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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[elfinlantern.livejournal.com]

Arisia hugs Kip after seeing the tear, not sure what to say. Humans can be strange beyond her ability to understand at times.

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Kip returns that hug with one arm, reaching for the hand on his arm to grasp Hal's wrist. That's it. He's speechless.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

ambles up to Ari and pushes a present into her hands.

A photo album containing pictures of her, Guy, Warriors Staff and various Lanterns, fill the first half of the album. A note in the middle reads "You kin fill the rest". A necklace bearing a tiny emerald is taped to the note.

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Arisia kisses Kip on the cheek before accepting the present. The album creates a large smile on her face, conjuring a small green napsack to carry it in while she's here. She'll have to thank him later. She didn't think some of those pictures had survived.

"Looks like we all got good presents."