Room 324, Monday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

After the arrest and everything, yesterday had continued to be just as moodswingy a day as many of the others before it. On one hand, her video had gained more than 250,000 hits in a single day, and Lynda had invited her to the Crossroads art shindig this Friday. On the other, she and her brother had had to listen to their parents fighting for like two hours in the evening. That always made her feel like an orphan. It sucked.

As did having to leave Marshall alone with the mess she could escape, especially when it was going to be his sixteenth birthday tomorrow. But Kate was still insanely glad when she finally managed to convince her parents to unground her so she could come back to Fandom.

She flew back, her parents paid for the tickets. She was too late for her classes, and probably would've skipped them anyway, so once she made it into her room, she just dropped her bags on the floor and fell over onto her bed, burying her face in her pillows.

Home sweet home, or something.

[ooc: Door is cracked, post is open, girl is... a lot of things.]

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[therewaslife]

Bod only had one class so he'd been doing not much of anything for the majority of the day. He'd decided to check to see if Kate had arrived back since he knew she did have classes.

So, he wandered down to her room and found her door cracked. Not knowing if it was Bobby's doing or not, he knocked gently.

[vanillajello]

Kate was... kind of half asleep right where she'd collapsed a little earlier, but she did hear that. Of course, just hearing it probably wasn't really enough, was it? Probably had to signal she was here, somehow, too.

So she made an inquisitive sound, muffled by the pillows. Would that even reach the hallway? She wasn't sure, and didn't really care either. She'd kind of been trying to take a nap.

[therewaslife]

Well, Bod heard...something. He heard enough that he poked his head in to see what he'd heard and when he saw Kate fairly immobile on her bed, he winced.

"It's just me," he said, not even knowing if she'd hear him, "but I'll come back at a better time."

With that said, he stepped away from her door quietly.

[vanillajello]

Kate did hear him. Okay, someone worth getting up for. Or, maybe not up, but she did roll over onto her back, lazily, rubbing at her eyes.

She had to clear her throat before she could call out after him, "There is no 'just you', boyfriend."

[therewaslife]

When he heard her voice, he stopped moving quietly away and came back closer to her door. "Um, it's just Bod, then? Is that better?"

[vanillajello]

"Lose the just," she replied as she streched a little bit, contemplating getting up. "You're not just anything. Now are you going to come back?"

[therewaslife]

"I thought you were asleep," Bod said, slipping inside her room quietly and shutting the door so he could lean back against it. "I didn't want to disturb you."

[vanillajello]

"Nah, I'm gonna be up all night if I sleep now," Kate said, raising a hand and giving a lazy dismissive wave. "Better to be disturbed. Not that I am."

[therewaslife]

"All right," he said, nodding. "Hullo. Welcome back to the island."

[vanillajello]

"Hullo," she replied, fondly mimicking his accent for that one word. She'd missed it, even though they'd talked on the phone. "Pretty good to be back."

[therewaslife]

"Are you British now?" he asked, pushing away from the door to wander closer to her.

[vanillajello]

"Yes," she decided with a nod. "It's my new thing. A whole identity makeover."

Funny how close that was to the truth, in some way.

[therewaslife]

"You haven't changed your appearance so I wouldn't say it's a whole makeover," he pointed out, stopping when his knees hit the edge of her bed. "Just the voice, perhaps."

[longislandiceme]

"Hey, you're back," Bobby observed as he wandered back into the room. In lieu of greeting he tossed a Happy Meal toy at her pillow.

[vanillajello]

Kate tried catching the toy, but ended up having to pick it up from where it fell beside her on the bed.

"I have indeed returned," she drawled, examining the toy. "Miss me?"

[longislandiceme]

"Terribly," Bobby confirmed. "Luckily, I had YouTube to keep me company."

[vanillajello]

Eyebrow raise, incoming.

"Hmm?" Beat. Oh. Oh. "Oh my God, did you see it already?"

That was a good kind of oh my God, by the way.

[longislandiceme]

"Yeeeees," Bobby grinned at her. "You never told me you were a superhero in your spare time," he said mock-accusingly.

[vanillajello]

"Well, it's a pretty recent development," she replied with a smug grin of her own. "But we all have our secrets."

[longislandiceme]

"True," Bobby had to acknowledge, considering he actually had a superhero secret identity.

"I don't suppose you'd mind if I emailed the link to people back home?" Valkyrie would get a kick out of it-

Okay, more accurately, Warren and Hank would get a kick out of Val's "wtf mortals are weird" reaction.

[vanillajello]

"No, no, go ahead!" Come on, internet famous in several universes? That was cool. "It's online to be shared with the world. Worlds."

[longislandiceme]

"Eeeeexcellent," Bobby grinned. "Although if this means you start getting calls from desperate fanboys, I'm not screening your calls," he warned her.

[vanillajello]

"Oh that's not going to happen," Kate replied dismissively. "No one's gonna know my true identity." A pause for thought. "Huh. Kind of like an actual super hero."

[longislandiceme]

"Without all the dangerous parts," Bobby felt compelled to point out.

Kate so got the better deal.

[vanillajello]

"I get enough danger just living here." And enough drama back home. "I'll let the princess handle the fabulous quests."