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]

"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?"

[vanillajello]

"It's not kinky, get your mind out of the gutter for a second," Kate replied, snickering. "We just ran into each other at the Devil's Nest when we were both tiny children."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And how did she become your princess of awesome?" Nathan asked. "Did she offer to be your bodyguard too? Or did you give her a hug because she was lonely?"

[vanillajello]

"No," Kate replied, rolling her eyes. "I was queen of awesome and she liked me, so I let her be princess."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I like my way better," Nathan said, smirking. "But, Ramona's a pretty good choice for princess of awesome. I've been bunking with her for the last few days. I couldn't say anything bad about her even if I wanted to."

It helped that he didn't want to, though.

[vanillajello]

"Yeah, she's pretty cool," Kate replied but it sounded a bit absent, since other things were more interesting. She tilted her head, raising an eyebrow. "So, what? Are you avoiding your room forever until you leave or something?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I don't want to be there right now," Nathan told her, shrugging. "I got completely screwed over and not in the good, I think my cock's been sprained way. I mattered less, Kate. Fuck that shit."

[vanillajello]

"It's still your room, though," Kate pointed out. Not that she didn't understand the sentiment. "You're seriously letting her drive you away?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"No but I still don't want to be there right now," Nathan said, shrugging. "I'm kind of tired of getting treated like some prick stranger by people who I thought cared about me."

[vanillajello]

"Okay," Kate said a bit more quietly, relenting. She shrugged. "She doesn't deserve you, anyway."

Her opinion was largely shaped by her own poor relationship with Caroline, but she didn't care. It was still her honest opinion.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan didn't know if that was necessarily true but he appreciated the sentiment anyway. "I'm sure I'll go back at some point but I'm still fucking angry, Kate. No one gave a fuck about my feelings so fuck them."

[vanillajello]

"I know," Kate said, though she wasn't sure she actually did. The details had remained more than a little fuzzy for her, but she wasn't sure if she should ask. "Fuck them."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"It'd be so much easier if just saying that made it all better, wouldn't it?" Nathan asked, sighing. "I wish life worked like that."

[vanillajello]

"You and everyone else, dearest," Kate replied with a sigh of her own, reaching over to pat his leg. "But, that's not how it works."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Does that mean I get another hug because I'm lonely?" Nathan asked, half smiling but half serious too. Who knew which part she'd pick up on.

[vanillajello]

Kate quirked a half smile at him. "I can't hug you," she said. "You're lying down."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan waved a hand in the air and didn't move. "Well, I'll just save it for later or something. Perhaps I'll cash it in when you least expect it. You'll be just settling down to cuddle up to your boyfriend after having stripped down to your skimpiest clothes and then I'll come knock on the door, demand a hug and make your boyfriend jealous with my charmingly adorable ways."

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted and shook her head. "I think that'd just make Bod laugh," she replied. "I'm pretty sure of it, actually."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"It would make him laugh?" Nathan asked, not quite believing that. "What about me hugging you would make him laugh?"