Room 324, Late Thursday Morning

[vanillajello]

"-- So then what? ...Oh, oh, like in that movie? You know. ...What do you mean, you don't? We watched it like three times in a row last spring when I had the-- Yes. That one. With the guy with the hair and the--"

Back in Overland Park, T was out, for some reason or other.

It meant that here in Fandom, Kate was sprawled on her bed with her phone clamped to her ear, getting updated on the stupid things morning television had to offer, and the things T would've liked to do later in the day if she wouldn't have been likely to be too lazy and too high to leave the house.

Kate was snickering a lot. "... Eww, T, that's disgusting."

There were worse ways to spend a morning.

[ooc: Door half-open, post completely so, do feel free to interrupt. No one's doing anything even remotely useful. Myself included.]

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[therewaslife]

"Perhaps that just means you're easily entertained," he teased. "That it doesn't take much to make your day enjoyable."

[vanillajello]

"No," she said, nudging him with her elbow, "It just means I'm mean enough to get enjoyment from mocking."

[therewaslife]

"Or you're easy to entertain," he reiterated, nudging her back but using his leg this time. "I bet I'm correect."

[vanillajello]

"You're not," she decided, nudging his leg back with hers. "For example, I'm not entertained by this at all."

[therewaslife]

"Really?" Bod asked, shaking his head lightly. He nudged her leg a little harder but pretended he hadn't done anything at all. "Perhaps I should leave you to find more entertaining things."

[vanillajello]

"Perhaps you should," she said, nodding gravely.

... While sneakily trying to curl her leg around his in a way that would make it just a little harder for him to leave.

[therewaslife]

"All right," he said, pushing to one knee (one because his other was currently being tangled by hers) and then deciding he'd just climb over her to leave.

Unnecessary, of course, but he wasn't really trying to leave either. He was more trying to surprise her and give himself the advantageous position.

[vanillajello]

Well, he was fairly successful on both counts.

Kate let out a little laugh of surprise at being kind of under him this suddenly. "Not sure this is going to work." Especially not if she was going to try and tangle one of her arms with one of his, too.

[therewaslife]

"It might still work," he protested weakly, a little too focused on keeping himself upright now that she had an arm and a leg of his tangled up and held steady. It wasn't going to stop him from moving, it was just making things a little bit harder.

[vanillajello]

For the time being, Kate was just going to hold on to what she'd trapped, and see where this was all going.

While trying to look sceptical. The grin was a little hard to suppress. "Mmm, I'm not convinced. Maybe you should try harder."

[therewaslife]

"I could..." Well, saying it out loud would give it away, wouldn't it? He couldn't very well give away a potential surprise. She had one of his arms trapped but that still meant he had a free hand.

Which he was going to use right about now, yes. He'd thought about tickling but, instead, was just going to lightly rest his hand against the side of her stomach, fingers brushing back and forth.

It wasn't much but hey, distraction. He raised his eyebrows at her.

[vanillajello]

Distraction indeed. There was a slight shudder at the initial touch, but then she relaxed again.

And raised a single eyebrow back at him, without saying anything.

[therewaslife]

"I felt that," he said because he couldn't let his little moment of victory pass without notice. "Are you going to let me leave?"

Still wasn't planning on going anywhere, mind you.

[vanillajello]

"Not only am I going to let you leave," she nodded, going for serious, but failing, "I also really wish you were gone already."

While running her free hand up along his arm and curling it around his shoulder. Yes.

"Also? You felt nothing."

[therewaslife]

"We're in agreement there," Bod said, nodding solemnly, "since I wish I were gone too. I won't come back again either. So, we can avoid all this."

Not that he was trying to move away or untangle himself or anything that would help him leave. What would be the fun in that? Instead, he curled his hand a little tighter against her side, no longer as light as it had been.

"I did feel something," he retorted, nodding. "You didn't hide that reaction."

[vanillajello]

"No, sorry, I think you might be delusional," Kate told him. "There was nothing to hide."

Things that were also about the same level of nothingness included the slight shift at the added pressure – by no means away from his hand, quite the contrary – and her fingers rubbing his shoulder.

[therewaslife]

"If I'm feeling nothing, perhaps I should stop?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and taking that shifting as encouragement to spread his fingers out a little, take up more space. "Obviously, I'm not wanted here."

[vanillajello]

"How clever of you to notice," she replied, moving her hand up to lightly stroke the side of his neck with the backs of her fingers. "Because obviously you're not wanted here in the slightest, not in any possible way."

[therewaslife]

"So, maybe you should tell me to leave," said Bod, sliding that tangled leg of his against hers and smiling lightly down at her. He moved his neck against her fingers, trying for a little more contact even as he asked her to kick him out.

"I'm sure I'd listen to you." In this case, probably not. Too busy moving his fingers against her side to think about really leaving, you see.

[vanillajello]

"You'd just tell everyone that I was rude and kicked you out. I'm not going to take that kind of a risk with my reputation," Kate decided, knowing it wasn't the best argument she could've made, and so totally not caring.

Instead, she turned her hand to press her palm against his neck, her fingertips caressing his skin as she smirked up at him. "You should be able to take a hint without me having to explicitly tell you."

[therewaslife]

"I've gotten confused before," he said, shaking his head slightly and valiantly keeping the smile off his face. Instead, he lowered himself a little closer to her, keeping most of his weight on his arms and knees but getting closer nonetheless.

"I wouldn't want to get the wrong idea," he added, nodding. "You should tell me to leave, if that's what you really want."

[vanillajello]

"Hmm." Kate pursed her lips, trying her best not to grin at him getting closer. "Maybe I should tell you a secret. It's totally a massively huge secret, and you can't tell anyone if I tell you."

It was about the least secret secret she could think of right now.

[therewaslife]

"I won't tell anyone," he said sincerely, nodding. "I promise. Whatever you tell me won't go beyond this room."

[vanillajello]

"There's a slight possibility that I maybe might not actually want you to leave," she told him in a stage whisper, nodding gravely.

"As much as it pains me to admit it."

[therewaslife]

"Interesting," Bod said, pursing his lips and nodding back. "What should I be doing instead of leaving?"