Katou (katoustheshit) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-01-02 18:28:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, isabelle lightwood, yue katou |
Who: Izzy and Katou
When: Day after Thanksgiving
Where: Katou’s place
What: Bringing leftovers
Rating/Warnings: Low/None
Status: Complete
Despite the appetites she’d fed the day before, Izzy still had a ton of leftovers from their thanksgiving dinner so after a quick check that he’d be at home she packed up a load of boxes full of food and headed over to his place.
It had been a little while since they had caught up with each other and she wanted to see how he was doing anyway. Bringing him food seemed like a bonus too and of course she’d done a bit of extra baking for him anyway.
Making her way to the door she rang the bell and waited for him to answer.
Katou hadn’t really done the Thanksgiving thing before. His own family had never celebrated it - though even if they had, it likely wouldn’t have been a happy occasion - and he’d never been terribly interested in doing Friendsgiving either. But spending the day with Kanan was almost like having a real family of his own. Like having an extremely young father who actually gave a shit about him.
He hadn’t been expecting Izzy the next day, and it was with some surprise that he opened the door to find her there, arms laden with food. “Hey!” he said, pleased, and stepped aside so that she could walk inside. “What’re you doing here?”
“Hi, I thought I’d stop by and be your food angel” she told him with a smile, heading towards the kitchen to get rid of her load. “We had a lot of leftovers from dinner yesterday so I thought I’d bring some to you. And I made some stuff just for you too of course. Your favourite pastries” she added with a smile moving to give him a hug once she was unburdened.
Katou returned the hug, grinning at the thought of the food, specifically of the pastries, that Izzy was laying out before him. When the hug ended, he kept an arm draped around her shoulder as she surveyed the spread. “Shit, if I don’t gain fifty pounds after this weekend, I’ll be surprised,” he teased, tightening his hold to bring her closer for a second before dropping his arm back to his side. “Looks fucking good. I think we still got some leftover duck if you want any,” he said. “Not sure about the pie though.”
Izzy grinned brightly, “It’s okay, if you do we’ll just have to make sure you work it off” she teased him giving him a squeeze before they let go. “Ooo duck? Nice. You had a good thanksgiving then?” she asked him, she had been intending to invite him to join her and her lot but he’d mentioned having plans.
“Yeah, it was pretty sweet,” Katou said, swiping his nose in part to hide the grin that formed. His own family had never really done the whole Thanksgiving thing. His parents were very firmly Japanese. They tended to ignore American holidays in favour of Japanese ones, and his mother still had a tough time with English despite the fact that she’d been living in America for over twenty years. But even if they’d been an all-American family, Katou was almost certain Thanksgiving wouldn’t have been a terribly happy time either. Kanan felt more like family to Katou these days than his own family ever had.
“You had a good one too?” he asked, making his way toward the fridge so that he could pull out some of his own leftovers. No reason they couldn’t both feast again, even if it was only with leftovers.
Izzy’s family had always celebrated Thanksgiving but she had to admit there was something special about cooking for and feeding her friends and family herself. Her mother had always tended to kick everybody out of the kitchen, it hadn’t been until Audrey took her under her wing that Izzy had really discovered a passion for cooking.
“Yep, it was nice having everybody together” It was rarer than it should be now considering Alec and Magnus lived together away from the institute.
“Your bro just got married, didn’t he?” Katou asked. He grabbed a piece of turkey from Izzy’s platter and popped it into his mouth. “What was it like having a married couple at your thing? Make ya feel old?”
Izzy nodded, “He did, I mean he moved out to live with Magnus before they got married but it was nice having everybody back” she said before laughing, “Not at all. I love seeing them, they’re the most adorable married couple ever” Of course the fact that she kind of hero worshipped her brother helped.
“I dunno, I think it’d make me feel old.” Then again, maybe not. His own sister was four years married now, but Katou’d only been fifteen at the time, Sae nineteen, and it was hard to feel old when you hadn’t quite finished puberty yet. That, and he’d never actually gone to her wedding.
“Sounds like you had a badass Thanksgiving though.”
“It’s hard to feel old when you look as good as I do” Izzy told him with a grin and a wink, honestly she’d never even thought about it. She was too happy for him to think anything else. “Yeah, it was nice. We missed my baby brother but we got to skype him which was better than nothing. But it was good. Sounds like we both had a good day”
“Full of yourself, ain’tcha?” Katou said cheekily. Katou himself hadn’t actually talked to anyone in his blood family for Thanksgiving, though now that he thought about it he’d kind of wished he’d called Sae to wish her a happy one. Still, she had probably been busy with her own family at the time. “But yeah, it was pretty cool. My first real Thanksgiving, you know?”
“I just know the truth” she grinned and nudged him with her arm, “Yeah, I’m glad you had a good time. You deserve to you know? It’s been an interesting year, that’s for sure”
“No doubt,” Katou said. “People seem to be pretty pissed at 2016, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s been a fucking awesome year.” It had been smooth sailing for Katou for nearly the entire year, and he’d managed to build himself a nice little family for himself. Not one related by blood, but one that he chose.
“Yeah, it does seem to have managed to become the most hated year I’ve ever seen. But like you say personally I don’t think it’s been so bad” Izzy said with a shrug, sure there had been a few downs but you couldn’t let them keep you down all the time.
Politics and celebrities were two things Katou didn’t really care much about. None of it affected him personally (at least, to his eighteen-year-old mind they didn’t), so why should he waste precious energy worrying over things that he couldn’t change even if he wanted to. Instead, he’d had his first year anniversary clean, had graduated high school, and had found himself a new family.
“Not so bad at all,” Katou agreed, slicing off some of Izzy’s tuckey with a bladed finger and popping it in his mouth. “Even if I need to stare at your ugly mug now and then,” he added with a good-natured wink.
Izzy laughed, “It’s such a shame this is wasted on you” she teased him as she gestured to all of herself with a wink back at him.
Politics and celebrities weren’t things that overly bothered Izzy, certainly she was worried about what certain things would bring but mostly she got on with things and prepared to cross certain bridges when she had to.
Katou snorted, as if to say there isn’t much to waste. But he grinned cheekily at her, and moved to sling an arm across her shoulders in a strange hybrid of a hug and a headlock. He’d never say it aloud, but the gesture seemed to say even still, I’m thankful you’re around.