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Ezra Sagishi ([personal profile] smilestopscars) wrote2018-06-13 10:09 pm

A House, Currant, Maine, Wednesday

Today's Coterie job had been a dirty one.

No, not the fun kind.

But not the supremely unfun kind, either. Just... literally dirty. There'd been a whole lot of mud involved. It had gotten everywhere, which was why Ezra's first order of business upon getting home had been to take a long and very thorough shower.

Second order of business, upon getting out of the shower, was to throw his muddily destroyed clothes in the trash. With a great big sigh, because he'd liked that shirt, dammit. Just, you know, not enough to go through the trouble of washing it.

Third order of business? Locating clothes to wear.

[ooc: NFB due to distance. Posted with one in mind, but open before her!]
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Unimpressed)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-23 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm the utter worst," Kathy agreed, voice dripping with false sympathy. "All that bringing you cookies and buying you lunch I'm doing. However do you survive?"
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Lounge)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-23 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, that explains my decline," she said, draping herself across the couch with her wrist over her forehead and absolutely no regard for Ezra's personal space. "A clear lack of fabulosity, which is definitely a word and not at all ridiculous sounding."
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Tongue)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Because if there was one thing Fandom was known for, it was its academic rigor!

With great effort, Kathy picked up her head, sticking her tongue out at him. "But my penchant for being a brat-magnet remains intact," she declared.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Banzai (Heyyyy)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Bet I could fix that real quick" was not a smart answer. Nor was it one that high school-Kathy would have ever dared say, especially not to someone like Ezra: sexy, sophisticated, and experienced.

But high school-Kathy wasn't now Kathy and here she was, saying it all the same.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Banzai (Sexy Neutral)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
Kathy sucked in a breath at that. Of the three men she'd slept with, Ezra had always known best how to devastate her with words alone.

"You're right," she said, voice a little raw. "That's not where we are yet." She regarded him with deep, dark eyes for a moment and added, "Makes my plan to kiss you after getting a cookie feel like babytown frolics, have to admit."

She couldn't pull off casual, but she could at least be honest.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Hair Tuck Ear 5 (Leaning))

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I know," Kathy said with a wry smile of her own. "For one thing, I wasn't planning on asking, but offering."

Just a kiss, and probably only one at that; Kathy knew when she was playing with fire even if that didn't always stop her. But they'd been hanging out and talking and, well, kissing Ez felt right. Not in the way way that pushing him to his knees and seeing what happened did (which felt right in her pants, but not her brain), but in a way that had more to do with warmth and fondness and comfort.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Vulnerable)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, there was high school-Kathy now, in the confusion and uncertainty lurking in her eyes. "Oh," she said softly. "That's fair."

It was his right, after all.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Understanding)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry," Kathy said, reaching out to rest her hand on his arm. "I never meant to make it hard for you."

...Not like that anyway.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Head On Shoulder)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
See? This would be an excellent time to kiss him. Her eyes flicked down to his mouth, imagining it, but she just rested her head on his shoulder. "Let me know if that changes," she murmured.

If, not when
Because Kathy wasn't going to shove her expectations at him.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Frail)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-06-30 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Kathy wanted to argue. Hell, she opened her mouth to do so.

And then closed it again, everything left unsaid. Because he was right. Things had always escalated between them and as much as she wanted to guarantee they wouldn't now because she had more to lose, she wasn't willing to bet on it.

"Fair," she said. "It would mess things you with us if we escalated now, to say nothing of everything else."

She wanted him, sure, but she hadn't even figured out what that meant in the overall scheme of things. Or how she felt. Or how much she trusted him emotionally. And those were questions that couldn't be rushed.
Edited 2018-07-01 00:57 (UTC)
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Judging)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-07-02 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Kathy appreciated that he wasn't running, but the fast forwarding made sense. Hell, sometimes she did, too.

She missed those few months there where she'd finally stopped being intimidated by Ez and they had been able to hang out and laugh together in between the everything else. She also missed the 'everything else' but the lack of tension between them had been--comforting.

"You know," she murmured, "this kinda sucks." She laughed, but there was no humor in it. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm not--faster at this, I guess. I'm sorry I came back so much slower and warier and scareder, I guess." She was perfectly aware that wasn't a word, but if he could use fabulosity, she could use scareder. "I'm sorry this situation is so untenable, but that I can't pull you in or push you away."

Her hand drifted up to his mouth, pressed a finger against his lips in a 'shh' gesture. "Don't apologize. You have. And don't tell me it's all okay or that you understand. I know you do, that's not the point."

spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Head Bowed)

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Kathy ran her finger over the fullness of his bottom lip, then dropped her hand. "Should I go?" she asked him softly. "I could go if you wanted."

God only knew it would probably be easier.
spin_kick_snap: Kang Min Kyung as Kathy/Banzai (Bitch Please)

[personal profile] spin_kick_snap 2018-07-09 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The look Kathy gave him was also declaring that a cop-out. "You get a say in things, too, you know," she said dryly. "Like whether I continue to be in your house."

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