33 Apocalypse Ave (and eventually to Limbo City), Friday Afternoon

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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!]

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If he'd started to answer her question with anything more than tongue, Kathy would have physically shoved his head back to where it belonged.

She would have apologized for it! Probably?

But later. Much later. Right now, she was hot and wet and primed to go over any second. And when s did, she filled the air with noises, with words, with filthy promises mixed with romantic nonsense, the two thoroughly entwined in her head.

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Filth and romance: that was them, through and through.

Dante held onto her as she shuddered and moved beneath him. He wasn't hard yet - his body needed more time.

But fuck - still worth it, just to hear her.

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Kathy was sprawled flat against the mattress, chuckling slightly. "I keep thinking I'm done for awhile and then you come by and show me that I'm not." Her hands reached down to try to pull him up and over her, wanting to hold him for just a little bit.

Look, she'd been good and filthy and now she was feeling cuddly and romantic.

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"Funny," Dante murmured. "I was just thinkin' how you're reliable like the Energizer bunny."

He let himself be pulled up, and even wrapped his arms around her.

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"That's gonna be my Halloween costume," Kathy decided, gratefully holding onto him. His heartbeat was strong in her ear and she dropped kisses onto his chest. "Sexy pink bunny with a drum. You'll be the only one who really gets it."

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Dante laughed softly. "It'd be fucking amazing," he murmured.

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"Okay, so pink teddy or pink skirt and bra ensemble with suspenders?" Kathy asked, thinking of all the Halloween costumes her store would be inundated with in a week or so.

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"Skirt and bra," Dante decided. "Stick with the classics."

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"But isn't Halloween all about not being yourself?" Kathy teased, wrapping her leg around one of his.

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"Yeah, but one of those is slightly more likely to get you fucked up in a bedroom upstairs during the party than the other," Dante teased.

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"You know I can't pass up better odds of getting fucked," Kathy laughed. "Even if they're only 'slightly.' Next question: what are you gonna be?"

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"I don't know yet," Dante mused. "Do I gotta decide?"

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"I'm not a member of the Halloween brigade, so I'm not up on all the rules," Kathy said, amused, "but I think you're okay with not knowing until about 10 minutes before whatever activity the costume is needed for."

She kissed him, light and teasing. "Hey, if you ever need me to bring over all of Dite's 'Sexy Whatever' costumes to help you decide, I'm here for you."

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"You should do that," Dante mused, "Make Anders help you model, too..."

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"Help me model?" Kathy asked. "I've got my costume all thought out. This is on you now, babe."

She beamed at him. "But Anders is welcome to help you, too."

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"Okay, scratch that," Dante snickered, "I mean, make Anders model."

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"Nope, sorry," Kathy said and, newsflash, she was not sorry at all, "now I've got this image in my head of you in fishnets and heels and that's just not going away anytime soon."

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"You don't need to dress me up for Halloween to get me in fishnets," Dante said, his voice sounding lazy.

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And in a flash she had pounced on him, knocking him onto his back and straddling him, bending over with an eager expression on her face. "What do I have to do and why did you never tell me?"

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Dante laughed, stretching an arm out behind him. He watched her face for a moment, a lazy smile on his face.

"Ask," he said.

He wasn't into drag, really, but he also had zero problem with putting on fishnets in the bedroom if she was into it.

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Neither was she, not really, but there had been several Tumblr threads of male celebrities in ladies lingerie that had been too attractive to say she wasn't at least a little into it.

"Dante, will you wear fishnets for me sometime?" she asked, batting her eyes at him prettily. "Heels negotiable."

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Dante leaned up to kiss her pretty face.

He dropped his head back onto the pillow.

"I'd love to."

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She beamed at him, briefly, then bent over him to cover his face in soft, giggly kisses. "I love you," she told him, trying to explain what it was about his answer - not just that he said yes, but how willing he was for it - but unable to do so without spilling words everywhere.

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"I love you too, Kathy Li," Dante said, brushing her hair away from her face. "You never fail to keep life interesting."

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She beamed at him again and this time didn't try to hide how bright he made her smile. "At some point, you're gonna give me the okay and I'm gonna word-wall at you about all the reasons I love you," she told him. "Cause there are a lot of reasons and they all have, like, explanations. "