Weeping Angel A4, Friday After Classes

[vanillajello]

Kate was fighting a losing battle.

Namely, one of trying to stuff all her surprise luggage under her bed. There were just too many. They would never fit. But she just had to try. Not like she wanted them just laying around, when they had labels like Too much responsibility, Pushed around by skeevy guys and Heart bruised by Southern idiot.

And of course, that one fucking luggage set with the label Crazy mother issues.

Eventually though, she just gave up, letting a few of the bags that wouldn't fit just stay in sight. She was just going to flop down on the bed and be thankful that at least she'd been able to push that one black leather bag (which for some reason looked like an old-fashioned doctor's bag, and which had the words That one awful Saturday labelled on it) as far back under the bed as it would go.

Fucking Fandom.

[ooc: Open for cabinmates/visitors! I'll be around for a couple of hours now, and then again later in my evening.]

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[therewaslife]

"Before I leave, I'll write you some things in Latin and you can try and figure it out," he promised, smiling up at her. Not that he planned on leaving for a bit yet. "I'm glad you like it. That just means I won't stop using it here and there. You're fun when you're distracted."

[vanillajello]

"And you call me evil," she teased, pouting playfully at him just because she felt like it. "How am I fun when I'm distracted?"

[therewaslife]

"You just are," he decided. "For someone who is very much in control, I enjoy when it's me distracting you however that might happen. It's a bit of a pride point."

[vanillajello]

"Oh. I think I can understand that." Apparently, they were pretty similar when it came to this particular thing. "Yeah, I definitely see what you mean."

[therewaslife]

"I'm always amazed when you don't argue with me about things," admitted Bod, smiling up at her. "I can distract you with Latin and you can distract me...with just about anything you do."

[vanillajello]

"See, I don't argue with you about everything. I only argue when you're clearly wrong." ... And about most other things, too. She smirked. "But yeah. I think I have the advantage there."

[therewaslife]

"Probably." See, he could admit that even if he wanted to be less able to be distracted. He just knew it wasn't possible. "I don't know if it's that I'm easily distracted or you're just very good at getting my attention."

[vanillajello]

"I think you just can't ignore me," she decided. "That sounds better for me. It makes me special."

[therewaslife]

"Can you ignore me?" he wondered, using his position to trace a line from her chin, down her throat and to the top of her chest.

[vanillajello]

She was trying to do so right now. Almost successfully.

At least she didn't shiver.

"Well, you've accused me of it once before, remember?"

That was before... almost everything, so she knew it probably didn't reflect the current situation, but that wasn't going to stop her from using it for stalling now.

[therewaslife]

"That was a different time," he replied, lowering his voice and fingering that familiar necklace of hers for a moment or two. "You did ignore me but I let myself be ignored too. It's easy to ignore when that happens. Do you think you could ignore me now?"

[vanillajello]

"No," she said, after a moment of just looking down at him. "I don't think I could. But if I could, would you let me?"

[therewaslife]

"Probably not," Bod said, rubbing his thumb along her necklace for a moment more before his fingers found skin and he traced her name on her chest, first and last. "I think I would let you be alone if that's what you needed but I wouldn't let you completely ignore me."

[vanillajello]

"Good to know," Kate replied, sounding a little unfocused. A lot of her concentration went into figuring out what he was doing.

They were familiar letters, though, easy to decipher once she got the hang of it, and once he was done she smiled and said, "You missed one."

One name, she meant. The one he didn't know, so it was pretty unavoidable.

[therewaslife]

"Did I?" Bod asked, tapping her skin twice to indicate the first and last before he looked back up at her. "What did I miss?"

[vanillajello]

"Michelle," she said, smiling almost shyly about it. "It's Kate Michelle Gregson."

[therewaslife]

"Michelle. Your middle name," he finally realized, grinning a bit wider at her reaction before making a show of erasing the previous writing so he could redo it. This time, first, middle and last name all got scrawled against her skin with his finger.

"I don't have a middle name," he told her, glancing back down to where he'd written against her skin. "Not one that I know, at least. It's just Nobody Owens. My first name is probably unusual enough."

[vanillajello]

"It stands alone pretty well," she agreed. "It's not boring like Kate. You don't need a middle name."

[therewaslife]

"Your name is not boring," Bod assured her with a shake of his head. "And I was about to offer you the honor of giving me a middle name but since you don't think I need it, I won't offer."

[vanillajello]

"Just because you don't need it," Kate pointed out, "doesn't mean you can't have one anyway."

[therewaslife]

"So, what sort of middle name would you give me?" he wondered. "You've free reign. What would flow well with a first name like mine?"

[vanillajello]

She pursed her lips, all thoughtful. "I don't know. Nothing's coming to me right at this second, I might need some time to think about it."

[therewaslife]

"Time is something I have plenty of," he said, reaching up to slide his fingers along the line of her jaw and around her ears. He didn't say anything while he did though. Just enjoyed the quiet moment, the touching and her.

[vanillajello]

Kate closed her eyes for just a moment, enjoying what he was doing. And she smiled.

"We're in a tiny alcove that's literally filled with my issues," she said as she opened her eyes again. "How are we having such a nice little moment here?"

[therewaslife]

"I don't know," Bod said honestly, laughing quietly. "I don't mind your issues, you don't mind mine so it's fairly easy to forget they're even there. Perhaps that's how?"