12 [Location: Central/Josef's place] Party Post

[loveawkward]

Entrances had been made. The people of Taxon, some of them at least, had arrived. As the sun was setting and casting the room into shadows, the lights began to come up. Twinkling white lights on the balcony around the pool, mood lighting throughout the room to separate the loft into differing areas for different events. Light music played throughout the main room, though at poolside was a section set aside for dancing as well.

Pausing to overlook the affair, for a moment, Josef felt like he was still back home.

Well, minus the bevy of beautiful women offering up a vein at the snap of his fingers. He was still getting used to that loss, which hurt more keenly than most.

((ooc: Come one, come all. Feel free to set up your own posts or use the starter areas. Josef's place is a massive loft, with three separate rooms including a bedroom with an oversized freezer in it. There is also a rooftop pool area with a wide wall overlooking part of the city.))

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[loveawkward]

"Aren't you a sweetheart," he said with a soft purr. "I should buy you drinks more often," he said with a grin that turned into a wicked smile.

"So, do I pout another now?"

[genequeen]

"I don't know," she says, swallowing a bit nervously but in a good way. That smile is hard to ignore, hard to handle as well.

"Thank you"

[starknaked]

He poured her a smaller drink, taking her words though his own desires came into it as well.

"Though I'll be careful as there should be dancing still."

[genequeen]

"Maybe we should try that dancing thing," she says with a smile that is a little more comfortable. Glitch taught her a little bit about dancing, so hopefully she won't seem completely horrible at it.

[starknaked]

He considered that before downing his drink as if it was water. Stepping around the bar, he offered her his arm. "Shall we?"

[genequeen]

Madelyne takes a drink from the new glass he'd poured her and then takes the arm he's offered to her, "Lead on. Hopefully I can keep up with you."

[starknaked]

Guiding her through those gathered, he made his way through the loft and towards the balcony and pool area where there was dancing. "What makes you think I'm that good a dancer," he asked, taking a sip of his scotch.

[genequeen]

"Who said I was talking about dancing?"

Madelyne looks at the glass of scotch and tries to figure out how that will change how she has to hold herself and position her hands as they dance. Dancing is serious business, you see. Maybe more so than flirting.

[starknaked]

Tony paused between one step and the next before chuckling. "Wicked thing," he murmured, giving a shake of his head. "Let's start with dancing and see how you do from there, hmm?"

[genequeen]

"I'll warn you, I'm rather new at this," she says, realizing that it applies to a good number of things that she's doing right now. She's decided that she might just be a bit desperate to not think about much of anything right now.

[starknaked]

"I'll warn you I don't hold that against others," he pointed out, pausing to set his glass down before guiding her out onto the deck where music was playing.

[genequeen]

"Well, I should hope not," she says, with a faint smirk on her lips as she holds back any number of other comments. They're all too easy to go for and, well, obvious.

"I need all the help I can get." And she's still not entirely talking about dancing.

[starknaked]

"You have no idea the things I hold against others though," he teased, though he knew he didn't mean it. Especially not with her.

"I'm sure you're doing better than you think but you've got those that are more than willing to help," he said, turning towards her as he listened to the music, picking up the rhythm.

[genequeen]

"You're right. I don't but I can make guesses," she says before she pauses and then chuckles softly, "Or I could cheat."

Madenlyne offers him a hand as she puts the other on his shoulder as she closes some of the distance between them. The smile she gives him is smaller but more intense, "It would be nice if I didn't need the help, though."

[starknaked]

"Oh now that is just wicked," he said, though he laughed and was more than a little amused by her comment. "Stay with imagining. I don't want you thinking that badly of me."

Stepping in close, taking her hand with a smile. "So now, tell me in what way," he asked as they started moving with the music.

[genequeen]

"I've been a very wicked person before, Tony. Trust me, I'm no where near it right now," still, the smile on her lips seems to indicate that she can at least fake it pretty well.

"Everything, but dancing would be the safe answer."

[starknaked]

"If you were wicked, then why worry about the dancing. You always have things to use to distract me," he said, open and forthright and watching her reaction.

[genequeen]

"Oh I do, do I?"

Arching her brows at him, she moves along with him in time with the music, "I'm not very good at dancing, you see. It is sort of a new thing."

[starknaked]

"That smile, your eyes, the words you use. I won't mention the body, even in that dress. Wait, I just did," he teased.

He moved carefully with the music, keeping her close. "So you'll do it more and learn."

[genequeen]

"Why, Mr. Stark, I do believe you're flirting with me," Madelyne says. There is a moment where she almost adds, What would my husband say but she is able to hold herself back. The pang is hard to entirely ignore. Instead, she redoubles her... efforts?

She steps in a little closer, "I have to say I've always been interested in learning."

[starknaked]

"Of course I am. Any man with half a brain would. Women too for that matter. You're beautiful and smart. What else should I do," he asked, arching a brow as he slid his arm further around her.

"Positively brilliant state of mind," he said with a nod, agreeing as he slowly twirled her.

[genequeen]

The twirl comes just in time since she really had little idea on how to respond to all of /that/. When she comes spinning back close in to Tony, she's still smiling, though. "I don't know, Mr. Stark, I think you might be overstating my appeal to the average man on the street."

After a short pause, she chuckles, "Though I'm not interested in the average man on the street, especially here."

[starknaked]

"Given the average man on the street in Taxon isn't actually human, I'm pretty sure you're so far above them to not even consider that," he pointed out with a chuckle.

[genequeen]

"Now that's a little depressing, considering the options," she says with a faint smile. "My ex-husband and his best friend and rival are disqualified. Bagoas, Glitch and Raziel are, well, likely not at all interested in me..."

Madelyne ignores the memory of Alex that tries to creep into her thoughts more firmly. She locks it up and tucks it away as she continues to smile at Tony as they move to the music.

[starknaked]

Tony made a face, trying to look put out. "Oh so we're not going to count Raziel just because he has no body? That's prejudice," he teased, and it was obvious he was teasing.

He nodded though, trying to be slightly more sympathetic. "Doesn't that leave out some," he asked, being serious. "There's Paul, whom I alienated day one. Don't forget Sherlock," he added, making a face.