Re: Decking the Halls

[Emilia]

She smiled as his hands moved to the side of her face. She returned each of the small chaste kisses. She closed her eyes when his hands moved from her jawline to the back of her neck. She did let him explore deeper opening her mouth just a little. She placed her hands against his chest.

[Guest]

The tip of his tongue reached out and ran over her lips before sliding between them to caress her tongue. His pectoral muscles twitched when she placed her hands upon his chest. He leaned his head to the side and deepened the kiss as he held her a little closer. Then after a moment he slowly withdrew from her and stood back up before releasing her head from his hands. "Merry Christmas Emilia."

He let his hands fall to his sides and moved onto the next door. Isah was already three or four doors further down. He got another paper from Casie and started stapling it up. "Sorry if that bothered you back there Lady Casandra."

[Emilia]

She returned his kiss letting his tongue caress hers and opened her mouth to his a bit more when he leaned his head to the side a bit more. When he released her she opened her eyes and smiled up at him.

"Merry Christmas Shamus."

Casie was standing at the next door trying not to laugh.

"Not at all the one I wish to kiss is away so others may as well enjoy."

[Guest]

Keven and Andrew got to Emilia's door soon after Shamus and Casie had left it. Andrew went up on the ladder to hang the garland while Keven fed more up to him to staple in place. Keven saw Emilia standing there in her doorway. "Merry Christmas gorgeous. You are aware that you are standing under mistletoe, right?" He grinned at her.

Andrew came down the ladder and moved it to the other side of the door. "Guess that means we both get kissed Kev." He smiled at Emilia. Keven stepped closer to her and smiled. "Hmmm, it is tradition, can't break tradition." He winked at Emilia.

[Emilia]

She smiled at them both.

"But who to kiss first?"

Keven was closer so looked at him.

"No we can't break tradition."

[Guest]

Keven smiled. "Well, looks like I get that honor." He put one arm around her waist and gently pulled her closer. He leaned down and slowly pressed his lips to hers as he brought his other hand up to the side of her face and around to the back of her head. He leaned her back slightly as he held her close to him and let his tongue trace over her lips through his barely parted lips.

[Emilia]

She smiled back at him and placed a hand on his shoulder as he puthis arm around her waist and pulled her close she returned the gental kiss. When he tilted her back with his other hand behind her head both arms wrapped around his shoulders. She opened her mouth when his lips traced hers.

[Guest]

Once her lips were parted Keven's tongue slid slowly between them. He ran his tongue along hers a little bit and used his lips to massage her own as well. The kiss didn't last very long. He wasn't trying to bring about anything further than a kiss. So he drew back, still holding her. "You kiss amazingly M'Lady." He winked at her and then returned her to her full upright position before he released her.

Andrew chuckled. "Emilia, you don't have to kiss me if you don't want to." He was a little fidgety and nervous. He knew that he was not going to end up in the same situation he ended up in last time he kissed someone at the Inn. But he was still just a little shy, especialy around someone as beautiful as Emilia was.

[Emilia]

She returned his kiss it was short and really sweet. Her lips parted further as his tongue ran along hers. She smiled at his words and winked back.

"Thank you Keven, you don't kiss so bad yourself."

When she was upright she released his embrace and turned her eyes to Andrew.

"Why Andrew I do believe your nervous, do I need to treat you like the married men and just kiss your cheek."

She reached her hand up and ran it along his jaw line then over his lips barely touching him. Her touch was as soft as silk.

"Or do you want to kiss me?"

She had moved closer to him.

[Guest]

Andrew chuckled then. She was going to be a little forward than he was going to go for it. He knew she was a different situation. He figured he would show that he wasn't completely shy. He smiled and grabbed her up wrapping his arms around her. He turned with her in his arms and bent over dipping her like they were on a dance floor. "Always." With that he planted his lips upon hers in a lip lock worthy of the old Hollywood movies.

Then he swung her back upright and released her, holding out his arms in case she needed them for balance for a moment. He had a very large smile upon his face. "Merry Christmas Goddess." He winked at her and then they moved on with the garland.

[Emilia]

Well, tht was unexpected. She wraped her arms tightly around him and kissed him back. They were like night and day next to eachother so it probablt really did look like a hollywood kiss.

She didn't need to balance herself but held onto his arms as he brought her upright anyway.

She smiled back at him.

"Merry Christmas Andrew."

She winked back at him as he left to finish decorating.

[Guest]

Joseph put the nail in the wall and hung the scone. Then he hung the candy cane on it. He walked over to Emilia. "Hey there sexy." He took another candy cane from his bag and ran it down her nose. "Got another kiss under the mistletoe for your favorite Irishman?" He winked.

He reached out with his free hand and looped a finger through her belt loop. He then pulled her to him and put the hand with the candy cane in it over her shoulders and kissed her. No hesitation, no teasing, just a simple attack of the passion that has been between them that night in her room. Their tongues danced, their mouths caressed and the kiss was deep and hot and long.

After what seemed like an eternity in her arms he released her from the kiss and handed her the candy cane. "I will see you later sexy. Merry Christmas." He kissed her again with a chaste peck to the lips before he moved on to the next scone.

[Emilia]

She smiled as she saw Joseph.

"Hey there yourself"

She smiled as he ran the candy cane down her nose.

"For you I always have a kiss."

She smiled as he used her belt loop and pulled her into him she wrapped her arms around him and returned his kiss. They shared a long dance with thier mouths before he let her go.

She took the candy cane from him and kissed him back.

"Later hot stuff, Merry Christmas."

[Guest]

As Bo walked up with the hand truck he was laughing. This was where his personal touch on things came in. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a tube of chapstick with a bow on it. "Merry Christmas Goddess Emilia." He bent down and kissed her cheek while he handed her the chapstick. "Do you have anything to wrap for Santa to hand out?"

[Emilia]

She looked at him and tried to put on an inoccent face.

"Merry Christmas Bo."

She took the chapstick from him and retuend the kiss to the cheek.

"Yes actually I do I was just trying to figure out how I was going to get all this stuff down stairs."

She opened the chapstick and put some on her lips as she let him into her room.

"I just double checked to make sure that they were all there."

She waited for him to collect them and said thank you as he left closing her door behind him.

[JonLouis]

JonLouis had returned to the mens room to retrieve more money before heading out to run his errands. He had seen the men on the second floor, they were decorating. When he got to the men's room he saw the mistletoe. It gave him a thought. He grabbed what he needed from the room and headed back to the stairs.

Instead of going all the way down he stopped at the second floor landing. He turned and made his way to her door. It was closed, but it was so beautifully decorated and had the mark he looked for. The Mistletoe was there. A hand was raised and there was a knock upon her door. *knock, knock, knock.*

[Emilia]

Emilia got up from the chair and opened the door she was expecting one of the employees coming back but who she got was JonLouis. She smiled at him as she opened the door wider.

"Will you come in?"

[JonLouis]

He smiled. "I am sorry, but I cannot Belle. I have to get to town, for you." He winked. "I simply had to stop bye to see you. I noticed the mistletoe and I knew that my day would be sour for it's entirety were I not to retrieve a kiss from you under the mistletoe." He slid his arms around her waist and wrapped her in his arms. "That is, unless you do not wish for a kiss Belle?"

He leaned down and placed his lips to hers with his head at an angle. He used his lips to part hers and as he did so his tongue slid fourth and protruded into her awaiting mouth. He used his tongue sliding along hers, and a little bit of suction, to draw her tongue into his mouth. Their tongues danced and caressed each others with just the slightest of force. Their lips were pressed together so tightly that not a hair could get between them.

He ran his hands up and down her back softly while they kissed. He loved the feel of her body pressed to his. He brought one hand up to the back of her neck and up into her sexy ebony hair. He began to massage the back of her head as well as rubbing her back with the other hand.

He used his tongue to run her tongue along his fangs ever so gently as he turned his head to the other angle. Their mouths continued their passionate dance for a dozen moments more before he retreated from her mouth and pressed his forehead to hers. "Have a beau day Belle, I will speak with you later." His words were warm upon her face, his breath smelt of peppermint as he had been eating a candy cane earlier. He slowly released her and turned on his heels to leave her threshold and return to his business.

[Emilia]

She smiled up at him.

"Shoping for me?"

She wrapped her arms around him as he pulled close her voice droped to a whisper.

"Yes I want a kiss from you."

Then his lips were on hers and the kiss her barries dropped again like they had in the garden allowing him t feel what she did.

She allowed him to part her lips and let him invade her mouth with his tongue. Then she felf the slight suction as her tongue ws pulled into his mouth in a pssionate dance. Her eyes closed as the kiss deapened. She pressed herself closer to him as his hand moved up into her hair to rub the back of her head, the other on her back touching her as well was heating her blood.

She was actually begining to go weak in her knees. That was when she felt his fangs graze her tongue. The kiss continuted on longer. He was doing it to her again making her whole body come alive.

He broke the kiss and leaned his forhead against hers.

"I will look forward to when you return then"

She smelled the pepermint on his breath and smiled. As he released her she leaned against the door frame and watched untill he was at the stairs and then gone before she walked back into her room and closed the door.

[Guest]

Isah was continuing down the hall. He stopped at every door and stapled up a bushel of mistletoe and then hung the candy wreath from the door handle. He was enjoying his work. It made him happy to spread the love in such a way. He moved rather slowly, but he could afford to, he wasn't having to move ladders or anything.


Not far behind him was Shamus and Casie. They were making good time papering the doors. Occasionally a door would get the slanted ribbons rather than the up and across ones. And they weren't trying to center every cross ribbon, they wanted each one to be as different as possible. Shamus kept worrying that someone would open the door on them rather than on Isah and that they would tumble in on them.


Andrew and Keven were coming along with he garland. They were more than a few feet from Shamus and Casie though. But they were progressing nicely. They had a good system going. Andrew was getting his measurements closer and closer, but he was still measuring just to make sure they were exact. Keven was rather amused by Andrews being so anal about it.


Joseph figured he would eat a candy cane while he hung scones and waited til every third bow was up on the garland that Andrew and Keven were hanging. He was also using the time between scones to turn on the six lights that went into the next scone. It was relaxing work. And he was enjoying it.


Bo had taken Emilia's gifts down and given them to Venis and now he was back on the second floor with his hand truck and his notes. He started knocking upon doors again. He waited for someone to answer and then left a note and moved on. To the next door. He would continue till he found someone to give him some work. Even if he ended up passing the others.

((Tag to anyone else on the second floor.))

[Guest]

Down in the Meeting Hall ...

Venis was pushing tables together and setting up chairs. She had already brought in a stage type place for Santa to sit and pass out gifts. She was expecting a delivery, so she headed out of the Meeting Hall to the front of the Inn to see if it had arrived yet. She grabbed up one of the little pink boxes off the front desk on her way back.

She went back into the Meeting Hall. She walked to the far wall across from the door and used her index finger to split open a portal. "Derek, I'll be right back." Derek had come down to put up the tree. She stepped through the portal and came back out withing ten minutes. She walked over to the stage and set up some backdrops.

Then she wen back out to the front of the Inn. Her delivery had still not arrived. "Any sign of them yet Tasha? I hope they make it on time and don't get lost." She headed back to the Meeting Hall and back to her portal. She went in and about fifteen minutes she returned dragging a red and white striped seat. It was larger than a chair, but smaller than a couch. She set it up on the stage in front of the backdrop.

Back to the front of the Inn again. She knew she was overdoing it. But she needed to get that delivery. She went back to the Meeting Hall and headed back to the portal. When she emerged she was carrying about 100 gift bags. They were all nicely decorated and very festive. She went back through the portal and came back with a large cardboard box. It contained Christmas bows. Lots of them.

She made another trip through the portal and came back with another cardboard box. This one was filled with rolls of wrapping paper. She was setting these things at the end of one of the rows of tables. The bows went to one row, the papers and bags to another. Then she figured she would make another trip to the front of the Inn to check on that delivery. She did stop of at the bar though, she poured herself a glass of blood wine. Still no delivery.

She warmed the wine as she walked. She headed back to the Meeting Hall yet again. Once she was back she sat down for a moment to enjoy her wine. She was going to cause a rut in the floor if she didn't sit down for a moment. But she knew that the delivery was supposed to arrive at any moment, and it couldn't be left to others to deal with.

[Guest]

Derek had managed to get the tree standing in the stand and straight. He had gotten the lights on and lit. He was now putting on ornaments. "No problem Venis." He didn't even look up to his employer, he just kept decorating. He was going to have to go after the second box of decorations shortly.

He chuckled seeing Venis go back and fourth from the portal to the tables and then the front of the Inn. She was wearing a pathway. He knew what she was waiting for, all the employees did. So he understood why she was so impatient. She was finally sitting down for a moment with a glass of wine when he needed to go get the second box of decorations.

He touched her shoulder as he walked past her to head out of the Meeting Hall. He used the portals to go from the first floor to the second and from the second to the third. He retrieved the second box of decorations and headed back down. But he made a stop on the second floor. He went and found Isah. He got a bushel of mistletoe from him and headed back down to the Meeting Hall.

Before he entered the Meeting Hall he stepped up onto the plastic box of decorations, on the edges so as not to crush them. He stapled the mistletoe in place. Derek figured if Venis was going to keep going in and out, maybe she would get caught by someone. Then he took the box inside and returned to decorating the tree.

[Guest]

And in the Lounge ...

Seleen and Shuda were decorating the tree in the Lounge. They had gotten the tree up, the lights on, and were placing ornaments. They weren't getting it done as fast as the others. One, they were the last to start, and two, Seleen kept picking on Shuda. She would reach around the tree and pinch him. Or she would come up behind him and graze his neck with her fangs.

She was having fun, but the creaking of her leather was getting rather annoying. She continued to blow it off. Short of changing, there wasn't anything she could do about it. She picked up the last decoration in the box. "Honey, I'm going to go get the other box." She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him before she left the Lounge.

She too used the portals to go after the second box. It was faster and a lot easier than trying to get the boxes down the steps. She moved at a relatively fast pace. It didn't take her much time at all. Soon she was back in the Lounge. "Jorge, the center pieces look lovely." She returned to the tree and her boyfriend. It was going to be the best Christmas she had experienced in a very very long time.

[Guest]

Jorge was getting the center pieces in place on all the tables. He was trying to ignore the love birds cooing over at the tree. He missed his wife and family. He wondered if Venis was going to let them go home after the holidays. Seleen moved faster than anyone he had ever seen when she went after that box. "Thanks Seleen." She had complimented him. It was nice of her to do.

Once he was done, he used the portals to go after the last box of center pieces. Then instead of going back into the Lounge, he went into the Meeting Hall. He saw the mistletoe above the door and shook his head. He even chuckled as he looked down for a moment. The mistletoe only made him miss his wife even more.

He entered the door and Venis was sitting there at the closest table. She was sipping a warm glass of blood wine. "Hey Venis, after the holidays, can I go home if I send a replacement? I'm sure Derek and Bo would like to go to." He started placing the center pieces on the tables. He knew they would be moved while everyone was wrapping gifts, but they would get put back.

[Guest]

The Main Lobby ...

Tasha was working alone with no one to pester her or otherwise. She sometimes liked it that way. Venis had been coming in and out of the Meeting Hall. She asked about the delivery she was expecting. "Nope, not yet V. If they show I'll come and get you." Tasha walked over and got a little pink box as well. She loved fudge even more than Venis did.

She continued to work on the tree. It was in the stand, and straight, and lit. The ornaments were almost done. Tasha had even gone after her second box already. It was about half empty. The tree was looking great. There was some garland in the box for the tree as well as some icicles. Also in the box was a tree skirt. Manny thought of everything. Even some fake gifts to be placed under the tree.

The angel that sat atop the tree looked like she was dressed for cold weather. Her wings were fiber optic, and they moved. As did her head and the two candle shaped lights she held. She was quite lovely. Tasha had to stand on a chair to put her up there so high. She was almost done with her tree. Then she would have to find something else to do.

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