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.))

Comments

[genequeen]

"I don't think he's interested in people like that. And Paul... I'm not sure but he might be on that not interested list as well. I haven't really talked to him enough to know. And Jason is likely on that list as well because he's just not interested in /people/, either," Madelyne says faintly.

"And Sherlock... I don't know. His mind is an interesting place," Madelyne squeezes his shoulder, "But I'm sure you see the point, right?"

[starknaked]

"He experiences joy though," he said, smiling fondly as he thought about the wind tunnel and Raziel's reaction to it. "Yeah, like I said, alienated Paul but I think we made up. He sounds like he was from the world I know, so really against pissing him off too much. "Not talked to Jason much. What about the vampire trio? There's three of them, right?"

He made a face. "Interesting. Annoying. I didn't know they were synonyms, but yes, I can see your point."

[genequeen]

"There are and they're all different. I don't know most of them very well, though I've gotten to know Josef fairly well," she says with a small smile. She sways along to the music and with him.

[starknaked]

Step, turn, spin, dip. He grinned at her, waggling his eyebrows. "Fairly well? Do I even want to ask? So many questions and everyone one of them wrong."

[genequeen]

Madelyne arches back into the dip and looks up at him with a small smile, "We did go out on a date once."

[starknaked]

"With a vampire? Well then," he said, though he was still amused, laughing as he lifted her, turning into the next step. "I still have troubles with that, I admit. I mean... vampires?"

[genequeen]

"There are some at home - don't you have them? I hadn't met them but a friend of mine had a considerable amount of interaction over time. Josef is fun company."

[starknaked]

"No. No vampires. No mutants either. I'm entirely deprived in my world," he pointed out as the music ended. He stopped moving but didn't quite let her go. "If you're having fun, that's what matters."

[genequeen]

"I would say that isn't all that matters," she says as she leans in and kisses him lightly on the cheek. Madelyne pulls back just enough so he can see the small smile on her lips reach her eyes.

[starknaked]

He frowned at her words though his eyes lit up at the kiss. Looking confused in that moment which was a look not often seen on him. "What matters then, Maddy?"

[genequeen]

"Safety. Family. Sanity."

Those words are given to him relatively quickly in response, not moving away from him yet. "And if we're talking here and now, well, that you're having fun too."

[starknaked]

"Not everyone has those things, not the way others do." He'd always had financial safety, but he was never safe. The near death moment with his own weapons had proven that.

"And I'm remembering why for most of my life all that I let matter was having fun, but most aren't as disconnected from their emotions like I am." In that he was very self aware.

[genequeen]

"No, not everyone does. I don't, even. Not really," she says while looking around. Are they being looked and taking up dance floor space at or can they continue to talk out here? She makes sure they're still moving at least.

"It is easy to put fun first, to try not to take the world seriously. Sometimes, I think, you have to do that in order to stay sane."

[starknaked]

In ways he hadn't before, Tony didn't care if they were being watched or not. It wasn't just that he was assuming that most would be watching them, it was that it didn't matter to him in that moment. Unless someone danced into them, he was too busy speaking with Maddy and sharing this.

"Some still don't manage sanity but you make do with what you have." Which is what he kept telling himself. All he could face.

[genequeen]

Reaching up, Madelyne runs a thumb across his one of his cheekbones, something that she can't entirely explain why she felt she needed to do right at this moment. "I think you have more than enough sanity, Tony, but I could check to be sure. A lot of mental states is very subjective, you know."

[starknaked]

His eyes nearly closed at that touch, lips curling up in a bit more of a smile. "No one thinks men who volunteer to wrestle with nuclear bombs are sane," he pointed out.

[genequeen]

"I'm sorry, Tony, have you met my ex-husband?"

The smile stays, looking distinctly amused by the conversation and by the man she's holding.

[starknaked]

"You're only proving my point, you know," he pointed out, seeming smug to be able to say that.

[genequeen]

"If doing that is insane than I don't know how many sane people I've ever known," Madelyne smiles at him.

[starknaked]

"Proabably none. So I'm sane enough," he said with a nod. "I can accept that. I think hero comes with the tag of insanity, but so be it. More so when I'm working for the government." Something he'd sworn not to do again but this was different.

[genequeen]

"You're certainly more sane than I can claim to be," she says with a chuckle. Sometimes the things you find funny, you can't entirely explain to others.

"If you're willing to run toward danger instead of away from it, it makes you different and... well... maybe crazy but in a good way."

[starknaked]

He wasn’t sure he found that entirely funny but Tony smiled nonetheless. “All depends on our personal definitions, I suppose and everyone’s is different. If I am or not, it doesn’t change my life. I wouldn’t change anything but being here,” he admitted.

He snorted at that. “I run from it a lot. Well, fly.”

[genequeen]

"Obviously not, Tony or you wouldn't be an Avenger."

She's not accepting the whole 'running from danger' thing.

[starknaked]

“Yeah, you know, there’s that whole they kind of forced me into it thing? I mean, Coulson comes to Pepper. Pepper gives me that look. I was just caught in the middle.”

[genequeen]

"Uh-huh," Madelyne says shaking her head, a wry smirk on her face.

"I'm sure that was the only reason."