various pups wander the gardens randomly [courtesy of a D&D dice rolling application] and chat as they meet. With the upshot that Manny 3, Chandika and Amarie reckon it would be the coolest thing ever to set up a proper day care nursery in the Manor.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/428198.html - Jazz gains entry to Thomas's apartment. He catches her and after some sneering and fleering and some defiant smouldering, he gains entry to her. Smut alert.

10th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/428668.html - Jane's usual cleaning stint is edgy enough without Thomas suddenly producing Jazz'z knickers and insisting she return them to her.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/428944.html - cosy domesticity as Spencer and Roxy make wedding plans.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/429138.html - Jane goes to Jazz to return her panties and expresses her fury at her betrayal and Jazz is hurt and regretful and huge dramaz ensue.

11th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/429823.html - Memphis returns Jane's car and gets the whole sorry tale out of her once she's coveed up her chair so he won't oil it. There are tears and he is hugely reassuring *loves* especially the 'Bros are thicker than hoes' bit. Unfinished but I think she's unlikely to pack her bags again.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/429442.html - Maude spots Charlie and co-opt him into helping make the pitch about the nursery to Mr Vision.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/429900.html - Jane gets a visit from TA member Charlie who tries very hard not to be OMG SCARY! as he tells her that Avery was completely out of order and that the TA is on her side. She decides to stick it out. Unfinished because I'm a doofus and didn't hit "Post Comment".

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/430306.html - Icene visits Adam at work to discuss the forthcoming barbeque, and for a little snoggage.

12th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/430455.html - Jason gets some bad news regarding Jazz's nocturnal activities. Vincenzo feels sorry for him and suggests they go out and get blasted.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/431048.html - Maude and Charlie beard the Dragon in his lair re: child care.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/430610.html - Jason and Vincenzo join Deacon and Charlie at a pool hall and take on a bunch of Max's off-duty goons - with their fists.

13th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/432008.html - Jazz has an upsetting run in with Joy, then an even more upsetting encounter with Jason. It's left to Palug to provide comfort.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/431147.html - Thomas has a very unwelcome visitor - TA rep Charlie quite enjoying wagging a finger.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/431548.html - Emily is shocked to hear that Vincenzo has been fighting and goes to tell him so.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/431674.html - Then she visits Anastasia to view the portrait that she has done. It is fantastic. They also discuss paintings of Trevor and Gavin.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/433236.html - Seth and Zack have been to see Star Trek and are joined in the Mocha by Nick who indulges in a little harmless matchmaking. Zack's old flame Brendan has been asking after him.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/432266.html - Poster in the Lobby requesting feedback on the day care idea.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/433511.html - New pup warning - he's tall, dark, hot and STRAIGHT!!! Also vaguely familiar for some reason. The comm goes wild.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/433918.html - Niles' first OTA and he gets massive attention. First off he gets some pussy a kitten, the ultimate babe magnet! Then he gets Kara and they do some heavy duty flirting, Emma's up next - honey I think you need something with training wheels - and she offers to give him cat food and he offers her dinner, though there was a lot of other subliminal offering going on too. Then there's a nice change of pace with Lucas - they discuss ink and Lucas recommends Skin Deep.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/432441.html - Chandika is joined over coffee by Charlie, who is still somewhat battered, and they discuss the day care plan

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/432737.html - Max and Jimmy are very upset when Micah admits how he and his guys had their bottoms kicked by Deacon and Jason.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/433146.html - Lucas startles Jan into a little conniption fit in the garden then she startles him by suggesting that Uncle Thomas could have raped Jazz or, failing that, blackmailed her into having sex with him. They talk it through and Jane decides to make cookies for Jazz, then, somehow there's a miscommunication and she runs off as though he's demanded to know all her deepest darkest secrets, when in fact I think he just wants a quiet angst free smoke. Truly that girl is her own worst enemy.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/434011.html - Elspeth's back! And in the nick of time to comfort Jason. The thing is, she doesn't know she was away.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/434234.html - letter from the TA to Niles requesting he attend a formal interview.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/434445.html - Niles goes for his interview and fireworks!! He really fancies El and she does her best not to show how she'd like to drag him in the bushes. He's not fooled though.

14th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/434831.html - Deacon and Zack are jamming in the ballroom and are joined by Jimmy. Nia doesn't like him.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/435122.html - Adam calls maintenance about setting up for the barbeque.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/436123.html - the Slaughtered Lamb is open for business! Kara gets Niles first, more flirting happens and he invites her for dinner [somehow I feel I should have written that 'dinner' but we'll see what happens]. Then Gavin comes in for a beer and gets a much gentler reception. Finally Andras's mind is running on the usual 'OMG I haven't been bonked for yonks' tracks but today he finds someone to sympathise because neither has Kara.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/436227.html - Niles helps Elspeth carry her groceries home. Much more UST and these two will explode.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/435242.html - Jane makes her peace offering but now Jazz is on her high horse and refuses to believe it.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/435702.html - Andras is enjoying a quiet coffee when he overhears an odd phone call. Fin isn't best pleased to see him, but they chat and discover that they have some common ground.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/435744.html - Charlie and Palug hang out in the gardens and comfort Jazz, who is very down, then chat to Anastasia about her exhibition.

15th May

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/436606.html - BIIIIG poster about the Memorial Day BBQ requesting signatures below for those attending.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/436821.html - Jazz and Thomas meet not quite in the Mocha - one in one out - and their mutual UST tries to hammer its way through the glass.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/437883.html - Paula's placeholder.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/437008.html - Brendan and Zack meet for lunch and exchange some sad but vital information about their health and also arrange another date.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/437387.html - Mail from Spencer to Miss Gonzalez and Mrs Malhotra.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/438375.html - Niles has a little tortured moment thinking of the past and what a bastard it has made him, then Lola distracts him. Kittens do that.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/morningstar_mnr/437617.html - and finally, over dinner Deacon realises that Charlie is pretending quite hard NOT to have toothache. Could it be because he's scared of the dentist? Dunno, we haven't got round to finishing the thread yet.



More next week!