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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[vanillajello]

Kate raised an eyebrow, mildly unimpressed. "Do you seriously need to even ask that?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Mostly, he just wanted to hear her admit it out loud. It'd make him laugh or something.

[vanillajello]

"Bod," she said easily. It wasn't hard to admit that. "Nobody no-middle-name-given Owens. Obviously."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Wait." Nathan paused and sat up a bit, holding up a hand. "His name's fucking Nobody? What the fuck were his parents on?"

[vanillajello]

"He was raised in a graveyard by a bunch of ghosts," Kate explained lazily, because it wasn't a big deal to her anymore. "That's the name they gave him when he showed up."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What the fuck was wrong with a name like Billy or Jeb or some shit?" Nathan had to asked, eyebrow raised. "Are the ghosts a bunch of dull witted dickheads?"

[vanillajello]

"That's Bod's parents you're talking about," Kate replied, raising an eyebrow herself. "And I wish you didn't. 'Sides, there was something about how he 'looks like nobody but himself'. I think the name's just fine."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Look at you, all protective!" Nathan laughed, amused. "You think his name's just fine because he's plowing you."

Nathan figured it was more than that but was he going to actually admit it out loud? Not a chance.

[vanillajello]

"Because he's my boyfriend and about the single most important person to me in the entire multiverse," Kate corrected, matter-of-factly. "And for the record, I pretty much thought his name was just fine the first time I heard it, too."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Are you gonna throw a tantrum now?" Nathan wondered, cocking his head to one side. "Should I move out of the way of kicking hands and legs?"

[vanillajello]

"I don't throw tantrums," Kate replied with an eyeroll. Nevermind that she would've gladly thrown one when she'd been on the phone earlier. "I'm merely letting you know where I stand."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And the fact that the bloke's plowing you has no bearing on him being perfect?" Nathan asked, poking her just for amusement now. It was a hobby.

[vanillajello]

"'Tis merely a fraction of his overall awesome," Kate decided, unwilling to be baited too much. "He has many facets, and so does our relationship."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm taking that to mean you've been making up for lost time you spent with Douchey McFuckface," Nathan said eloquently. "And if you're not, you are not the Kate I know and love."

[vanillajello]

Yeah, there was only one part of that Kate was going to latch onto. "Ooh, do you love me?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

This time, Nathan rolled his eyes. "Love is a fucking illusion. It's there one minute and gone the next."

He grinned.

"I am so fucking wise."

[vanillajello]

"Pfft, no you're not," Kate snorted, sounding pretty definite about that. "You are, however, avoiding the question."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Am I?" He shrugged and kept avoiding the question. "You got any food around here? Something substantial that isn't a fucking vegetable or fruit?"

[vanillajello]

"There might be some chocolate in my desk drawers, other than that everything's down in the common room," Kate obliged, though she wasn't going to be that easily distracted. "You're still avoiding it."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why the fuck are you so determined to get me to answer that question?" Nathan asked, propelling himself out of her bed with his legs and wandering over to his desk. "You that desperate for my love?"

As he got to her desk, he turned and licked his lips at her before, apparently, he equated everything with sex. Or he just wasn't going to be badgered into answering that easily.

[vanillajello]

This was clearly going to be one of those days where Kate's eyes were just going to attempt to roll straight out of her head, at some point. "You made me say it to you like fifteen minutes ago," she pointed out, ignoring the innuendo. "What, are you afraid of the words now?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was fucking afraid of those words. It wasn't like he said them sincerely to anyone lately. Or ever unless they were his mum. He was not going to admit that to Kate of people. Or anyone.

"Yeah, but you were fucking lying," Nathan pointed out, digging some chocolate out of her desk. "I made you say the words to me. There's a difference."

[vanillajello]

"Uh, and when exactly did I say you had to be truthful or that I expected you would be?" Kate asked, raising her eyebrows. "And you already said 'the Kate you know and love', anyway."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"So, why do I have to say it again?" Nathan wondered, popping the chocolate into his mouth. "Really Kate, we had one night and this constant and overwhelming stalking you're doing of me is just sad by now."

[vanillajello]

"I just think it's fair that you have to say it properly too," Kate replied. Also, it had distracted him sufficiently from his previous line of thought. "And not just as a part of a saying."