'tis the season

[beathach]

Who: Hank, Raven, Charles, and Erik
Broadcast: none
Action: Corona
When: Forward-dated to after Christmas

[docking at the hotel had been something of a godsend. Originally he was going to attempt to cook himself, but with all of the restaurants at the hotel available, he opted to choose one of them instead. Likely for the best, because he wasn't the greatest cook.

He'd done his research, however, and the dinner - while nothing overly fancy - still had some traditional Christmas and Hanukkah foods - or at least, as close as they could get to them, all things considered. He tried, okay.

But it was a holiday dinner for the four of them, and that was the most important part. It was a first for their family, after all]

Comments

[exothermia]

You lead up to it in a very suspicious way.

[beathach]

Well - I didn't want Raven to overhear. She has no idea I've even thought about it.

[exothermia]

[He's quiet for a moment, considering that. Whether Raven accepts or not is the real question. He has never thought of her as the marrying type... but then again, he had thought the same of himself, once. Perhaps he shouldn't be quick to assume.]

But you have, it seems.

[beathach]

[he shrugs a shoulder, lips pursing. He has been considering it for a while. Since they came back, honestly, until it became less of a passing thought and more of a desire. And then next thing he knew, he was asking Charles' permission]

For a while now, yeah. [he rubs at the side of his neck] I want to spend the rest of my life with her and - she knows that, I'm just . . . taking the next step to prove it, I guess.

[exothermia]

Well... good luck with it.

[He means that, sincerely. He hadn't exactly posed the question himself, with Magda. She had been headstrong enough to ask him whether he was going to marry her. The nerves that come with such a question though are ones he understands fully well. It even echoes his own vague worries over what he's going to say to Charles.]

[beathach]

Thank you.

[he half-expects someone to tell him its a bad idea, that's it's a bad time, any number of things, and yet they never come. He has Charles' blessing and now Erik's, sort of, and that leaves him to waiting the couple of days until he actually asks her]