Jelly Bean B2, Friday Morning

[vanillajello]

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."

[ooc: Open to cabinmates and visitors and whoever!]

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[therewaslife]

"I don't..." He paused, having never really thought about it. He turned towards Kate. "Would you have?"

[vanillajello]

"... No," Kate admitted, grudgingly. Mostly because it was weird to have such insightful jewelry.

The necklace looked almost smug.

[therewaslife]

"I didn't know that," he said and smiled, showing some hints of shyness and pleasure at that. "Thank you for trusting me with it."

[vanillajello]

Kate smiled a little bit. "Yeah, well, I don't think it should be much of a surprise, anymore."

[therewaslife]

"It's not," he assured her, shaking his head, "but thinking back, it was at the time. We weren't...where we are now. Things were different."

[vanillajello]

"Way different," she agreed quietly. "Things are better now. I'd say so, anyway."

[therewaslife]

"I agree," he said and couldn't help the smile that crossed his face. "Different for the better, though."

[vanillajello]

She nodded and smiled. "And a lot of random crap's happened between then and now."

The necklace just watched them, idly brushing his thumb against the back of Kate's hand. He was used to that, after all. Being nothing more than a comforting presence.

[therewaslife]

"That tends to happen on an island that's as strange as this," he said, snickering. "I'm sure a lot more random things will happen after this. Nothing's going to stay mundane."

[vanillajello]

"As if anything ever really is mundane," Kate snorted. "The weirdness is always there."

[therewaslife]

"And you've chosen to keep the weirdness close to you." Very close in some cases. He was strange, after all.

[vanillajello]

Kate smirked. "Some types of weirdness are better than others. And if it's always there, then it can't completely shock me when it eventually creeps up on me."

[therewaslife]

"You're not expecting me to surprise you with weirdness?" Bod asked, snickering. "I bet I could, if I tried."

[vanillajello]

"I would never claim you couldn't do that," she replied. "Just that I'd hope you wouldn't do it on purpose. Unless it was a good surprise."

[therewaslife]

"I wouldn't try to negatively surprise you," he assured her. "I wouldn't want to get onto your bad side. I don't think I'd like it."

[vanillajello]

"You wouldn't."

Yes, that was the necklace, who was now getting yet another look. Which he didn't care about.

"You can glare at me all you want, Kate. It doesn't change anything."

[therewaslife]

"It's a bad bad side?" Bod asked, wincing a bit.

[vanillajello]

"It's a bad bad side," the necklace confirmed. "You don't want to be on it."

Kate was just going to very maturely sulk, now.

[therewaslife]

"Why are you sulking?" He knew sulking, of course. "It's a good thing for me to know, don't you agree?"

[vanillajello]

"Yeah but he's not supposed to know stuff like that," Kate whined. Again, very maturely.

[therewaslife]

"He's been with you for awhile," Bod pointed out, glancing at the necklace. "You have to know that he's seen your bad moods and your good moods. He's probably seen..."

Did Kate take her necklace off when they...? Bod didn't think so. And now he was blushing.

[vanillajello]

Well, that at least got Kate to crack a grin again, before she too sent a wide-eyed glance the necklace's way.

The necklace smiled in a way that would be best described as tolerant. "Yes, I've seen you have sex," he said. "No, I don't really care. I'm a necklace."

Granted, he could see the appeal of sex now that he was in this form. But he wasn't particularly fussed about things like that.

A beat went by.

"Although you should probably be glad that it's unlikely that one door has come to life today."

[therewaslife]

Bod turned bright red which really was a sight on someone as pale as himself. He screwed his eyes shut and shook his head, trying to not think about the necklace seeing them together, door or not.

"You're probably very right," he managed to mutter.

[vanillajello]

"Oh my God," Kate snickered, far too amused by his blushing, "what if it had? We would've been screwed!"

[therewaslife]

"Kate, shush shush," Bod said, covering his face with his hand now. "I don't need to think about that. I'm already feeling strange enough that your necklace has seen us do that."