Room 324, Late Friday Morning

[vanillajello]

It was Kate's birthday.

Not that that was much evident from anything, except maybe the slightly stilted happy birthday phonecall she'd gotten from her dad earlier, and the far more animated one from Lynda a little later. But it was still her birthday. Seventeen. Hmmh.

She was grabbing a portal to KC in the evening to join Lynda in the Crossroads district's First Friday art thing. And afterwards she was going to take another portal back, and tomorrow morning Lynda was going to fly over to be her weekend guest.

But for now? She was lazing about in a skimpy top and shorts (it was her birthday, she thought she was allowed) with some candy and a random bad movie on her laptop. And wearing her Princess Valhalla boots for no real reason, other than having just checked the insane number of hits on her video.

So far it was an okay birthday.

[ooc: Half-open door, completely open post! Handwavey knowledge of birthday completely fine.

A some bits of AFKness coming up, first as I go to class, and then way later when I go see Scott Pilgrim, but other than that I'm around!]

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[therewaslife]

Of course Bod was going to be at Kate's door while he knew she was there. It was her birthday and he was her boyfriend. Carrying a bag over one shoulder and flowers in one hand, he knocked lightly on her door.

[vanillajello]

"Come in, it's open!"

As if Kate was going to actually get up and come to the door. It was her birthday. And she was lazy by nature.

[therewaslife]

Bod should have guessed she'd do that so he smiled, shook his head and pushed the door open enough that she'd be able to see him.

"Hullo, birthday girl."

[vanillajello]

Kate put the movie on pause and looked up, smile spreading across her face.

"Hey, boyfriend of birthday girl."

[therewaslife]

Bod kicked the door shut behind him before he wandered closer to the bed and her. "I've brought you flowers. Happy birthday, Kate. You're older than me now."

[vanillajello]

"I was older than you before too." If they went by his passport, anyway. She got up and off the bed (and onto her impressive heels), to reach for the pretty pretty flowers. "Thank you."

[therewaslife]

"Wow." He'd noticed the boots when she'd been lying down but it was a whole new thing to see them when she was standing up. It made her almost as tall as he was. "Those are impressive."

[vanillajello]

"I know, right?" she smirked, glancing down at the boots. So shiny and red and pink. "Aren't they great?"

[therewaslife]

"Be careful not to sprain your ankles in those," he said, looking down and tilting his head to get a closer look. "They are very...interesting."

[vanillajello]

"That's just code for them confusing you," she teased, looking at the flowers. "Don't worry, I'm actually pretty good at walking in them."

[therewaslife]

"I'm not confused," he argued, making a face at her. "I'm just...not used to such extravagant footwear."

[vanillajello]

"Confuuused," she chanted at him, stepping past him to take the flowers to her desk. "That's all there is to it."

[therewaslife]

"Why would a pair of boots confuse me?" Bod asked, shaking his head. "I'm not that unintelligent."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack couldn't have told you when Kate's birthday was without filching her wallet, but that hardly mattered for the reason he was calling. There was a practical one: He was coming to the island over the weekend to surprise Emma and he wanted to check in with someone he trusted not to tell her, just to make sure things were normal by Fandom standards.

For another, his entire study group had spent the evening before mesmerized by a certain video. No one believed him when he claimed to know the star. That was their loss.

After dialing, he drummed his fingers impatiently as he waited for Kate to pick up.

[OOC: SP = win.]

[vanillajello]

Kate was slow to pick up too, and sounded lazy if pleased once she did. "Jaaack," she drawled. "Wanting to wish me a happy birthday?"

See, now he didn't have to know about it in advance.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack was smooth enough to know the answer was not, It's your birthday?.

"Among other things," he said glibly. "Happy birthday. Is this seventeen or eighteen?"

[vanillajello]

"Thank you, and it's seventeen," Kate replied cheerfully. And a little smugly, though there wasn't much reason for it. "I'm not that old yet."

[bitten_notshy]

"Good," Jack said. "Once you're 18, it's all wrinkles and gray hair ... and you'd be far too old to play a viking."

Or whatever Princess Valhalla Hawkwind actually was.

[vanillajello]

Well, being a princess from a 'faraway kingdom' was wonderfully vague...

Kate almost gasped with surprise. "You've seen that?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Someone in my study group found it the other night," Jack explained. "It's much more interesting than the fundamentals of British law, so..."

So they'd watched. A lot. And paused on the bits where the princess's bra almost bounced out of her metal bodice until Jack scowled at them to stop.

The gasp answered his next question, but he'd ask it anyhow. "It's really you? Not your evil twin?"

[vanillajello]

"It'd be an awesome twin if it was," Kate said, and oh look, she was sounding smug again. This time she even felt like it was justified. "But nah, it's totally all me."

[bitten_notshy]

"I knew it," Jack grinned. "You look good. How'd you end up in the video? It doesn't seem like Geoffrey's sort of thing at all."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, Geoffrey hasn't been around for ages," Kate replied dismissively. "And this is not a Fandom thing at all. I, uh, met this lady called Lynda, back in Kansas? She's an artist, and she thinks I look just like her princess creation, so... Video."

He didn't necessarily have to know how exactly she'd met Lynda.

[bitten_notshy]

"And somehow the video got to me a universe away," Jack noted. "She made up the character before she saw you? That's like ... I don't even believe in fate, but it's quite a coincidence."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, she created the princess like twenty years ago," Kate said, nodding. "And I don't even really think I look like her all that much, but it's not like I'm going to complain. I mean, I get to be a warrior princess."