Thornton & Coombs Dinner Party (Closed)

[jamesthorn]

The table is set with the family's finest china. The candles lit, and doors are open at Thornton Estate this evening. While the estate has seen countless elegant affairs throughout its long history, there's never been one quite like this one. Tonight, the Coombs are coming for dinner as William Thornton's personally invited guests. Despite the recipe for drama, there's still a dinner to be thrown and William has spared no expense for his son's newest girlfriend, Amelie. Fine wine, gourmet breads and cheeses, fruits, and appetizers are laid out in gorgeous displays by the caterer. To be certain that no nosy members of the press learn of tonight's momentary truce, the invitations were hand delivered and the family's private staff are serving.

Promptly, at eight o'clock dinner will be served, but in the meantime, there's plenty of time for mingling...and drama.

OOC: I've always used this particular property for Thornton Estate even though I believe it's more traditionally furnished than the one pictured. However, if you want an idea of the layout, there are plenty of photos and even a movie on the link above, lmao.

William is played by Pierce Brosnan. Obviously he's American in the game. If you wanna talk to William one on one, Rachel and I both have control of that old fart.

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[ameliecoombs]

It took her a while to decide on the outfit. She figured she had two options: go in with a demure dress and a smile and try and make nice, or dress for the battle ahead. She kind of wished she had Aoife to ask, but that was still a whole other mess she didn't want to deal with.

In the end, she went with a dress and jacket of armour, and figured to hell with it. She was already flying in the face of everything turning up to this thing, so she might as well look the part.

She steps out of the car and enters the estate, feeling like she's sixteen and being shuffled around to Violet's parties again. This is probably going to be a night of hell, but at least Daniel will be there.

[jamesthorn]

Isn't she the belle of the ball?

Truth is James doesn't know much about Amelie aside from the fact that she's a Coombs, and that makes her...his enemy. Or something like that. James isn't like Daniel. He still has mixed feelings about her family and especially that mother of theirs because what Violent had done wasn't harmless behavior one lets go so easily. Violet murdered his mother. It's hard not to look at Amelie, so beautiful and graceful, and not think about that.

However, James intercepts the beeline William is currently making for Amelie because he can tell his father is trying to catcher her alone. So, he walks up to them both putting a friendly hand on his father's shoulder. "I think there's a question in the kitchen," James says. Rather than make a scene all William can do is nod, excusing himself from Amelie and heading off towards the kitchen.

After his father has made his exit, James turns back to Amelie with a curt smile. "So, I'm James," he says, holding out his hand.

[ameliecoombs]

She can practically see his face straining as he talks to her, and she has to hold back a giggle. Amelie isn't Violet, no matter how many traits they may or may not share, and she's never really understood this whole feud thing the way Aoife does. She likes Daniel a lot, she knows Daniel likes his brother, and therefore she summises he can't be all that bad. Still, he looks like he almost doesn't want to touch her.

She smiles brightly and shakes his hand anyway. "Amelie," she says, like he doesn't already know. "And that was your father, I presume. Lovely house."

She knows it sounds stupid and formal but she's been raised at these kind of events, and the words come almost as if Violet is pulling the puppet strings behind her mouth.

[jamesthorn]

It's easy to see why Daniel is infatuated with Amelie. She's simply gorgeous. Maybe too gorgeous for his brother if one were to be honest. It's going to be difficult to talk Daniel out of this relationship, if it comes to that, and James is still worried that all of this with Amelie isn't the best thing for either one of them. There are legitimate reasons their families don't get along.

"Yes, don't worry. He'll find you eventually," he warns with a smile. "But thank you. I hope we at least made you and your family feel welcome. For the night."

[under_the_radar]

"So you came for a fight, huh?" Daniel said, stepping up silently behind her and taking advantage of everyone else being distracted to wrap his arms around her waist and breathe her in, kissing her cheek. "You look amazing. Way too good for this place and my Fathers company."

[ameliecoombs]

She relaxes into his touch, not realising how tense she was until she lets it out. She's been waiting with bated breath for Aoife to slap someone or James to arrest someone or William to do god knows what, but so far everything seems to be running relatively smoothly. Maybe this won't be so bad.

"Thanks. You look good, too. Everything here looks amazing, I'd tell James he did a good job myself if I didn't think he'd run away from me."

[under_the_radar]

"I think tonight is supposed to be for exactly that purpose. We've got him trapped." Daniel said. He was relaxing now that she was here and nothing had exploded. Maybe they'd survive this evening. He let her go and moved round to stand next to her, watching people mingle. "Was it a chore to get Aoife here? She doesn't look happy."

[ameliecoombs]

Amelie shifts a little, guilty that she hasn't invited Aoife here herself. She knew that she was on the guest list, but with the current state of their relationship, she made no effort to ask Aoife if she was really coming.

"I keep waiting for her to hit someone," she says under her breath, watching where Aoife is talking to William. "I'm as surprised as you that she came."

[under_the_radar]

"Father is full of surprises, unfortunately." He said, grunting slightly. "This one's going to be a doozy I think." He took a breath and held her hands in his, towing her towards the stairs. "Come on. I want to show you the house."

[ameliecoombs]

She followed him happily, glad to be away from all of the glaring eyes. "Gladly," she said, a large part of her curious to see what the Thornton estate had in store. Coombs manor had always been grand and imposing, but it was touched by magic and enough of Violet that she was sure this would feel a lot different.

Still, this was a Thornton house, and while she knew that Daniel wouldn't hurt her, she wasn't so sure about Papa Thornton. Aoife's words ringing in her ear, she absently drew a protection rune on her side with her finger where she hoped he couldn't see. It wouldn't be much, it wasn't drawn on properly and she was only half concentrating, but it would be enough to warn her before any surprise traps could be sprung. Not that they would be needed. Hopefully.

[under_the_radar]

On the way through, Daniel grabbed a couple of drinks, passing one to her and then looping his free arm around her waist and pulling her close. His father would have eyes on them everywhere but he was done caring about that.

They took the stairs up to the more lived in area's of the house and walked through the large games room with the snooker tables and all the ugly hunting trophies on the wall to get to the place that only Thornton kids knew about. He stood in front of a seemingly random expanse of wall and grinned at her. "So. Wanna see something cool?"