Last week, Kathy had been an utter lump, eating ice cream and playing sad music and watching a lot of TV while she got used to life without the guys. This week wasn't actually much easier, but Kathy's tolerance for her own moping had run out and left her needing to do something that wasn't just dwell.
Fortunately, it wasn't like she was lacking in options. With the guys gone and Raven spending most of her time out in the woods, the house was just too big and full of memories. So she was moving back to the apartment above Luke's - along with Raven, at least nominally - and this week she'd really gotten her ass in gear when it came to packing. Most of the upstairs was packed, even if those boxes were still mostly stacked downstairs, and now she was just cleaning out their old rooms of the detritus the always seemed to accumulate under furniture and in corners.
Like this old credit card bill of Dante's from...April of 2017. Kathy snorted and rolled her eyes, preparing to toss it into the bin that was half-full of junk when she noticed that one of the items on there was in Hangul. Wait. Had Dante been learning stuff in Korean?
Wait. 김치 크림 파이. Was that a-- Kathy grabbed her phone and did a quick search and yep. It was pretty much exactly the kind of website she'd been expecting with a name like that. Definitely didn't have to do with desserts, that was for damn sure.
"Oh." She wasn't entirely sure what to make of it, especially since that was back when everything had still been really...rough...between them. They'd been friends, in a tentative kind of manner, but no more. So then why...?
"Hi, Portalocity? I've got a portal scheduled to Limbo City for later on this evening, but I was wondering, could I bump it up to earlier than that? Something this afternoon would be good, yeah."
[Open for calls, texts, and visitors before she goes, and LC folks afterwards!]
Fortunately, it wasn't like she was lacking in options. With the guys gone and Raven spending most of her time out in the woods, the house was just too big and full of memories. So she was moving back to the apartment above Luke's - along with Raven, at least nominally - and this week she'd really gotten her ass in gear when it came to packing. Most of the upstairs was packed, even if those boxes were still mostly stacked downstairs, and now she was just cleaning out their old rooms of the detritus the always seemed to accumulate under furniture and in corners.
Like this old credit card bill of Dante's from...April of 2017. Kathy snorted and rolled her eyes, preparing to toss it into the bin that was half-full of junk when she noticed that one of the items on there was in Hangul. Wait. Had Dante been learning stuff in Korean?
Wait. 김치 크림 파이. Was that a-- Kathy grabbed her phone and did a quick search and yep. It was pretty much exactly the kind of website she'd been expecting with a name like that. Definitely didn't have to do with desserts, that was for damn sure.
"Oh." She wasn't entirely sure what to make of it, especially since that was back when everything had still been really...rough...between them. They'd been friends, in a tentative kind of manner, but no more. So then why...?
"Hi, Portalocity? I've got a portal scheduled to Limbo City for later on this evening, but I was wondering, could I bump it up to earlier than that? Something this afternoon would be good, yeah."
[Open for calls, texts, and visitors before she goes, and LC folks afterwards!]
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Date: 2018-09-07 06:02 am (UTC)He should probably throw those out before she got here.
"Hm."
... tv first.
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Date: 2018-09-07 06:08 am (UTC)And maybe if she kept repeating that to herself, she'd stick to it. Goddamn neat freak tendencies.
The portal dropped her off not far from the door (and yes, she'd paid extra to get as close to the house as possible, she wasn't walking a foot more in Limbo City by herself than she had to, thanks much). It felt weird using the spare key now that the house was actually lived in, so rather than letting herself in, she rang the bell and waited.
This felt weird. Or maybe she was just feeling weird.
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Date: 2018-09-07 06:10 am (UTC)Dante slid off the couch and walked to the door - shirt off because whatever, he was comfortable - and opened it. "Hel-- Kathy!"
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Date: 2018-09-07 06:22 am (UTC)She somehow hadn't realized that Dante giving her a key had been him giving her a key.
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Date: 2018-09-07 06:42 am (UTC)This 'oh' was the one that meant she was a little surprised and a lot happy about something and was trying hard not to show it.
But the way her whole smile lit up was impossible to hide, even behind her hair.
"I'll put it on my keys as soon as I go home," she said, toes curling against the floor.
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Date: 2018-09-07 06:51 am (UTC)And then other times, like now, Dante just leaned in and kissed her and there was nothing else in the world that mattered.
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Date: 2018-09-07 12:03 pm (UTC)Her sense of time was never going to be as pinpoint accurate as some peoples' was, but she missed Kathy.
So there was knocking on Kathy's door! And Alluka fidgeting outside of it.
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Date: 2018-09-07 02:35 pm (UTC)"Just a second!" Kathy's voice floated out from an upstairs window and then, moments later, she was opening the front door. "Hello?" she began before seeing who it was. "Alluka! Welcome home!"
The tiny girl wasn't getting welcomed inside. Not when Kathy could try to swoop her into a big, squeezy hug instead.
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Date: 2018-09-07 02:43 pm (UTC)Alluka laughed, hugging back tightly. "I'm home, I'm home! How are you, Kathy?"
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Date: 2018-09-07 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-09-07 03:45 pm (UTC)Jam was healthy, right?
"And--you're moving? To, to where Dante is?"
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Date: 2018-09-07 03:51 pm (UTC)"No, back to my old place, the apartment above the diner," Kathy said with a small shake of her head. "I don't really like where Dante moved to."
Which was a much nicer way of saying 'Limbo City has traumatized me almost every time I've visited, so fuck that city.'
"So you're stuck with me staying on the island for a little longer," she teased.
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Date: 2018-09-07 04:10 pm (UTC)She loved Dante too, but now he was so far away.
"Can I help you move? And, and I bet Ringo would help too!"
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Date: 2018-09-07 04:16 pm (UTC)"Sure!" Kathy said, pleased by the offer. "I'm still mostly packing, but if you two wanted to come around some day next week to help me get some of these boxes over there, I'd love that."
She headed into the kitchen, waving Alluka to follow. "Tea? I'm packing up the kitchen last, so I still know where all my tea stuff is."
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Date: 2018-09-07 04:27 pm (UTC)"I would like tea, thank you," she said, bouncing a little with each step. "And I'll let Ringo know, then! I've been meaning to talk to her anyway, so this just gives me another excuse."
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Date: 2018-09-07 04:31 pm (UTC)"So how did you do in your competitions?" Kathy asked, putting water on to boil and pulling down her tea options for Alluka to choose from. "In your final few weeks?"
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Date: 2018-09-07 04:36 pm (UTC)"The bruises are all gone now," Alluka said, like that was a bonus. It... it really was. "I never got as high as Ringo did, but I learned a lot!"
She was still a terrible fighter.
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Date: 2018-09-07 05:25 pm (UTC)"If you end up getting more bruises like that, come see me and I'll help you put some Tiger Balm on them," Kathy said. "It's what I used when I was running around as Banzai." Biting her lower lip she added, "'Luka? I owe you an apology."
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