vanillajello | Kansas City, MO, Tuesday

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Kansas City, MO, Tuesday

Between work and birthday celebrations and whatever, Kate didn't feel like she'd had a lot of time to just veg out lately. So that was a pretty obvious plan for today since she had the day off. And she was a world class vegger so it was going to be good. She had her laptop, she had candy (the world's most nutritious late breakfast!), and she was in her pajamas. Everything was pretty much perfect. And her first order of the day? Scrolling back on her Tumblr dash for as far back as she could before her browser would inevitably freeze under the load. Hey, she'd missed a whole bunch of shit. Like all the way past Halloween. Maybe having been doing stuff other than Tumbling meant that she was an adult.

Of course she probably lost all her adult points by doing what she was doing right now. But whatevs. It was fun, and it passed the time, and she was seeing some pretty funny shit and snickering to herself. And then she came across a post collecting a bunch of highly obscure characters and internet phenomena Halloween costumes. And one of them looked familiar. Like, really familiar. Really, really, really, 'I ruined my life for a while over that costume' kind of familiar.

Kate clicked on the source link for the post in question. And yeah, there it was in the tags.

#princess valhalla hawkwind

So, Kate almost choked on her Twizzler. Once she was over her coughing fit and near-death experience, she typed the words into the search bar, because no way was there going to be anything else in there. Had to be just some random person digging up a low quality video from two years ago and making a costume 'for the lulz' or something. Had to be.

Except there was a bunch of recent fan art in the tag.

Some of it was actually pretty good.

"... Whaaaat."

[ooc: NFB, but open for all the usual stuff.]

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"What's the matter?" Bod asked when he slipped into the room, carrying Seamus. "Everything all right?"

"Yeah." Just surprising and confusing and weird. She was still kind of staring at the screen. Seriously, this piece of art was really pretty, and really obviously looked like her. Or at least her two years ago. And it was most definitely not by Lynda. "I'm just kinda weirded out and surprised right now."

Bod put Seamus on the ground and he skittered over to rub himself against Kate's legs because he was a cuddly little puppy.

"About what?" asked Bod, stepping closer.

"Uhhh." That was not an easy question to answer eloquently, apparently. She nudged Seamus with her foot as she settled on pointing at the screen. "Well, this."

Bod peered over and took a look at the screen. It took him a moment or two to realize what he was looking at but realization eventually dawned and Bod stood up.

"Ah." Yes, he remembered that costume and the memories that were attached to it. "Well. That looks interesting."

It wasn't his favorite thing in the world hence the rather robotic reply. But, he knew there'd been good parts for her. "I'm going to get something to drink. Would you like anything?"

"Uh, yeah. Coke."

She glanced back at him, then chewed on her lip as she scrolled down further in the tag. This was such a mindfuck and –– was that fan fiction?

Bod nodded and disappeared inside the kitchen. He returned rather quickly, passing her a glass of Coke before taking his own bottle of water and wandering back towards the bedroom.

Seamus stayed where he was, wrapped around her feet.

Kate was going to break away from the spell of the glorious double you tee eff soon enough, but it was going to take a moment. Her eyes were scanning the text, getting weirded and and yet weirdly elated.

This was... Well, it was kind of more what she'd wanted and maybe envisioned years ago when all the PVH stuff had seemed like a good idea. Minimal skeeviness.

It was always going to seem strange and skeevy (if he was one to use that word) to Bod just because of the things he associated the whole situation with. It was hard to change his perception after so long and a lot of rebuilding.

But, he was going to let her have her time. He'd gone back to the bedroom to both make the bed and sort through some clothes he'd cleaned yesterday.

And he hadn't even had first-hand experience with the skeeviness. And yes, that was a very good thing because Kate knew it had been exactly bad enough even with what little he'd come into contact with it.

And yes, after a moment of browsing the tag further, it did occur to her that for all that all the stuff there was nice and pretty positive and girly, they were still going to have different reactions to this. And that was when she put her glass down and her laptop aside and nudged Seamus so he wouldn't get underfoot, and got up to come to the bedroom.

He was getting hugged whether he wanted to or not.

Bod accepted the hug easily, not sure why he was getting hugged but not minding it all. He was quiet for a few moments.

"What's this for?" he asked. "Not that you have to have a reason but you were pretty busy just a few minutes ago."

"I like you," Kate mumbled against his shoulder. "I mean, someone wrote really cute non-sexual and non-romantic crossover fic about Princess Valhalla and Thor and I kinda like that too, but not as much as I like you."

"You can go back to reading, if you'd like," Bod offered with a small smile. He held her a little tighter. "I'd just rather not get involved, if that's all right."

"I don't know, I think I'm gonna process for a while." Also he was holding her pretty tight, and she was kind of doing likewise. So. That moving thing would've been difficult. "I think I reached my dose of being weirded out already."

"Mm. Apparently, you made a mark on some people," Bod remarked quietly.

"Apparently." She nuzzled his shoulder with a sigh. "And I'm totally not going to unload any more of my thoughts on the matter on you because I know it's all pretty fucked up and just this giant fucking reminder of how stupid I was years ago... But. I am just going to say it's kind of a relief to see teen chicks drawing PVH in a nice way. It's a relief. And that's all I'm gonna say."

"And I am glad there are some people out there that see her as a superhero," Bod said after a moment of thought. "I'm probably never going to see the whole thing in an unbiased way and I apologize for that. But, I'm glad you made a positive mark on people."

Kate moved a bit, to kiss him on the cheek, and gave him another tighter squeeze. "And I don't need you to be unbiased," she promised. "I just need you to see me for me, and you already do that, so..."

"You can do whatever you'd like and I'll still always see you as you," he told decisively. "I might not get involved in all decisions but I'll still support you."

Kate tilted her head at him, and smiled a bit.

"You are a wonderful, wonderful man, Nobody Owens."

Way better than Thor. Sorry, Thor.

"Thank you," he said, smiling at her. "You're quite amazing yourself."

"I know," Kate replied. Because nothing could kill her natural smugness, ever. Permanent feature. "Can I get a kiss?"

"Yes," Bod said, leaning closer and kissing her lightly. Of course she could get a kiss. Of course.

Kate chuckled against his lips and tried to claim a slightly less light kiss of her own. For some reassurance, maybe.

Or maybe just because kissing him was fun and she was yet to tire of it.

Bod responded to that less light kiss easily. He could do it for reassurance and he could do it just because he enjoyed it.

That was easy.

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