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Christmas Prep (Bring Your Own Holiday Cheer...and Christmas music)

The Hotel had been transformed within the last several days into a festive and jolly mess of color. It looked like a rainbow had exploded leaving tinsel, banners, wreaths.

Some oddly cobbled together figures were perched high up on the roof and if you looked for a moment they resembled snowmen, reindeer, penguins and elves.

Inside the hotel was much like the outside, a mess of randomly procured fabrics and papers strung up and about to make the place have a warm cheerful feel. And yet it still wasn't complete.

Besatboy wandered about trying to figure out where to work next. He had set up several stations to work on various crafts encouraging his fellow outsiders to work where they felt compelled. There were paper snowflakes to make, ornaments to make (Out of other odds and ends and hooks) Lights to hang (Despite the fact that Beastboy had not yet found a way to power all the lights he'd hung around the hotel without blowing a fuse) and a tree to be...well made.

They hadn't actually found anything resembling a tree yet and getting a fresh living one was out of the question. For the time being Beastboy had set up a bright red blanket around a fake plant he'd found in the lobby of the hotel.

"I know what this place needs." He snapped his fingers and scrambled to what had once been the reception desk. "Christmas music!" He had scoured the Media library to find all the tunes he could and now was the perfect time to set them up.

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Ruffnut blinked slowly feeling the throbbing pain in her forehead and grumbling some words that young Vikings should probably not say.

It was a very slow process for her to wake up and after how burned out she was from hunting for her fellow Vikings she had slept nice and hard after Vivio had put her under. She hadn't even heard Stacy admonish her for the act of violence she'd initiated.

A mighty yawn and stretch as the world came into focuse...and Ruffnut realize she wasn't in the building that she'd claimed as her lair.

As soon as the Christmas music started up, Laurie had drifted down from her room, drawn by the chipper holiday sounds. She had her green skirt and red top on, in the spirit of the holidays, but was bare fooot, with Spot trailing along behind her. When the decorations of the hotel came into view just around the corner, however, Spot took off down the steps and raced around all the details, leaving Laurie looking over the banister, looking down at all the decor in awe.

One of the decorations that Beastboy was adding in great amount was twinkly lights while standing on a tall ladder. He was wearing an elf hat along with his usual clothes. "Hey spot!" He greeted the dog not having spotted Laurie yet "W-whoa!" He yelped as the ladder was off balance and fell over. He shifted into monkey mode and swung using the lights as a vine catching onto the next piece of wall and hanging the light with a chattering grin.

Laurie had made her way down the steps almost immediately when she heard Beastboy's voice. But her delight had turned to worry when she heard the crash of the ladder, and Spot letting out a yelp of fright at the sound. She skipped a couple steps as she hurried down the stairs, and looked at where the ladder had fallen.

"Spot?" the pup came out from behind the chair at the sound of his master's voice, and scurried to Laurie's side, with his tail between his legs. "It's all right, it's all right..." She bent over to scratch behind his ears. He immediately brightened, and his tail came out and began to wag.

"But where's Garfield?" She looked up from where she could estimate the ladder's initial position had been, and saw the green monkey. She smiled. "There he is!"

Beastboy let out an excitable monkey noise and sprang from the wall turning into a dove and fluttering down gracefully to lit on her head with a chirp.

Laurie laughed, reaching up to tap Beastboy's beak. Spot looked on, confused by the sight of the bird.

"I'm not a roost, Garfield!" Laurie giggled.

There was another chirp and he fluttered to the floor to shift back, "Police Navy Dance!" He greeted her cheerfully and held his arms out in presentation, "Whattya think of the place? Feeling cozy yet?"

"It certainly looks cozy!" Laurie held her hands together as she looked over the entire set-up. "You must have thought of everything!" She added that to another reason as to why Garfield was absolutely amazing in her eyes. The reasons went all the way down seventy-five, and were gaining.

She turned her head to him, smiling. "Did anyone help you?"

He blushed hotly and squirmed with a grin, "W-well, we're not done yet, still have to work out the electrical issue...finish hanging things...find a fake tree." He laughed, "But yeah I've been getting some help from the other Outsiders. I don't think I coulda done all of this on my own."

Alex was not about to complain about the holiday cheer. He hadn't forgotten about his promise to help Beast Boy to rig the lights either. "H-hey, you still n-need a hand with those lights Beast Boy?"

"Yeah!" Beastboy cheered recognizing that all too familiar stammer. "Great timing dude. This place is only half as cheery without the lighting." He set down the paper snowflake he'd been making. "Every time I light em up they blow a fuse, I think we need a stronger power source or something."

"Well, l-let's start w-with only a few a-at a time. I'm really not sure if I c-can do any better!" He laughed, scratching the back of his head.

"Sure you can dude!" Beastboy clapped an arm around him steering him towards where the circuit breaker was on this level, "You're way totally smart. Just do your best and if the stupid thing is too broken we'll call in even more big brains."

"I-I'm n-not that s-smart... but ok-kay..." He laughed nervously as he was brought over to the circuit breaker. It was by far more complicated than the one in the apartment building his father owned, but the building only had one breaker, and the power for each floor was all routed together.

"S-so... Uh, w-which room d-did you blow the fuse for?"

"Um...I think it was this one here." He pointed to one of many different switches that were now in the off position. "But it might have been this one..." He rubbed his arm embarrassed, "To be honest? It's been a long day." He laughed.

Alex thought for a second, staring at the switches. "Oh!" he said suddenly, "Why don' you g-go to the actual room, and t-tell me via the c-comms if the lights are back?"

He'd start with the most likely ones. They had to get power running to the rooms again before they could try not blowing fuses again.

"You got it dude!" He saluted and turned into a rabbit to dash away eager to turn the hotel into the glowing cheery tower he knew it could be.

Using the comm-ring he asked Beastboy, "Just tell me wh-when you're ready." His hand meanwhile hovered over the switch Beast Boy had first pointed out.

Beastboy called back from some location outside the hotel itself, "Bring it on buddy!" The lights themselves were strung up a few different ways connecting to different areas in the hotel. All things considered Beastboy probably could have been much more efficient about it if he'd thought about it some.

Alex flipped the switch and waited.

"Are they back?"

So long as there were no shrieks of terror, everything should be all right.

"Yep there they go...." A half a second pause as a loud click could be heard from the circuit breaker "...and there they go. I really should have had someone help me with this sooner."

Alex couldn't help but laugh. "W-well, at least n-now we know witch one it is, l-let's see how we c-can rig this better..."

A laptop, a charger for his cell, the charger for his tablet, the power for the external hard drive he kept old projects on, and the power for two gaming systems was not one easily managed in his apartment, on top of all the normal appliances. The key was to take power from other places, like your down-stairs neighbour.

He figured in this case the next room would serve better.

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