Overland Park, KS, Friday Afternoon (August)

[vanillajello]

The last weekend was still weighing on Kate, just a little bit. She figured that was unavoidable after you got pretend killed, but she'd been trying to keep herself occupied and distracted because it was probably for the best if she didn't think about it too hard.

This weekend was going to be better, though. Or at least that was the plan she was clinging to. She hadn't told anyone but Charmaine that she had a friend coming over, so she figured her whole family knew by now, because Char was not the greatest at not blabbing. Not that it was any major secret, Kate just would've preferred it if her family hadn't been likely to flock to be curious about her elusive Fandom friends.

But that was for later. As it got to be the afternoon, she wandered out of the house and down the street to where the portal tended to dump its transportees, and kept an eye on the houses nearby in case any neighbors decided to wander outside.

Oak Avenue had its fair share of weird without adding portal sightings to the mix.

[ooc: NFB, and for that guy. Not the usual one. The tall one with the scar, yeah, that one. But can be open for texts/calls before he shows up I s'pose!]

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[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"You think so, huh?" Luckily for Kate, Luke was comfortable enough in his masculinity that he had no trouble plucking the headband out of her hand and placing it in his hair. "How's it look? Hot, right?"

[vanillajello]

"Totally," Kate snickered, as she got her phone out to snap a quick picture. If it was possible things were getting shitty in the future, she wanted to document the good stuff. "Very swoonworthy."

"What are you guys doing?" came Charmaine's voice from the direction of the kitchen. "Are you gonna come here? 'Cause I dont feel like getting up."

"In a sec, Charmaine," Kate called back. "I'm trying to turn Luke into an Urban Duchess first!"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke didn't mind Kate snapping a picture and even posed for it a little bit. It helped that he was completely shameless. "Think your aunt will like me modeling her work?"

[vanillajello]

"Well," Kate smirked, nodding towards the kitchen, "there's only one way to find out."

If nothing else, it would distract Char from the scar and the sickliness.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Oh I hope I impress," he said, adjusting the headband a bit before heading towards the kitchen. "I'd hate to give glittery tiaras a bad name."

[vanillajello]

Kate followed, snickering. In the kitchen, they were faced with Charmaine sitting by the table in all her hugely pregnant glory, with Kate's laptop and a can of Diet Coke in front of her.

She looked up and raised an eyebrow at Luke. "...Huh. You're taller than I expected."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke looked over at Kate. "Have you been making me sound short?"

[vanillajello]

"Hey, my dad's like six foot five," Kate replied, mock defensively. "My perspective might be skewed."

"She also didn't mention anything about the Bond villain scar," her aunt added, proving that Kate's talent for being blunt and straightforward did actually run in the family.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"She might've been saving it as a surprise," Luke said, running a finger over his scar. "It's from a car accident a couple years ago."

That sounded better than dragon, right? Right.

[vanillajello]

Much better, and now Kate was making a mental note of asking him how he'd actually gotten it, since she realized now she hadn't.

Meanwhile, Charmaine offered "I'm sorry," she said. "So, you're gonna stick around for a few days, right? Are you gonna make yourself useful?"

Kate raised an eyebrow at her. "Wow, way to be hospitable, Charmaine."

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Luke laughed a little. "I'll do my best to help where I can, I promise. I can't do anything resembling cooking though, I'll tell you that now."

[vanillajello]

Charmaine snorted. "Well, that makes three of us."

"Hey, I can totally cook!" Kate protested. "... But Moosh is still coming over to cook for us tonight."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Probably the safest option for dinner", he decided. "I'm much better at heavy lifting."

[vanillajello]

"And that's not much help for cooking," Charmaine drawled, but then she got an idea. Always a dangerous thing, that. "Oh, except if you could move the frid--"

"We're not moving the fridge," Kate cut in. "You're not gonna fit in the nook any better even if we did, and it'd be a pain in the ass for me, so no."

Charmaine rolled her eyes. "Fine. But you're gonna have to keep getting things for me."

"Fine," Kate replied, rolling her eyes as well, before turning to Luke. "So, you wanna have a tour of the house or something? Or at least figure out where you're gonna sleep?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, sure," he said, smiling a little. Luke liked family bickering that didn't involve someone getting stabbed. "Lead the way."

[vanillajello]

Charmaine waved them off, going back to whatever surfing she'd been doing before they showed up. "Basically, there's not a whole lot of house to show," Kate said, as they came out of the kitchen. "I mean, here's the living room, obviously. And over there --" She pointed to a door in the corner. "-- is Char's bedroom."

And this was where she moved towards the stairs.

"And then the rest is upstairs."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I used to live in a tiny cabin with like thirty other kids," Luke said as he followed Kate. "This place is way more house than I'm accustomed to."

Even now he had to share one tiny dorm room with someone who radiated death.

[vanillajello]

"Okay, fair point," Kate laughed as they went up the stairs. "And I never used to have basically half a house to myself, so I probably shouldn't complain."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Well soon you'll have to share it with a kid," Luke pointed out. "You like babies?"

[vanillajello]

"When they're well-behaved?" She paused. "Yeah, look at Charmaine. Well-behaved's so not going to happen, I'm doomed."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke chuckled. "Kids are easily trainable, you know. You could turn him or her against your aunt."

[vanillajello]

"Her. It's a girl." Because they totally needed more women in this family, sure. "I don't know, we'll see. She has to get born without major drama, first."

Ahahaha, yeah right.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Well if I've learned anything from TV, it's that it isn't possible for someone to give birth without some sort of drama," he said. "Let's just hope it's not you and her trapped in an elevator when her water breaks."

[vanillajello]

"Dude, do not even joke about that," Kate admonished him. Ugh, shudder. She shook her head, then gestured around them now that they were on the second floor landing, pointing out the different doors. "Anyway. Over there's the office, which one of Mom's alters used to use for a while, and over there is this room that we're supposed to turn into baby Craine's room but it's full of random shit right now, and this..."

She went to push the last door open. "... is mine and Bod's room."

With seventies decor just like the rest of the house, a desk, a closet, a sofabed, and a few happy couple pictures hanging on the wall next to a bulletin board. It was cozy enough.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Niiiice," Luke drawled, nodding his head approvingly. "You've got a pretty nice set up here. A lot better than most people right out of high school."