[For Kate G.] But don't pick on the girl who's only turning on the lightswitch

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It's been thirteen days since the IPD caught her. She's got six weeks to do her 110 hours. Check this, Dr. Z. she's not even procrastinating. Thirteen days in and she's done forty-eight of them already. Count that. Forty-eight. Four hours a day, every day, plus an extra four hours on Monday.

Today, she's got the ITF laundry detail and she's already two hours into a four hour shift. She might even pull another four, since the laundry room's a great place to look at fashion magazines without getting caught by people who don't need to know she's looking at them. Declan. Tesla. Will. Magnus would be okay. She'd probably get it.

She's sprawled on the floor on her stomach with her feet up, waiting for the dryers to stop or the shit she's soaking (she does not want to know what some of those stains are) to be ready to swap to the wash, when she hears footsteps. "First and second washers are open, first through third dryers," she says without looking up.

She's dutiful about her community service, yeah. But no one said she had to be an overachiever.

[OOC: Assuming Kate's wearing something suitably cute and interesting. There would be combat boots and a jacket, studded bracelets, and at least one flash of color involved. Whether Kate picks up she's the one from the note or not is up to you. I'll have Kate recognize her if not.]

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"Normally I'd be right there with you," Kate says with a quiet laugh. There's nothing she hates more, usually, than being picked apart for every tiny detail and explanation for why she is the person she is. Nature and nature. Done.

"But Will, the guy with the trash pickup time? He's a shrink. Don't tell him I said so, but he's pretty much the best guy I know."

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"Well, I never said they couldn't be good people," Kate answered with a small smile. For all she knew, they were all super awesome. But she also knew none of them had ever helped her mom.

"I mean, I don't know a ton personally, but I bet they're all pretty nice," she continued. "You'd have to be, right? To do something like that. Even if they don't actually help anyone, that's what they wanted to do when they started doing it."

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Kate's not sure that's why Will decided to become a shrink. Actually, she's pretty sure it's not at all, but they've never talked about it. It makes her kind of curious. Maybe she'll ask him.

It's not really Kate's business though, since she doesn't know Will. And once she's done shifting this set of loads around, she hops back up on the washers. "Is that why you want to be a cop? To help people?"

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Kate honestly sure what it was. "I don't know," she admitted. "I mean... it's something to do. Something that I can do here. Back home I wanted to travel. I wanted to go to Japan so bad and like, teach English to little Japanese kids, but you can't do something like that on the island. Everyone already knows English. And there's no where to go."

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Kids still need to learn to speak and read English on the island, but Kate knows what other-Kate means. She rubs her hands over her thighs and nods her agreement. "Yeah. Nowhere to go is a big problem. So is figuring out what to do. Not much use for someone whose best skills are combat and demolition."

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"Or anything," Kate said. "Unless you're good at building shit or cooking. Or hunting, I guess, that's probably pretty important here, too." And the doctors, now that she was thinking about it. The island would be a lot worse off without all the doctors. But she was thinking of herself, with nothing do, of Marshall, whose best talent was making movies, of Jeff, who couldn't exactly be a lawyer.

"I guess no one really needs to have a job here," she said, shrugging. "But it gets kinda boring."

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"It's a sad day when distraction sex isn't even distracting." Kate decides when she says it that it would be a lot funnier if it weren't so completely true.

"I need a vacation from vacation."