Town Meeting

[john-adams-1776.livejournal.com]

John awoke at his usual early hour on the morning of the town meeting. He dressed with slightly more than usual care in his suit of clothes from home, broke his fast with a light meal, and headed to the Golden Horseshoe to ensure that things were the way he wanted.

The chairs and small tables were already perfectly arranged, but John dragged a podium he found backstage out to the front of the curtain. Then he bustled about in the kitchen area setting out drinks and whatever small snacks he could find back there.

Before long, interested citizens began filing in and he went up to the podium. There was no microphone because he'd never heard of such a thing, but John Adams never had difficulty making himself heard.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome. If you would please pick up any refreshments you'd care for and take your seats, we'll begin in just a few minutes."

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[grumpy-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Sunshine, who'd provided most of the snacks, found herself and her cup of tea a seat not too near the front, and sat down feeling self-conscious.

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

Leon was, surprisingly enough, sober. He had chosen not to drink for the past day or so just so he wouldn't be drunk or hungover for this. He knew he should probably apologize to Adams in person, but he also knew that Carrot had done it for him, and he really wasn't in the mood to deal with too many people. In fact, he fully intended to leave right after the voted happened.

He chose not to touch any drinks or snacks, but he sat up in the front row looking fairly melancholy and somewhat spaced out.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Rukia, Pippi in tow, tried to find a seat somewhere towards the middle. Sitting in the back would make it hard to see, but sitting in the very front seemed intimidating. Whispering to the girl with her, she said, "Now everyone's going to talk about whether or not we should have a police force here."

((Pippi-mun, if this isn't okay with you, let me know and I'll fix it.))

[sensiblesusan.livejournal.com]

Susan arrived a little too late to say anything to John, but she smiled at him as she took her seat -- next to Sunshine, more or less at random.

[hawaii-kid.livejournal.com]

Kon wandered in in his usual S-shield gear--the thing on the board about this had sounded pretty interesting. He was pretty sure Robin, and Rose, wouldn't be far behind him, but he wanted to see who else was there--and what problems might pop up.

Like, oh, a certain pyromaniac who'd shot off his mouth on the boards.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Pippi was indeed skipping along and quite possably swinging Rukia's hand if she was holding it.

"That sounds fun! Can we sit in front? Oooh do they have chicken strips here?"

[always-confuzed.livejournal.com]

John walked in with Daniel in tow, looking pretty disconcerted. The idea of all of this - the police and the meeting both - struck him deeply as a wrong move. Maybe that comes with being an outlaw yourself, he thought ironically. It was a point, though.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Rukia was happy to let Pippi hold her hand -- and swing it, too. She found children fun and endearing, easy to get along with that. That they were close to her size might have helped, although she would have reacted violently to anyone who said as much.

"I don't know," she said. "They've got refreshments. We can see what kind they've got..."

[a-good-man.livejournal.com]

Daniel was carrying a small notebook with Donald Duck on it and several folded sheets of paper sticking out at the edges, and he was idly turning a Mickey Mouse pen over in his fingers.

[sohot-imsmokin.livejournal.com]

Hot Streak had decided to come if for no other reason than to cause problems, but he was willing to remain civil until something ticked him off. He saw Kon, blinked, and then decided to head over to him. "Kon, right? Long time no see."

[hawaii-kid.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, and yeah, long time no see. Been kind of distracted with a couple friends."

//Speaking of whom, where are you two?// he wondered about his best friend and his kind-of girlfriend.

[sohot-imsmokin.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Hot Streak said, looking over his shoulder. "The chick with the sword that you told me not to fight with being one of them, I'd imagine? Scavenger or something?"

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"Oooh! I hope there's lemonade!" Pippi said giving an extra hop.

"Do they have these sorts of meetings here often?"

[hawaii-kid.livejournal.com]

Kon tried not to think about Rose's reaction to hearing that. "Ravager, and yeah. She ought to be around soon, sounded interested in watching this."

[sohot-imsmokin.livejournal.com]

"Don't know what could make anyone interested in this. Sounds boring." He opened his mouth as if he was going to say something else, but then he remembered he was talking to Superboy, and promptly shut it, hoping that he hadn't seen the spark at the tip of his finger.

[grumpy-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Sunshine smiled slightly at Susan as she sat down, recognizing a sometime customer who'd shown a proper appreciation for chocolate. Wordlessly, she offered a brownie from her (incredibly heavy-laden) plate.

[thebadboyfriend.livejournal.com]

Logan swaggered in with a bag of popcorn and a Coke in one hand, and picked out a spot towards the back. He might really have been interested in the question to be discussed at this meeting, but it'd be hard to tell by the way he swung his long legs up on the back of the chair in front of him. His stance was pure heckle-and-mock.

[demoted-again.livejournal.com]

Gumshoe had, more or less, followed Leon to the meeting, whether he realized it or not. He was sure to keep a great distance away as he wandered over and inspected the snack table, though.
After happily picking away at the little treats all about, he turned back around to see that Leon had already taken a seat. Feeling as though it'd be unfair to his new friend to ditch him, he walked over by Leon with his usual dopey smile.

"Hey! Mind if I come sit with you, pal?" of course, he asked this as he parked his big self beside Leon.

((yay, nay? o_O))

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

Leon jumped a little, and then turned to Gumshoe. Being lost in his own thoughts, he hadn't noticed Gumshoe at all. "Uh, no, not at all," he said. "If you wanna sit, go for it.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

"Go check and see," Rukia urged her, laughing at the little hop.

She looked slightly more serious at the question, though. "Not that I know of," the shinigami replied. "I think this is the first time we've had anything like this."

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Pippi snagged a brownie from the snacks brought by Sunshine and a lemonade from the drink fountain.

"Oooh, so this is the sort of gathering that people paint pictures of years later making everybody look taller and more distinguished!"

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

The only reason Setsuna showed up was because Kira poked him to, but upon seeing the sweets near Rae, the kid immediately went over to them and asked, "Can I assume you brought these for everyone and have some?" He couldn't recall the last time he'd had sugar and was suddenly dying for some.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Rukia smiled bemusedly at that, not quite sure what was meant by that, not having seen one of those painting herself. Sounded right, though. "I... I think so," she told Pippi.

[grumpy-sunshine.livejournal.com]

"Of course," said Rae. "That's what they're there for."

There was actually quite an array of cookies and sweets, as well as little tea sandwiches; three kinds of brownies, lemon bars, chocolate chip cookies, Killer Zebras, and jam dandies were arrayed on the snacks table.

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

Setsuna attacked the cookies, then grabbed a Killer Zebra, studying it curiously. "What the heck is this thing? Looks good, whatever it is. And thanks." It had been a while since he'd seen Rae, and he felt bad for that -- had fully intended to take Sara to Rae's restaurant.

Oh well.

"You doing well?" He wasn't quite ready to discuss the meeting. Hell, they'd be doing enough of that shortly, wouldn't they?