A Pink Corner House, Bristol, Saturday Morning

[vanillajello]

Kate was still in Bristol. Still dealing. She thought she was doing okay, actually. She hadn't forgotten about Wednesday because that was impossible and she had the nightmares to prove it, but... At least some things seemed to be kinda righting themselves now. At least Mitchell was talking to her again. She'd missed that more than she would have cared to admit.

And she'd gotten to go shopping for clothes since she hadn't exactly packed for staying this long. That had been fun, because even after all the trauma lately she was still a slightly shallow girl of seventeen.

She wasn't doing anything quite that productive right now, though. Nope, she had coffee, and was hogging the couch in front of the TV. There was some random show on, where a really tall, really gay Chinese guy was helping a middleaged former biker chick pick out an outfit for the Queen's garden party.

It was random and very British, in Kate's opinion, but she wasn't really watching too intently. It wasn't catching her attention quite like that one show had the other night, the one where the geeky guy suddenly turned out to be smoking hot. Kate thought she'd have to catch up on that once she got back to her computer and could download stuff.

But right now it was just this.

[ooc: NFB, open for phonecalls and messages and people in Bristol! Now I want to watch something with Gok Wan in it too. ...Or that other show mentioned there, mmmm.]

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack waited until Emma had taken herself shopping before he called. He wasn't worried, exactly, but checking in still seemed like a minimal thing to do.

Ring, ring, ring

[OOC: Weekend SP warning in effect!]

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell wandered into the living room eventually, having checked up on George and Nina upstairs. He came to a stop in the middle of the room, squinting at the TV, a cup of coffee in his own hand. "...Why are we watching Gok Wan?"

So he wasn't completely awake yet.

[vanillajello]

Kate took a sip of coffee before lazily picking up the call, after checking who it was. "Morning, Mr. Priest."

[vanillajello]

"Because everything else sucked ass," Kate replied idly, glancing up at him. "Least he's kind entertaining."

[chosehumanity]

"Americans," Mitchell muttered, regardless of his own love for really ridiculous TV shows (at least The Real Hustle had a point to it. He was learning!) and stepped back towards the sofa.

He made a sort of backwards flop into it that seemed about half intent and half 'oh, who put that there?'

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted and gave him a vaguely amused look, curling up into her own space a little more. "Yeah, because you have such impeccable taste."

[chosehumanity]

"The Real Hustle is educational television," Mitchell countered, taking a wary sip of his own coffee. "You don't need more fashion advice."

[vanillajello]

"Showing how totally stupid people are is educational?" Kate wondered, then shook her head. "God, how were you ever a teacher?"

Of course, Kate was an avid fan of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, so she didn't have much room to talk. But then she wouldn't feel the need to claim anything she watched was in any way useful, either.

[chosehumanity]

"Hey, hey," Mitchell said in protest, and waved his hand in her general direction. "It teaches you a lot about how to avoid scams!"

And was totally hilarious because you got to see how totally stupid people could be, but still!

[vanillajello]

"Riiight," Kate drawled, taking a sip of coffee while rolling her eyes. Multitasking for the morning. "Think I'll stick to my fashion tips and stuff, thanks."

[chosehumanity]

"Don't come crying to me if someone leeches off your mobile plan," Mitchell said, ever-so-kindly. He squinted at the television. "Is she...?"

[vanillajello]

"Such little faith in my ability to take care of myself," Kate replied, shaking her head, before turning her attention towards the television again. "What?"

She hadn't really been keeping track of it too closely.

[chosehumanity]

"Oh, that is disturbing," said Mitchell. Apparently he wasn't about to answer her question now.

[vanillajello]

Kate quirked a brow, after watching the TV for a moment. "You find weird things disturbing, Mitchell."

Not surprising, really, considering who and what he was.

Also, Kate may have been lying about whether she found the stuff on the screen disturbing or not.

[bitten_notshy]

"The same to you, Miss Gregson," Jack answered. "What are you up to? I'm supposed to be studying."

Which he wasn't, because the words on the page weren't quite making sense, but it would do.

[vanillajello]

"I," Kate drawled, "am drinking coffee and watching some random but kinda awesome gay Chinese dude dress some lady up for a party with the Queen."

So, nothing much.

[chosehumanity]

"I just did not need to see that," Mitchell said, with a slight wince.

Then he relaxed into the sofa. "So," he said, conversational and very, very careful, "I was thinking about heading back out to Fandom tomorrow morning."

[vanillajello]

Kate made a slight face. "Ugh, yes, Fandom. Home of the unpredictable environment and the potentially ulcer-suffering boyfriends."

Her home as well, though, so she wasn't entirely objecting to where this was going. Couldn't hide forever.

[chosehumanity]

"You're welcome to stay for as long as you like, I'm not taking that back," he hastened to add, "Or turn up again later, if you want to take a break."

Which would also make Mitchell feel a lot better than if she ran off to some hotel in the middle of nowhere on her own again, so. "But I thought you might want to tag along, like."

[vanillajello]

"Mm, well, I do miss having more clothes." She missed a lot of things, in fact. Many of them not quite that completely insignificant. "And I have online stuff I should be getting back to."

Requests to attend to.

[chosehumanity]

"That's settled, then. We'll head home tomorrow morning, I'll head out to the theatre, you can get back to your..." He made a vague gesture. "...Online thing."

[vanillajello]

"And proving people I'm in one piece and shit," Kate added. She wasn't going to elaborate on the whole online thing, not to him. "Oh joy."

[chosehumanity]

It wasn't like Mitchell knew all that much about the internet; they didn't have a computer in the house, and he'd never really seen the point of doing too much with it. "Hey, they'll be happy to find out," he said, smiling. "You might even be able to scrounge something out of it."

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "I was more thinking about the people who give a fuck about me." The princess' fans didn't really fall into that category, she didn't think. "I dont think I've been gone long enough for anyone else to really notice."

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell blinked at her. "...I thought that was who we were talking about."