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[img]https://i.postimg.cc/3N5hCKFC/image.png[/img][hr][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Vv7F6QDF/source.gif[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@FantasyChic][@Natsu][/center][hr][center][h3][color=FF1C06][b]The Hub - San Fransisco: December 24th, 2020 - 5:00 P.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr]	While most businesses allow their employees to enjoy Christmas Day with their families, S.H.I.E.L.D. does not have such luxury. Essential staff has been asked to stay during the holidays and there is no team more essential than the Secret Warriors. In the ongoing struggle against HYDRA, they have been a terrific sword - and with world ending apocalyptic threats, they had been the finest shield that the agency could ask for. And as a thanks for them sacrificing spending a holiday with their loved ones, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Maria Hill, quietly slipped some funds to the Secret Warriors' leader, Tinley Abercrombie, in order to let them celebrate Christmas at the base. 

	It was a chilly San Fransisco night and the common room was decorated as a winter wonderland. Everyone was encouraged to dress up slightly for the party - there was even going to be a Secret Santa gift exchange. For one of the agents, Oliver, it was his third official day as a member of the team - and with groups like these, fitting in and becoming a member is easier said than done... 

	And oh, one more little thing... In one corner of this room is the beautiful Christmas tree, where everyone can put their gifts beneath. "Santa" Raynor will then distribute them to their receipients during the party and the lucky soul can guess who their Secret Santa was! And in another corner there happens to be a thick strand of mistletoe... 

[hider=Secret Santa List][b]NOTE: Please DM/PM me what your character is giving as a gift - this may be important for the plot of this arc!! This PM is due before this post hits day 8[/b]

Secret Santa - Recipient 
Roman - Flynn
Novi - Tinley
Oliver - Harry
Harry - Tempest
Matt - Maria
Tinley - Novikova 
Cass - Raynor 
Tempest - Roman
Niah - Bonnie
Bonnie - Matt
Flynn - Niah
Raynor -  Sparky
Sparky - Oliver
Maria - Cass

Everyone - Goose (if you know what's good for you...)[/hider][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=f6989d]Bonnie Chase[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://i.postimg.cc/90bKPQB5/giphy.gif[/img][hr][hr][color=f6989d][b]Location:[/b][/color] Bonnie's Room - the Hub 
[color=f6989d][b]Skills:[/b][/color] Quebecois[/center][hr]	Bonnie was Skyping with her parents in her room at the moment, wearing a scarlet A-line dress and a soft white cardigan. [color=f6989d]"Non, Papa, il est très sympas,"[/color] she reassured her father. While she didn't speak French much around the team, she usually did with her Québecois father - though with her American mother she stuck with English. [color=f6989d]"Et bien... Je ne sais pas - il n'est pas catholique comme nous."[/color] She was twirling her hair slightly, feeling a bit nervous and excited. It was the first party she was going to Flynn with as a couple. 

	[i]"Remember to watch your drink, sweetheart, especially in today's society,"[/i] her mother cautioned. 

	Bonnie rolled her eyes. [color=f6989d]"Maman, I will, I will - but it's not like any of my teammates would be dumb enough to try to drug me... You know me, I'd poison them and get away with it as revenge."[/color]

	[i]"Do you have protection with you?"[/i] her mother then asked and Bonnie's cheeks turned bright red. 

	[color=f6989d]"I love you guys, have a good Christmas Eve, I'm going to go before I die of embarrassment,"[/color] Bonnie said, blowing kisses to her parents before ending the call. In some ways, it was fortunate that they no longer lived near enough that they could easily visit - she hardly wanted to have to endure her parents meeting Flynn in person. And besides, things were even still a little bit weird. They didn't just have the missing year or so that Flynn remembered and she didn't from the Age of Ultron, Wanda Maximoff had also temporarily warped reality to make mutants the dominant species on the planet... yet another alternate timeline that Bonnie had no recollection of but Flynn recalled perfectly. 

	She slipped on her flats and grabbed her purse, as well as the present she had prepared for her Secret Santa. She didn't have a Christmas gift for Flynn, as she had given him Hanukkah presents instead.[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=d86615]Raynor Blake[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://i.postimg.cc/sxJxp78j/original.gif[/img][hr][hr][color=d86615][b]Location:[/b][/color] the Common Room - the Hub 
[color=d86615][b]Skills:[/b][/color] N/A [hr][/center]	A serious of unfortunate events had caused the Asgardian Raynor, God of Lies and Light, to be forced to wear [i]a Santa costume[/i]. Despite living on Earth for a few decades, Raynor had come to the conclusion that being forced to be [i]Santa[/i] was a form of public shaming. He had to wear this awful cherry red suit with a fake beard that would make Odin weep with despair, as well as stuff his shirt with a pillow in order to give him a large belly. Yule had begun two days ago and would last until the second day of January. 

	One of the customs of celebrating Yule included sacrificing a boar - it had been a bit awkward when Sparky walked in on him completing the sacrifice to Freyr, covered in the animal's blood. Of course, the rest of the agents on base would benefit from it - sitting in the common room at the food table was the roasted and seasoned boar, ready to be consumed. 

	He had already carved a Yule Log and he had discretely placed it against the wall in the common room, the runic symbols a warding against evil. Of course, there was something about the Christmas traditions that clashed with him - the damn mistletoe in the corner of the room. Raynor was hardly the most open person in the world, so naturally none of his fellow agents knew that mistletoe had been the cause of his father Baldur's death in his home reality. 

	Sitting on a couch in the common room, Raynor was on his third bottle of rum. He couldn't feel the alcohol just yet, but hopefully he would soon enough. [hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=add3ff]Dominika Novikova[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://i.postimg.cc/wM14NQ3J/giphy.gif[/img][hr][hr][color=add3ff][b]Location:[/b][/color] Outside the Hub
[color=add3ff][b]Skills:[/b][/color] N/A [hr][/center]	The Christmas Party was due to start a five o'clock and still, Novikova couldn't help but dread it. She had been fired from S.H.I.E.L.D. and while she loved her career at Pym Tech, she couldn't help but be bitter about the circumstances regarding her dismissal. Yes, her actions had been illegal but she had [i]saved[/i] people - and Niah had fixed the Age of Ultron mess anyways, so overall there had been no harm done, right? No one had threatened to quit if she wasn't reinstated... they had just moved on with their lives. 

	[color=add3ff]"We could leave, there's probably some rad parties at mutant friendly clubs going on,"[/color] Novikova suggested to Maria, standing outside of the Hub. Even though it wasn't snowing (and likely would not snow in San Fransisco unless the world was ending), she could still feel the winter chill. She had earmuffs on, a habit she adopted in the winter as her ears always quickly were cold, and in her hand she had a bag containing several bottles of vodka, as well as the gift for her Secret Santa. [color=add3ff]"Besides, I sneaked a few inhibitors from work, so we could always see about finally playing Naked Twister properly..."[/color] she added with a slight smirk. 


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