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The Perk, Late Saturday Afternoon

Spending time with an anthropomorphic necklace? Surprisingly not as weird is at it could have been, Kate was finding. Actually, it was like hanging out with an old friend. Or maybe a very patient older brother. Someone who really, really knew her.

It was kind of awesome. (At least when he wasn't making way too observant remarks about her.) And what was more, the necklace had totally charmed the barista at the Perk, and Kate felt like she was one step closer to being served coffee at the place again.

They had a table to themselves by the window, both sitting on the same side so they could lean close towards each other like they were telling secrets. Which, in a sense, they were.

The sound of Kate's laughter was probably loud enough to disturb other patrons, if they were the type to be annoyed by someone else being utterly happy. She didn't care.

[ooc: open place in town is open for all your Kate/necklace/Perk needs!]

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It was hot outside. Way too damn hot to do anything but walk through town and duck into the first air conditioned place he could. That being the Perk just meant he could have a drink before going back to the cabins.

"Hey, it's Kate Gregson," he said once he spotted her, "and...friend I don't recognize. Hello, person I don't know."

"Hey, Hannibal," the necklace greeted him, while Kate just grinned, still amused by whatever they'd just been talking about.

"This is N," she said.

"It stands for necklace," he supplied. "She thought it was weird to call me what I am."

"Necklace?" Hannibal repeated, raising an eyebrow. "Your parents hippies?"

"I don't have parents," the necklace said, smiling in that way that Kate had started to think of as his 'oh, you silly humans' smile. "I'm a necklace."

"My necklace, to be exact," Kate clarified. "The one with the skull and the bones?"

"Oh! That happened again?" Oh sad, that meant his things from last time hadn't changed. "That happened to me last time, yeah. I mean, not my necklace but yeah, that makes sense now and I don't have to laugh at your name."

"As if a guy called Hannibal has much room to laugh at other people's names," Kate snorted.

The necklace saw fit to point out, "Your boyfriend is called Nobody."

"... Dude, you're supposed to be on my team, here."

"You date a guy called Nobody?" Hannibal asked, content to latch onto that. "He better be damn good looking to pull that off."

"He's very good looking." If you were into the whole pale thing. "And anyway, he goes by Bod for short."

"His name's still Nobody," Hannibal teased, flopping into a seat. "I think that even beats Hannibal. Finally, someone with a crappier name than mine!"

"It's not a crappy name," Kate insisted. "And anyway, I think he's adorable, so I don't care."

It was surprisingly easy to forget that the word meant anything other than his name, actually. At least when she wasn't using the meaning to her advantage in word play.

"And from what I've witnessed, he's also really good in b--"

Yeah, that was as far as the necklace got with his contribution to the discussion before Kate clamped her hand over his mouth.

It was not that hard to figure out what the necklace had been about to say and Hannibal started laughing. Hard. Poor Kate, having an observant, always there necklace.

"Well, I suppose that's a good thing," he said through his laughter. "Cuts down on the sexual frustration."

Kate was scowling at both of them. "Well, it's a good quality to have in a boyfriend," she muttered as she let go of the necklace again.

"At least I didn't say anything about the other places?" he offered, and got a thwap on the shoulder for his troubles.

"Other places?" Well, that was her necklace's fault for mentioning it. Of course he was going to ask now.

"No, no, nothing about other places," Kate said, unconvincingly, while the necklace just smirked at her. "Nothing at all."

"What, not gonna share with your good friend, Hannibal?" he asked, smirking mightily. "Awww, I thought we were close."

"Why would you even want to know?" she asked. "I don't think we're that close."

The necklace nudged her arm with his elbow. "No, but we are."

"You been getting close with your necklace, Kate?" Look, Chuck had slept with his porn last time, it wasn't that illogical of a question.

Kate's reaction was almost horrified. "What? No."

Even the necklace made an eww face at that.

"Hey, don't look at me like that!" Hannibal exclaimed. "People did it last time. Some items came out super hot and all."

"Well, whatever, we're not going to."

Of course, they had slept together. Actually slept together. But that was like sleeping with Moosh.

Only she was more comfortable with the necklace.

"I mean, N is pretty hot, but... No." Beat. "Wait, you think I'd cheat on my boyfriend?"

"I didn't say that," he said, shrugging. "Maybe you asked him to join in."

Oh, he so didn't know poor Nobody.

Oh he so, so didn't. Kate snickered despite herself.

"Yeah, he's... really not that kind of guy," she said. "At all."

The necklace shook his head, quietly amused.

"I just know that there was a lot of sleeping with things last time this happened," Hannibal said, shrugging, "so it wouldn't be too far a leap. Besides, not like I knew how serious you were with your boy."

"Well, for future reference," Kate said, "if I say I have a boyfriend, it's safe to assume I'm not sleeping with anyone else."

The necklace nodded. "It was kind of a big deal to her."

"Well, she couldn't wait for me forever," he teased, snickering. "I'm glad she's gotten over her want of me."

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