Room 324, Friday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Kate was a mess. A little bit. In a vague, numb way. Not that she would be showing that to people.

It had been a pretty long week; filled with thinking she was insane, and Christmas shopping, and talking about ballet, and theater, and people unexplainably falling madly in love, and sleeping with several blankets and wearing many many layers because her roommate was making their room cold.

Despite having made two separate trips to the mainland within a week, a part of her wanted to just follow Jack’s lead and get the hell off the island for the weekend. But it was only a week until she’d go back to Kansas for Christmas. Might as well stick it out on the island until then. There was a party on Sunday and everything.

And now she’d found a bunch of photos she’d forgotten about on her computer. They were from the spring, and featured a lot of people she hadn't seen or talked to in a while. Her girlfriends back in Kansas (and such awesome friends they were, having lost contact with her pretty much straight after she moved to Fandom), people from school, Gene, Benjamin. Seemed like half a lifetime away.

She looked at the pictures, comparing her life then to her life now. Deciding which was better wasn't an easy thing to do.


[ooc: Open door, open post!]

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[future_sandworm]

Leto had had a quiet week, and had managed to avoid most of the strangeness of the weekend before. Now he knocked lightly on Kate's open door to get her attention. He shouldn't avoid company altogether, after all.

[vanillajello]

Kate looked up from where she was sitting – on the bed with her laptop in front of her, as usual – and the thoughtful expression on her face gave way to a bright smile as she saw it was him. "Hey you."

[future_sandworm]

Leto smiled back. "Hello, Kate." He walked over to her bed and sat down next to her, leaning in for a kiss.

[vanillajello]

Kate pressed the computer screen down while leaning closer to meet him. She kissed him softly, but... Well, she hadn't seen him in over a week, a week which had been all kinds of weird. So she was making up for lost time.

[future_sandworm]

"How has your week been?" Leto asked, leaning his forehead against hers and reaching for her hand.

[vanillajello]

Kate let out a quiet little laugh, giving his hand a light squeeze as it met hers. "Insane. Weird." Pause. "Just... Fandom."

[future_sandworm]

"Oh? Will you tell me or do you prefer to forget?" He asked, amused, then tugged at her hand and leaned close for another kiss.

[vanillajello]

"There was trauma, but also good stuff. I'll leave it at that," she replied, slipping her free hand behind his neck. After a kiss, she added, "And we're having heating problems with the room."

Right now it was perfectly warm, of course. The cold followed Bobby.

[future_sandworm]

"It's warm now," Leto pointed out. "Did you fix it?" He scooted closer.

[vanillajello]

"No," Kate said, lips curving into a light smirk. "It comes and goes during the day. And the nights have been invariably cold."

[future_sandworm]

"There is something you're not telling me," Leto observed, poking her arm.

[vanillajello]

"Possibly," she said. It wasn't as if she could actually argue with that.

[future_sandworm]

He gave her a look, raising an eyebrow.

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Jason said from the doorway. "Jest to clear things up a bit, if I did get ya pregnant then I wouldn't jest leave ya like I did. 'Cause that wasn't me, how I usually am."

Except it kinda was.

"Jest sayin' I wouldn't have left even if ya was comatose."

[vanillajello]

Kate composed her face into an expression of mock-seriousness, crossing her arms over her chest. "Yeah, I couldn't believe you'd do that to me and poor little Louisiana Princess Anne." ...He could blame Hannibal for that comment. And most of the name.

She'd meant to act really serious about it, to try and freak him out, but... It was kind of sweet that he'd come over to tell her that. So she settled for teasing.

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Holy fuck, so it is true..."

There were times he was high enough to not question the reality of reality. Yes.

"Sookie's gonna kill me." Louisiana Princess Anne? Damn, she must really hate him.

[vanillajello]

Oh for the love of...

"Jason! I'm kidding." And raising an eyebrow, and giving him a look of disbelief.

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Pause. "Well goddammit, Kate, how was I to know?"

[vanillajello]

It was a good question, really.

Oh wait, no it wasn't. "Because I haven't had sex with you!"

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

That was a logical reply, really. Which is why he said: "We should fix that, don't ya think?"

[vanillajello]

"Smooth." Only, y'know, not. You could tell by the sarcastic tone and the narrowing eyes.

"You just forgot it hasn't happened yet," she pointed out. "So now it's gonna take you a lot of work to make it happen."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

Jason wasn't much put off by sarcasticness and stink eyes.

"I think I hear a challenge there, Kate."

[vanillajello]

Kate tilted her head to the side with a slight smirk and shrugged with one shoulder. "If that's how you want to take it, fine."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Is that how you meant it?" he asked her.

[vanillajello]

"Maybe."

The truth was that she didn't even know. But that hesitation was all on the inside. On the outside there was only a smirk with a teasing edge to it.