Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea

[volitaunt]

who: Finn Nolastname, Poe Dameron, AND YOU
what: A FINNDAY CELEBRATION. One year in quarantine and one year since Finn got his name
when: Backdated to November 11th
where: Finn and Poe's apartment
warnings: None!



[ Poe didn't keep this party a secret. Not from Finn, and certainly not from anyone in quarantine. He posted to the network about it more than once, sent invitations to every friend Finn has ever mentioned, and has been preparing noisily for it for almost two weeks. 

He might have gone a little overboard.

There's catering, some of it exotic and some of it more on the bland side and all of it painfully healthy. Even the desserts are healthy--fruit salads and delicate little pastries with unprocessed sugar and dark chocolate, sweetness cut with savory or bitter so none of it is overwhelming. The dessert feature is a "cake" constructed entirely of fruit from around Riverview, held together by magic and served in slices. The magic only holds until you stick a fork in the slice, but by then you should have it on a plate anyway, right?

Beyond the catering, Poe got permission from Jyn to borrow her bottomless shrimp dispenser, so there's that. The Mystery Flavor is kumquat chutney dipped and you'd better believe that Poe has eaten half his weight in kumquat chutney shrimp by the time the party actually rolls around. There's also one broccoli pizza positioned carefully in the place of honor at the center of the buffet table. Poe couldn't help himself.

Beyond the food, there are games set up all around the apartment. Card games, board games, a couple takes on carnival games--even a board pinned up against one wall with balloons fixed to it, along with a set of darts set up a short distance away. It's fairly obvious what that one is for. Each balloon has a little folded-up paper inside with a code for a gift card at various places around town--and a sign that says "Don't be an asshole, leave some for other people (Jyn)." 

When Poe isn't up in everyone's business making sure people are having fun, or hovering near Finn making sure he's having fun, he's still easy enough to spot--he's in the corner, sprawled on a chair with BB-8 resting against his ankles. 

Yeah, he might have gone overboard, but as far as he's concerned Finn deserves the best. ] 

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[protectingthelight]

The last 24 hours have been extremely disorienting for Amilyn Holdo, and not a little upsetting.

She'd walked out of her office one afternoon and, from her point of view, appeared back at the portal moments later without any recollection of having gotten there. And then she learned from a helpful (if startled) technician she had in fact been gone from Riverview for months.

She's been quietly re-orienting herself before reaching out to anyone she knows, and finally decided that if there's anyone she ought to start with, it's Poe. Unaware that there's a party going on, she makes her way to his apartment and knocks.

[realists]

It's only after she has spoken to Poe that Jyn stumbles upon the elegant fucking towering sequoia that is Amilyn Holdo. Jyn was on time for this party, she was! (She came with Cassian, she had no choice but to be on time.) But then she'd had to run back to her own house because, surprise, she forgot to bring Finn's present.

"Hey! You're here!" Well spotted, Erso.

She gestures openly, as if Holdo isn't yet aware that she is, in fact, here. Luckily Jyn is here to illuminate her. She's a helper.

[protectingthelight]

"So it seems," Amilyn says with a wry smile. "I'm still not sure what happened, but apparently I lost several months there."

[volitaunt]

It takes a minute for Poe to open the door. He's momentarily busy picking all the broccoli off a slice of pizza and throwing all the florets at Finn one by one. When he gets there he has a mouth half-full of pizza and the rest of the slide dangling from one hand.

And there's Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

He forgets to chew. He doesn't notice the cheese sliding off the slide in-hand until it's almost too late, and then he solves the problem of having his hands full by throwing the pizza in question into the bush outside their door. Something will eat it.

Poe almost chokes as he swallows. Then he's left staring at her again, mouth and hands empty.

Amilyn Holdo is here. She's here, she's alive, she's here. Her second chance at life is a third.

He laughs, or rather makes a tiny aborted noise that could be interpreted as a laugh under the right circumstances. Then he throws his arms around her in a patented Poe Dameron bear hug.

[protectingthelight]

She almost laughs when he throws the pizza slice into the bush, but the expression on his face stops the laughter; it hits her then, what it must have meant for her to vanish so abruptly, with no explanation. Still, when Poe embraces her, she actually staggers a little under the force of it.

"I'm ... glad to see you too?" she manages.

[volitaunt]

He laughs, kind of. It's a whispered exhale of laughter more than a real laugh. "You're here. You're alive."

Stating the obvious is about as much as he can handle right now. Doing more would require him to look at all the feelings he's bottled up and set aside, feelings about Holdo, feelings about Paige. He lets Holdo go and looks behind him at the party inside. "You, uh. Want to come in?"

shh im here on time shh

[bythehand]

Finn is another one who doesn't get around to her until some time after she's seen Poe. When he arrived, he was a little ensnared in a card game with Chyler-- the kind neither of them had heard of until they picked up the pack, and therefore had to learn the rules to by reading the box on the fly.

He thinks she won, but it was honestly really unclear.

Beyond that point, it's obviously fairly hard to miss Holdo even in any sort of crowd or distractions. Even putting aside the ways in which she physically stands out, she does still have a certain air about her.

Finn never got to know her especially well in the months she last spent here, but it's still an unmitigated relief to turn his head and suddenly register her presence. She is, after all, one of theirs. He makes a beeline for her ASAP, naturally.

"Welcome back." It feels like it would be rude to not cover that ground. "You okay? Can I get you anything?"