Overland Park, KS, An Afternoon in May [Friday Fandom Time]

[vanillajello]

Big surprise, Kate had run away from Fandom to Overland Park again. It was starting to become a thing with her, but she didn't care, sometimes it was good to be elsewherer. She'd been here since Wednesday night – or, they had, since Bod had come along with her, but right now he was on his class-and-diner trip back to Fandom. Or getting takeout, if you looked at it from the official OP standpoint that was oblivious to portals.

And Kate? Kate was glueing lace and fake gems and sequins to headbands, because Charmaine had decided that was going to be her new business. Making tiaras and selling them on Etsy. Generally, Kate might have mocked the idea (even if she was pretty sure it came from when she'd shown off her own prom queen tiara) but right now it was just kind of nice to be working with her hands.

And when she watched Charmaine and her big belly out of the corner of her eye, she couldn't help thinking a little about Alice. Not that she got very far with those thoughts, because Char was in a chatty mood. "-- and I don't want you turning this place into a den of sin," she was saying. "With your James Bund of a gentleman caller."

Kate snorted. "What?"

"Well, you know," Charmaine said, with what Kate assumed to be her best trying-to-be-an-adult voice. "There's going to be a baby in the house in a few months. I don't want you corrupting her."

"The baby you got pregnant with while dating someone who wasn't the father?" Kate checked with an eyebrow raise. "Tell me you're joking."

Charmaine deflated. "Okay so I don't really give a rat's ass what you two get up to as long as it's in your room, I was just trying to be, y'know, assertive and and authoritative and motherly. How'd I do?"

Kate just snorted again and shook her head.

[ooc: NFB, but open for calls/texts, and that guy.]

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[vanillajello]

"Who's now making it harder for me to get up these last few steps," Kate noted, snickering. "Yes, that's good manners all right."

Note that she wasn't objecting.

[therewaslife]

"I think if we walk up the stairs together, we'll be fine," he said, lips near her ear. "That or we'll both fall flat on our faces."

[vanillajello]

"I think I'd prefer the first option." By far. Injuries weren't needed. "Just follow my lead and we'll be fine."

They just needed to go slow.

[therewaslife]

"I'm right behind you and around and in love with you," Bod said, adding that last one just for fun. Plus, he just liked telling her that and thought hearing it often didn't hurt.

[vanillajello]

It didn't. "You're gonna make me fall down," she laughed, anyway.

But they got to the top of the stairs safe and sound, and she steered them towards their room.

[therewaslife]

"If you fall, I fall so I'm glad you didn't fall," he murmured, arms still wrapped around her as they walked to their room.

[vanillajello]

The sofabed was there, all laid out for two from the previous night and unmade from the morning, but Kate wasn't immediately pulling them to it because she was just enjoying having him wrapped around her as he was.

Instead, she just stopped once they were in the room, and reached out from the circle of his arms to push the door closed.

[therewaslife]

"I like this room," he said, leaning down to kiss her neck and behind her ear. "It's quiet and bigger and there's only one person who might walk in instead of three."

[vanillajello]

"I like this room too," she sighed, closing her eyes and just enjoying the touch. "There's two people in it."

[therewaslife]

"There are," he murmured, tightening his arms around her and kissing her ear. "There's you and there's me and that's how it should be. You and me."

[vanillajello]

"I like you and me," she replied, covering his arms with hers, as much as her arms could cover anything. "Bod and Kate."

[therewaslife]

"Bod and Kate," he sighed, cuddling up to her and sighing. "And what are we going to do in our room since it's just us?"

[vanillajello]

"I did not have specific plans," Kate said, leaning into him just a bit more. "Or any plans at all. Did you?"

[therewaslife]

"I had no plans either," he said, nuzzling her neck and cheek. "Is there anything you need unpacked or anything like that done today?"

[vanillajello]

"No," she sighed. "I like the boxes. They can wait until I'm all alone and bored here."

[therewaslife]

"I'm afraid I might be out of ideas, then," Bod said, kissing her neck before swaying them back and forth some. "It might be up to you make some plans."

[vanillajello]

Kate made an exaggerated whiney noise. "But it's always up to me to make plans." No it wasn't.

[therewaslife]

"It is not," Bod said, laughing. "Do you remember our little round cabin? Those were my plans."

[vanillajello]

"Okay so you're right but I don't feel like making plans," Kate claimed, tipping her head back against his shoulder. "Plans are hard."

And she was going to pout, now.

[therewaslife]

"If you don't want to make plans, you don't have to," he chuckled, leaning forward and kissing her cheek. "We can just...I don't know, we can do whatever you'd like to do that doesn't involve making plans."

[vanillajello]

"That sounds an awful lot like planning," Kate couldn't resist pointing out. "You're warm."

Which had absolutely nothing to do with anything except her front against her back and his lips against her cheek.

[therewaslife]

"Too warm?" he wondered, giving her cheek another, more lingering kiss. "Should I let you go?"

[vanillajello]

"No," she said, immediately. "No, no no no. That's not at all what I was saying. It was an observation, not an anccusation."

[therewaslife]

"Don't worry, I won't let you go," he said and put his lips near her ear to whisper, "ever."

[vanillajello]

"That'll get inconvenient really fast," she teased, even as she shivered pleasantly. Damn him and his voice and his words. "Seriously."