Fourth Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Thursday | August 26

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal had been putting this off for months now. Considering he had just forty eight hours left on the island, it seemed that his time of hedging and procrastinating had come to an end. When he made bets, he filled them even if it took him time.

So, he'd move some of the furniture aside and out of the way all while wearing a thick bathrobe. Yes, he was wearing spandex pants under that bathrobe and no, he wasn't going to show that off until he absolutely had to. Kate was just lucky he hadn't tried to find a loophole.

There was a boombox nearby, queued up with the most ridiculous song known to man. In a few minutes, he'd have to click play and actually dance.

He was going to dance. In spandex. To a girly song. He hated his life and yet, he'd keep making bets. Stupid bowling game.

[Oh god, this is so open. I'ma put up some OCD just for my benefit but this is SO open. Not Hannibal's last post in Fandom, btw!]

Comments

Before the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know you wanna gather 'round and wait for the show to begin. Feel free to talk to each other or just grin evilly at Hannibal.

Re: Before the Concert

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter got a good seat and situated himself with a big bowl of popcorn to share. No, he hadn't known this was going to happen. But luckily popcorn was quite readily available.

Re: Before the Concert

[puppy_fair]

After spectacularly chickening out on crashing the slumber party last night, Zack kind of felt like he was obligated to come and share in Hannibal's humiliation, now.

... With eyeliner on. And blush. And lip gloss. This stuff was way harder to wash off than he'd ever dreamed it could be. Which probably served him right, huh?

Re: Before the Concert

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter looked over at Zack.

"Well, who's a pretty princess today?" he said, and then he held out the bowl to soften the tease a little. "Popcorn?"

Re: Before the Concert

[puppy_fair]

Zack shot Peter a sheepish smile as he reached for the popcorn.

"I don't even get bragging rights for this," he noted, wryly. "I totally opted out of crashing the girls' party, in the end."

It would have been awesome, too.

Re: Before the Concert

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"You know, I had that idea myself," Peter said. "But then I realized I'd have to shave and then I lost all interest in putting in that much effort."

He chuckled. "So what, did you use permanent marker for your makeup?"

Re: Before the Concert

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Oh, Angela would never miss this. Front row for her.

And she had a camera, that he would have to pry from her hands if he wanted to get it away from her. Also a phone as a backup. She was well-prepared.

Re: Before the Concert

[vanillajello]

Kate was insanely tired in so many ways from the trip home, but there was no way she'd miss this.

So she'd be the one grinning evilly with a camera firmly in hand, yeah.

Re: Before the Concert

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen was definitely there.

The Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Once Hannibal was certain everyone who wanted to watch was there, he took a deep breath and tried to picture them all not there. Maybe that would work. Fat fucking chance. All right, he just had to get this over with.

So, off came the bathrobe to reveal the most hideous pair of bright blue spandex pants known to man. He'd paired a white tank top with it and just went barefoot. It took a lot to make him blush and...he was almost there now.

And then, the music. Yes, the music. As soon as he hit play and took a spot in the center of the room, that blush sort of just appeared on his face. Dammmit. The music started and yep, he was going to have to actually dance now.

Hannibal was not a good dancer. He wasn't even close to a good dancer but he tried, at least. He tried to keep the rhythm, tried to, at least, look halfway decent when that was impossible but what everyone was seeing probably looked like a blind donkey getting shocked with a taser.

Not pretty.

He didn't stop though. He wasn't going to get near anyone in the common room because audience participation did not need to happen. He moved his feet, stumbled, nearly fell ass over end and had to play it off like he'd completely meant to do that. He didn't know what to do with his hands so they ended up on his hips, at his sides, clasped to each other and many other variations.

There was no crotch grabbing.

One thing that he was good at was being somewhat flexible and strong so he could do some jumps, some tumbling but nothing too advanced. And he nearly rolled into a sofa during one but he avoided that.

The donkey getting shocked with a taser get going and going and going. Hannibal wanted to crawl into a hole and die as the song's end finally neared. He wanted to never hear this music again and he wanted to hope that these spandex pants weren't ripping.

When the song mercifully came to an end, he looked like he might vomit for a minute before snatching the bathrobe up and tying it nearly tight enough that he couldn't breathe.

There. He'd done it. And he hated himself now.

[And yes, you can react now, whoo!]

Re: The Concert

[trigons_child]

Raven had been walking downstairs from the fifth floor when she heard the music. She paused to poke her head into the common room.

And staaaaaaaaaaared.

Re: The Concert

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Yes, the music coming from the common room was a little difficult not to notice, and so when Alexander went to investigate, he could only regret it. He did not know what it was he was watching, but he did know that he'd rather not be watching it.

And yet, one found themselves completely unable to look away...

Re: The Concert

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Aw, at least there was always going to be one person cheering and wolf-whistling, however stupid he looked. It was a girlfriend thing.

Yes, she was also catching this on her camera.

Re: The Concert

[vanillajello]

Kate was totally cheering him on!

While filming the whole thing. And laughing her ass off. Come on.

Re: The Concert

[glacial_queen]

Karla had been heading upstairs to pound on Zack's door and inform him that he wouldn't get to have any of the cookies they baked today when the music caught her attention.

Detouring over to see what was going on, Karla just had to stop and stare at the spectacle. And then laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.

After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

This is where you can find Hannibal if you wanna talk to him or just wanna yuck it up with each other!

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

And yes, Hannibal hadn't run away after he'd finished dancing. He was still there, still clad in that bathrobe and looking mostly relaxed since it was all over now.

There was probably some sarcasm and snark lurking though. Or maybe that was just his stomach feeling queasy from eating a burrito before dancing like a one legged blind man.

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

"Man, you are totally my mancrush after that," said the pretty pretty puppy, ambling up to Hannibal after the dance and offering him a sympathetic smile.

A statement like that could be interpreted in so many fun and fantastic ways, considering the makeup that Zack hadn't been able to scrub off this morning after chickening out on crashing the sleepover.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"...and you're wearing makeup," Hannibal said like it wasn't obvious. "Maybe you should be wearing the spandex and not me."

No one should wear the spandex but Zack's comment did make him smile and bat his eyelashes at the pretty pretty puppy.

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

"YOU!" Whatever consideration Hannibal had gotten clearly wasn't about to be extended to Zack. "Where were you last night?" she asked, beelining straight towards him. "You so don't get any of our cookies now and--are you wearing makeup?"

Karla: super-observant, except not.

Re: After the Concert

[vanillajello]

Hannibal was going to get tackle-hugged right about now. After Kate had hidden her camera in a safe place, of course. She wasn't dumb.

"Oh my God!" she exclaimed with a laugh, lost for other words.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I hope that's a good exclamation and not one that means I sucked and have to do it again," he said, catching her against him and hugging her back.

He would not be doing that again, oh no.

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

Karla, unlike she was painted in certain conversations, could actually be nice. So after nearly laughing herself ill in the doorway, called in one of the Newcastle beers she'd picked up for Jono and offered it to Hannibal.

"Kiss kiss," she said, dimpling. "You look like you could use a drink and this is the strongest I've got on me right now."

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Where did you suddenly get alcohol?" he asked, taking it gratefully. "You're an angel."

OOC

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal says cameras are not allowed.