Crowne Plaza Hotel, Williamsburg, VA, Late Saturday Morning

[vanillajello]

There were no weird blocks hanging in the air here, no weird creatures running around, and no tails or ears appearing on anyone. The oddest thing was probably the teddy bear (Lennox Fitzherbert IV, as it'd by now been named) sitting on one of the bedside tables. So, all in all, it was a pretty damn normal hotel room. And that was the best thing for it to be, right now.

There was more exploring to do and adventures to have today, but not quite yet. It was still morning, and Kate was still pretty soundly asleep, curled up on her side, dreaming things that she wouldn't remember later on and that were already starting to slowly fade away.

[ooc: Just for that guuuuy, and NFB for off-islandness.]

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[therewaslife]

Bod wasn't asleep but he was still bed. He'd woken up awhile ago and was content to lay there and relax quietly. Occasionally, he sneaked glanced over at her and wondered what she was dreaming before he went back to his thoughts.

[vanillajello]

It was something entirely random about colonial times and pirates, only really she was a spy sent to retrieve a necklace from a guy who sold frozen cheese, and she had a dashing, pale sidekick, who she was honestly far more interested in than this stupid mission, because frozen cheese, how was she supposed to care about any of that when there were gaslights to make out under?

... Her brain was a special place. She sighed in her sleep, then raised an uncoordinated hand to rub one of her eyes, which probably meant she was starting to come to.

[therewaslife]

And while Bod had no idea what she was dreaming about, she did look adorable like that and he couldn't help but smile. He wasn't going to rush her awake or anything especially when things like this were still so new to him.

[vanillajello]

Rushing Kate awake was an action likely to get violence in return, anyway, especially now that she actually packed a decent enough punch. And she was doing just fine on her own, anyway. Her sidekick had just started to talk about how important the stupid necklace was, and she wasn't having that. Shut up about the damn necklace, don't you realize I'd rather go back to the -- "-- mansion to do you?"

Those last few words made it out of her mouth, and she woke up to the sound of her own voice, her eyes fluttering open and she just blinked at the world for a moment, last wisps of dream floating away.

[therewaslife]

"The mansion?" Bod asked from nearby, turning onto his side to see her. "Having big dreams?"

[vanillajello]

"You wanted to go to the fucking cheese guy instead," Kate complained, not really fully grasping who/where/why she was yet. A little more blinking and actually focusing her gaze on him helped with that, though. "Hi."

[therewaslife]

"I wanted to go to the cheese guy?" Bod repeated, amused. "I was in your dream?"

[vanillajello]

"You were supposed to help me with my mission," she explained, rubbing her eyes again. "But you were way too focused on getting that job done and I wasn't."

[therewaslife]

"Kate," he said, trying to sound gentle, "I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm sorry for whatever I did."

[vanillajello]

"Excuses," Kate sniffed. "You wanted to go get the necklace like a good little spy pirate and I just wanted to sex you up back at our badass mansion lair." She pushed hair away from her face and quirked a drowsy half smile at him. "Even in my dreams you're way too concerned with doing the right thing or whatever that was."

[therewaslife]

"Why couldn't both happen?" Bod wondered curiously. "You complete the mission and then do...the other thing."

[vanillajello]

Kate couldn't help being amused that he was trying to argue logic into her dreamworld. So like him. "My libido waits for no mission," she informed him. "And dream me is kinda more adamant on that point than I am."

[therewaslife]

"You dreamed about me?" Bod was more caught up on that point than anything else.

[vanillajello]

"Yeah." The tone made it sound more like a duh. "I thought that was one of the clearest parts about this."

[therewaslife]

"Stop that, I didn't realize," he said and laughed. "Don't make it sound so obvious."

[vanillajello]

"But it is," Kate replied, then paused before amending her statement. "Well, it's obvious to me. I never stopped."

[therewaslife]

"Never?" he asked, surprised. He might have had one night with someone but she'd had another relationship.

[vanillajello]

"Never," she said, shrugging the shoulder that wasn't pressed firmly into the mattress. "I'm not saying all the dreams were good."

Some of the ones she'd had after dealing with Hannibal had been more than a bit dark, for one.

[therewaslife]

"Some of them were bad?" Bod asked quietly, frowning.

[vanillajello]

"Well, yeah," she admitted, wrinkling her nose. "I mean, I guess even some of the bad ones were good, if you knew how to look at what they were saying, but..."

Shh, it made sense to her, and she was trying to dance around the details.

[therewaslife]

"But the good ones are better to think about," he decided and smiled over at her.

[vanillajello]

"That they are." It took too much energy to see the good in the ones where she got turned into a vampire and came back to drag him onto the dark side with her. "This one was good."

[therewaslife]

"Even if I didn't listen to you?" Bod asked, laughing.

[vanillajello]

"Even if you didn't listen to me," she nodded. "You had an eyepatch. And I would've so convinced you if I hadn't woken myself up."

[therewaslife]

"An eyepatch?" he asked, laughing. "I was really the epitome of a pirate, wasn't I?"