Room 324, Saturday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Originally, Kate had been pretty thrilled to find herself alone in 324 for the weekend. She liked having a roommate, but she loved having the space to herself, with the freedom to hang out in as little clothes as she wanted to. What was there to not love about that?

And that was how it had worked for most of the evening. But then late night, after going to bed, she'd just become super aware of being alone in the room. Alone in the dark. She'd told herself it was just stupid and ridiculous and sad to be scared but the feeling didn't leave her alone. It was the first night she'd slept all alone (or at least without a territorial, protective vampire in the same house) since... all that traumatizing, life-threatening crap. She knew she'd get used to it with time, but knowing that didn't help with the fear at hand.

She'd done most of her sleeping in the morning, sleeping way in, and was now seriously considering luring someone into spending this next night with her. Right now, that mostly consisted of having her door open with music drifting out into the hallway. She wasn't feeling like going out to find people, though she did at times wander over to stand in the doorway, just... watching. It was that kind of a day.

Occasionally, she fiddled with her phone and wondered whether she should just call someone over, but she wasn't sure that the phonelines weren't still messed up, and anyway, how desperate would that have looked?

[ooc: Door and post are open, people who come by may or may not be subtly roped into having a sleepover.]

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[vanillajello]

"Shut up, at least I did remember it." Eventually. "I mean, do you remember mine?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Kate Gregson," he said smugly. "Aaah, I bet you didn't think I would. Well, fuck you, Kate Gregson. Even with you giving me eight different names, I still remembered."

[vanillajello]

Kate raised her eyebrows, a little surprised. "I'm impressed." Well, there was no point in lying when she'd already shown her surprise. "Didn't expect you to have paid much attention beyond the Kate part."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I am not surprised you would doubt me," he said and sighed, shaking his head at her. "You'll learn, you'll learn. And if you don't, it's your loss. Though, there's one thing you're not wrong about. I am fucking impressive."

[vanillajello]

"In which ways?" Kate wondered, turning onto her side and propping her head up on one arm. "I mean, we've already covered your alleged sexual prowess, but there must be more. And I'm pretty sure you love talking about yourself, so tell me."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You want to know more about the ways in which I'm impressive?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "What, you can't just wait and see? Find out for yourself via your powers of observation and deduction? Just telling you seems...boring."

[vanillajello]

"Maybe I want to be bored," she replied easily, shrugging her shoulder. "I'm supposed to go to sleep at some point, right? But you don't have to, if you don't wanna. Or if you can't think of anything that's impressive about you."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"There's plenty that's impressive about me," Nathan said firmly, making a face at her. "I just don't typically list my attributes like some fucking catalog model. That's just lame. I let my actions speak for me, not a fucking list."

[vanillajello]

"So, there's nothing impressive about you," Kate decided with a nod and a smirk. "It's okay, Nathan. Not everyone can be awesome."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Honestly, I really don't give a fuck what you think," Nathan told her, shrugging a shoulder. "I'm not going to make a shopping list of my attributes. That's so incredibly objectifying and you should be ashamed of yourself."

[vanillajello]

"Oh yeah, I'm really seeing the error of my ways, now," she drawled, all cheery sarcasm. "Thank you, and I'm so incredibly sorry to have expected you to back up your vague claims with some actual examples."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Well, I haven't done porn like you have," Nathan shared, unaffected by her words and sarcasm. "I'm just a connoisseur of that particular medium and it makes me sad to have missed you in your prime. I bet it was fucking amazing."

[vanillajello]

Kate rolled her eyes. "Only if you think sitting on cakes is hot."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I've seen kinkier." He shrugged a shoulder. "Feel free to demonstrate for me though. I'll even run into town and get you a cake if you'd like."

[vanillajello]

"No thanks, think I'll pass," she replied dryly. "Washing cake off shiny, tiny shorts is not something I wanna be doing again."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Well fuck, too bad for me," he said, not sounding like he cared all that much. "What do you want to be doing then? You can't honestly just want to lay here until you fall asleep, can you?"

[vanillajello]

"Told you I was lame," she quipped, glancing at the room. "I don't know. I wasn't exactly planning to be entertaining gentleman callers tonight."

And it had been a while since she'd been just hanging out with someone who wasn't either someone to make out with, or a blood relative.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Let's hope this lame phase of yours doesn't last because I don't know if I could handle anymore Saturday nights like these. I mean, knitting would be more exciting. Fucking knitting," Nathan said, making a face up at the ceiling.

He was half joking and half serious which was about par for the course.

[vanillajello]

"That seems to be implying you're thinking of spending more Saturday nights with me and not just this one," she noted, eyes on him again. "Does that mean I should start making an effort or something?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'd be fucking stupid to rule that possibility out, wouldn't I?" Nathan pointed out, shrugging a shoulder. "Effort though, that would be appreciated. Let's see your effort."

[vanillajello]

"I don't know, all the effort I've made today is that I went down to the weapons locker after I got myself out of bed," Kate mused, so it didn't look too good.

"But... I guess I could show you my music video? That'd kill a few minutes, at least."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Your music video?" Nathan repeated, raising an eyebrow. "I'm sorry, why wasn't I told about this sooner?"

[vanillajello]

"Because I like not dumping all the interesting things about me on anyone all at the same time," she replied idly as she was pushing herself up and off the bed so she could go get her laptop from her desk. "Plus, it feels like way old news to me by now."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Is this in any way related to your adventures in the wonderful world of pornography?" Nathan had to wonder. "They just seem too closely related not to be connected. Maybe I'm way off base here but I don't think so."

[vanillajello]

"If you must know, it's the same character." She grabbed the laptop, then padded on over to the bed to take a seat again, setting the computer down in front of her and pulling the screen up. "The video came first, then this one thing at a comic book store, then... You know."