Room 324, Early Tuesday Evening

[vanillajello]

Kate was having a quiet day. And that suited her awesomely. Last week had been pretty... eventful, what with the trip to New York and fighting and nervous breakdowns and all, and then there'd been the newbie picnic and talking to way too many people and a coffee-date and flying.

And then of course new classes, yesterday.

Kate felt she deserved a quiet day, so she'd slept in, and had done absolutely nothing useful the whole day. Unless you counted a quick trip to town – avoiding the park – to acquire a big bag of candy a useful thing. And Kate sure as hell did.

She knew Geoffrey was casting for the next play today, but she also knew there were two more times to audition, so no, she wasn't going to be making it to the theater today.

Instead, she was lying flat on her stomach on her bed, with her laptop and the aforementioned bag of candy in front of her. Mmm, candy. Mmm, useless internet things.


[ooc: Man, I wish I had candy. Open door, open post!]

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[longislandiceme]

Bobby's Tuesday hadn't been much busier. He totally felt he deserved laziness, after actually doing schoolwork on a day when he had no classes yesterday.

He wandered back into the room, a couple of slices of leftover pizza in hand.

"I miss anything while I was gone?" he checked. Hey, there totally could've been an invasion of tiny snowmonsters in bunny suits or something. Never could tell.

[vanillajello]

"Mmh. A coffee pot came by to declare war on my socks," Kate replied idly, not looking up from the screen.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby would never, ever admit that for a second he totally had believed her.

"That would explain the group of coffee mugs carrying pickaxes I had to step over to get back inside," he retorted.

[vanillajello]

"Yeah, once I get this torrent loading I'll throw my socks out the window. That should solve that." She clicked things a few times, then looked up at him. "Anything interesting happening anywhere else, or is everyone just having a braindead day?"

[longislandiceme]

"Except those poor suckers who had class today," Bobby pointed out, flopping over on his own bed.

[vanillajello]

"They're idiots. I don't care about them," Kate said, waving a hand to show just how little she cared. "I only care about the braindead. And the ones still in shock. Which would be the newbies."

[longislandiceme]

"Does it count if someone's not a newbie, but some of the newbies are making them all 'what-the-deuce'-y?" Bobby wondered.

Hypothetically, of course.

[vanillajello]

"With the way the island treats us with all this alternative universe and timeline crap and everything? Totally counts."

Kate wasn't exactly buying into the hypotheticality of this, no. You could tell by the quirking eyebrow.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby and subtle were two great tastes that... never really saw hide nor hair of each other, actually.

"It's doing it to me. Again," he complained.

[vanillajello]

Kate pushed herself up to sitting, trying not to look too amused. It was way too easy to be amused when this stuff wasn't happening to you.

Or, you know, when you were still unaware that you were somehow involved, if only a very little, tiny bit.

"What is it this time?"

[longislandiceme]

"Kurt Wagner," Bobby sighed. "And Warren Worthington. Except they're not the ones I know. Because that would just be too uncomplicated."

[vanillajello]

"Oh." Well, the amused face disappeared pretty fast. "Kurt's my fake little brother."

Paaause. "You know a different version of Warren?" By what she'd heard, he wasn't exactly the only one. And wait, that totally made it sound like Warren was the more important one. "And, uh, Kurt."

[longislandiceme]

Well, to Bobby's way of thinking Warren was the more important one, since he didn't actually know his world's Kurt very well.

"Yeah," he nodded. "He goes- went to school with me at Xavier's. You've met already?"

[vanillajello]

Oh. Right. Now she remembered that he'd mentioned Warren before, too.

"Yeah," she nodded. "At the picnic..." Her voice drifted off, kind of making it obvious there was supposed to be something added to the end of that.

Look. This was a little weird, so she didn't feel like just saying they'd been on a very memorable date. Don't ask her why.

[longislandiceme]

"He hit on you already, didn't he?" Bobby rolled his eyes.

[vanillajello]

After that, there was very little point in keeping it a secret.

"We had a coffee date on Sunday," Kate replied with the slightest hint of a smirk.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby had to laugh at that. "It's good to know some things hold true across alternate realities, I guess."

[vanillajello]

"Well, if it's supposed to be different versions of the same people, some things have to," Kate pointed out, smiling. "Which is about as far as I'm willing to go into thinking about that sort of stuff, because it just gives me a headache."

[longislandiceme]

"See, this is what I'm saying," Bobby complained. "The Warren that's here doesn't know me like he should, and the Kurt who's here knows me better than he should. I don't get it."

[vanillajello]

"Don't try to get it. Just deal with it."

Okay, it was easy for her to say. She knew that.

"Seems like a lot of people know Warren, the Warren we have here, and he doesn't know anyone. So I'm gonna go ahead and say he's worse off than you."

[longislandiceme]

"You... might have a point, there," Bobby had to admit.

[vanillajello]

"I'm very good at putting things into perspective," Kate said. "I'm pretty sure you should know that by now."

[longislandiceme]

"Sometimes I need to be reminded of these things," he told her solemnly. And then tossed a pillow at her head.

[vanillajello]

Kate made a startled sound, but caught the pillow. "You know, you're not getting this back. That's the price you pay for immaturity."

[longislandiceme]

Bobby just snickered. "Not getting it back, huh? So you're gonna carry it around with you until graduation?" he asked innocently. Brat.

[vanillajello]

Kate didn't even miss a beat. "Until after my graduation. I can't risk you getting it just because I'm gone and you're still here." Pause. "Or I could just destroy it right now."

[longislandiceme]

"Not- not Fluffy, the best pillow to ever... pillow!" Bobby said, bringing his hands up to his mouth in affected horror. "How could you be so cruel?"

[vanillajello]

"Because you need to grow up," she told him, solemnly. "One of life's hard lessons."

[longislandiceme]

"Ugh," Bobby made a face at her. "I spent yesterday trying not to fall asleep while reading math textbooks. I think I've had enough growing up for like, the entire week."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, fine."

She tossed the pillow back at his head.