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

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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Kate's lips quirk and her eyes lighten, laughter in them. "Aha. So at least one of you is into women. I knew it." She jabs Steve in the upper chest with a pointed pokey finger.

Something in how Steve looks at her says he's probably not completely gay either. "What about you, did you have a type before him?"

"I was with a woman before Danny," Steve admits. Things with Catherine weren't completely serious, but she was good company and a good friend, and right up until he'd been on the island, they'd been sleeping together.

"Catherine. Tall, dark hair. She had a really great smile, too, that was one of the things I remember being attracted to first," he adds casually.

"Some girls have all the luck," Kate teases and nudges his calf with her foot. He's a hottie. She'd totally hit that. If not for Danny and...yeah. If not for.

Her gaze sweeps the bar again, but he's still not here. Not that she's looking for him or anything. Not that she wishes he were. "Were you always into guys or it one of those 'only for you' things?"

Yeah, she's being nosy. But she's been drinking. He's training her and she's...trying to distract herself.

Steve can't help but notice the way she's looking around the place, almost as if she's keeping an eye out for someone in particular, before her gaze settles back on him.

"Hmm, with Danny? No, it was one of those things where I just knew it was with him. Don't really know how to explain it, but that's Danno for you. He finds a way to sneak up on you that way, and then you're his biggest fan before you ever knew what happened."

"It's like that with all the best people." Kate flashes him a wicked Cheshire grin when her gaze zeroes back in. "Look at you and me." She touches her beer glass to his and her hand's still steady enough that it doesn't clank. "You were all ready to kick my ass and now I'm your best drinking buddy."

She drinks, fast, and tries not to think how close that is to what's happening with her and Declan.

"I wasn't ready to kick your ass," Steve protests, looking over at her with a disbelieving glance, the kind he really tends to spare for Danny when he's being borderline ridiculous.

"Danny might've wanted to kick your ass, but I at least was willing to hear you out at first."

"Danny still wants to kick my ass." Kate grins and pokes him with her toe again. She's just buzzed enough that she's loose and warm and sweet, not drunk enough to be aggressive, sexual or obnoxious. "Come on. Admit it. I totally got under your skin."

Steve scoffs, a quick and low sound that mostly winds up lost in his beer as he takes another sip, barely moving from the nudge of her toe.

"Oh, no you don't. I know better than to admit that to you."

Kate laughs, low and warm to start but it slides up, breaking into almost a giggle. If Kate Freelander giggled. Which she doesn't. Ever. But it's close. "Like not admitting it changes anything, chief. You can't deny it. I dare you."

It's a foreign sound to his ears, so he takes a moment to listen to it for a beat before responding, setting his beer down on the bar as he leans forward.

"Well, if I'm going to be training you, I'd hope it changes part of it," he adds, watching her quietly.

"Me getting under your skin is why you're training me." Kate's not letting go of this. Like a dog with a bone. But there's mischief in her eyes. Playful, not malicious. Steve's already hit the list of people she'd never hurt.

"That's the way you want it, isn't it?" he asks, directing his gaze toward her as he settles back against the chair, squaring his shoulders, his arms crossing over his chest.

"Something tells me you need one more person on your six, Kate."

"What, you training me? Hell yeah. I know what you can do and I want to learn." It's bright, sharp, eager, Kate leaning forward when he leans back. Anyone who knew Kate before the island wouldn't recognize this version of her. Will would, Magnus would, Declan would. They know how hard she pushes herself.

She's not going to answer the rest of it, though. She flies solo. She can take care of herself. Yeah, she misses her team but she doesn't need one.

"You may not want one, Kate, but you do need one," Steve plainly states, still keeping his posture relaxed into that casual lean, his fingertips resting against the side of his beer to feel the chilled glass under the touch.

"But I will train you, if only because of the fact that everyone could always use another pair of eyes watching their back."

"Everyone includes you," Kate says and that's almost soft, but there's a contradictory sharpness under it. A sharpness that's fierce and protective. He doesn't know it yet, but he just got about 1000% safer on this island.

Whatever this tie is between them, he trusted her once when she needed him to. Like Magnus did. And now she's got his back whenever, however, no matter how big the fight, unless it's between him and her other people.

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

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