More New Brown Family Birthday Fun!

[dee_lorean81]

It's the end of October, so of course we're completely inundated with parties! Today it's our favorite little DeLorean Dee's birthday! The bar doesn't look too different from how it looked when Doc was having his birthday -- just with the brass balloons exchanged for silver and red and orange added to the ribbon decorations. Dee's looking extra bouncy this year, and who can blame her? After all, her family's now officially grown by two this year! (Three if the mun ever gets her ass in gear on a certain event. . .)

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[museicalmarty]

Marty's the one handling presents this time, and he brings up a bunch of boxes wrapped in orange, yellow, and silver. "Here you go, kiddo! Happy birthday!" he says, grinning.

[dee_lorean81]

"Thanks guys!" Dee eagerly rips off the paper to reveal some new Transformers toys -- classic 80s versions of Optimus and Megatron, and a Bay-version Arcee. She hugs the boxes to herself. "Awesome!"

[clockwork_doc]

"Yes, we figured we couldn't go wrong if we stuck with those," Doc says with a soft chuckle, ruffling her hair. "I'm glad you like them."

[deadgirlslikeme]

"I did get a good one, right?" Victor adds, nerves spiking. "I had to rely on the more modern movies since I'm not familiar with the old comics and TV show. . ."

[dee_lorean81]

"Yeah, Arcee's cool," Dee assures him, before getting up to give him a hug. "But you didn't have to get me anything if you didn't want to. You already gave me a big brother." She grins over at Marty. "And a cousin, and a sister!"

[save_us_alice]

"Almost a sister," Alice reminds her, though she's only too happy to pat Dee on the head. "But we're working on that."

[dee_lorean81]

"Close enough," is Dee's opinion on this, giving her a hug too. "It's just really, really great that we're all a family! On paper and everything!"

[deadgirlslikeme]

"Yeah. . ." Victor says, looking from her to Doc to Marty to Alice. "We really are. The Brown-McFly-Liddells. All official." He blinks a few times to clear a sudden wet from his eyes. "And I couldn't be happier."

[clockwork_doc]

Doc wraps the lot of them in an embrace. "Neither could I, son."

[museicalmarty]

"Same here, cuz," Marty agrees as Dee hugs their legs.

[save_us_alice]

Alice kisses Victor's cheek. "Same here, love. And sis," she adds to Dee, who giggles.

[alienlisa]

AL and the guys are kind of on time for once! They march in, Twelve still regulated to the bar since the episode hasn't been watched yet.

"I dunno..." AL's saying. "You ever get the feeling that you're in two places at the same time?"

The Doctors look at her.

"Er...never mind. Happy birthday, Dee!" She hugs her.

[dee_lorean81]

Dee snorts as she hears AL's comment. "I was once in three places at the same time," she tells her as she accepts the hug. "'member? Back in 1955?"

[alienlisa]

AL nods. "Ye-...wait, weren't there four?" She proceeds to count off on her fingers. "The one young Doc's preparing to send back to the future..." Pause because title drop. "The one Old Biff stole, the one we brought back to 1955 to get the almanac back and the one in the mine." One, two, three, four. "Yeah, four." She scratches the back of her head. "When you're in the middle of it, you never think of it, do you?"

[dee_lorean81]

"Soooort of," Dee says, scrunching up her nose. "That last one is kind of -- fluxy. Cause it doesn't really exist until Daddy and I get sent back to 1885 so I can be put in the mine to wait until 1955 again." And she's very glad she wasn't sentient during THAT time period. "So that one kinda both counts and doesn't count. Yeah, there's four in the final timeline, but you could argue that there's only ever three during what you're watching in the movie."

She giggles. "I wasn't a people then -- I didn't even have to worry about it!"

[alienlisa]

AL rubs her head. "Time travel can sure give you a headache...even when you're a time traveler." She scratches the back of her neck, blinks, glances upward, then smiles. She goes to Twelve and pats his arm. "I just got the word...your time out is over."

He smiles, a rare sight for this Doctor actually, and leaps up from his seat. "About time!"

AL shrugs. "Hey, wasn't up to me, love. The alter ego decided it."

[dee_lorean81]

"Especially when you're a time traveler," Dee says sagely, to which the various Docs and Martys gathered can only nod.

Dee grins and bounces on her heels. "Yaaaay! You're official now!"

"Guess you must have really impressed Lisa in the latest ep," Marty comments.

[alienlisa]

AL, the Doctors, and Jack all nod as well.

Then AL laughs. "Truth be told, he's been official since before the regeneration. It's just...well, things happened."

"Telling the other Lisa he didn't love her, for example..." Jesse quips. "None of us ever did that."

She shrugs. "Things happened. And we're actually short one episode...one was skipped due to DVR malfunction and will be recorded later but the one after was pretty good." She smiles. "But it wasn't just the episode, though I'm sure it factored in it. She had another dream and he told her he loved her. Good enough for us."

"I told you," says Twelve.

"I know it and everyone in this room knows it, but you know how the alter ego gets. It took not even one episode to fall for Eleven. You took ten. And saying what you did in the dream didn't help."

"That wasn't me," he insists.

"Yes, but you have to admit that things have changed in this new life cycle. I'm getting to know you all over again. Sometimes it's scary and sometimes you do things that remind me of why I fell in love with you in the first place."

Behind her, Five looks rather pleased with himself.

"So," she says in closing, "all you have to do is not do something stupid like tell one of us you don't love us and we're good."

Twelve glowers with those attack eyebrows of his, but he concedes that she's right. One episode left in the season - okay, technically two since one got skipped - so here's hoping.

[dee_lorean81]

Dee tilts her head as AL and Twelve have their little squabble about the dream that made Lisa worry about his feelings for her. "Relationships are complicated," she declares after a moment. "How come anybody would dream of the guy they love saying they don't?"

"It's called a nightmare, and sometimes -- they just happen," DGVictor murmurs with a wince, as Alice puts an arm around him.

Dee pouts at that. "I dun wanna think about the time Alice tried to leave."

"Me either," Vic says, shuddering. "There's a reason I've already decided I'm never doing a plot like that again."

[alienlisa]

Twelve has the decency to blush a little and AL's wings flush pink as well.

"Sorry," they both say and AL adds, "We should really stop doing this at parties."

"Though it is usually the only time we're all together..." states Twelve.

AL does a sort of nod-shrug. "Yeah, but still. It's our problem, not theirs. But, anyways, it's all over now and everything's okay. Even if the finale holds something that makes the alter ego reject their canon and substitute her own, hopefully it won't get that bad and, if it does, it's resolved by the next party." She scratches her head. "That's January, right? For Steve and Gary?"

[dee_lorean81]

"It's okay," Dee assures them. "You're not depressing all the time."

"It's just us, really," Victor adds, rubbing the back of his head. "Bad memories and all. . . I'm glad you two are all right though."

"Yeah!" Dee agrees, getting bouncy again. "And yup, first of the new year, just like always! That'll be fun! It's cool when your birthday is a holiday."

"Not like we really celebrate New Year's much, kiddo," Steve points out.

"Still cool."

[alienlisa]

AL nods. "So am I." She smiles at Twelve who just winks at her.

She turns to Dee. "That's good. As I'm sure you're aware, the alter ego is going on vacation soon so we'd be scarce if there'd been anything in November. So next party being in January is good. Even if you have a Christmas party, that's okay. Don't have to worry about hopping in the TARDIS to get here on time with either one."

"We use the TARDIS to get here anyway," Clark points out.

"And we're also usually late anyway," adds Adam.

"Yeah but I'm talking about days or weeks, not hours." She scratches her head. "I could've sworn we had to do that once...maybe back when this was on LiveJournal." She shrugs. "At any rate. December or January, whichever." She nods.

[dee_lorean81]

"Yeah -- Disney, right?" Dee asks. "You'll have to ask your mun to take lots of pictures -- we've never been."

"Yeah, it's always been Universal with us," Vic replies, chuckling softly. "One of these days I'm going to go see one of those parks in person. But I hope you and yours have a good time!"

She tilts her head as AL discusses having to use the TARDIS once to reach a party on time. "If you did have to pull that once, I've forgotten too. Probably was back in the LJ days. No big, though -- sometimes, life happens. Which is happening quite a lot with me, lately. . ." AKA don't pin your hopes on a Christmas party juuuuust yet.

[alienlisa]

AL nods. "Disney, the two Universal parks, Sea World, Kennedy Space Center. The works. Well, minus Animal Kingdom. The alter ego didn't find it as good as the others the one time she went."

She smirks at the mention of pictures. "Oh, she will. She's emptying her phone out on Sunday - backing it up to the computer - to make room for lots of photos and videos."

Then she nods at V. "No biggie if there's no Christmas party. Life certainly does happen. January is fine."

[dee_lorean81]

"Woooow," Dee says, eyes wide. "You're going everywhere. No wonder she has to empty her phone."

Vic chuckles. "Sounds like one heck of a fun trip, though. I hope you all have a blast. And yeah, we'll see what happens once it gets closer to Christmas. I DO get more days off both this month and the next, so I might be up for some sort of short something."