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]

"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.

[vanillajello]

"Some of it," Kate allowed, then raised an eyebrow. "But, again, you're leving, so don't get too cocky about it."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You're kind of obsessed with bringing that up, aren't you?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow.

[vanillajello]

"You think I'm obsessed with everything," Kate replied lightly. "I'm not that obsessive a personality."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"But, you are intent on bringing up the fact that I'm leaving often, aren't you?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow. "You like to remind me."

[vanillajello]

"Yes, I'm so totally intending to guilt trip you with it until you're over the causeway and gone," Kate drawled, rolling her eyes. It was maybe... one third true. "I live for it."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"At least you know I won't forget you then?" Nathan pointed out, trying to find a silver lining in the whole leaving thing.

[vanillajello]

"How many of your friends from England have you kept in touch with while you've been here?"

It was an innocent question, really. Nothing at all to do with anything. Honestly.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Depends on what you mean by kept in touch with," Nathan hedged, picking at her sheets.

[vanillajello]

Kate looked faintly amused at that. "Talked to them, texted them," she said, "had any kind of contact at all with them..."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I've texted them more than I've actually talked to them," Nathan said, shrugging. "I dunno, I didn't have a shitload of close friends back home. Just people I occasionally saw and girls I occasionally shagged."

[vanillajello]

"So, where do I fit in in all of that?" she wondered. "Which category am I in? I'm just trying to gauge what to expect."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I will call you," Nathan promised, kicking her side lightly this time. "Expect quick texts more often than not but I will make time to call you."

[vanillajello]

"Good," Kate nodded. "Now, stop fucking kicking me or I'll ban you from my bed for good."