girlsolo: (sex kitten)
Bonny likes the new place, over at New Atlantis, or what would be New Atlantis if the island weren't a dust-covered bitch during the day and a witch's tit at night. Kate's not so sure. Last night Kate packed up the stuff of Declan's she's keeping (if it turns back into what it was before) and moved it to the new place, then went back to stay the night.

It'd been days since she as much as teared up, but she cried half the night. Missing him. Not because there's no one else out there for her and her heart's ripped from her chest like Will would be if Magnus left, or Finnick and Annie, but because he was home. She loved him, loves him, will probably always love him, and what she told told Danny at Mardi Gras still feels true. If he was here, she'd still be thinking plus one forever. But for him, it's best he's gone. He didn't want to marry her, have kids with her (not that she wants that, no matter what two alternate universes have to say about it), but some part of him wants that, she thinks. Maybe at home he'll find his Garris or maybe he'll find her and convince her. He always said he would. Find her. Ask her out. Love her. She doesn't know what to hope for that other version of herself. For some version of him that remember them on the island.

The next night she leaves Bonny at the new place with Dr. J. to keep an eye on her, and hikes back out to her place with a couple of bottles of booze and a note in one particular inbox. There's being real - no lies, no bullshit, no secrets - which is a note in a different box, or different set of boxes, only one maybe with sex involved. Then there's being raw - no lies, no bullshits, no secrets, not giving a shit because it's not about that anyway. It's filthy, dirty, friendly, sex for sex sake. It's been awhile, and who knows if Aidan's ready to climb back on her, but she kinda figures maybe. It might be time.

And just in case in he's not in the place for it, there's another note, this one for Phoebe. Clear as clear can be: If the cabin's rocking, don't bother knocking. Just come on in. The if it's not, well, Kate figures that's pretty obvious. She and Phoebe have been talking around getting naked since before Declan left. Not like Aidan's going to mind the extra company and if it's just her and Barbie, that's okay too.

Kate knows one thing. Before this night is through, I wanna do real bad things to you. But she'll settle for sharing the booze.
girlsolo: (kinda blue)
She's been here since September. Been through people getting powers, people coming, people going, the island itself changing, finding out that she's maybe fictional or some kind of crap, but it's really not until today Kate's realized just how much this place fucks with her. Over breakfast, she finds out one of the people she really likes and respects lost her husband and now she's like five months pregnant and raising the kid of someone else who left her. By herself. The kid - who she fucking loves, okay? and, whatever, just she does - lost his mom, his uncle, and now his step-dad in a place that's way too safe for death to be something you just get like she and Thad did.

And when she comes home to detox for an hour before going to make up with her boyfriend, because she's been a complete fucking jackass for a week and he could just disappear any second without her ever getting to fix it, there's this sweet set up on her porch. A laptop with a huge screen and killer resolution, long life batteries, cords, speakers, HDMI for TV hookup, seriously everything a chick could want. There's a gold bow on top and a card that says "For Kate Freelander," and when she powers it up, it's got a sick media library. Movies, tv, music, games. She's not even sure whether to laugh or cry. Which she doesn't do. Cry. Not much. Not often. Not because it's weak or whatever. It's just not her thing.

She shakes her head and packs it all up in one of her woven hemp bags. Cleans herself up. Then spends about ten minutes deciding what face she's wearing when she goes to see Declan. Leather, lace, trench coat? She lines her eyes with some kohl and smudges some berry colored stain on her mouth but she's still not sure. Maybe jewelry will settle it. With a flick of her hand, she opens the box (not her box, and fuck if she doesn't miss that) and --

The light catches on a flash of bright silver and deep, rich blue. It's beautiful.

Kate doesn't cry, but when she lifts out the bracelet and slides it around her wrist, the kohl on her eyes smears and her lashes are wet. No one's ever given her anything like this before. She's an idiot.

* * *


Half an hour later, she's on Declan's doorstep with their new system, wearing refreshed makeup, the bracelet he gave her, and a straight-up Kate face. Black leather, black lace, blue top and jeans. She knocks because it's been a week and he won't be expecting her.

"Declan?"

*
Title lyrics from Pat Benatar's We Belong.
girlsolo: (lost)
no line of attack has been planned to fight back the tears )

"Oh, fuck you. Seriously, bugger you right up your Victorian ass," Kate snarls into the face of the doorman who promptly slams the door in her (Indian, low class, trashy) face. "And you too." He won't remember. She's already discovered they don't. Which sucks in some cases but at least he won't spend the month of December being rude to Declan because of her. And not like she was going to ask him to kiss her anyway.

Not like she's going to ask anyone to kiss her. Not now. She's been kissed by enough people that aren't him today. And she'll be even more damned than she already is if she's going to kiss someone else at the door to his home. No fucking way.

Sick to her stomach and snarling ferally, Kate slides down the door to sit in the doorway, arms around her knees and curled tight. This day just has to end. It has to. Declan has to get home soon and not be mad at her. He has to. She needs him.

*
Title and lj-cut lyrics from Pat Benatar's Promises in the Dark.
girlsolo: (katherine pierce pretty)
In the game of I never, Kate almost always loses. She grew up fast and grew up hard, and she's done all the things people usually ask about and plenty they don't. But if the question was I've never arranged a date for my boyfriend on his birthday, Kate wouldn't have to drink. She probably would drink, because truth isn't an absolute for Kate. It's what she wants someone to know or not know about her.

She's given up lying like breathing but she didn't tell anyone (but the one person who counts) she's never done anything like this before. The whole package. The individual parts are familiar. Like the LBD she put together from scraps of black fabric from the clothing box. The black heels which she hates to walk in, but are fine for standing, eating, and fucking in. The bland beige belted trenchcoat (hand-fitted, but not re-pieced). Even the loose shoulder-brushing curls and hints of kohl around her eyes. All familiar. Dinner reservations, check. Surprise dessert (or breakfast, depending on how they roll), check. Note in his mailbox and on his door, check. It's just putting them all together and making them work she's not sure about.

Not that she's ever admitting that to anyone. What Declan doesn't know, doesn't hurt him. And right now all he knows is to meet her at her place at sunset. Where she'll conveniently not be, just long enough for him to sit down and wait while Kate watches, invisible from behind some nearby trees.

*

title lyrics from Pink's Raise Your Glass
girlsolo: (playgirl pretty eyes)
"That sounds like it's going to be very pleasant for me," he said, pulling her a bit closer so that she could easily feel just how affected he had been by her little performance earlier.

"There are some other things I'd like to test if you're ready to get out of here," he added, leaning forward to brush his lips against her neck. "Other places I'd like to do that."


Kate shivers from the contact and tilts her head for him. Her fingers flex and curl into his skin. Yeah. She's ready. More than ready. And they're both willing.

"Funny," she purrs and presses close enough to feel the heat of him against her belly. It's deliberate, the slow rock and grind she gives him when she comes up on tiptoe to nip his jaw. "I've got some other things and other places in mind too. Let's get out of here and check them out together."


[Continues from here. Post title from Rihanna's S&M.]
girlsolo: (earthquakes of doubt and remorse)
Day two of island fuckery sends Kate looking for one of her least favorite people. The way things go down doesn't change that opinion. It just makes it a little more mortifying.

it goes down )

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