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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[vanillajello]

"And then your special day would be all about me," she continued, nodding a few times. Her cheek rubbed against his shoulder. "And my cat needs."

So, mostly napping on him every possible moment.

[therewaslife]

Most of his days when she'd previously been a cat had been about her and her cat needs so he didn't really see an issue with that. He nodded again, still listening and indicating he didn't really have a problem with that.

[vanillajello]

"And keeping me from eating Halloween candy. Cats shouldn't eat candy. Too much."

And about right then, she ran out of inane things to say, so she said nothing for a while. Just... listening to him breathing, pretty much.

[therewaslife]

He was definitely breathing albeit quietly and slowly. When she fell silent, he stayed that way, still not certain if he wanted to say anything even if she'd told him not to talk.

[vanillajello]

She sighed, trying to lean into him some more. Warmth and comfort.

"Did I make you quiet for good?"

Well, he'd been very obedient so far.

[therewaslife]

Bod shrugged. Doubtful that he'd be quiet for good but he had no intention of talking right now even if he had things to say or wanted to say things. He'd probably start talking again later.

Or tomorrow.

[vanillajello]

"Suit yourself," she replied lightly, if quietly. She'd been the one who'd told him to stop talking, after all. And she knew it wasn't the nicest thing to say, even if it had been necessary. "Fine with me. Could I maybe kind of sprawl across your lap?"

Blame that on thinking about cat things.

[therewaslife]

It hadn't been all that nice, he knew that, and when he was talking again, he might tell her that but he was trying to just do what she asked for now so he nodded.

He didn't mind. He had no idea how she was going to do that but he didn't mind her trying.

[vanillajello]

Well, she didn't end up quite sprawling over his lap, in the end. She tried to find a way to, but it was pretty awkward so eventually she just settled for curling up on her side on the bed, with her head resting on his thigh.

She'd just wanted to find a way to lay down while still staying close to him.

[therewaslife]

Bod smiled down at her once she'd settled and stretched out a little so he could be more comfortable without jostling her. He didn't mind this. It was fine with him.

[vanillajello]

It was kind of fine. As fine as anything could be right now. Kate brushed some hair off her face, back behind her ear.

"You said you'd read to me like this, once," she said. "You should do that sometime."

[therewaslife]

Bod smiled a little more warmly than before at her remembering that. He could do that, of course. If he'd been talking and had a book, he'd do it now but he had neither so he just nodded instead.

[vanillajello]

Kate glanced up at him, quirking the tiniest smile. "When we're more normal," she said, then gave a quiet snort. "If that ever happens."

It had pretty much been established by now that especially when put together, they weren't exactly what she'd call normal.

[therewaslife]

Again, Bod nodded. He didn't smile but he didn't look like he minded the suggestion at all. Just a nod to tell her that he agreed and nothing more. When things were a little more settled, yes.

[vanillajello]

More settled. Something like that. Kate moved to lay on her back, looking up at him. She had spent a long time not really looking at him so maybe this was progress.

"I smoked a lot of pot while I was home," she said, going back to idle sharing. Filling silence with pointless words. "Wish I could've brought some back with me."

[therewaslife]

Bod gave a little frown at that mostly because he knew by now what pot was. What he didn't know was how readily available it was or why it was something anyone would want to do.

It wasn't something he could see himself doing but there was no need to share that so he didn't.

[vanillajello]

Kate raised her eyebrows. "Why the frown?" She wasn't quite sure she was actually expecting him to answer that.

[therewaslife]

Bod shook his head, make her semi prediction come true. He'd frowned for a reason but he wasn't talking so she'd just have to guess.

[vanillajello]

"Prude," Kate decided, but she said it lightly. Kind of. "Anyway, we panicked and flushed it when the cops came." She rolled her eyes. "We were sure they were there for us."

[therewaslife]

Bod wondered how she could say that when she didn't even know what he'd been thinking. He just raised his eyebrows at her words and then shook his head again. It wasn't a disagreement shake, just a 'you were lucky' shake.

[vanillajello]

Well, that was the beauty of having to jump to conclusions when she didn't have words to go on.

"It was so weird," she said, with a brief shake of her own head. "Never thought I'd actually see Dad getting handcuffed."

[therewaslife]

Bod could definitely understand that. He could only imagine what Silas thought when he'd been in the back of a police car so he had to imagine it was hard for her.

He nodded and reached to brush his fingers through her hair gently.

[vanillajello]

"And then Mom made Aunt Charmaine babysit us," she continued, wryly amused though it was faint and gone all too soon. "Apparently, Dad had told Moosh he'd beaten up some contractor who'd screwed him over with something he was supposed to do to the Hubbard house."

She paused, then added as an afterthought, "We officially own that now, by the way."

[therewaslife]

Nodding again, Bod really realized how busy her few days home had been. No wonder she was so tired. It sounded like she hadn't even had time to sleep. Poor stressed Kate.

[vanillajello]

Kate wouldn't have argued with that assessment.

"And, like I said, when he came back, we had to listen to him and Mom yelling at each other," she said dryly, looking at the ceiling. "Best Sunday ever."