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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[vanillajello]

"Well, Nathan didn't get aged up," Kate shared. "And I'm pretty sure Jacob punched him, so... Guess that's a negative on the 'all right' on him."

[therewaslife]

"Ah, unfortunate," he said sincerely, nodding. "Perhaps things will work out anyway? Though, I hope Jacob didn't do any permanent damage with his fist."

[vanillajello]

"Nah, it didn't look that bad," Kate replied with a slight shake of her head. "Personally, I think Nathan's face has to have been made from slightly stronger than average stuff to keep up with his personality. It's not the first time I've heard he got punched."

[therewaslife]

"I don't know whether that's a good thing for him or a bad one," he said and chuckled. "Hopefully he won't run into a brick wall that truly damages it to the point of no return."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, I think he'd just die if that happened," Kate replied with a quiet snicker. "He's very proud of his pretty face. Extremely."

[therewaslife]

"Well, is it a pretty face?" Bod asked because he wasn't sure he'd ever seen Nathan besides in passing and the player's brain wanted to keep it that way.

[vanillajello]

"Well yeah," Kate said. "It's weird 'cause he kinda looks like he shouldn't be attractive, with the crazy eyebrows and everything, but he is."

[therewaslife]

Bod chuckled a bit. "That's an interesting observation to make. I'm sure he appreciates that though. I would if I were in the same predicament."

[vanillajello]

"But you're not," she noted with an amused glance at him. "There's nothing about your face that should make you unappealing."

[therewaslife]

"Says you," he countered with a light laugh.

[vanillajello]

"I looked at your face in the capacity of your girlfriend for six months," Kate informed him, in case he'd forgotten. "I should know, okay? I am as close to an expert on the attractiveness of your face as you're gonna find."

[therewaslife]

"Well, someone might think my eyebrows are strange or that my nose is too big or maybe my mouth's too wide," he argued lightly. "So, that person might be out there."

[vanillajello]

"Maybe so, but there can also be someone out there who thinks you're the spitting image of a -- a meerkat, or something," she retorted. "People think all kinds of crazy things. Besides, they're not here. It's just us."

[therewaslife]

"And you think my face is fine?" he asked, smiling a bit.

[vanillajello]

"No." A beat. "I think your face is far better than just fine."

[therewaslife]

"I think you might be biased just from past encounters alone," he said and chuckled.

[vanillajello]

"So?" she asked, raising her eyebrows. "Is that not allowed? I wasn't aware."

[therewaslife]

"Yes, I've forbidden it," he decided with a nod. "It's no longer allowed. Bias is outlawed."

[vanillajello]

"Hmh." Oh yes, she was going to pout at him now. Or the ceiling. Entirely seriously, except not. "What's allowed, then? You should probably tell me now, I wouldn't wanna go accidentally breaking any more rules."

[therewaslife]

Bod laughed and looked up at the ceiling in kind. "I think just the no bias one right now. I just cannot stand for biases. They are illegal and wrong."

[vanillajello]

"It's a stupid rule." Of course she'd say that. "'Sides, I wasn't always biased, and I still thought you were cute the very first moment I saw you, doesn't that count for anything?"

[therewaslife]

"Well, it has been awhile since we've really been around each other," he pointed out, turning to look at her. "Maybe things have changed."

[vanillajello]

"Nah." She kept looking up even though she knew he was looking at her. "The only thing that changed was that it hurt to look at you, because looking at you was all I could do."

[therewaslife]

"I'm sorry," he said, sounding apologetic even if he knew it wasn't needed. "Things were difficult."

[vanillajello]

"I think we've established that," Kate replied gently, with some wry amusement. "And, obviously, even now I don't really know how much I can do beyond looking, but at least right now it's like... the weekend dumped us into April of last year, which is way better than whatever special hell dimension we were stuck for months."