Overland Park, KS, Friday Morning (September)

[vanillajello]

Six plus six was twelve, and twelve was the same as one, if you were talking about months first and then switched to years. The bottom line was, Kate and Bod had now been an item for a whole year in total. (There really was no need to talk about that four month gap between the first and second six month stretches. Because that was just a really fucking depressing topic all around.) And that was a huge fucking deal.

Enough of a huge fucking deal for it to be the first thing Kate become conscious of as she woke up this morning, all warm and tangled up with Bod, in their bed, in their room, just like they had been every night for the past week or so. That alone would've made her happy, but remembering the anniversary made her doubly so.

So, as much as it saddened her to do it, she tried slowly disentangling herself from her pale, pale boyfriend, so she'd be able to slip out of bed in her panda-print tunic. There was something she wanted to get from downstairs.

[ooc: NFB, and for that guy in the bed.]

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[vanillajello]

"No, I'm just saying that for funsies," kate drawled, rolling her eyes. "Come on. That's not something I would say to randomly deceive you."

[therewaslife]

"I might distract you from your cupcake consumption," Bod pointed out even if he was already sliding closer to her.

[vanillajello]

"Dude, I'm a grown woman, I can handle both at the same time," Kate replied, snickering. "It's our anniversary. A cupcake and your tongue on my skin is the very least that should happen."

[therewaslife]

"You're not bossy at all," Bod joked, using his thumb to get off a tiny amount of the frosting from her cheek. "I wouldn't think licking frosting off your cheek would qualify for that...second one."

[vanillajello]

Kate glanced over with another semi-evil smirk. "Well, I did say it was the least. Not that it was the very height of my hopes."

[therewaslife]

"Marshall would be sad that you're wasting good icing," he said, leaning closer and kissing, not licking, her frosty cheek. He had to work up to licking.

[vanillajello]

"This frosting's from a can," Kate murmured with a chuckle. "He would not mourn it."

[therewaslife]

"He might mourn it," Bod said and kissed her again, licking the frosting off his lips once he'd done that. "It might be very high quality frosting."

[vanillajello]

"It's not," Kate sighed, softly. "I bought it. I applied it. It's not high quality."

[therewaslife]

"Does that mean I can do this?" Bod asked and did finally lick her cheek slowly and softly. "And you won't mind it?"

[vanillajello]

"I don't mind," she murmured. The little shiver suggested the same. "I already asked you to do it, dummy."

[therewaslife]

"Don't call me names," Bod said and gave her cheek a longer, firmer lick. "I'll stop licking you and then you'll be sad and I'll be enjoying all the residual frosting."

[vanillajello]

"You wouldn't do that, dummy," Kate replied, eyes closing despite herself. "It's our anniversary, and this is the last time we're gonna have totally to ourselves for a while. We're supposed to be halfway across the multiverse later today, remember?"

[therewaslife]

"Mmm, I know." He licked her cheek again and pulled back when he thought he'd gotten all the frosting that he'd smeared there. "Are you excited about that?"

[vanillajello]

Kate grinned, momentarily distracted from any thoughts of licking things. "Are you kidding?" she asked. "I've only wanted to visit Arrakis since I met Leto over two years ago! And now I finally get to do that. And if I get to share that with you, even better."

[therewaslife]

"I have no idea how I'm supposed to act or what I'm supposed to do so you'll have to help me," Bod said, nodding. "I don't want to do something wrong and embarrass you or anger your friends.

[vanillajello]

"You're not gonna do either, come on," she replied, reaching out with her free hand to wipe off the bit of frosting she'd smeared on his nose. "Just be your polite self and you'll do fine. Act polite, greet Leto and Alice kindly, and don't do anything to upset the baby."

[therewaslife]

"That's easier said than done," he pointed out but smiled anyway. "I'll just hold quietly to your hand and follow your lead, if that's all right."

[vanillajello]

"They might find that rude," Kate said, but she was teasing. She knew that by the time they'd get to the palace in Arrakeen, she was going to be so hyper she wasn't going to need him to do any talking at all.

She took another bite out of her cupcake, trying not to get icing all around her lips. "No, you'll be fine. You can hold my hand as much as you want. Your my plus one, I'm the actual guest."

[therewaslife]

"Thank you," he said and laughed at the sight she made. "I'm glad I get to see another world and I'm very glad you get to see your friends and their new child."

[vanillajello]

"Is there a word for that?" Kate wondered, licking her lips. "A friend's kid? Or, in this instance, an ex's kid. And an alternative universe BFF's."

Her friendships were messed up. She was used to that by now.

[therewaslife]

"The words I would use is 'interesting situation' but I don't think there's a specific term, no," Bod said, shaking his head. "Fandom gives birth to many interesting situations though."

[vanillajello]

"It does," she agreed, before finishing off her cupcake, licking her fingers. "I mean, even saying 'ex' feels like an oversimplification."

[therewaslife]

"So, don't say that," Bod suggested easily. "Say 'friend' or something like it. I know he's close to you so don't use something like 'ex' if it doesn't fit."

[vanillajello]

"I think I just prefer 'Leto'," Kate decided. "Nothing else really fits."

Because there really wasn't a word for a former lover/confidante/lie detector/comfort-provider. She gave him a little smile. "We're gonna go to a royal function on a different planet, boyfriend. How weird is that?"