Kansas City, MO, Tuesday Evening

[vanillajello]

Ugh. Long workdays due to delayed flights were horrible. Made all the more horrible by a seemingly endless stream of increasingly annoyed and annoying customers. Seriously, it was ridiculous how far the general mood could plummet. Kate's cheeks were practically aching from the all the smiling she'd forced herself to do.

So when she made it home, she shed her uniform, pulled on a flannel shirt like it was a decent thing to wear, and flopped down on the couch in the living room.

"Nooot moving."

[ooc: NFB, but open for calls/texts/boy, as usual.]

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[therewaslife]

"Did you have a long day?" asked Bod, coming out of the kitchen and brushing his hair out of his eyes. It was getting long again. "Everything all right?"

[vanillajello]

"Flights were delayed and people were assholes," Kate whined, although she sounded like she was mostly over it by now, and just whining because she finally could. "Stupid day."

[therewaslife]

"Sounds difficult," Bod said, tilting his head and smiling. "Can I get you anything?"

[vanillajello]

"Juuuuuice?"

There was no reason to draw that word out. She did it anyway.

"Thank you."

[therewaslife]

"Of course," he said, smiling at her and disappearing back into the kitchen. Seamus trotted out, though, having finished eating and wanting to see his mom!

[vanillajello]

Kate stuck out her hand for the puppy to lick and sniff when he tried to get on the couch with her.

Picking him up was too much effort in her slouching position on the couch.

[therewaslife]

Bod made his way out of the kitchen, juice in hand. He handed her the juice and then picked Seamus up so he could be on the couch with her. He immediately tried to climb into her lap to lay down.

"You should think about taking a vacation," Bod said, smiling down at her. "Recharge and relax."

[vanillajello]

Kate pushed herself a little more upright. Made drinking easier, left a little extra room on the couch, and also made it easier for Seamus to actually get in her lap.

"Yeah, I should," she agreed. "I don't know. Maybe in October?"

[therewaslife]

"I'm sure we could save up enough money for a good trip in October," he said, leaning down and pressing a kiss against her forehead. "I love you."

[vanillajello]

"I love you too, my English Muffin," she murmured, smiling a bit. "And if we do it in mid-October we can call it a mutual birthday celebration trip."

So convenient to have birthdays a month apart.

[therewaslife]

"A very good plan," he said and kissed her forehead again. "I'm making dinner. Are you up to eating?"

[vanillajello]

"Have we met?" Kate asked with a snort. "Please, I barely had time to eat shitty airport food. I mean, I might not wanna actually get off this couch for it but yes, I'm up to eating."

[therewaslife]

"Well, I wasn't going to make you get up or anything," he told her, standing up again. "I just didn't know if you'd eaten while at work. Though, if you had, I'd just keep a portion for leftovers for you."

[vanillajello]

"Because you're the best," she replied, half teasing and half sincere. "And I'm totally gonna cook for you soon too. Probably tomorrow. I should be home way earlier."

[therewaslife]

"Oh?" He chuckled and made his way back to the kitchen. "And what might you cook for me?"

[vanillajello]

"Dunno yet." Of course not. She gave Seamus some scritches behind the ear. "Maybe some pasta thing. What are you making me?"

[therewaslife]

Seamus rolled onto his back and flailed his paws up at her.

"Baked chicken and mixed vegetables," he told her, waiting for the protest at one of those particular parts of the meal.

[vanillajello]

Hey now, Kate wasn't that immature when it came to food!

Okay, she did say, "Eww, vegetables." But that was mostly a joke.

[therewaslife]

"Vegetables are good for you and I'm seasoning these so they'll be good," he chided lightly. "I promise."

[vanillajello]

"Okay, then it's fine." She didn't really hate vegetables, anyway. You didn't get to hold on to an attitude like that when your brother was Marshall Gregson. "So, how was your day?"

[therewaslife]

"It wasn't too bad at all," Bod told her, shaking his head. "I went to work, I came home, I walked Seamus. It was really rather boring, in fact."

[vanillajello]

"What, no one crawled up from their grave?" Kate teased. "Too bad. Your day could've used some excitement."

Not really.

[therewaslife]

"That definitely would have been exciting," he said with a little laugh. "Even when I lived in the graveyard, I never saw anything like that. The ghosts prepared to exit more gracefully."

[vanillajello]

"Yeah well they weren't horror story ghosts, anyway." Actually, she'd rarely met horror story anything. Although she supposed some of the things Fandom had thrown at her over the years counted. She rubbed Seamus' belly as she talked. "Also, if that ever happens? I expect you to call me right away."

[therewaslife]

"You want to know if things start rising from the dead?" asked Bod, amused. "Really?"