Third Floor Common Room, Early Monday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

"But why do you want to make M.O.T.s?"
”Because there’s a triumph."
"But what kind of triumph?" Kate's brother's voice crackled on speakerphone from her cellphone that was on the kitchen counter.
”It was a school thing,” Kate answered, trying not to sound as evasive as she was being. ”We... won something.”
It made her brother snort. ”Since when do you care about your school winning anything?”

Kate was baking. Muffins of Triumph, to be exact. She was still stuck in mothering and food-making mode, much like she had been all weekend. And she desperately needed to do something that reminded her of home. So she decided on M.O.T.s, which were food, and also very much a family thing.

The problem was that Kate wasn’t actually much of a baker, but for now this was a happy thing, because it gave her an excuse to be on the phone to her brother every five minutes through the baking process.

”Since I've been at this school,” she answered her brother’s question. ”Where winning means something.”

She was over the moon about having all of her hopefully-would-be-friends back in the land of the awake and in this universe, thank you very much.

It was definitely time for Muffins Of Triumph.


[OOC: Open!]

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[future_sandworm]

"I have to admit that I don't fully grasp the concept of awesomeness," Leto laughed, noting her reaction. "But I'm sure that whatever it is, Professor Stinson lacks it. I informed him that it was unprofessional of him to meddle in the love life of his students, and didn't even get a proper response."

[vanillajello]

"He should never meddle in anything, ever. I'm pretty sure of that," Kate agreed. "Really, I had to go meet Mr. Deadpool the same morning, and letting him teach at all made more sense than having Professor Stinson teaching how to be awesome."

This was accompanied by an expression that made it clear that this was really saying something.

[future_sandworm]

"I quite agree with you there," Leto replied. "Professor Deadpool? Did he make any sense to you at all? He keeps talking about some woman every time I meet him."

[vanillajello]

"He babbled a lot of random stuff about Bobby and then wanted to make him swim in a kiddie pool filled with icy water. And make it a spectator sport."

That would be a no.

[future_sandworm]

"Ah," Leto replied. He got the idea. "Who is Bobby?" At least it wasn't Angelina Jolie.

[vanillajello]

"My roommate. And to be fair, he was a penguin at the time," Kate grinned.

[future_sandworm]

"A penguin? Have you turned into an animal yet?" Because in Fandom this was a relevant question.

[vanillajello]

"Two days after I got here," Kate said, making a face. "I was a cat for a week. You?"

[future_sandworm]

"I have been a mouse, and before that a lion, although that was for a class," Leto replied. "And apart from animals I've been a tree twice."

Yes, he did think this topic of conversation was funny.

[vanillajello]

"All of those are better than a can of cat food."

Kate was never getting tired off mocking Tybalt for that, no.

[future_sandworm]

"Who was the victim of that?" Leto asked, raising an eyebrow. "I take it no one fed the sorry person to a cat."

[vanillajello]

"Tybalt of the house of Capulet." Kate was a fan of the name.

"No one laid their hands or paws on him, but it didn't stop him from being in a pissy mood after he transformed back."

[future_sandworm]

"I don't believe I've met him," he said. "And I have to confess I might be in a bad mood too, after that." Especially since his roommate might tease him even more about it than being a tree.

[vanillajello]

"If Tybalt didn't clearly have too much pride for one person, I would have felt sorry for him," Kate noted. "But he does, so I didn't."

"Last time I saw him, he was very sparkly. If that's still the case, you'll recognize him pretty easily," she added, grinning at some private joke.

[future_sandworm]

"Ah, one of those people." Leto gave her a look, wondering what was so funny. "Sparkly? As in covered in glitter?" Because that could happen in Fandom too.

[vanillajello]

"Totally, completely covered in glitter," Kate replied, the corners of her mouth twitching a little.

"Looked pretty good on him. He didn't think so."

[future_sandworm]

Leto did his best to look perfectly serious. "And it had no... side effects?"

Some people had informed him about what might happen when there was glitter involved.

[vanillajello]

"Unfortunately no," Kate said sadfacing at him. "Which was a bummer, because that was the whole point."

...Yeah, Kate was kind of losing her grip on the whole 'the glitter had nothing to do with me' pretense thing.

[future_sandworm]

"I see." After a brief pause, he added: "I hope this isn't something that just happens to anyone because some people are suddenly in the mood for glitter." Raising an eyebrow, he looked at her.

[vanillajello]

Kate did her very best to look as innocent as she possibly could. She probably ended up looking suspiciously too innocent.

"Well of course not!" It happened because some people were drunk and in the mood for glitter. Totally different thing. "Only happens to people who really need to be glitterified."

A pause. "Or so I'm guessing. I couldn't possibly really know anything about anything like that," Kate added, examining her fingernails.

[future_sandworm]

Unfortunately for Kate, a Bene Gesserit could see through even people very good at looking innocent.

"Of course you wouldn't," he replied. "And I'm sorry that your glitter plan for Tybalt failed."

[vanillajello]

She made a face at him for seeing through the – admittedly bad – lying.

"It wasn't a complete failure. He was very, very pretty in the sunlight, even if there was no boykissy involved."

[future_sandworm]

At least the topic seemed to have distracted Kate a lot from considering what had happened in alternate realities where neither of them had ever been, and she didn't look like she was going to burst into tears again.

Not that Leto knew a lot about girls bursting into tears. It had been a quite new experience.

"Perhaps better luck next time, then." He got to his feet, suddenly feeling how tired he was. "I need to go back to my room. And thank you for the muffins, they were quite delicious."

[vanillajello]

Kate knew that a new bout of hysteria was probably just around the corner, just waiting to be triggered, but for now she was perfectly happy.

"You're welcome. I should probably go clean up the glass," she said with a little laugh, getting up to go back to the kitchen area.

But before she did, her expression went slightly more serious, as she looked him in the eyes. "Thank you." And she really, really meant it.

[future_sandworm]

"I will see you later, Kate." Leto smiled at her, then left the common room, heading back to room 303. He assumed he had reacted correctly when faced with someone breaking down in tears in front of him. For all he knew, he might have been expected to ignore them.