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GENESSIA PROM!

I - SETUP (12:00pm-5:00pm)

For any and all who agreed to help with the decorations, this would be the time to gather at the Hotel. A large list of assignments will be posted on the wall near the entrance, with duties including but not limited to:

1. Setting Tables, including placement of centerpieces
2. Wall and ceiling decorations, involving a lot of gossamer drapery and lights
3. Preparing the buffet table, with a mixture of hot and cold foods, as well as a separate table at the end for delectable deserts
4. Getting all necessary equipment on stage for the Live Band to perform. Sound Checks may occur throughout.
5. A side dressing room area set up exclusively for those who volunteered to take the time to get ready themselves, including special hair and makeup stations and a large rack to hang their dresses & shoes to change into later

II - HOTEL LOBBY (6:30pm onward)

Cozy and luxurious in its own right, those who arrive before Prom is scheduled to begin will be allowed to lounge in the Hotel Lobby for a spell. Meeting and greeting other early birds and partaking in a select few hors d'oeuvre made available while waiting for the doors to open

III. - PROM PHOTOS!

In the far corner of the lobby, a cute backdrop will be set up, ready for any and all couples/groups/brave souls going stag for the evening to take a memorable photograph! Selfies are welcome throughout, but for those desiring a more professional setup, Hikari Yagami will be on hand for the first and last hours of the night for "official" Prom Photos.

Smile, everyone!

IV - EATING/DRINKING

With a "bar" consisting of 90% nonalcoholic beverages--the remaining ten percent reserved for of age chaperones--and a buffet table spanning the length of the side wall, there will be no shortage of food options that night! Hot pasta dishes, cold sandwiches, fruits, vegetable platters, and a special end section devoted to some of the best sweets Genessia's bakeries have to offer!

Of course, what prom would be complete without the traditional Fruit Bowl Punch? Better get a sip in early, though...because some traditions never die, and it's not like those in charge can keep an eye on that bowl the entire night, can they?

V. - DANCE FLOOR

With a live band (Thank you, Professor!) ready to rock, you'll soon be dancing the night away, under ethereal decorations that will really make you feel like you're dancing among the stars!

In between sets, there will be a DJ spinning a mixture of slow dances, crowd favorites, and songs that'll really get the party rockin' (~~LMFAO style~~).

VI. - CHAPERONES

Because somebody's got to make sure the kids behave.

Hopefully actual adults who can behave themselves.

VII. - MINGLING/MISC.

What other shenanigans could the teens and tweens of Genessia possible get up to? The night is young, and so are they~

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Jack smiles warmly and sways to the music with her. "Hello there beautiful," he purrs softly as the music plays. "Having fun?"

Rose does a quick look around to make sure the Doctor (none of him) are watching before pulling Jack in for a long kiss, and laughing softly against him. "Better with you here!" Ahhhh that hurts a little. It was just instinct, but she'd forgotten that saying Better with Two was her line to the Doctor until just then. Still, she keeps smiling, and makes sure Jack can't feel the quiet annoyance with herself.

"I go where I'm needed," Jack replied wisely ignoring what he can feel and instead focusing on what she's saying, "Good old loyal Jack," he adds trying not to sound bitter himself. He knows his life is better here than it was back home and yet he feels as though he is falling into the same old patterns again.

Rose, on the other hand, sensing something was wrong with him, just did what Rose does best and dug around in all the messiness. She locked her fingers around the back of his head, keeping a mental eye on the time of the song; and thus how long she had left.

"What's wrong?" A soft grin, "And don't do the Doctor thing and pretend it's nothing, yeah?" She trusted him too much for that.

He sighed. "Sorry Rose," he admitted softly, "I'm just....I feel like I'm stuck in the same pattern. Good old loyal Jack Harkness, the one who comes when called and never questions why the Doctor doesn't come when I need him." He shakes his head. "And I'm not just talking about things like Ianto and the 456. He didn't come after either. Never came to check on me...to check on Gwen. And then after the last time I saw him...radio silence."

Rose just pulled Jack's forehead to hers, resting them together, eyes closed. "Dunno," she said softly.

Damaged, really. He was so damaged after Rose and Jack. What was it Guitarist told her? That her face was the first one that came up to soothe him when he was dying, and it just made him feel guilty. And then Jack and Martha and her and Donna were guilt on top of guilt.

"When I first met Sarah Jane, I thought I'd been his first girl he took travelin' and rescuin' the Earth with. Bit of a slap in the face to find out otherwise, yeah? I sorta got the impression he didn't really do that much rescuin' Earth before you and me though, yeah? Usually he wanted them to do their own thing. In his Fluffy-haired regeneration, he made Earth too dependent on him. All the universes without the Doctor had to learn different coping methods to save 'emselves, even Pete's universe even though we helped. But in the diverge roads of his universe, the Earth kept ending just because he died without regenerating. I thought at first... it just meant he was that good and necessary, and the Universe wanted him, needed him even more than I did."

Eyes still closed, Rose gently massaged the back of Jack's neck with a small sigh. "After I found out what I did to you... well I needn't tell ya how angry I was with him for hiding it from me," since her rage the first few months in this plane had been legendary. "But it also really shook me that... I did the same to him. I wouldn't let him die. Amy said once before she left that it was okay to bring you and the Doctor back for my selfish reasons, it was better than the universe just not letting him. But his oldest version... It's like not only does he not enjoy it anymore, but he doesn't want to either, because it hurts him to invest so much of himself."

A wry half-hearted grin as she opened her eyes on Jack and finally pulled their foreheads apart, dropping her voice to a low whisper. "It scares me, Jack."

She hugged around his chest, keeping her voice quiet. "I think... he got scared anything he did might make it worse. Especially since after messin' up so much. It's like he was running away from something for so long, and when he finally got done with it and stopped, he didn't know how to find himself or what to do with it all. And I think he was scared of causing you anymore pain and just wanted to believe that we'd all be better off with--" Rose started to tremble and cry in spite of herself, "Without him..." She laughed softly and wiped her eyes with an arm. "Sorry," another half-grin. "He keeps doin' that to me, yeah? Drives me mad. Just a guess, anyway, he's -- we're not as close anymore, obviously. Assumin' I ever really understood 'im to begin with."

Jack had gotten the same impression from 12 that Rose had. that he had given up and was ready to die. Maybe that's why he'd regenerated into that particular face. Jack mentally shook away the dark thoughts that thinking of John Frobesier always brought up in him. He knew better than Rose that they hadn't been the first and they wouldn't be the last. At least he hoped not anyway. "The oldest of him reminds me of me after Ianto died. I just didn't care anymore. Even when I went back to Earth I only did it because someone was poking around where she shouldn't have been and I was trying to stop her."

Then he'd gotten pulled back in and he had to see it to the end no matter how dark that end got. There had been a few times though were he'd wished Gwen had just let him go...on the plane, after Vera died. He'd wanted to embrace his new mortality and Gwen hadn't let him. He'd been ready to go only to have fate turn the tables again and give him Rex instead. "But then I remember he's not human. I mean he doesn't think the same way you and I do but he looks so human that I just assume until he does something alien and then I remember again."

"Same..." Rose laughed softly and shook her head. "But no... he's always been like that. Even when I first met him. He wouldn't'a survived as big ears if he wasn't stuck saving me from poking around in mischief either." A face crinkle, and Rose looked up at Jack completely adoringly. "Look, listen, yeah? I'm really glad they didn't let you give up." She didn't look around this time, just pulled him in for another kiss. "The Universe needs more great well-meaning blokes like you and the Doctor, even for all it kicks you around."

Jack kissed her back enjoying how normal doing so always felt to him. Rose and Gwen they were his constants the ones who never changed, his light and dark beauties. Without them he was damm sure he would have given up everything to this place to just not feel numb. "I couldn't do what I do without you Rose," he admitted, "I need someone to love or life just drags me down. My head is sometimes so full of memories it feels like too much too often. I need an anchor and that's you."

She gave him a wry grin at that, before tiptoeing up to give him an eskimo kiss, and leading him back into a slow dance. "Just wish I could do more, you know, yeah?"

Still, she gently squeezed one of his hands, resting her head against his chest. "Let's do more fun things here from here-on-out, yeah? Adventures. Dancin'. Anything. Just you and me, no Doctor, no one else, just forget about responsibility, one night a week, okay?"

A soft laugh and she tried to remember his speech to mimic it from when they danced on the invisible spaceship stationed by Big Ben. "It's a plane outside the known universes, there's a uni prom goin' on," because it wasn't as ludicrous or romantic as WW2 Big Ben during a German air raid, but given the sheer nonsense of their lives, it was actually more ridiculous in a way. Who would have ever expected a Time Agent and a dropout, two full-fledged Torchwood leaders to be doing something so normal? "And you, Captain Jack Harkness," she psychically whispered his true name, never going to say it out loud of course, too sacred. "Are dressed to kill, James Bond eat his heart out. And this time, when I'm done my set, I'm not riskin' gettin' in another fight over something stupid, so you and I can run away and grab champagne, yeah?" Brown eyes coyly lit up watching Jack's reaction, hoping to at least amuse him if nothing else.

Jack laughs warmly. "Rose Tyler," he purred as they danced, "are you trying to tempt me into running away from the party?" He feels a deep warmth settle over his heart at the reminder of their first meeting. "Because if you are I am totally on board. Let's grab a bottle and go find somewhere in the dark to have some fun."

So many giggles. And she can't help it, she lightly shoves his arm. "When I'm done!" Bright red and laughing, ahhhh she loves Jack though, and she's so glad that worked. "I still have more bass to play. But after that, I'm all yours," a flirtatious wink. "Promise!"

He chuckles and twines a strand of her hair around his fingers. "I am going to make sure you keep it," he says his voice silky dark.

So bright red, and she chews her bottom lip glancing away, but leaning into him, letting him just feel the coursing love and adoration for him flowing through her. "Wouldn't miss it," she promised back.

Jack gives her rare access to his open mind and lets her feel how much he loves her in return. He hums to the music.

Giggles. "My Jack," and plays with his hair.

"I gotta run," she kissed his cheek, even though it was the middle of the song, she had to get set up for the next one. "But champagne, you and me, all night, I'm yours, yeah?" A wink before dashing off in the mad kind of way only her and the Doctor habitually did.

"Stay out of trouble," Jack says affectionately as he lets her go. He hums along with a music a few more moments before heading off to find a snack.

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