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]

"Oh please, you know what I meant!" Nathan said, trying to wriggle his ankle free of her grip. "You know I didn't want any reaction whatsoever and you're denial is just making you look like a fool! You're not hot either!"

[vanillajello]

"You're just saying that," Kate decided, holding his ankle tight. "What did you expect? You know me, did you think I wouldn't react at all?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't have reacted if it was you!" Nathan lied, still trying to wriggle free. "I would have kept silent and been stoic and I would have supported your deep personal confession!"

[vanillajello]

"Bullshit!" She let go, seemingly just because that was just so far beyond not believable she couldn't conecentrate on anything else. "Oh my God, you don't actually expect me to believe that, do you?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" Nathan asked, laughing. "I'm believable! How can you not believe this utterly honest and adorable face?"

[vanillajello]

"Because, Nathaniel," Kate replied, and here came the smirk again, though more smug than before, "I look a little closer than most people."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Stop that," Nathan said, trying to kick her again. "I will never tell you anything again because you're a giant teasing bitch, Kate Gregson. Never ever again. You are ruined for me!"

[vanillajello]

"No I'm not," Kate scoffed, trying to ignore his kicking now. "'Cause you're not actually enough of a pussy to be scared of a little teasing."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And what if I am a pussy?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow. "What if you've shattered my already fragile heart?"

[vanillajello]

"Irrelevant," Kate decided. "I haven't."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You should apologize anyway," Nathan said, nodding. "It would help."

[vanillajello]

"I'm not going to apologize for anything," Kate informed him. "I have nothing to be sorry for. Not a single thing."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why do you insist on being so mean to me?" Nathan asked, sighing. "I'm not feeling your fake love right now, Kate."

[vanillajello]

"I'm not being mean!" she exclaimed, laughing. "Why am I not allowed to be happy you're choosing to say profound things to me without the slightest chance that you'd get laid afterwards?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Well, we could have a shag," Nathan pointed out though it was probably clear he was joking. "Your boyfriend who you looooove would never have to know."

[vanillajello]

Kate rolled her eyes and shook her head. Again. "There's a thing in that statement that contradicts the rest of it, you know."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And what's that?" Nathan asked, chin in his hands like he didn't know. "Why can't we have a secret shag?"

[vanillajello]

"Don't play dumb, Nathan," she replied. "You're already too good at it, you don't have to try so hard."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Hey, fuck you," he said, trying to kick her again. "God, Kate, you are not good for my self esteem! Why am I even here again? I thought we were close, I thought we were bonded like soulmates!"

[vanillajello]

"Ego married," Kate corrected him, then made a face. "Sweet zombie Jesus, will you stop kicking me? Bod's gonna think I got beat up again."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"...again?" he asked, halting his kicks to raise an eyebrow. "You've gotten beat up before?"

[vanillajello]

"Between Christmas and New Year's," Kate replied, shrugging a shoulder. No big thing. Even if it had been a huge, horrific thing. "It was the aforementioned vampire who I didn't know was one."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Sorry," he said, frowning and sounding sincere about that. "Good to know that someone pays that close enough of attention to you that can see that though, yeah?"

[vanillajello]

"Yeah," Kate agreed, if somewhat mildly. She finished off her chocolate, quirke a tiny smile at him. "Some fabulous stories I have from my time in Fandom, huh?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Well, you did get me," Nathan said, smiling at her. "And that makes up for it all."

He thought so, at least.