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Jason Murphy (jmurph) wrote in providence_rpg,
@ 2008-10-02 16:41:00

Ring ring ring ring ring, banana phone.
WHO: Jason & Kate
WHAT: Talking on the telephone.
WHERE: Kate’s in her dorm, Jason’s in his apartment.
WHEN: After Kate texts him, during this.
RATING: TBD
OPEN? To

stillnotkatie only!

Lately, Jason hadn’t been doing much of anything. He came home from work and relaxed in his apartment, playing with his new puppy, and then going to sleep. Ever since his run-in with Kate, Jason’s mind had been working almost non-stop, thinking of things he should have said, things he should have done. He couldn’t stop thinking about her, and that bothered him. He hadn’t seen or heard from Kate since she broke up with him back in November, and now she was working with his new girlfriend. Jason wasn’t stupid, he knew that she had to be in Providence. She went to school there, of course she lived there. But he didn’t think that he would have run into her that soon. He thought he’d had more time to prepare, and was just taken a little bit off guard.

Jason was relaxing one night when he heard his phone go off, signaling that he had a new text message. Glancing down to where it lay on the coffee table, Jason leaned forward on his couch to grab it, picking it up. He couldn’t help but smile when he saw that it was Kate, and he texted her back. A little while later, he had suggested that she just call him, because he couldn’t decipher her drunk messages anymore. Leaning back against his couch again, Jason lifted his remote and flipped through channels, stopping when he saw that a Family Guy rerun was on the Cartoon Network. Hearing his phone going off again, Jason glanced down and smiled, picking it up and answering it. “Hey, you lush,” he teased, leaning his head against the back of his couch.

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jmurph
2008-10-05 02:46 am UTC (link)

Smiling, Jason nodded. "I'm glad to hear that you're not going to change your motto," he told her, his hand flattening on his chest and just resting there now. His eyes traced the patterns on the ceiling to attempt to keep his mind from wandering, since it wandered quite frequently while he was on the phone with her. Especially now that it had been so long since he'd really seen her. He was going to just forget about the little blow-up at the warehouse ... that didn't count. They'd seen each other for fifteen minutes tops, and had argued the entire time they were there. So Jason didn't count it as the last time he'd seen her.

Jason's smile grew when Kate told him it was good to talk to him, and he nodded. "Yeah, it's good to talk to you too. I ... I missed talking to you," he admitted, closing his eyes and rolling his lips into his mouth. He didn't want to make anything awkward, but he was just telling the truth. He had missed talking to Kate. He had missed everything about her. Jason listened as Kate talked about photography and how she loved it, and he smiled, running a hand over his face slowly. "I'm glad you love it," he told her honestly, smiling. He, too, couldn't enter a darkroom without memories of things he and Kate used to do in there, and how many times they had attempted sex in that room. Clearing his throat, Jason smiled at the phone and sighed. "I just missed you, Kate," he said, instantly regretting that he let those words slip out of his mouth.

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stillnotkatie
2008-10-05 01:06 pm UTC (link)

Kate started to get uncomfortable in her position in the tub again, her butt was getting sore where it was so she shifted again to a different side and moved her towel pillow behind her again. She tried to remember why she decided to sit in the bath tub in the first place but couldn’t remember and just shrugged it off. Kate was too lazy to move to get out of the tub, and she didn’t want to leave her bathroom until she knew it was safe to leave and not see what Kaycee was doing in the room beside her. “Yeah, there are a lot of things that have not changed,” Kate then said, not really sure why she said it exactly. It was true though, besides being ten times more stressed then when she was on the island, Kate hadn’t changed much at all.

“I missed talking to you too,” Kate admitted, having to take a deep breath in and look at her ceiling as well. Part of her wanted to tell Jason exactly how much she missed him, how while he was gone it hurt her to even think about him. Just ask Kate’s room mate, she was the one who had to listen to her cry all of the time right after Kate arrived at Brown, and after Kate broke things off with him. She did her best to push those thoughts out of her head, feeling like she might tear up again from just thinking about it. “I do. I was so afraid I wasn’t going to find something at school that I would like, but I just feel in love with photography.” Kate then started to play with the hem of her shirt for a moment, and went quite when Jason told her that he missed her. She was silent for a few seconds before speaking again. “I missed you too, Jason. A lot.”

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jmurph
2008-10-07 08:24 am UTC (link)

Jason smiled when Kate told her that a lot of things hadn’t changed, and he nodded his head. “That’s good to know too. It’s good to know you’re the same person that I lo--, er, was friends with before,” he said. Jason almost smacked himself in the face for almost slipping there, that was just stupid. Well, at least he caught himself before he got the word out, right? And maybe Kate didn’t notice that. She was drunk, after all … right? He hoped so, at least. He wanted to try and be friends with Kate, he had missed her. And freaking her out by bringing up the fact that he was fairly certain he still had some feelings for her … well, that wasn’t the best idea in the world.

His smile grew as she told him that she fell in love with photography, and he nodded his head. “Photography’s really easy to fall in love with,” he told her, his hand resting on his stomach and his fingers drumming on it. “I mean, come on. I hadn’t even thought about photography before my brother suggested it to me and bought me my first camera,” he reminded her, switching the phone from one ear to the other. “And I think it’s great that you found something you love to do,” he added, nodding. “It just makes me even happier that it’s photography. Buuut, I’m kind of biased when it comes to photography, as you very well know,” he laughed, shrugging. Rolling his lips into his mouth after he told her he missed her, the silence kind of worried him for a sec. Did he freak her out? Great. And then Kate told him she missed him too. Closing his eyes, Jason swallowed. Hearing that she missed him made his heart beat a little faster. Which was not a good thing. “We should … I don’t know. Do something. Get coffee or something,” he suggested.

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stillnotkatie
2008-10-07 07:48 pm UTC (link)

It was a good thing that Kate was still pretty drunk while she was talking to Jason because if she hear his minor slip up it probably would of made things extremely awkward between the two of them. There was no denying that Kate still had feelings for Jason, he was her first love after all and her first serious boyfriend and relationship that lasted longer then a few months after all, but she was in denial over exactly how strong of feelings she did have for him. Kate was in a relationship with Jamie right now, they had been together for a decent amount of time and she didn’t want to mess any of that up right now. He was great, good to her and she was doing her best to use that as an excuse as to why she ignored the feelings she got in her stomach whenever she thought of Jason and how much she missed him. They were broken up, he had a girlfriend, they were done.

‘Well, I had not thought of it until you got me into it,” Kat pointed out with a smile. She still remembered when he first let her play with his camera and how paranoid she was of dropping it or breaking it. He always let her play around and take random pictures which was the first thing that really did get her interested in it. It wasn’t long before Kate bought a simple camera of her own and started learning from Jason. Kate was actually surprised by how much Jason had taught her during their time together and it actually really helped her out in her classes. “I am glad too, because if it wasn’t photography I am pretty sure I would still have an undeclared major or something lame like that right now,” Kate said with a bit of a laugh. She then bit down on her lip as she sat in the tub and wasn’t sure if telling Jason that she missed him was a good or bad thing. Would that make things awkward? “We should,” Kate found herself answering without even thinking about it. All she really wanted to do was see Jason again without his stupid girlfriend there. Wait, did she just call Nicole stupid? Didn’t Kate like Nicole? “Coffee sounds good, school made me dependant on the stuff.”

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jmurph
2008-10-08 01:19 pm UTC (link)

Jason couldn’t deny the fact that he still had feelings for Kate, either. She was his first real love, and she had been such a big part of his life. He couldn’t help but harbor some feelings for her. Feelings that had pretty much stayed dormant, until he saw her again. And then they just hit him full-force. He knew he wasn’t going to act on anything, Jason wasn’t the type of guy to cheat on anyone Maybe that was because he had been cheated on a few times in the past, and he knew that being cheated on felt horrible, it made you feel like you were worthless. Jason didn’t want to cause anybody to feel that way. Ever. And he really cared about Nic … he really did.

Smiling at the memory of getting Kate into photography, Jason nodded. “Yeah, it’s apparently just something that happens when you spend a lot of time with a photographer. You tend to become somewhat interested in it,” he smiled. Well, that was the case with Kate anyway. Nic didn’t really seem to be interested in photography much. Jason remembered how much Kate loved being with him in the dark room. That might have had something to do with the fact that they couldn’t be alone in the dark room for more than five minutes before his project was completely forgotten, but with Nic … she didn’t like to be in the dark room at all. She said the chemicals smelled funny, and that she didn’t want the smell to seep into her clothes. She didn’t even like to hug or kiss him after he’d spent time in the dark room. Smiling as Kate accepted his invitation for coffee, Jason nodded. “Definitely. I’m free any night during the week after about 6pm, and I’m usually free all weekend. Unless I have a project,” he told her, sitting up and running his fingers through his hair.

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stillnotkatie
2008-10-08 07:34 pm UTC (link)

What Jason said was true, when the two of them were together they spent a ridiculous amount of time together, so it was only natural that she would want to learn more about something that Jason loved so much. He talked about photography so much, and the two of them were in the dark room so much so Kate started learning about photography before she even really realized it. The first day that they had met and talked Jason showed Kate how to develop film, and the memory of that made Kate smile. There were a lot of memories that Kate had of her time with Jason that made her smile, though if she thought about them too much and about how happy she was that year it also made her heart ache.

“Apparently,” Kate teased back. She then thought about what kind of stuff she was going to have to do during the next week or two and when the two of them could meet up. Kate knew that she was very busy with her exams coming up but she knew that she would make time to see Jason no matter what. She had not just sat and talked to him in person in so long and really it was all that she wanted to do right now. Everyone would want to catch up with someone they had not seen in a year, right? Well, that is what Kate told herself to justify how she was feeling. “I usually have my classes pretty early in the morning, so my evenings are free,” Kate said. “And I always make sure that my weekends are free,” Kate then added. She too sat up a bit in the bathtub and noticed that the sounds she was hearing outside her room were gone, so she assumed that Kaycee had passed out or left by now, and right now Kate really didn’t care as long as her friend was safe. “So, are you still going to let me job shadow you?”

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jmurph
2008-10-09 11:52 am UTC (link)

The longer that Jason talked to Kate, the more he was beginning to realize how much he really did miss her. He missed just hanging out with her in one of their rooms, just relaxing and talking. They could really talk about anything, and had spent hours just talking about nothing before. Absolutely nothing. Those conversations where, after it was over, you didn’t remember anything that was said. And Jason loved being able to do that with her. He loved that she was fun and liked to just be together. But he had to stop thinking that way, because she had a boyfriend. She had moved on completely, and he thought that he had done the same thing. Apparently, he hadn’t though. He was still getting that pang in his chest whenever he thought about her, that pang that meant he still had feelings for her.

That revelation silenced him for a moment, and he couldn’t think to say anything. Maybe hanging out with her wasn’t a good idea. Jason knew that he still would hang out with her, even though it was a bad idea. He would rather have her in his life as a friend than not at all, and he’d always felt that way. “Okay, whenever you want to grab some coffee is perfectly fine with me,” he told her, nodding his head, and then realizing that she couldn’t see him, and the nod was pointless. “Just give me a call and let me know, and I’ll be there,” he said, hoping he didn’t sound as eager as he thought he did. Running a hand through his hair, he rose a brow. “Shadow me?” he asked, racking his brain to try and remember if she had asked him anything about that. “Oh! Yeah, yeah,” he remembered, smacking himself on the forehead. She had said something to him through journals about it. “Sure, definitely. Just let me know when you want to come in, and I’ll try to have something interesting on schedule for then,” he smiled, scratching his forehead.

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stillnotkatie
2008-10-10 04:44 pm UTC (link)

If Kate had just sat and thought about it she would of come to the revelation that spending time with Jason alone wasn’t the greatest idea. He was her ex boyfriend who she obviously still had feelings for, thought she knew that she would always have feelings for Jason, and she had a boyfriend that she liked very much and he had a drop dead gorgeous girlfriend. The whole situation was probably spelling out disaster right in front of her, but she wasn’t going to pay attention to that. Also, the fact that Kate knew she wouldn’t tell Jamie when she went to spend time with Jason was a pretty big clue that it was something that she shouldn’t but doing. Though, when did Kate let stuff like that stop her from doing what she wanted? People always said that she was pretty stubborn.

“I’ll give you a call sometime during the week, or after my first set of exams are done.” Kate said. “I am almost done that first photography project, so after that is all done I will have a lot more free time.” Ever since Kate was assigned that project where she was working with Nicole she had been busy working hard to get it all done. It took Kate a while to figure out a theme and where to shoot it, but once that was all out of the way it started to become smooth sailing, well that was until Jason came into the picture. Kate knew that the next time she had to work with Nicole things were going to be pretty awkward, she just hoped it didn’t put a big strain on their working relationship. “Awesome,” Kate said with a smile. “I will talk to my professor and see when we need to get our hours done by. I think we need a certain amount of hours throughout the semester or something like that. I can’t really remember right now.”

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