The Li Family Apartment, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Wednesday Afternoon

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Things were still tense in the apartment today, but at least she hadn't been kicked out or disowned or whatever. Kathy'd half-expected to find all of her belongings tossed out on the street after she and Raven had gotten home for the night after a night out as Banzai and Mystique, but no. Her parents weren't actually talking to her, but they hadn't decided to evict her, either.

It just proved what everyone had been telling her: her parents had only had the power over her that she had given to them. She was pretty self-sufficient now; even if they had thrown her out, she and Raven would have been perfectly fine. What could they do to her? Ground her? She'd ignore them. Hit her? They never had before and she couldn't imagine them doing so now. Send her to bed without dinner? Fine, she'd call for delivery. A frisson from the unexpected freedom ghosted up her spine. If she were a slightly different person, this realization could have been dangerous. Good thing that she was the type of girl who defied her parents only to go be a superhero-slash-clinic nurse.

Honestly, the only real punishment she could think of that would actually affect her would be to forbid her from seeing Sarah. Her little sister meant everything to her.

No matter what was going on with the outside world, Kathy was determined to keep her safe.

[NFB, and also for tigerundercover if she so wishes!]

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[tigerundercover]

"Soooo, when two people of any gender combination whatsoever like each other -- or each other's bodies -- a whole lot. . . ." Raven started. Still looking like Kathy. "Actually I haven't heard as much about Ezra lately. But she and Dante and Anders go on what they call 'adventures' all the time."

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"They are adventures!" Kathy wailed, still unsuccessfully trying to hide under her pillows. "...Sometimes!"

Sarah had her hands over her mouth, looking delighted. "Ohmigosh ohmigosh ohmigosh," she said. "You're not really saying...Kathy! Kathy, has my sweet and innocent big sister--has she been getting some? From white boys no less?"

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"I'm not answering that!" Kathy cried. "Raven, don't you answer that, either!"

Beat.

"And Ezra's half-Japanese anyway." Another beat. "SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU!"

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Raven grinned. "Kathy, honey, now I don't have to."

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"Stop looking like me!" Kathy said, waving an arm. "It's weird."

"Don't you listen to her," Sarah said. "I think it's awesome you can do that. She's just trying to get us to stop talking about her crazy sex life. Three guys, Kathy? Three?"

"Mostly just two now," Kathy said into her pillow, hoping that would somehow make things better.

She was wrong. She was so wrong. "Two! At the same time?! Do they know about each other?" Forget Kathy, she was turning back to Raven, font of all useful knowledge. "Do they know about each other? Oh my gosh, is Kathy cheating?!"

[tigerundercover]

Raven grinned and shifted back to her natural form. Kathy asked her to, after all, and on things involving her own face, at least, she won. "They're roommates, actually. I'm pretty sure that's why they say they're not dating. Then it's easier to share each other."

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There were just more of those high-pitched squeaking sounds coming from Sarah again, contrasting with Kathy's deeper, more heartfelt groans.

"Did you really have to tell her that?"

"You mean it's true?!" Sarah demanded, still in that squeaky-high voice. "You share?!"

Kathy was now trying to suffocate herself with the pillows. Sadly, it wasn't working. Which meant Sarah was left to address her question back to Raven. "How does that work?!"

[tigerundercover]

"It's not really that complicated," Raven said, smiling. "Some of our favorite teachers are polyamorous. Though I don't think Kathy and her guys have gone for threesomes." She looked over at Kathy to confirm or deny this part. Or shove her head in a pillow and groan, one of those.