[Oct. 13-20] full stops and exclamation marks

[girlsolo]

Kate's back to drinking tequila again. That's never a good sign. Tonight it's a sign she's bouncing between sexy check-in notes with Declan that make this island seem all right and people like Coraline screaming and crying over how much it fucking sucks.

The smart thing to do would be find Will or Magnus, talk some of this out. Even finding someone to spar with, that would work. Thing is, Kate's not that kind of smart. When it comes to helping Coraline? Sure. Yeah. She's been listening to Will do his shrink thing for years now. But when it comes to herself?

Fuck that noise. She'd still rather fuck and forget.

Kate leans her back against a post to watch the room, drinks another shot (hot wheels only, no training), and flirts at whatever makes eye contact. Whether she's Go or just Show, she hasn't decided yet. Mostly, she's trying not to look for anyone in particular. She's trying not to wish he'd come in and just...

Take her home.

[OOC: Find her at the Hub or the Winchester (let me know) any evening between now and the 20th. Available for all of your Freelander needs. If you need a specific date, email me, otherwise I'll work them out. For the record, Kate's very bi but a lot less available than she thinks she is.]

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[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

"You sure that was him and not Will and me?" Kate asks innocently, eyes wide and smile angelic.

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

Kate bites back a smirk at that and just pats his arm instead. She's being a smartass but she doesn't need to be noisy about it. Kate's got a great pokerface, but Steve doesn't even need one he keeps his emotions pushed so far down.

Instead of busting his balls about it, she sighs a little after and asks, "Do you think it would work at home, you and him, or is it just the island?" and it's probably clear she's not just talking about them.

[notsocommon]

"Considering he told me it was him, I'm going with Nikola. I never even suspected Will."

Helen arched a brow. "Why? Should I have suspected Will? Do you have inside information?"

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

Kate clicks her tongue and shakes her head, playful. "Now, now, doc. I would never rat Will out if he was trying to get you to kick back and relax." Her eyes are wicked, but there's nothing in it but fun. "Boyfriend knows best after all."

Boyfriend. Kate's expression flickers, wavering. She'd really like to talk to Magnus about Declan, but she's not sure she should. She's his friend too.

[newkindofcop]

"I don't know," he replies, and that's a bit jarring, that honesty that catches even him by surprise before he has a second to stop and think about it. "There are a lot of factors back home that don't even enter in here. His ex-wife, for starters, and his daughter. From what we know, he's trying to make things work out with her back home, at least right at this moment."

He clears his throat, taking another decent sip of his beer. "But that's not where we're at here, even though the feelings are working there too."

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"That sucks," Kate says sfeelingly, and there's a lump in her throat that probably has fuck all nothing to do with Danny and not much to do with Steve. "I mean, the not knowing. Not the working out here."

She wants to ask how he deals with it. Not knowing. And worrying about Danny disappearing, and what he does when he does get worried, but that's even more personal.

Her hands wrap around her beer glass and she stares into it, unguarded and soft. "You guys are good together."

[newkindofcop]

"We get updates about home, from time to time. These reels, they show up and we find out what's happening," Steve explains, but he's not going to dwell in the most recent of arrivals, the one that all but showed Five-O disbanding. Not to mention the part where he's in jail. But he has to have faith that the team will work to get him out. They'd never leave one of their own behind, especially after his being framed for something he didn't do.

"I know what I've got here, though, and I've got pretty few complaints," he adds, glancing over at her with a soft half-smile.

[notsocommon]

"I will never get used to referring to Will as my boyfriend," Helen admitted quietly. "I guess because I feel like I'm too old to have a boyfriend or be considered someone's girlfriend. Old-fashioned of me, isn't it?"

[keepurshirtonlt.livejournal.com]

"Can't ignore her, seein' as their attached an' all. Momma always told me to treat a girl right, parts an' all." Trip smirked and shrugged. "Granted, I don't think she was talkin' 'bout a situation like this but I think it still applies, don't you?"

Kate was a beautiful woman and she had that playfulness that Trip knew matched his own. They could have a lot of fun of she wanted and when he raised his next shot, it was pure invitation as he leaned forward to make his toast. "Especially when the girl in question is gorgeous and got a wit about her."

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

Kate leans in and nips the fingers trying to cover his scars. When he pulls them away, she nips at the scars and runs her fingers over them.

"Bad scene," she says about them, but she doesn't look repulsed at all because she couldn't care less. Instead, she shrugs off her jacket and pulls down her tank and cami to show off the bullet scar in her left upper chest. "Jackass took the bullet out with alcohol and a Swiss Army knife."

Probably almost gave her lead poisoning too. He should've left it, but he might've saved her life. Doc says they'll never know for sure.

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

"Pfft. You guys are so cute it's disgusting." She taps the back of Magnus's hand, soft tease in her eyes and her tone. "He's definitely your boyfriend. I bet he even carries your books for you."

[notsocommon]

"I don't carry books but I agree, he probably would," Helen said, grinning wide enough to show her dimple. "I'm positively stupid over him, I can admit that easily enough."

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

Updates from home? She lifts an eyebrow but then realizes he's talking about like with Rizzo. It's probably a good way to think about it, instead of worrying about whether it meant people were writing about you or whatever.

Henry tried to explain fan fiction to her once. After Comic Con. She just called him a dork and said she didn't want to know about his porn collection. He'd blushed every time he saw her for a week.

Kate misses him, and she misses Biggie, and she misses Declan and he's not even half an island away probably. She rubs her hand over her temples and says softly, "I'm really glad I didn't mess that up."

[newkindofcop]

"Who, you? Please," Steve scoffs, shaking his head dismissively, though it's not towards her as much as it is what she's saying.

"It's going to take a lot more than a briefly stolen toolbox lid to ruin my opinions on this place," he promises her. "And so far, the good has definitely outweighed the bad. I'm not exactly keeping a running list, though, so you're just going to have to take my word for it."

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

"Was it always easy?" The words just tumble out, and then Kate's kicking her damned self and very interested in her beer.

[misanthrope_md]

House flinched when she touched the scars, not because it hurt, but because he really didn't like attention drawn to them. He was more a fan of pretend-it-doesn't-exist. Worked for hookers, if he warned them first.

But he tried to hide it with a quirked smile. "Take that off and I promise I won't be looking at bullet scars."

[notsocommon]

"What? Hardly. Shortly after we came to the island, I got a bit...tipsy, shall we say, and I kissed Will. He didn't kiss me back and things got very awkward for a stretch. It didn't help matters much when he walked in on me having sex with another doctor in the clinic."

It was hard to admit those things, especially considering Helen had made an ass of herself, but she couldn't be anything but honest with Kate.

"We didn't speak and then he made a truce on my birthday. Things were better until I found a letter he wrote in the case of his death and it said, he said he loved me, so I confronted him but he didn't want a relationship."

Helen took a deep breath and sipped at her drink.

"I tried to push it and he turned down sex with me...it was a very big mess before we finally worked it out. It...it affected a lot of things because I felt like he didn't want me and I was afraid to ask him for things."

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

Kate feels like a cartoon version of herself, eyes so wide they're going to pop out of her head. "Sorry, I--"

She shakes her head. If it was Will or Henry she'd be giving them the face of way TMI right now. But it's Magnus and Kate's no shrink but she kind of thinks Magnus maybe needed to tell someone that. Or needed someone else she could tell.

It's weird, being there for her and for Will. But it's probably the daytime talk therapy "being there" that's weird more than anything.

"That's pretty rough. But take it from me. If there's anything I know about guys, it's when they want someone. Will wants you. Will's wanted you since I met him." She holds up her hand. "It's nothing he said. He's just... the walking definition of off limits and he pretty much always has been."

[trytobegood.livejournal.com]

I hesitated only a fraction of a moment before seating myself on the indicated stool, accustomed enough to wearing sword and daggers at my waist that I was able to execute the movement without awkwardness. "I am not yet entirely familiar with the cuisine of this island," I admitted, "as I only recently arrived. But what I have had thus far has been well made."

Aware I had not yet introduced myself, I gave her a small bow, just an inclination of my head and shoulders. "Well met, my lady. My name is Imriel."

[likesthestooges.livejournal.com]

If anything let Aidan know that Kate had genuine feelings for this guy, whoever he was, it was how she snapped at him when Aidan suggested he might be pressuring her. Whoever it was, Aidan was willing to bet this guy was a consummate gentleman.

"Just to pose a question," Aidan said, shifting in his seat to face her more completely. "Do you really think you can't be exclusive, or it is more that you're concerned about what having a real relationship will mean?"

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Kate screwed up her face and shook her head at him. "Who replaced my hotass booty call with Dr. Phil? What does that even mean?"

She downed half her beer, still shaking her head. Will in a SEAL's body. What a waste. "You wound my soul, Aidan. Seriously. 'What a real relationship will mean?' First of all, how would I know? I've never had one. Second, yeah, I'm worried I can't be exclusive. I'm worried I'll have a night like the one I met you and be too drunk and stupid to go home instead of staying out. I'm worried about hurting the last person on this island I want to hurt and losing the only good thing about being here."

...shut up, Freelander. Shut up and drink.

[likesthestooges.livejournal.com]

"Observation and inquisition are the side effects of longevity," he said with a bit of a shrug. He wasn't an armchair psychiatrist, he didn't pretend to have all the answers, but he did have a lot of experience at observing people.

"And all I was asking, was if you genuinely think being exclusive will be a problem for you, or if it's just a semi-valid concern you're holding on to because it's easier to claim than being worried about all the unknowns involved with a real relationship. I'm not saying either is true, just curious if maybe it is."

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

Kate's not sure which part of 'I don't know' and 'yes' he's not getting. She's also not sure what the 'unknowns' in a real relationship are.

It's not that different from being part of a team. That's hard. Some days she wants to punch Will or Hank in the face a lot more than work with them. Sometimes they have fights that last days, even weeks. In the end, either the team matters enough to work it out or it doesn't. If it does, you do what you have to. If it doesn't, you walk. She hasn't walked yet and as long they have her back, she'll have theirs. She's pretty sure Declan thinks that way too.

Kate shrugs at Aidan, pinch-faced. "I just owe him more than to make him a guinea pig in the grand fucking experiment of what happens when Kate can't run."

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

She's about to tell him she doesn't know what's on special tonight. All she's been doing is drinking. But then he goes and calls her 'my lady'. She ignores the pang of Declan calls me that to smirk and shake her head.

"Not another one," she mock protests. "I keep telling you guys, I'm not a lady." She offers her hand, though. Gorgeous - Imriel; kind of sounds like an angel - seems like a handshake guy. She vaguely remembers Will spouting off something about shaking hands as a way of showing you didn't have hidden weapons way back when, too. "Name's Kate. Where are you from, Imriel?"

[notsocommon]

"Unless one's name is Helen Magnus, I presume?" Helen asked, smirk playing at her lips. Will was hers and, for all intents and purposes, had been hers a lot longer than they'd actually been a couple.