Third Floor Common Room, Sunday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Today, Kate was still feeling extremely lazy, but had made it all the way down the hall and into the common room. Might as well make an attempt to be social, even if she mainly came there to do something about her craving for coffee.

While she waited for the coffee to be ready, she fiddled with her phone, messaging back and forth with her brother. They were currently in the process of coming up with some extremely colorful and insulting ways in which to describe a certain idiot teacher at his school.

It was making her smile.


[ooc: Oh so very open! Entertain me while I enjoy my last properly free night before two weeks of intense studying.]

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[future_sandworm]

"You look happy," Leto observed cheerfully as he walked into the common room. Yes, he had noticed the scent of coffee.

[vanillajello]

Kate pressed 'send' for the latest unflattering description and looked up, grinning a little. "I'm being mean with Moosh."

[future_sandworm]

Oh, he knew all about being mean with a sibling. "Who is the victim?" Leto asked, leaning over her shoulder to see what she was writing.

[vanillajello]

"Mr Gershinson. Teaches English at my old school. Only teacher ever to have a problem with Moosh," she said. "Alice straightened him out last spring but he's still a dick."

Lives with his mom. Who hates him. Cuz she understands lit better than he does, too, she typed.

[future_sandworm]

"Your brother is too clever for him?" Leto imagined that would be the most plausible reason for a teacher to dislike Marshall. "Also, is there enough coffee for me?"

He slipped an arm around Kate's waist.

[vanillajello]

"My brother is too clever for that whole school," Kate stated, rolling her eyes. She leaned closer, into the touch. "And yes, there probably is."

[future_sandworm]

He gave her a quick, light kiss on the cheek. "He should come here." Also because that would be good for Kate.

[vanillajello]

Yes, it would. Not that she'd admit that.

"He kinda wants to," she shrugged, glancing at the coffeemaker. "Although I think it bummed him out a little when I told him Eric's gone."

[future_sandworm]

"Eric? Whom he met at Parents Weekend?" Leto asked, getting two mugs from the cupboard. "Yes, he did seem to like him, didn't he?"

[vanillajello]

"He did," Kate nodded. She bit on her bottom lip, then added, "A lot. That doesn't happen too often."

[future_sandworm]

Leto nodded. "He is clever, and prefers only to be romantically involved with men. I assume that doesn't give him many options at home." Fandom however, would be a different matter.

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "Well, no. Everyone back home is either so deeply closeted that their asses are practically in meta for Narnia, or they're just bi-curious douchebags trying to use him for some edge."

She didn't bother hiding that she had a particular person in mind for that latter option.

[future_sandworm]

Closets, Narnia and bi-curious douchebags were a little too contemporary for Leto to understand their exact meaning, but he understood the basics of it.

"I see," he said. "So, what would you advise your brother to do?"

[vanillajello]

Kate sighed. "I have no idea," she said, putting the phone into her pocket and going to pour coffee into the mugs. "I've told him I'll back him up whatever he decides to do, but..."

But but but. She didn't even know whether she wanted him in Fandom.

[future_sandworm]

Sensing her hesitation, he said: "But what do you want?"

[vanillajello]

She picked up her mug, not looking at him. "Fandom was supposed to be my thing. My... escape. Or whatever." She paused, peered into the mug, took a sip.

"And what's gonna happen back home if he comes here?"

[future_sandworm]

Leto smiled a little at her. "Your parents would be all alone. Do you think he would object to any choices you make here?"

[vanillajello]

Kate looked at him over the edge of her mug as she took another sip.

"I don't think so. I mean, he might boggle, a bit, but I don't think he'd bitch at me for anything. He doesn't really do that."

She did that to him, instead.

[future_sandworm]

Leto picked up his own mug, then just smiled at Kate, brushing his fingers against her cheek.

[night!]

[vanillajello]

Kate smiled back at him, if only a little, not really feeling inclined to say anything.

That, in itself, would make her brother boggle.

[*forces self to go to bed at this reasonable hour*]

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin, having recently returned from Florida for Thanksgiving, was on the lookout for fellow students. He'd missed them, if not the colder weather up here.

"Hi Kate! Did you have a good holiday?"

[vanillajello]

"Hi Robin," Kate smiled. "If good includes lazy, then yes, I did. You?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin could see how it could, as long as it was enjoyable for her. "Uh huh. I went home to visit my family. They love my stories about Fandom."

[vanillajello]

Kate shot him a wry smile. "I think mine probably would too, if I could tell them about any of the stuff that goes on around here."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"You don't think they'd believe you?"

[vanillajello]

"It's not that. It's... complicated," she shrugged. "I just can't tell them."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin shrugged. "Okay." Maybe they'd freak at the stuff that happened here. "So, I guess they don't know that you know a talking frog?" he giggled.

[vanillajello]

Kate chuckled. "No, they don't. Just like they don't know that nice guy I brought home to visit is from the future. ...Well, my brother does. But he doesn't know about you."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Oh which guy from the future? And what year is it back home for you?"

[vanillajello]

"Leto. You know him? And 2009. You're... from the '80s, right?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I know Leto." Robin nodded. "I'm from 1986 Or 87 if the mun has his math wrong."

[vanillajello]

"I don't know why that feels weirder to me than Leto being from somewhere around 20 000 years into the future," Kate said, smiling a little.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"It's easier for your mind to comprehend the difference because it's not as big a one?" That had almost made sense in his head.

[vanillajello]

"Something like that, probably," she shrugged. "20 000 is just too much for my brain. It's meaningless."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I can't really get my brain around it either. Being in 2009 is enough for me to grasp. Back in the 80's we still think we'll have colonies on the moon and flying cars."

[vanillajello]

Kate snickered. "Yeah, not so much with those, at least not in this version of the world."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Though I guess a lot of the stuff we do have would have seemed like science fiction back then anyway."