Third Floor Common Room, Monday Morning

[vanillajello]

Kate had not been pleased to find herself still a dude when she'd woken up today. It wasn't that she had a huge problem with it as such herself, it was just that she was kind of worried for the sanity of a certain someone else.

But there was nothing she could really do about it, so she'd just wandered down into the common room and decided it was a day for baking. Everyone would appreciate chocolate chip muffins, right?

(Kate, by the by, was not mature enough to not laugh at the fact that they had nuts in them.)

A couple of batches of muffins baked and set on the counter to be taken, she flopped down onto one of the couches and started leafing through an issue of Cosmo. Trying to see if she could get a male perspective on it today.

[ooc: Yes, you guessed it, it's an open common room!]

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[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"Are these for anyone?" Christian asked, having wandered down in search of breakfast. Now that the shock had worn off, he was rather enjoying being a girl; it was a totally different perspective, and he had to admit he made for a pretty one.

[vanillajello]

"Uh huh," Kate confirmed lazily, flipping to the next page without looking up. "That's the idea. Thought everyone might want chocolate at a weird time like this."

Only then she bothered to actually look at the girl. Possible boy. It wasn't a familiar face, anyway. "Who are you?"

Too early for guessing games, in her book.

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"Someone who appreciates chocolate therapy," Christian answered as he picked up a muffin and peeled off the paper. "It's Christian. I should ask you the same."

[vanillajello]

Kate raised her eyebrows a bit; she wasn't sure she would've gotten this one too quickly if she hadn't asked.

"Kate," she said. "I see you're doing pretty well with the whole girl thing."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

It was the hair -- it was always reddish, but when it got longer the tint was much more obvious.

"I wasn't yesterday," he said, around a bite of muffin. "But then I realized this is an opportunity almost no one ever gets. I don't think it's even possible. I'd be throwing it away if I spent the whole time curled up under a quilt mourning it, wouldn't I?"

[vanillajello]

"That's my thinking, pretty much," Kate nodded. She'd spent a good while yesterday trying to convinve someone else of that, after all. "If course, this isn't even a first time for me."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"It's happened before?" Christian asked. "How -- strange. You would think once would be enough. Did you look the same, the last time?"

[vanillajello]

"Pretty much exactly, yeah," Kate nodded. "I think it was last summer or early fall, first the guys and then later the girls. I think the island has some weird things it likes to repeat. Like... the alternative universe kids, and this."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"And this time, it got us all at once," Christian nodded. "What about kids?"

If Christian had been told about them, he'd long since forgotten.

[vanillajello]

"Oh, after prom we had some of our alternative universe, possible future kids show up for a few days," Kate said, like it was really no big deal. Even if it totally had been. "I hear that's kind of an annual thing."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

Christian made a hmmphing noise. "Well," he said, "I've gotten through everything else the island threw at me. I suppose playing the parent wouldn't be any worse."

[vanillajello]

"Think that depends on the kinds of kids you get," Kate mused. "I mean, mine were kinda okay. If they're total pains in the ass, it might be different."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"But no one ever thinks their own children are total pains," Christian pointed out. "It's always 'oh, he's just spirited' or 'oh, she's at a difficult stage.'"

[vanillajello]

"Yeah, but they're not really your kids," Kate pointed out in turn. "I mean, they're just random children that you've never seen before in your life, turning up and telling you they're yours."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"So how do you know they are yours, and not trucked in from some foundling home somewhere for the day?" Christian asked.

[vanillajello]

"Would have to be a pretty elaborate hoax," Kate said, raising a single eyebrow. "My kids knew stuff... not many people here know about. Also, I kinda tend to believe the weirdest crap here."

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"It's more interesting if we believe everything is real than if we think it's all some evil plot," Christian shrugged. "Who did you have children with?"

[vanillajello]

"This guy Ben I used to date at my old school," Kate replied, making a face at the thought. "And I'm not sure if you even had a chance to meet him 'cause he graduated this spring, but uh, Leto Atreides."

There was no particular facial expression to go with that one. None that Christian got to see, anyway.