A Party Life For Me - for numberonefirstmate

[blueberryprincess]

The only reason Evie was even going to this party this late at night was Evie...really had nothing to say there. Not a thing. She had no real reason for going. Just that she wanted to go. She missed parties on the Isle. They were wild. Loud. Went all night. Sometimes there were piles of sleeping people everywhere when the sun came up and Evie thought that was the best.

Still, going with Harry Hook? Probably not her best choice. Probably the dumbest thing she could do. She really did want all of them to get along, now that the Isle was free of it's barrier and people could come and go as they pleased. But it was almost one AM. And she had a boatload of nothing to do the next day, so going to a party with Harry Hook was what she was going to do.

And it wasn't a date. It was two people trying to be friends.

She could practically hear Lonnie questioning her and see her raising an eyebrow in disbelief as Evie yanked off her pajamas and pulled on one of her older outfits.

She didn't have time to make her own for this party, she'd been too busy with everyone else's. And she didn't exactly have plans to go, either, so there was desire to actually plan anything.

Whatever. It didn't matter. She's going to be late to meet Harry at the bridge and if she's still pulling some of her blue and black hair back into a fairly complicated fishtail braid as she walks up to the bridge, so be it.

"Hannah didn't invite either of us, which means she actually wants us there." It was Isle Tradition. If you wanted people at your party, you didn't invite them. If you didn't want them, you made a huge deal of inviting them. Evie hadn't been invited. She just heard about it.

"I hadn't planned on going, but after the movie Jay and Carlos made me watch, I don't think I'll be sleeping for a while. You ready?"

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[blueberryprincess]

“I’ve been to exactly two birthday parties on the Isle. One for someone I can’t even remember, but I was also four at the time so it wasn’t exactly recent. And then my own birthday. The one that Maleficent pitched a massive fit over because we didn’t invite Mal.”

And then Maleficent threatened and her mother with death if they so much as left their castle, resulting in Evie being castle schooled until a bit into her teen years.

“There was another at our old school, Dragon Hall,” but that was about it. And then she began running with Mal and Carlos and Jay, became the mother friend to all of them.

Him stepping in front of her is starting to border on exasperating, but Evie keeps that in check, letting him step away as her hands go to her waist. No. Nope. She’s not going to let him see how frustrating that’s getting so, dropping her hands off of her sides, she walks past him and further into the tunnel.

“It echoes,” she reminds him as she continues on, stopping when the barking goes and listening more.

Now she hears music. Now she hears voices. There’s laughter, talking. Shouting.

Maybe this is the right place after all? There’s another, fainter rumble of thunder outside. Evie ignores it in favor of continuing on. The storm will pass by soon enough, right?

[numberonefirstmate]

"Well 'twas rude of your mother," Harry says idly. "Knowing Maleficent, really." EQ should have known better. Not that Harry would say that to the woman's face, she kind of scares the pee out of him, but Evie's probably safe.

"Still loud," he mutters, letting her go ahead of him since that seems to be so important to her.

He relaxes fractionally when he hears the sounds of party ahead, and shoots a cocky grin at her as he strides ahead.
"See, Princess? Nothing to worry about."

[blueberryprincess]

It wasn't so much that it was important to her. It was more he didn't need to protect her. She could take care of herself, the very picture definition of a self-rescuing princess. And it was confusing to have him look out for her like that. So she'd hit a limit.

She follows along behind him, listening to the sounds of a party echoing down the tunnel at them. It sounds subdued, but maybe it's just a lot farther down the tunnel than they realize.

With Harry ahead of her, he'll get there first. When Evie rounds a corner, expecting just more tunnel, she's stunned to find that they'd discovered the...


party?


This was no isle party. People were standing around and chatting, most of them looking uncomfortable. A lot of them she knew from the Isle, but there were also several Auradon kids there, who looked more excited about the party than the Isle kids.

No one was dancing, probably because the music wasn't that great. The piles of food on the table had been gone through, which didn't surprise Evie a bit.

But this party as a whole? Evie finally decides that it's a very awkward mix of Auradon and Isle party.

A few of her clients spot her and give her a wave and Evie waves back, smiling to be polite.

"I have to go talk to a few people, make sure what I made them is holding up." She knows it is. Her dresses and outfits are always perfect, not prone to falling apart or anything. She just wants to leave Harry to enjoy the party he wanted so much by himself for a bit.

He can enjoy something like this, right?