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𝒮 𝔱𝔢𝔣𝔞𝔫 𝒮 𝔞𝔩𝔳𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔢 (wouldberipper) wrote in valarlogs,
@ 2016-05-30 20:26:00

Entry tags:

!open, stefan salvatore, tasslehoff burrfoot

Who: Stefan Salvatore and Open to Everyone Invited!
When: Memorial Day
Where: Casa de Lexi/Stefan/Anna
What: Memorial Day shenanigans
Rating/Warnings: Low/None (TBD)
Status: In Progress
Note: Here's a log for anyone who wants to attend the party and log out interactions. Feel free to tag in and play!

The place was cleaner than it'd been since they moved in back in October. Stefan had been locked inside for the last week, dealing with his own demons and letting the human blood work its way out of his system. He was stronger now than he'd been before, more confident and determined to stay on his chosen course.

The party was planned; the ice chests full of ice and drinks, tables laden with snacks. Music was playing, the barbeque was cooking and the hot tub was, well, hot. Guests were arriving, hanging out, talking, spending time together, and Stefan was pretty happy about the turnout.

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Tas and OPEN

tas_wanderlust
2016-06-01 03:03 pm UTC (link)

Tas was really happy that Anna had invited him to her Memorial Day party. Tas loved parties. There wasn't much Tas liked more than parties. Anna had told him to bring swimwear because she had a hot tub, so he was wearing a pair of neon green swim trunks and a bright orange t-shirt, though instead of being in the hot tub, he was milling around the drink table, helping himself to some beer and cookies.

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Tas and Anna

elatedorgassy
2016-06-07 06:13 pm UTC (link)

Beer and cookies were absolutely the way to go. That was Anna's plan, anyway. She was hovering around the table, too, trying to dig through the variety of cookies for the good ones without touching the bad ones. Because, obviously, if you touched it, you had to take it. She had a cider, though, not a beer. And she'd had a few--it was obvious in the way her eyes were half lidded, her stance was a little sloppy, her grin spread across her face like a paint spill.

She turned to see who was there with her and brightened considerably. "Tas! Hey!" Cookies forgotten, Anna moved over to hug the young man. It might have been more like a tackle. But considering Anna weighed about twenty pounds soaking wet and with rolls of quarters in her pockets, it probably wasn't much of a tackle.

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Tas and Anna

tas_wanderlust
2016-06-07 10:23 pm UTC (link)

“Anna!” Tas exclaimed, hugging her back. Tas himself was on the short and skinny side, and had to take a couple steps back to stop himself from falling over, but he laughed. Drunk people in general were some of Tas’ favourites, but Anna was one of his favourites even when she was sober, which meant that this was obviously going to be a good time. He wasn’t there yet, though he was on his way.

“Man, I’m so glad to see you! There sure are a lot of people here, aren’t there?”

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Tas and Anna

elatedorgassy
2016-06-09 04:37 am UTC (link)

Anna had been drinking for a couple hours now, and was well into 'tipsy' territory. She was absolutely planning on having a good time tonight, with the hot tub and the drinks and the company and the food. This was going to be the best. Memorial. Day. Ever.

Laughing, she pulled herself off of him and grinned up at him. Because Tas may not have been a very big dude, but Anna was about five feet tall. Almost everyone was taller than she was--she had to look up to catch anyone's eye, really. "I'm so glad to see you, too! There are. I didn't know Stefan had so many friends!"

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Tas and Anna

tas_wanderlust
2016-06-10 01:58 pm UTC (link)

“These are all Stefan’s friends?” Tas asked, looking around and smiling. “I would have thought that some of them would be yours and Lexi’s friends!” Tas had never met Lexi, but Anna had mentioned her before and Tas had a pretty good memory for things like names. “But it’s better to have a lot of friends than to have no friends at all! Do you know many people here?”

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Tas and Anna

elatedorgassy
2016-06-15 08:02 pm UTC (link)

Anna took a moment to look around at the party, and gave a little nod then a shrug of her shoulders. "Most of them are, yeah! I mean, some are coworkers, and some of them are people from the Dreams and stuff? But Stefan... I don't know. He's a good guy. People like him." Anna beamed over at Tas, and then gave his shoulder a playful shove. "You're my friend! And you're here! So there." She lifted her drink to gulp from the bottle.

"Yeah," she said after swallowing. "I think I know everyone. Or, I've met everyone."

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	Tas and Anna tas_wanderlust 2016-06-15 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	"Of course he's a good person," Tas said cheerfully. "You wouldn't be friends with him if he wasn't!" That's really all it took to get on Tas' good side. Be friends with people who were friends with him. Even that wasn't strictly necessary. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Tas and Anna

elatedorgassy
2016-06-15 08:57 pm UTC (link)

Well, duh. That part was true. Anna was pretty much only friends with people who were good. Pretty much. There were, of course, exceptions to the rule. She knew some people who weren't great, and she was easily tricked.

Anna almost couldn't contain her excitement. She bounced up and down on the balls of her feet for a moment, then grabbed Tas's hand. "C'mon! I want you to come and meet him!" Without waiting for a reply, she turned to drag him off through the party, looking for Stefan.

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Tas and Anna

tas_wanderlust
2016-06-15 09:05 pm UTC (link)

Tas was a little surprised when Anna grabbed his hand and started leading him to meet her roommate. He was actually excited about it. He liked Anna, so it stood to reason that he'd like everyone who she liked, which meant he and Stefan would no doubt be the very best of friends.

He allowed her to lead him through the throng of guests, since he didn't really know where he was going or what this Stefan looked like, drinking his beer as he walked.

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Tas and Anna

elatedorgassy
2016-06-15 09:27 pm UTC (link)

It didn't take long to find Stefan, actually. They took a loop of the living room, a loop of the patio outside, then headed in to the kitchen. Anna could hear Stefan laughing from the doorway, and broke into a grin.

"He's in such a better mood than he's been in a really long time. It's amazing. I mean, he was all GRR before, after he, y'know, almost died? And everything? But now he's back to being Stefan. Like, the good Stefan. The pleasant one who doesn't want to bite--my head off." She frowned. Tas didn't know he was a vampire, did he?

"Stefan!" She cried out, and waved a hand. "This is Tas!"

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Tas and Anna

tas_wanderlust
2016-06-16 04:09 pm UTC (link)

Tas had been told that Anna had vampire roommates, though he really wasn't sure if that was all her roommates, or if they were real vampires or just people who hung out in vampire bars. He'd been a vampire bar before. He'd made friends with someone because of their make-up, and then they'd given him dark eye make-up and black lipstick and fake fangs and brought him to this vampire bar where they all drank Bloody Mary's and Vampire's Kisses and Dracula's Blood. Tas really preferred beer, but it had been a fun night nevertheless.

"That's good!" Tas said. "I mean, Raistlin bites my head off all the time, but I think that's just him! I know he doesn't really mean it." Besides, at least his roommate Raistlin was a lot nicer than his dream friend Raistlin. Raistlin in his dreams could be really mean sometimes.

"Hi Stefan," Tas said cheeerfully, holding out a hand to shake. He sure didn't look like a goth club vampire. "I'm Tasslehoff Burrfoot, but you can call me Tas!"

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Tas and Anna

wouldberipper
2016-06-16 04:31 pm UTC (link)

Things were certainly a lot better for Stefan now than they'd been after the werewolf bite, and subsequent couple of weeks. He was back on his strict diet, after nearly killing a waitress and the stern talking to that arose from that interaction. And he'd shut himself in the house to detox. Actually, all things considered, he felt pretty good. He had a good job where he worked with friends, he had a nice girlfriend, and he lived with his best friend. And Anna. Who was sweet. Life was pretty good.

When said redhead came bouncing over with another friend, Stefan turned to give them his attention. He was drinking moonshine from a red solo cup, and it was probably pretty fumey. But hey, he actually felt the alcohol, so that was a good thing?

"Hi, Tas. It's nice to meet you." Stefan reached out to shake the other's hand. Stefan's handshake was firm and strong. He wondered if he was going to have to give Tas the older brother look where Anna was concerned. (Also, how was it she was always surrounded by guys? It's like the girl was obsessed.)

"Enjoying the party?

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	Tas and Anna tas_wanderlust 2016-06-16 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	"It's nice to meet you too, Stefan!" Tas said. "You bet I'm enjoying the party! Everyone here's so friendly! And you've got a bunch of great beer." But that wasn't beer that Stefan was drinking, Tas could tell. Mostly by the faint whiff of strong alcohol he felt coming from the other man. "What are you drinking? I didn't see it in the coolers!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Tas and Anna

elatedorgassy
2016-06-26 01:20 am UTC (link)

Anna was thrilled that her friends were getting along so well! She grinned as she turned her attention from Tas to Stefan and back again. Then to the drink in Stefan's hand. Her nose crinkled up a little as she caught a whiff of the stuff. "Smells like nail polish remover," she said, and cringed away.

Stefan lifted up the red cup, then raised an eyebrow. "Moonshine. Have you ever had any?"

Anna had never tried the stuff, but she'd heard that it was super strong. She bit down on her lip, thinking drinking it was probably a bad idea for humans. Vampires could handle it, though, of that she was certain.

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Tas and Anna

tas_wanderlust
2016-06-26 11:29 pm UTC (link)

“You bet I have!” Tas said cheerfully. “Moonshine’s great. I stayed with this farmer and his wife for a while and he brewed moonshine in his barn! We drank barrells of the stuff one night. That was actually the night we went cow tipping! We were sitting around, drinking our third barrel of moonshine, and I asked him if he’d ever tipped a cow. ‘No, you know, I never have,’ he replied. And I said ‘Well, why don’t we do that now? Or will that hurt the cows?’ And he said ‘Oh no, it’s perfectly safe.’ So then we went out to the field, and found the biggest cow we could. She was just standing there, asleep - cows sleep standing up, you know - and then we both just leaned into her until she fell right over! It was very funny. Do you have anymore?”

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Tas and Anna

wouldberipper
2016-06-28 02:30 am UTC (link)

Anna missed Stefan's look of incredulity because she was gaping at Tas. "I never knew you tipped a cow!" She said. Her expression was torn between admiration and offense.

"Yeah, I've got some more," Stefan said, turning his bewildered expression from Anna to her friend. "Just got a big jar of the stuff from a friend of mine trying to make peace for shooting me in the kneecap." He lifted his solo cup for a sip.

"You're really gonna drink that stuff?" Anna asked. "It smells like nailpolish remover."

Stefan was already moving through the living room toward the kitchen, motioning for them to follow after him so he could pour Tas a cup of the hard stuff.

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Tas and Anna

tas_wanderlust
2016-07-01 11:21 am UTC (link)

Tas followed Stefan through the house. “You got shot in the kneecap? But you’re walking so good now! Oh, unless you met a healer! In my dreams, the only healers that we have are clerics - I needed one once when a house fell on me! - so it seems kind of strange that people can heal with just regular old magic and not the heavenly divine kind of magic that’s needed for healing in my dreams.

“That’s how you know it’s good!” Tas said to Anna, as though he were teaching her. “I mean, you don’t want to drink actual nail polish remover, but the stuff that’ll get you really drunk is the stuff that makes your eyes water when you sniff it.”

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