Overland Park, KS, Saturday Fandom Time

[vanillajello]

As requested/ordered, Kate had gone and gotten her face checked out by a doctor yesterday, and then spent the rest of the day doing absolutely nothing. Today was turning out to be much the same, except her face was sightly less sore to the touch, and she was waiting for Bod to show up after his workshift.

And while she was doing that, she was reading up on all things Osaka and Japan on the internet, and trying to learn useful phrases in Japanese. It was a quiet day in the Craine – Gregson – Kowalski household. Charmaine and Neil were downstairs, presumably reading yet another one of the dozen baby books he'd bought after the false labor fiasco. Who'd have tought he'd be the responsible one?

It was funny to think so with a still-bruised face, but maybe things were starting to look up a little bit.

[ooc: Mostly for the bf if he so wishes, but can be open for all the usual text/call stuff as well.]

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[vanillajello]

Kate snickered. "I don't want you to bite my cheek ever. That just sounds painful, and not in any kind of fun way."

[therewaslife]

"I won't bite your cheek ever," Bod promised, shaking his head. "I will leave your cheeks unmarked."

[vanillajello]

"Good." She nodded. "You're free to leave marks anywhere and everywhere else. Just leave my face be."

[therewaslife]

Bod brushed his fingers featherlight over the bruises near her nose. He wasn't applying any pressure but he just wanted to reassure himself further.

"Have you and your mum talked since it happened?"

[vanillajello]

Kate flinched a little, anyway. Instinct.

"A little," she said. "But I think we're kinda just both wanting to move past it, you know?"

[therewaslife]

The flinch was enough to have Bod stepping backwards, looking contrite. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

[vanillajello]

"Huh?" Kate was a little slow on the uptake when it came to what had caused that. "Oh, no, no. It wasn't -- I'm just a little overly careful out of reflex."

[therewaslife]

"I'm still sorry," Bod said, flexing his fingers a bit and still looking contrite. "I'll keep my hands to myself."

[vanillajello]

"No, I don't want you to do that," Kate replied with a shake of her head, stepping closer and reaching for his hands. "Come on."

[therewaslife]

"You flinched when I touched you," Bod reminded her, letting her take his hands. "I know it wasn't my fault really but still."

[vanillajello]

Kate brought his hands up to her cheeks, but at safe distance from her nose.

"I fliched 'cause you touched my bruised parts," she corrected him. "Everywhere else is fair game."

[therewaslife]

Bod still looked slightly shaken by what he'd done. "I'm sorry. I really am. I thought I was touching you light enough that you wouldn't even feel it."

[vanillajello]

"Reflex, I told you," Kate said, softly. "I didn't really feel it but believe me, I've been poking at the bruises way too much, so my body knows it can hurt."

[therewaslife]

"I apologize for not warning you," he said, frowning. "I won't touch your healing bruises anymore."

[vanillajello]

"Thank you," she murmured, kissing his knuckles softly. "They're not gonna hang around for too long, anyway. I'm sadly a pretty good judge of healing."

[therewaslife]

"What did your physician say?" Bod asked, sighing at that soft kiss.

[vanillajello]

"That everything's a-okay," she replied, lowering their hands and shrugging. "No fractures, no permanent or major damage done to anything."

[therewaslife]

"Good," he said, nodding. "Did he give you anything for the pain?"

[vanillajello]

"Nah." She shook her head. "I'm fine with the regular stuff. It's enough."

[therewaslife]

"All right," he said, nodding before glancing around and getting his focus back. "Thank you for going, though. Shall we eat?"

[vanillajello]

"We shall," she agreed, letting go of his hands, though only after a little squeeze. "I'm starving."

[therewaslife]

"I'm quite hungry too," he said, reaching for the plates. "I ate a small breakfast but haven't really eaten since then. I was on a focused mission to find a giant stuffed animal."

[vanillajello]

"Dude, you went without eating to find me a huge bear?" Well, that totally merited a delighted little laugh. "Aww. That's so sweet."

[therewaslife]

"I wasn't sure how you'd be feeling and I wanted to have something that would make you smile and was soft and would make you think of me," Bod explained perhaps a little shyly.

[vanillajello]

Kate smiled at him. "Mission accomplished, dearest Nobody," she said. "It's totally soft and smileworthy and will make me think of you. Arigatō."