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]

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*]