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're not?" Nathan gasped and shook his head. "I was so wrong about you, Kate. You're not an exhibitionist, you don't want me, you give out hugs when I'm lonely, you're just...boring!"

[vanillajello]

"Oh we're back to that again, are we?" Kate drawled, mildly amused. "I'm not here for your entertainment, Nathaniel."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You're not?" Nathan said, pretending to be utterly surprised. "Then, what the fuck are you here for?"

[vanillajello]

"This is my room," Kate pointed out, with a sweeping motion all around herself. "I am essentially here to live."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"How existential," Nathan said, eyes widening. "That mean I can't take a nap here since it might get in the way of your living?"

[vanillajello]

"No, I'm pretty sure my life could accommodate your nap by going on around you," Kate replied, wryly. "You so sound like a homeless person, by the way."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan shrugged. "Well, I kinda am even if it's self imposed homelessness. I'm pretty hot for a homeless bloke, right? Admit it, you'd do me if you didn't have some ghost boyfriend."

[vanillajello]

"Yes, yes, whatever," Kate replied, waving a hand and taking another bite of chocolate. "Though my boyfriend isn't a ghost."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"So, you haven't been fucking a ghost?" Nathan asked, giving her an exaggerated frown. "And here I thought I could add necrophilia to your list of kinks!"

[vanillajello]

"Well, I did sleep with a vampire though I didn't knw he was one at the time, does that count?" she wondered mildly. "But no, my boyfriend is entirely alive, thank you."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Well, considering he'd slept with a vampire too, they'd both be necrophiliacs if that was the case. Nathan kept his mouth shut.

"You're a fan of the words 'my boyfriend'," Nathan noticed, smirking. "Someone's a romaaaaaaaaaaantic."

[vanillajello]

"It's just two words." Because Kate objected even when Bod called her a romantic, it wasn't like Nathan was going to meet less resistance. "It's what he is."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"So, you're not a fan of those words?" Nathan asked, wondering if she'd just deny it. "Because, really, you've been using the label instead of the bloke's name almost the entire time I've been here. It's so cute."

[vanillajello]

"And when we wern't together I tended to call him my ex," Kate replied, one eyebrow raised. "What's your point?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You're a romantic." It wasn't a question, it was a statement. "You would write him poetry and get his named tattooed on your ass, if you could."

[vanillajello]

"I would never get anyone's name tattooed on me." Well, even the memorial tattoos of the future she hoped would never be had all been initials, not full names, so it was almost as if she had proof! "That's just asking for trouble."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

And see, while she had denied getting that sort of tattoo, she hadn't denied the romantic thing so Nathan was just going to take that as a victory.

"What about getting an image of his face done up on the spot above your tit?" Nathan suggested.

[vanillajello]

"No," Kate replied firmly, though it was accompanied by something that may have been a bit of laughter. "I am not about to brand myself in any way."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"So, my face is out?" Nathan asked and then gestured to his face. "I mean, this is a beautiful face, you have to admit."

[vanillajello]

"Yeah but no one's face is that beautiful," Kate replied, shaking her head. "Getting pictures of people tattooed on you is creepy."

Like something Gene might have done. ...Oh God, she shouldn't have even thought that. Eww. She made a face.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"This constant denial of your true feelings for me is quite impressive, Kate," Nathan teased, smirking. "Lesser woman haven't held out this long before they've been underneath me and writhing."

[vanillajello]

"Well, I'm special," Kate replied. "It's why you like me. That and the fact that I have chocolate, and a comfortable bed."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Pfft," Nathan said, refusing to answer that. He did get himself more comfortable on her bed though. He'd slept on a floor the previous night so a bed was like heaven. "I need to stop being a homeless person soon."

[vanillajello]

"Yeah, well, you're going home," Kate pointed out, leaning back on one arm. "I think that means by definition that you'll stop being homeless."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know," he said, sighing and staring up at the ceiling. Of course, Nathan had no clue what was in store for him when he did go home. "Stop being so fucking literal. You're annoying."