Room 324, Monday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

It was official: Kate absolutely hated dealing with interdimensional time differences. Hated, hated, hated. No, seriously. Yesterday, she'd set her brother to work on figuring out a schedule for his graduation visit, and he'd called her back today (a few hours later, his time), and they'd still had to spend the better part of an hour trying to finalize something of a plan. It was a frigging nightmare. She'd almost given up entirely, especially after she'd started getting a headache from trying to understand how their worlds could have been going at different speeds and they could still be having a normal phone conversation.

But somehow, they'd finally done it, and Kate had hung up and sighed and was now sorting through a pile of fresh laundry. She'd washed a bunch of clothes last week and never gotten around to actually putting them away. Might as well do it now.

It was helping her get a little less pissed off at stupid things like the multiverse.

[ooc: Door and post are open!]

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[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You think you could do mine next?" Nathan asked, leaning in her doorway and watching her fold laundry with amusement. "I'm a little behind."

[vanillajello]

"I'm sorry," Kate replied airily, not glancing over yet because she knew who it was and folding this particular shirt needed her attention, "but my maid services are far, far out of your price range."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"How the fuck do you know what my price range is?" Nathan asked, laughing. "I could be sleeping with some older chick who's paying me handsomely for the services my dick provides."

[vanillajello]

"A, you would've already told me if that was going on," Kate replied, now shooting an amused glance his way. "And B, even if that was the case it would sstill be out of your price range, just because."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You're cruel," Nathan said, wandering in without an invitation. "I thought you'd do it because you loved me and now you're charging me? You're a cruel, cruel woman, Kate."

[vanillajello]

"Actually, I'm not charging you because I'm not doing it," she pointed out, grabbing a pile of neatly (or neatly enough) folded shirts and going to put them back in her dresser. "Also, I don't love you."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why don't you love me?" Nathan asked, flopping down on her bed and making himself at home. "Everyone should fucking love me, Kate."

[vanillajello]

"And yet not everyone does," Kate replied idly, not even batting an eye at how at home he was. She pushed the dresser drawer closed and straightened up. "So why should I?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Because you're not a total bitch like those other people are?" Nathan tried, smiling over at her. "That's a good reason, isn't it?"

[vanillajello]

"Not really," Kate snorted. "'Sides, I think I probably am a bitch. Kinda."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but not a cruel one," he mumbled, shaking his head. "Besides, I like your kind of bitch. It turns me on, makes me hot, gets me all worked up into a sweat that I can only release with a good wank or some strenuous exercise. I prefer the first one, if you couldn't tell."

[vanillajello]

"... Charming," Kate drawled, crossing the room to take a seat at the foot of the bed. "Tell me again how that's supposed to make me love you?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why are you making this hard on me, Kate?" Nathan asked, using his long legs to lightly kick her knee. "I'm tired of hard shit, lately. You could just lie and say you loved me so I went away feeling delighted at being loved."

[vanillajello]

Lazily, Kate batted at his foot with her hand. "Fine, fine," she sighed. "I love you. Happy?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"No, but that's not your fault," he said and smiled. "Why are you spending your first official day off doing fucking laundry, Kate? Why are you boring? You're boring."

[vanillajello]

"I'm not boring," she replied with an indignant tone that was about half joking and half serious. "I'm doing useful shit now so I don't have to do it later in the week."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And yet, you won't help a bloke out with his own laundry?" Nathan asked, trying to look as adorable as he could manage. "I'd make it worth your whiiiiile."

[vanillajello]

Kate rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I hope you know I'm only humoring you when I ask how?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Sexy striptease?" Nathan suggested, not really meaning it.

[vanillajello]

Kate gave a snort that really illustrated what she thought of that idea. "Yeah, no thanks."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan sighed and rolled onto his back, shaking his head. "You're missing out, Kate, you are missing out. I am an expert in sexy stripteases. It's like seeing heaven for the very first time."

[vanillajello]

"I sincerely doubt that," she replied. "You have the confidence, sure, but you're just way too tall and skinny for me to picture it as anything other than a total mess."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You're hurtful," he said but didn't really sound all that hurt. "Fine, no sexy stripteases for you. I'll save it for...Ramona!"

She seemed to like his skinniness.

[vanillajello]

Kate did too, actually. Sort of. She just didn't feel it was striptease-appropriate, and there was that whle boyfriend thing.

"Lucky Ramona," she replied dryly. "She's my princess of awesome, you know."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Is that some kinky girl on girl thing you two have going on that you haven't let me in on until now?" Nathan asked, frowning. "How could you keep something like that from me?"