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Veronica Mars is a marshmallow (ronmars) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-08-27 21:01:00

Who: Veronica and Kate
When: Recently
Where: Veronica’s place
What: Coffee delivery and hangin’ with the baby
Rating/Warnings: Low/None
Status: Complete when posted

Kate was really looking forward to hanging out with Veronica. It’d been too long since they’d spent time together, and Kate hadn’t nearly gotten to know Veronica’s son as well as she’d have liked. Even though babies were weird.

She stopped by her favorite cafe and picked up a couple of coffees (with extra shots) and some cookies before heading to Veronica’s place and ringing the bell.

Since Veronica knew company was coming over she wasn’t quite as much of a mess as usual. Still in jeans and a t-shirt though, with her hair up in a pony tail. There was no makeup on her face but that wasn’t much of a shocker considering how much she actually wore makeup in general.

Liam was currently in his baby swing, Backup outside chewing on a bone and Logan at work, when the doorbell rang. “Hey,” Veronica greeted opening the door her eyes falling immediately on the coffee. “Oh thank god,” she added letting Kate inside.

“Hey.” The grin on Kate’s face brightened considerably when she saw Veronica’s eyes move to it. She offered up the cup as she headed into her friend’s home. “It’s good to see you, too,” Kate teased, passing over the coffee.

Veronica accepted the coffee taking a sip. “Man, I needed that,” she commented leading Kate further into the house. They reached the family room where Liam was in his swing. After another sip Veronica set her coffee on the coffee table (ironic right) and picked up Liam, bringing him over to Kate for introductions. “Liam, Kate. Kate, Liam,” she said as if she were introducing adults.

Kate set down the cookies and her own coffee cup on the table, too, and then turned her attention to the baby in the swing. “Wow.” She said, still smiling. “Jeez, Veronica, you made a human.” She leaned in with a little smirk and lifted a finger to the baby so he could like… grab it, or something. That’s what all the babies in movies did, anyway. “Hello, Liam. It’s nice to meet you.”

“Shocking I know,” Veronica replied with a smirk. Because well it was shocking, she still couldn’t believe she had made a person. She tooked a seat on the couch, still holding Liam. “So what’s new with you? I need to talk about something other than baby shit.” Both in the literal and figurative sense.

Kate chuckled. “There’s not a whole lot new with me. Working at Victrola, still doing self-defense classes, still working at the archery range part-time. Lucky’s good. Clint’s good. Though, he’s completely deaf now.”

“Good thing you’ve been taking sign language.” Granted she had been taking them for awhile, Veronica assumed in preparation for this day, but still. Quips were more her style than sympathy. “We need to get Lucky and Backup together soon. The poor pup has been a little neglected lately.”

“Yeah. I was hoping I wasn’t going to have to use it completely, and Clint still reads lips, but I’m really glad that we’re communicating better now, too.” Kate said, leaning back a little in her chair to take in the sight of Veronica with the baby. She liked it, actually. A little surprisingly. For some reason, it kinda worked. “Yeah! That sounds like a great idea. We can take them to the beach or the dog park or something. When you’re ready to take Liam out there, that is.”

“That still must be an adjustment.” Look at them, both going through adjustment periods. But it sounded like Kate’s was working out for the better, just like Veronica’s. “Sounds like a plan. I haven’t put his stroller to much use yet.” But she knew it was time to start venturing out with the little one. As protective as she was, she didn’t want him growing up in a bubble.

“Sounds good! We’ll make a date of it.” Kate grinned, then lifted her coffee for a sip. She dug into her cookie, too. “Are you catching up on your reading, or watching a lot of television? I mean, you’re home a lot with the baby, right?” Kate working three jobs didn’t leave a whole lot of time for catching up on media. “I’ve got a few days free, surprisingly, and I’m not sure how to spend it.”

“I’m shocked you actually have free time.” That was certainly rare. Especially with how much Kate worked. “Not really,” she replied in answer to Kate’s question. “Liam keeps me pretty busy, and when he’s asleep I’m usually also sleep, or showering, or working.” It was pretty exhausting.

“It doesn’t happen very often.” Kate admitted, grinning. But hey, it would be nice to have a couple of days off to… do something with. She just wasn’t sure what. Kate hadn’t had time off in so long, she wasn’t sure how to spend it. “Showering or… working? You’re back at work? That’s cool! How’s it feel to be back at work?”

“Maybe you and Clint could take a vacation?” Granted a quick one but still. “Barely. Mostly doing background checks from home. I’m trying to take on the less strenuous cases.”

“It’s been a long time since Clint and I took a vacation.” Kate thought back to the time when they’d driven down the coast, and smiled warmly. It’d been a really great trip. They could afford to take another one, too. Maybe they should. “That makes sense. Working from home, I mean. How’s Logan doing? I mean, with all the big changes and everything?”

“Well there you go,” Veronica smiled proudly. It was clearly time they took another one. Not that she could really talk. She wasn’t exactly the vacation type herself. Although Logan did like to surprise her with random trips on occasion.

“He’s great.” From the second they found out she was pregnant, Logan had been overjoyed. Veronica on the other hand? It took her a bit to warm up to the idea. “He probably has more of a glow than me.”

Kate got supremely bored on those vacations. She brought books, though, and it was kinda nice getting lost in a good story while laying on a beach somewhere drinking alcohol out of hollowed out pineapples.

That brought a laugh from the brunette. She beamed over at her friend. “You know, I can picture it.” She wasn’t as close with Logan as she was with Veronica, but that image certainly stuck in her mind.

Veronica wasn’t that close with Clint either. “You know, we should get together, the four of us.” Oh domestic life. Veronica with a baby, and Kate married. Who would have thought? “You can see Logan’s glow for yourself.”

“That sounds like a plan to me.” Kate said, grinning. They were so domestic now. She never thought she’d have been where she was, but she liked it.