9213/A Christmas Tree

A Christmas Tree
Date of Scene:	21 December 2021
Location:	April and Harley's Apartment.
Synopsis:	Harley and April under a tree D E C O R A T I N G
Cast of Characters:	Harley Quinn, April O'Neil

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Harley Quinn has posed:
Christmas has cometh! All the carrolling and snowmen and distributing toys to the children! Yes, Harley has been busy, hopefully better than last year when the toys she uh .., got, belonged to bandits who had smuggled drugs inside them. But how could she know?!!? Good thing that Terry had been there. Which is saying a lot when Terry being somewhere helps the situation.

But anyway! New year, new stuffs! And this time Harley even got the tree for them. For free too. And she has been busy setting it up on the living room, fending attacks from Bud and Lou who think the tree is good to bite. As for Gertie? She is observing from atop the couch, like the evil supervisor. Silent, soulless eyes watching the proceedings. Always calculating...

"So I am tellin' ya...." Harley is speaking to April, down on her knees and wiggle wiggling while she sets another little toy on the branches. "... it's like that guy didn't even fight and just accepted ta get me the tree. He says he's a teacher of history or somethin' like that, but I dunno. He was a bartender like a year back. Calls himself Jimmy."

Yes, she is telling the story on how she swindled a guy out of their current christmas tree.

April O'Neil has posed:
April has been in her bedroom with the door partially open. She has been wrapping presents in mass.

Now though the door swings open and she comes padding out. Wearing some black silk pajama pants, a white tshirt and a santa clause 'coat' that loosely flows around her body as she walks. In her arms, April carries a stack of presents that she moves toward Harley and the wild crazy animals with.

"Jimmy, huh?" She asks. "I dunno about people whose name is a verb for using a crowbar to break in to things." She says with a smirk at the decorating Harley.

A stack of ppresents is set down near the tree, and she shoes the Hyenas away who start nosing at them instantly. Most of the presents are for Harley and the Hyenas, though there are a few bags for Gerti there too.

April stands up then and puts her hands on the back of her hips as she looks at Harley's work. "God, this really is a nice tree though. We gotta get a lot of pics and videos before it turns all brown and gross... speaking of which, does it have enough water in the bucket?"

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Hey, I am the crook heah, what's with you knowin' what jimmies are called, eh?" Harley cranes her neck forward towards April. "Do you have something to confess, April?" she questions, baby blue eyes wide and inquisitive before she grins, winks and goes back to the decorations. The mass of gifts that are brought and put under the tree makes Harley gasp. "So many!" she puts her hands to her chest, looking all eager.

"I know I need self control, but I could open just ooonnneeee..." she at least doesn't whine. As for the hyenas, they start sniffing curiously. Maybe it's weird, rectangular food. Lou licks one of the gifts' paper before bleehing. Nope, not food.

"Of course it has water! I am waterin' it, and theah's a program to return trees so they can be replanted in the wild so aftah christmas we will be going ovah ta deliver the tree."

Harley Quinn, defender of the green! There may be Poison Ivy influences too.

April O'Neil has posed:
April just looks down at Harley and gives her a sweet sweet smile. "I have lots to confess." She replies, with a beat. "But none of it is coming out." She adds with a grin before she walks over to the entertainment center. A bowl on top of it has dog treats that they made last night in the shapes of ginger bread men. She grabs two of them and gets the Hyenas attention by waggling them around.

She gets the two of them both riled up a bit before she finally sets them on the ground separated from one another so they don't start yapping at each other....

"You're the thieving expert though, so don't worry your pretty little head off." April says with a big smirk! She walks over to sit down beside Gerti and stroke the back of her little head. "I got a whole stack more to wrap in there too... so we're just getting started."

Her eyes go back to the tree then, going up and down the length of it. "You can replant these things?" She asks then, sounding shocked. "I'd never heard that before. Well... good. Wait, does that mean we can cut it down again next year and put it back in here?"

She frowns after that though and her shoulders slump a bit. "That sounds like it'd be traumatic for the poor thing though..."

Harley Quinn has posed:
"No no, it only works because they are still sorta small. Well, small-ish. So no big roots yet. They will get planted in the forest and then grow free!" Harley explains, opening her arms to the side and with that gesture making a series of decorations fall from the tree. She looks down at them with a sigh. "And in the meantime it will get a taste of April and Harley's crazy in these few days that's in heah. Sorta like goin' ta the big city to spend some time and learn about what it's all about!" a pause, "But unlike Lucy who gets turned into a life of drugs and never comes back to her pumpkin little city and papa in this case we will be returnin' her to wheah she belongs..."

Woah, that turned dark fast.

Regardless, Harley continues on without missing a beat, "Well, I will have ta up my giftin' game apparently. Though don't you worry, dear April. I have a couple already chosen for yooooouuu." her grin only widening.

She walks over to join April by Gertie and eyebrow waggles. "And speakin' of confessin', I can certainly make ya confess if I get my mind to it. Should I remembah you I know all your ticklish spots?" threatening words!

April O'Neil has posed:
April sits up straighter when Harley speaks of presents for her. She smiles all happily and self beaming at the very notion. She even makes a little excited squeaky noise. Gerti just does what Turkeys do beside her.

At the mention of tickling for confessions though, April's eyes go serious, her face changes to an expression of worry. "Don't you dare." She says, nodding her chin toward the Hyenas that are licking the floor for treat crumbs now. "You know those two just start nipping at my feet and arms any time you start tickling me. It becomes like a gang-up session on poor lil April."

Her eyes go to the side then to one of the ornament boxes. She 'Ooos' and stands up then to walk over to it.

Quickly, the young reporter snags up her Padme Amidala ornament from its box and starts to open it up. She pulls out the plastic Padme in her torn white skinsuit that April has a nice cosplay of that she wore on Halloween night when those.... things attacked, cause of the pen..........

"Aggressive negotiations." April says as she holds the Padme by her face, and looks to Harley, serious expression, Padme holding up her little blaster too.