Apartment Above Lukes, Friday Afternoon
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Kathy was prepping for Pride over the weekend. Most of the merchandise she was planning for the booth had already been boxed up at the store, but she was folding pamphlets and making bracelets out of embroidery floss and beads that she'd picked up from Hobby Lobby when she'd taken a trip over there to discuss which store was going to hand out the birth control. The bracelets all corresponded with the various Pride flags; it was like an eighth grade craft project up in here.
But it was fun and relaxing and made for nice breaks between constant pamphlet folding while still letting her feel like she was being productive. Win/win.
But it was fun and relaxing and made for nice breaks between constant pamphlet folding while still letting her feel like she was being productive. Win/win.
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Date: 2017-07-07 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-07 05:59 pm (UTC)"Come in!" Kathy called, her lap full of various colors of embroidery floss. "It's open!"
Lest anyone think this was entirely too wholesome an image, let it be said her laptop was also playing music really loud. Well, kinda loud. Pretty loud for someone sitting right next to it.
Which she wasn't.
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Date: 2017-07-07 06:06 pm (UTC)He came in and held up the bag with the sandwiches. "Brought you some lunch. You taking up embroidery over there?"
There were worse ways to spend your time. Maybe she'd decided to get her pain in through stabbing herself in the finger repeatedly with a needle.
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Date: 2017-07-07 06:14 pm (UTC)"Oooh, lunch!" Kathy said, brightening at the bag. "And, no. Not really. I don't know how to do any of that stuff, really." Sparkle'd had to take her original uniform away and sew the rainbows on right because she'd been so terrible at it. "Did you ever see people making friendship bracelets back when you were in school?" She held up a finished one, alternating stripes of black, gray, white, and purple. "Making these for Pride this weekend. You gonna be there?"
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Date: 2017-07-07 06:37 pm (UTC)"Even got me a silly hat for it," Eliot said. He grabbed a seat and took the finished bracelet. "Just usin' a basic forward knot, huh. Nice job keepin' 'em even. What flag's this one for?"
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Date: 2017-07-07 07:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-07 07:11 pm (UTC)He wasn't totally up on his pride flag patterns, but somehow he absolutely knew all sorts of friendship bracelet styles.
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Date: 2017-07-07 07:19 pm (UTC)Beaded wrap? Chevrons? Look, she just knew how to knot string in patterns!
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Date: 2017-07-07 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-07 07:34 pm (UTC)This is the failing of the public school system, obviously.
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Date: 2017-07-07 08:20 pm (UTC)Poor, uneducated Kathy. Your whole world was about to open up.
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Date: 2017-07-07 09:40 pm (UTC)"I...didn't know there were other kinds of friendship bracelet patterns."
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Date: 2017-07-07 09:48 pm (UTC)"Alright, I'll show you," he said instead. "What's the next set of colors you were gonna work on?"
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Date: 2017-07-07 10:16 pm (UTC)"These here," she said, handing over the strands of pink, white, and blue needed for the transgender flag.
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Date: 2017-07-07 10:33 pm (UTC)Eliot could even turn a conversation about friendship bracelets into a teaching moment, yes.
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Date: 2017-07-08 03:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2017-07-08 02:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-08 03:11 pm (UTC)Oh hey, new benefit of the father/daughter dynamic, Kathy could now make Eliot blush and stammer over her sex life, instead of the other way around.
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Date: 2017-07-08 07:46 pm (UTC)"Well yeah," Kathy said. "Safer sex supplies are an important part of Pride. And even if they're not exactly a part of the culture, kinky and poly people show up, too." She flushed a bit and smiled. "So I sorta belong, too."
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Date: 2017-07-08 08:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-09 02:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-09 02:07 am (UTC)He would be sitting right there. While she talked about sex.
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Date: 2017-07-09 06:02 am (UTC)"Why wouldn't I?" she asked. "Hair wraps and things would be cool! And maybe they'll want a guy's point of view instead of a girl's!"
Beat.
"You're sputtering."
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Date: 2017-07-09 06:04 am (UTC)He'd just probably end up sputtering at least a few times while he was there.
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