Room 324, Late Monday Morning

[vanillajello]

So. To sum up: Kate had spent the weekend being a divorced 37-year-old one-time indie movie starlet, taking a break from her studies at community college. She'd looked a whole lot like her mother. She'd used to teach at the school. Her last fake little sib had grown up hot. She'd hated Priestly's wife. She'd met Bod for the first time in twenty years. She'd had tattoos that commemmorated things she really did not want to think about this early in the morning, and those things were directly related to why certain people had been nowhere to be seen.

And oh, yeah, the vampire who ran the new club in town had hugged her.

Somehow, all this added up to Kate being currently sprawled flat on her back on the floor in the middle of her room. (Don't judge, it was a good place to think and recover.) Her phone was on the floor beside her, since she thought it would not be a bad idea to check up on some people after a weekend like that, but that could still wait a while.

She'd just stare at the ceiling and boggle at everything she remembered from the weekend, right now.

[ooc: Door is cracked, post is open.]

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[therewaslife]

Bod hadn't done...anything that strange over the weekend but suddenly being twenty years older was strange enough. He remembered a few details, winced at the awkward timing and then came down a few floors to tap lightly on a door that he'd only been to a few times since last year.

Perhaps he just wanted to make sure she'd aged back down just like he had. Or to make sure she was all right.

[vanillajello]

"Yeah?" came the reply, from the floor. As you do. She'd get up once she felt like getting up, okay? "I'm in here, it's open."

[therewaslife]

"It's, uh, it's just me," he said, nerves lingering even if they'd managed to talk some things out. "Um, Bod."

Well, she hadn't recognized his voice two days ago.

[vanillajello]

"It hasn't been twenty years this time, Bod," Kate replied, managing to sound mildly wryly amused even through the door. And through her confusion and general weird feeling over the weekend. "Come on in."

[therewaslife]

"Thank you," he said, reaching for the knob and pushing the door open slowly. He stepped in and looked a little awkward now that he was there. "I just wanted to see if you were all right."

[vanillajello]

"Well, I'm young and pretty again," Kate informed him lightly, tucking her hands behind her head. "What's not to like?"

It wasn't quite that simple, and she wasn't going to put much effort into pretending it was.

[therewaslife]

"I didn't really mean just physically," Bod said, staying with his back against the door. "I imagine a lot happened this weekend. I kept to myself and..."

Had a limp. The limp wasn't bothering him but the reason for it was.

[vanillajello]

"Walked around with your pimp cane?" Kate filled in, watching him. "Yeah, I remember. And I would like to get it out there right now that that's not a future I want for you."

[therewaslife]

She put it so eloquently and Bod had to laugh. "Yes, well, it's not a future I want for myself either. It's a little concerning but I'll see if I can contact Silas and ask him about it."

[vanillajello]

"Probably a good idea," Kate agreed. For the moment, she was trying to repress who she needed to talk to about things that could be coming in the future. "It's kind of valuable information for him to have, too, I'd guess."

[therewaslife]

"Well, I haven't spoken to him in awhile so it'll be a matter of re-establishing communication before I do anything," Bod said, shrugging. "What did you think of your possible future?"

[vanillajello]

"I've seen better." She would've shrugged if she hadn't been on the floor. She looked at the ceiling. "I mean, some of it seemed exciting, but some of it was... really fucking depressing."

[therewaslife]

"I'm sorry to hear that," Bod admitted, chancing a step or two closer to her. "At least it's just a possibility and not definite? Now that you know, perhaps things can be different?"

[vanillajello]

"I should hope so," Kate replied, with a glance at him. She didn't mind him getting closer, not at all. "Maybe I'll even get to have tattoos for more good shit."

[therewaslife]

"I almost got one of those a few months back," he shared for no good reason. "I stopped myself before actually going through with it because I wasn't thinking all that clearly."

[vanillajello]

"What of, or did you not think that far?" Kate asked, curious. If he shared, she could be curious. "Probably not the bear one we joked around about once."

It seemed like forever ago, she was surprised she even remembered.

[therewaslife]

"I was looking at...a shark, I think," he said, trying to recall. "It was a silly idea and I was feeling out of sorts and a little tired that night so it would have been a bad decision."

[vanillajello]

"A shark." Kate couldn't help a little snort of amusement, considering that. "Yeah, you would've regretted that in the morning."

[therewaslife]

"It happened to catch my attention that night," Bod admitted, shrugging a shoulder. "I'm not exactly sure why. It would have been a mistake and I'm glad I didn't do it but I was quite deadset on it that night. I don't know what stopped me."

[vanillajello]

"The last shreds of your sense of self-preservation, no doubt," Kate decided, shaking her head. "I had a bird with outstreched wings on the back of my shoulder, this weekend. A little classier than a shark."

[therewaslife]

"I had...nothing this weekend either," Bod said, shaking his head. "Well, besides the one scar but that doesn't really count since it wasn't all that voluntarily."

[vanillajello]

"I had a few new scars too," she shared, idly. "Couldn't even remember where all of them were from. Not specifically."

[therewaslife]

"Perhaps movie making is a difficult process?" he suggested lightly.

[vanillajello]

Kate directed a wry smirk at the ceiling. "I think it was teaching at Fandom that was the physically damaging part."

[therewaslife]

"Right, you did say that," Bod said, nodding. "And that's quite amazing to me because you never were much for the island's more aggressive events yet you came back anyway."