Room 324, Monday After 4th Period

[vanillajello]

Yeah, so, Kate had had a weird, unsettling feeling since getting back on the island on Sunday. And now? Bobby and a bunch of other people had gotten themselves fucking kidnapped. And something was... growing, on the island, which she supposed might have been a little better than when things had just been disappearing into nothingness, but honestly, she didn't care. Weirdness was weirdness, and she didn't want it.

It was a direct consequence of this that Kate now had a portal to Kansas scheduled to leave in an hour, and was packing rather frantically, just shoving things into her backpack seemingly at random.

She just couldn't stay. She couldn't.

[ooc: Open door and open post, in case you want to catch the (slightly freaked out) girl before she flees from the BDE.]

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[therewaslife]

After stopping in at the cafeteria, Bod didn't immediately head to his room. Instead, he stopped in Kate's door, frowning.

"...Kate?" he asked carefully.

[vanillajello]

Kate kept stuffing her bag with clothes and random other things. Her movements were agitated. "I can't stay."

[therewaslife]

Bod blinked at that being the first thing out of her month. He stayed in the doorway. "Where are you going to go?"

[vanillajello]

"Home," she said, though it was obvious from tone alone that hadn't been her first choice. "I'll tell them there's... a rat infestation at the castle or something."

[therewaslife]

"All right," he said and sighed, crossing his arms. "I'm glad I caught you before you left, then. I would have worried if I hadn't seen you leave."

[vanillajello]

"I was gonna call you," she replied, throwing a glance in his general direction, though it didn't quite reach him. "When I was done packing. And you should go, too."

[therewaslife]

"Go where?" Bod asked, shaking his head. "I'd planned on staying here."

[vanillajello]

"Anywhere," Kate said, finally turning around to face him. "Okay? It's not gonna be safe here."

[therewaslife]

"If it's not safe, I could help," he replied, frowning. "I have skills that might be useful if things become unsafe."

[vanillajello]

"Or you could get yourself seriously hurt." Or worse, and then she wouldn't have much to come back to. She didn't even want to say that, though. "That's not useful."

[therewaslife]

"I'll be fine," he said, trying to sound reassuring. "The island isn't disappearing and neither am I."

This time, at least.

[vanillajello]

"Fine," she said, turning around to pick some more clothes from her dresser to put into her bag. "You know it doesn't work like that, but fine."

[therewaslife]

"Are you...actually getting angry about my choices?" Bod asked, raising an eyebrow. "Last time wasn't my fault."

[vanillajello]

"I'm angry at the island, Bod," Kate said, shoving a shirt into her already pretty full bag in a way that did seem a little angry, yes. "I don't need this bullshit from it. Not now."

[therewaslife]

"Right well, I'll see you when you're back," Bod said, deciding that forcing her to talk to him rationally wasn't going to work. She was angry and he was going to bear the brunt of it. "My best to your family."

[vanillajello]

"So you're just gonna leave?" she asked, interrupting another aggressive packing movement to wipe at her eyes. "Like that?"

[therewaslife]

"I don't want to fight with you today," Bod said, shrugging, "and you're angry and you sometimes take it out on me. I'm trying to prevent an argument."

[vanillajello]

"My roommate was kidnapped," Kate felt compelled to point out. "Excuse me if I'm not feeing rational."

[therewaslife]

Bod sighed and rubbed his forehead. "I know and I'm sorry about that. I'm not trying to make you be rational but I also don't want to argue with you. It's only going to upset you more."

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged a shoulder. "Yeah well, I only have 45 more minutes to be upset, anyway." After that, it would be going back to pretending nothing was wrong. "Do what you like."

[therewaslife]

This...was about what he'd expected when he'd realized she was angry. She'd be angry at him and treat him unkindly and he'd have to stand there and take it without arguing back.

"I don't understand what you want me to do," Bod finally said. "You didn't like my choice, you derided it and then you got upset when I tried to avoid an argument. Do you want to fight with me?"

[vanillajello]

A little.

"No, I just want to do something that isn't just fucking panicking."

[therewaslife]

"Nothing I say is going to make you stop panicking," Bod guessed, shaking his head. "I don't know what else I can offer."

[vanillajello]

"So go," Kate said, shoulders tense while she'd stopped packing, for the moment. "If you wanna go, just go."

Maybe this was a little bit of rationality coming through. Maybe.

[therewaslife]

"I don't want to go," Bod nearly snapped, shaking his head. "But I'd also like to avoid arguing with you so that doesn't follow you home. What do you want from me, Kate? What? Obviously, I can't do anything right."

[vanillajello]

"If you don't want to argue, just go," Kate repeated. "Because the only thing I feel like doing right now is screaming."

[therewaslife]

Bod rubbed his forehead again and stayed where he was, unsure why he was even still there.

"Fine," he said and glared at her. "Yell at me. If you want to do it so badly, go."

[vanillajello]

"I don't want to yell at you," Kate snapped, quite possibly defeating her own point. "God!" She zipped up her bag. "I can't do this."

[therewaslife]

Bod stepped back and pursed his lips, just completely confused right now. "I just tried to give you what you said you wanted and now you don't want it. What do you want, Kate?"

[vanillajello]

Kate spun around again. "I didn't say I want to yell at you!" Even if she still kind of was. "I meant that I'm feeling desperate, okay? And you can't help me with that, as you've already pointed out."

[therewaslife]

"That doesn't mean I don't want to help, Kate," he said, trying to keep calm despite being yelled at. "Why are you feeling desperate? You're leaving, you'll be safe."

[vanillajello]

"It's not enough," she said, sounding almost a little whiny. "It's not enough."

[therewaslife]

"Kate, calm down," he said and rubbed his eyes. "Your safety is tantamount. It's important. When you're safe, you'll feel better."

[vanillajello]

"Uh huh," she said, all sarcasm, as she sent a pointed look his way.

[therewaslife]

Bod was...very close to giving up. She was walking a fine line between concerning him and angering him with her behavior and he was very close to giving up.

"What would make it enough?" Bod asked, trying one last calm in a decidedly calm voice all things considered.

[vanillajello]

"I don't know," she said, going over to pick up her jacket from where she'd draped it over the back of a chair. "I don't care. I can't tell you what to do."

[therewaslife]

"You don't care."

Bod...couldn't really compete with that. Even his tone sounded defeated and his shoulders slouched.

"Goodbye, Kate."

With that, he turned on his heel and headed down the hall. If she didn't care, he wasn't going to give her more to not care about.

[vanillajello]

Kate was near frozen for a brief moment, but considering... everything, she couldn't just let him go away like that.

Of course, that only meant she ended up poking her head out the door and yelling down the hallway at his back. "Just so you know, if you get yourself killed there's not a graveyard in the fucking multiverse that's gonna keep you safe from how pissed off I'll be!"

And then she slammed her door shut. Might as well spend the rest of her time on-island leaning against the damn thing.