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Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) (kitty_has_claws) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-05-30 14:33:00

Entry tags:

chuck bartowski, felix gaeta, kitty pryde (aoa), suzaku kururugi

DAY 378 [Private/Suzaku][Open Action]
[Private to Suzaku]
Hey, can you meet me at Defense Force headquarters?

[Open Action]
[Kitty has been keeping to herself since the shared dreaming. That still ended in a surprising amount of running into people, but today she's falling into her regular routine again—exercising which can become sparring if someone has a mind to join her, looking into things at Defense Force headquarters, planning some lessons for the technology classes she teaches which she'll go head and take care of in the library, some meaningful shopping of essentials and some idle shopping of random stuff because sometimes you need a baseball cap with an octopus on it? And of course, she's got to eat!]

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didwhaticould
2016-06-03 06:32 am UTC (link)

[Library, did you say? That's where Gaeta is currently camped out with a neat stack of books—on physics and computer science for the most part, judging by the titles, but there are a couple of oddities—and an equally neat assortment of notes. He might seem moderately relaxed now that he's not around sources of stress like bots and people and coping with life in general.]

Kitty. You do things that aren't eating pizza and dancing.

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	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-03 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	[She looks up and smiles.] You're imagining it. I'm probably just eating pizza and dancing here in the library. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-03 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	I'm imagining you behaving appropriately in a library? My fantasy life isn't that boring. What're you up to? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-05 01:07 am UTC (link)
	That's too bad. A boring fantasy life could be a very good thing. [Trade you?] I'm working on lesson plans for my classes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-05 01:18 am UTC (link)
	Sure, when it's on display for everyone to see. [What, exchange a montage of his worst moments for physical and emotional intimacy with several people? Deal!] You teach technology, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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kitty_has_claws
2016-06-05 01:25 am UTC (link)

[When you put it that way...] Exactly.

[A nod.] Beginning and advanced. [And she's not always sure she's qualified for advanced especially considering some of the people who have been through here. She's good. Really good. But so much of it is intuition. She hasn't had any formal education and her experience is so varied. She usually has to study up to give her the right terminology to teach others with.]

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	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-05 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Please tell me that dream sharing doesn't happen that often here. Lie to me if you need to. I hope you don't mind if I show up at one of your lessons. Turns out that technology varies wildly between universes. Who knew? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-05 01:39 am UTC (link)
	Third time for me, so about 3 times a year. Not as often as the kissing bots. Closer to their group therapy sessions. I bet. I'll largely be focusing on things we have access to here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-05 01:45 am UTC (link)
	[What, wait, no, back up. He frowns at Kitty, looking for the lie.] Kissing bots. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-05 01:50 am UTC (link)
	[No lie here, friend!] They weren't that long ago. You've got weeks before they're back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-05 05:25 am UTC (link)
	[Kitty clearly doesn't appreciate how horrifying this is.] It doesn't matter how often it is. Why would the wardens want us to kiss robots? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-05 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	No. We kiss each other. There are bots that go around catching us in pairs and putting shrinking forcefields around us. They don't open until there's a kiss. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-05 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. That's fine. [Whew.] Or not exactly fine, but I'm sure I've kissed worse people. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-05 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	I know I have. But yeah, it's survivable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-05 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	[Did this conversation hit a sore spot? They've been talking for an entire minute. That seems about right.] Survivable, but uncomfortable? That's inevitable when you're stuck with a limited number of people and no room to run. I'd imagine it's even worse here than on a ship. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-05 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	[Sorry. Tyki landmines everywhere. The icon probably looks sadder than necessary because someone doesn't bother choosing them wisely.] Depends on who you get stuck with. Sometimes it's fun. But yeah, things can get complicated in a small space. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-06 12:40 am UTC (link)
	Complicated kissing. Something else to look forward to. Does anything good ever happen here? I shouldn't complain—the food here is great and I can appreciate all of the things we're given—but it seems like the wardens' ultimate goal is making us miserable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-06 12:55 am UTC (link)
	I did break up with my boyfriend yesterday so I may not actually be the best person to ask. But yes, good things happen. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-06 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Oh. Huh. [That got real very quickly, but color him interested.] Bad break up or good? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-06 01:54 am UTC (link)
	It's our best one yet. We're getting much better at it. [She smiles lightly.] If we really stay friends it will be a great one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-06 02:12 am UTC (link)
	Then congratulations. [Doesn't sound like anyone was held at gunpoint, which is the hallmark of a successful break up.] So you're still on speaking terms? That's an accomplishment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-06 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Thanks. I think. I haven't spoken to him since it happened, but we said we wanted to stay friends and we ended on a hug. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-06 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Good luck with that. [That might look sarcastic in type, but it's not.] Decent friends are just as valuable as significant others. Take them where you can get them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; kitty_has_claws 2016-06-06 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I hope we'll be happier this way. [She was so happy with him once upon a time. But she'd just been...waiting to get back to something they could maybe never get back to.] ...So, what about you? How are things? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; didwhaticould 2016-06-06 04:08 am UTC (link)
	[Good luck with the happiness thing, too, which he won't say because that would sound sarcastic no matter how much he might mean it.] Fine. [He's miserable. If he denies that often enough, it might stop being true.] I'm having regular conversations with a robot and trying to remember what it's like to have hobbies, so... surreal, but fine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)