vanillajello | Jelly Bean B2, Friday Morning

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Jelly Bean B2, Friday Morning

Someone was spooning Kate and nuzzling her neck as she woke up. It was a really nice thing to wake up to. Cozy and comfortable. And obviously there was only one person it could be. So, sleepily, and fully expecting to see a pale face and some floppy hair and grey eyes and probably a cute smile, Kate turned her head and opened her eyes, and--

Well. The guy was pale, yes. Really pale, actually. His skin was almost white, not the kind of peachy pink that passed for white skin in general terms. And his hair was floppy, but it was also a little too long. And black. His eyes were kind of black, too. And his clothes.

He was most definitely not Bod. Kate pushed herself up on her elbows, eyes wide. "What the fuck?"

"Good morning, Kate," the guy replied calmly, with a gently amused smile.

"Who are you? And why the fuck are you in my bed?"

The guy kept smiling. Actually, there was something calming about him. Comforting. Familiar. "I usually go where you go," he said. "Except when you think you don't need me - which is totally fine, by the way - and you end up giving me to Bod to prove a point. Take my hand. You look like you need it."

Without even thinking about it, Kate took the guy's hand. It felt right.

And at the same time she understood what he was telling her. Her free hand came up to the top of her chest, reaching for something that wasn't there. And the guy just gave him something that was almost a smirk.

Still holding the necklace's hand, Kate fell back with a frustrated grunt and burrowed her face into the pillow. "Fucking Fandom."

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"More than a little," Kate replied. "But I'm fine."

If the necklace was unconvinced (which, okay, he was) he didn't show it.

"He's very nice, at least," Bod said, smiling at the necklace. "And seems to have your best interest in mind. It could be worse?"

"You could have gotten Monkey instead of me," the necklace chimed in, giving Bod a little smile back. "Think he would've let you sleep?"

Kate glanced at the backpack in question. It was on the floor, next to her school bag. "... Probably not."

"Nothing changed for me but I couldn't even imagine what would if it happened," he said, laughing. "I suppose I can share in your strangeness."

"Are you sure nothing changed for you?" Kate wondered. "Your copy of Robinson Crusoe could be wandering around my dorm room all confused right now."

"If it embodied any of the spirit of Robinson Crusoe, it would come find me," he said, finally moving close to enough to kiss Kate's cheek. "I think you have the weirdness of the day between the two of us."

"Don't I always?" Kate muttered, reaching for a very light, very quick kiss on his lips.

The necklace watched them impassively. Didn't bother him much.

"What are you and your necklace going to do today?" Bod wondered, taking a seat on the edge of her bed. "Go on a picnic?"

"We haven't really thought that far ahead," Kate said, glancing at the necklace. "Do you even eat?"

He shrugged. "Probably."

She shrugged too. "So, yeah, picnic, maybe."

"And here I was, only teasing you both," Bod said, snickering. "Is that why you were holding his hand when I came in? Usually, you touch your necklace a lot so in lieu of that, you held his hand?"

Kate laughed, a little embarrassed. The necklace quirked a smile at her.

"Um, yeah, I guess so," she said. "Just... Felt right."

"Well, that makes sense," he said, nodding his understanding. "If you'd like to do that now, it's not going to bother me."

"Oh, I don't need to, I'm fine," Kate replied quickly with a shake of her head.

The necklace rolled his eyes and held his hand out to her.

She took it. "Okay fine. Maybe I do. This is weird."

"It is but at least it isn't dangerous?" he pointed out, reaching behind her to rub her back gently. "It could be much worse."

"Yeah," Kate sighed. "Just a minor Fandom thing, really."

As minor as waking up with an unfamiliar guy could be, anyway.

"At least I don't have class today."

"Relax, Kate," he said and leaned over to kiss her shoulder. "It's all right. If it's a typical island thing, it shouldn't last too long. Until then, you've a new friend."

"Or, technically, an old friend," the necklace said, tugging lightly on her hand. "It's not like I'm a stranger."

Kate pursed her lips and looked from one... boy, to the other. "I know all of that. I'm just adjusting."

Bod just kept rubbing her back and looked over the necklace. "How long have you been with Kate, exactly?"

"About a year and a half, give or take," the necklace said easily. "Long time for a necklace like me."

Kate just examined the nails of her free hand, trying not to feel like this was all so very, very weird.

"Have you been enjoying yourself?" asked Bod, trying to not think about the fact that he was talking to a necklace in human form.

"As Kate's necklace?" the necklace asked. He didn't find it at all odd to be talked to. Or to be talking himself. Or to have a himself that could be talking.

Fandom magic.

"Well, she's made me who I am."

"I don't actually know that much about her necklace," he confessed, glancing at her. "I just know that she's quite attached to you. It. You."

That gently amused smile resurfaced again. "Either is fine," the necklace said.

Under her breath, Kate muttered "I'm not that attached..."

"I wouldn't be here if you weren't," he pointed out. "Do you think a lot of people had their three-dollar necklaces animated today?"

"Two fifty. On sale."

"Okay," the necklace replied. "Two fifty. So my point stands even firmer. I was a cheap trinket."

"The only thing I have that might have changed is the book she mentioned earlier," Bod shared, slanting a glance at her.

"I don't think I'm quite that attached though," he said even if he...kind of was. "It's only a book."

"And I'm just a cheap trinket," the necklace repeated, shrugging a shoulder, even if his tone was rather meaningful. "And she left me in your room just like you left your book in hers."

Here was where Kate cut in. "You're from Hot Topic," she said, frowning, "Stop acting like you're a-- like you're some sort of a zen master."

The necklace just smiled. "I'm sorry, but you made me this way when you started relying on me for comfort."

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