Decking the Halls and All That Jazz

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The Justice League Watchtower has a highly sophisticated comm system that can send messages to individuals, to separate rooms, to separate floors or to the whole place. Right now, the entire system is activated. An emergency? Not quite. There is holiday music being played, from Vince Guaraldi to Nat King Cole to Ella Fitzgerald, classics all. And in the dining hall, a towering spruce tree has been erected. Atop a ladder, a young man sings along with the music as he carefully feels his way along the tree to hang lights. His usual attire of slacks and a neatly pressed shirt has been exchanged for jeans and a sweater with a red-nosed reindeer knitted into the fabric. Looks handmade, too.

Across a table near the front are at least eight pies of different sorts: fruit, chocolate, pumpkin, chess. Homemade, from the looks of it. A basket nearby seems to be brimming with cookies, too, and beside that basket are a few hot beverage dispensers labeled cocoa and mulled cider.

Someone is bringing the holiday spirit to the Watchtower.

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[lady-shazam.livejournal.com]

Mary Marvel skips into the dining hall, a basket of homemade goodies of her own in hand.

"Merry Christmas!" she gives Beetle a wave.

[azure-avenger.livejournal.com]

"Howdy-do, Miss Marvel. Or maybe I should call you Mary, to avoid trademark trouble? What has it gots in its basketses?"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kip_/]

"Hey, Merry Christmas, sir! Ma'am! Help yourself to some snacks and pick out an ornament to put on the tree, soon as I finish putting this last string of lights on the tree." For a blind guy, Kip is hanging them pretty straight, too. Must be placing them by touch?

[lady-shazam.livejournal.com]

"Call me Mary," she says grinning at Beetle and holds her basket, "Cookie?"

She then looks up at Kip. "Merry Christmas to you, too! You want some help hanging those lights?"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kip_/]

"That'd be great, ma'am," answers Kip with every bit of his usual cheer.

[azure-avenger.livejournal.com]

Ted happily takes a cookie and lends a hand with the lights, too, as he munches appreciatively.

[toraolafsdotter.livejournal.com]

There's barely enough time to register a tap on his shoulder before Tora is pulling Ted into a hug. She smells of sugar cookies and snow.

"Merry Christmas, Ted! You need to come over and visit sometime, you know."

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

ambles up to Mary and pushes a small package into her hands.

The earnings inside are miniature gold lightning bolts of the same design as the one emblazoned on her uniform. Jewelry is usually a safe bet, right?

[lady-shazam.livejournal.com]

Mary takes the package, pausing in hanging up the lights. "Ooh...these are really pretty." She makes in putting them in her ears quickly. "Thanks Guy!" Hopefully he'll get the message.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

Guy looks up and winks a 'yer welcome' from across the room.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

ambles up to Ted and pushes a package into his hands.

What do you get a well off super inventor? Guy cheated and shopped off planet. The package contains a set of alien cyber-technology tools. The typical star ship maintenance engineer is never found without a set like these. Guy has no idea if he hit the mark here, but at the very least Ted can cannibalize them for parts. It's the thought, right?

[azure-avenger.livejournal.com]

After only a moment's hesitation, Ted opens the package - nodding his approval.

"Niiice."

Ted slips the chimp a package in return - an original General Glory action figure, mint in box, is contained within.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

Guy does a fair impression of a Japanese Schoolgirl at a J-Pop concert when he receives the return package.