Hawi, Hawaii, Sunday Early Evening

[vanillajello]

One of the good things about living in Fandom was getting to use Portalocity. So, when an obnoxious dude happened to stumble upon incriminating videos of a dark part of your life you would have rather buried and never thought about again, and you ended up punching him in his stupid face, and then found yourself anxious to get off the island because it was making you feel pukey and bad... You could hit up Portalocity for a package deal on portals to a cottage in Hawaii.

Kate had portalled out ahead to set some stuff up in advance before Bod got there. Those things included mundane stuff like getting groceries, but also special things like a hammock fit for two between two trees in the yard. It was important to have one. Right now, it was.

And there were one or two other things as well. Since the portal was not too far from the cottage, Kate had just texted Bod the address and a picture of the building, and was waiting for him on the kitchen, wearing the dress she'd not gone to a party in not too much earlier. She was resting her elbows on the railing, and beside her there were an empty jar, and a quickly made sign that said 'KISSING BOOTH'. Because she was a dork.

A dork who really, really felt like she needed to be with her boyfriend right now.

[ooc: NFB. For her partner in BDE-fleeing!]

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[vanillajello]

"Yes," she replied, instinctively flexing the fingers of her hurt hand a few times. "But Mitchell got me an icepack. I don't even know whether I should be glad or a little creeped out that I have friends who'll just all nonchalant-like get me an icepack before even asking why I did it, when I show up complaining that punching people hurts."

[therewaslife]

"Are you certain you didn't break anything?" he asked, reaching down to gently take her sore hand in his. "Have you taken an aspirin or something to help ease the pain?"

[vanillajello]

"It doesn't hurt that bad anymore," she told him. "Just like I'm sure Topher's nose isn't bleeding anymore."

[therewaslife]

"Mmm." He reached down and gently kissed the top of her hand. "We'll put some ice on it later so it doesn't swell or get stiff later. It looks all right. Your poor hand."

[vanillajello]

"Aren't you gonna tell me hitting people is wrong and that I should've kept a better hold on myself?" Kate wondered, wryly. "You don't even know why I hit him."

[therewaslife]

"If you hit him, you had a good reason," Bod replied, shrugging and patting her hand again before letting it go. "When you get angry, you tend to default to words to make your point. If you were pushed to hitting someone, then their transgression deserved it."

[vanillajello]

There was another brief pause before Kate replied. Once she did, her voice was quieter. "He found some... PVH stuff on Youtube that I didn't know was even there," she told him. "And then he was really fucking obnoxious about it."

[therewaslife]

Bod took that in and then nodded. He could only imagine what Topher had found and he wasn't going to ask for detail for both their sakes.

"I'm sorry," Bod said and dropped a kiss on top of her head. "He deserved to be hit even if you didn't deserve to hurt your hand. Hopefully he's not going to do that again."

[vanillajello]

"He already had a black eye from someone else," Kate drawled. And once she'd find out that one was from Ramona, Topher would be so beyond banned from their upcoming party. "So I'm not holding my breath on him knowing how not to be an asshole."

[therewaslife]

"Well, I hope his face is very, very sore," Bod said, shrugging. "I have no sympathy for him. None."

[vanillajello]

Kate liked hearing that far too much. She sighed, and turned her head to try and catch a kiss, accompanied by muttered words. "Thank you."

For seeing her side.

[therewaslife]

"You're welcome," he murmured against her lips, giving her just the barest hint of a nod. "Though, I do want you to tell me if your hand starts to hurt. I'm not going to haul you to a clinic on our vacation but we can put some ice on it, at least."

[vanillajello]

"I'll tell you, I promise," she replied. "If me telling you I hit someone today didn't ruin anything, then I won't be able to convince myself complaining about my pain will, either."

[therewaslife]

"It didn't ruin anything, I promise," he assured her, rubbing a thumb over her poor hand again. "If it hurts, tell me, we'll get some ice on it and I'll be at your beck and call until you feel better again."

[vanillajello]

"I feel fine," she told him, shaking her head. "Honestly, I do. Most of why I wasn't feeling fine earlier could be solved just by coming here."

[therewaslife]

"And is it even better now that you've told me what happened?" Bod wondered, moving back and forth to get the hammock rocking again. "Nothing on your mind anymore?"

[vanillajello]

"Nothing much," Kate confirmed. "Just things like trying to remember what I read about any nearby attractions and stuff like that."

[therewaslife]

"Oh?" he asked, finishing his juice up and settling the bottle back down near his side. "Anything in particular you'd like to do?"

[vanillajello]

"Well, there's the actual town, at least," she mused. "You know, Hawi or whatever? Plus, if we can manage to rent a car we can go pretty much anywhere on the island."

[therewaslife]

"I think we'll be able to rent a car," he decided with a nod. A few of his fingers found their way into her hair and he started running them through the blonde strands. "If not, there's always taxi cabs."

[vanillajello]

"There are," Kate agreed, sighing at the feel of his fingers. "Which is good because there are places I wanna go. Like that chocolate factory that's called, like, Donkey Balls or something. That's too hilarious to resist."

[therewaslife]

"...Donkey Balls?" Bod asked, snickering. "Are you teasing me about that?"

[vanillajello]

"No!" she exclaimed with a laugh. "No, I swear to God, that place exists. From what I can remember, Donkey Balls is like their most classic product or something. Macadamia nuts covered in chocolate."

[therewaslife]

Bod laughed again and scratched her scalp lightly. "I think you just want to tell people we went to Donkey Balls!"

[vanillajello]

"No." A beat. "I want to tell people we had Donkey Balls."