fandomtownies | Fast Eddie's, Friday Afternoon

After her morning class, Kate had found herself dealing with a case of restlessness. She'd considered heading down to the gym, but somehow she felt this called for getting out of the dorms. That meant she ended up just wandering around town for a good while before finally ducking into Fast Eddie's. She figured some time on the dancing games would be just what the doctor ordered.

And since some of the other games felt a little less pointless if you were competing with someone, she called Bobby to invite him to join her (since she'd been in class when he'd taken off, and she hadn't noticed yet), and then after a moment did the same for Puck. She figured he might be good with arcade games, and they hadn't talked in ages, anyway.

Of course, she had no idea the messages didn't reach the people they were meant to, not even after getting a few random messages. She just thought some people in this town were weirdos, end of story.

And she had Dance Dance Revolution highscores to try and beat.

... Well, in between occasionally checking her phone only to find some new messages that started to make her think she wouldn't be surprised if no one showed up to meet her. She could only wonder which unlucky people her own voicemails had ended up with.

[ooc: Open place in town is open, whether you're just a random person or someone who was invited by accident!]

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Call Nico avoidy, but after class he really didn't feel like hanging out in his room and hearing how his face would look better if he wasn't stupid. He did, actually, really want to play some games, so he headed to town and wandered in Fast Eddie's with plenty of quarters burning a hole in his pocket.

He browsed the games, pausing to see what looked good. Okay, so his version of pausing was a lot like unashamed staring at other people's screens. Kate's seemed interesting, if not his style.

And Kate was kind of really good at it, too. She'd been going for a while now, eyes intently on the screen, feet moving in time to the directions. She got a good workout like this, that was for sure. Couldn't keep going on forever, though. She'd made enough mistakes to get a game over, and decided to step off the game to take a break, and only then she noticed Nico.

"Oh, hey." She sounded a little bit out of breath; someone may have been going a little overboard.

Nico had become rather mesmerized with the on-screen directions and zoned out like he tended to do when he watched Luke playing something for too long. It took a moment for him to snap out of his own mental buzzing. "Oh, hi. You're good at that one. I didn't think dancing was a game. More like torture."

"Well, I don't know if this really counts as dancing." Because, former wannabe ballerina speaking, here. "Just a lot of jumping around, really. But thanks, I do kinda rock at this game." She quirked a little smile at him. "Not a fan of dancing?"

"Uh, no," Nico said, shaking his head rather vigorously and regretting that choice quickly. Ugh, headache. "I only ever did it because a teacher made me. I'd so rather be off shooting something made of graphics."

"Kind of a preferable choice in a lot of situations in life," Kate replied wryly, leaning back against the machine some. "But I used to do ballet for a pretty long time so I'm not exactly anti-dancing."

"...I don't guess you would be." Nico oddly felt sorry for her having participated in ballet. He'd probably slit his own throat if someone made him hold still long enough to watch one act. "But you must've seen some light giving up ballet for dance revolutions?"

Kate wrinkled her nose. "Well, I didn't really give it up, per se," she mused. "More like I just went went on break last summer when my teacher went to Paris, and I kind of got distracted and never went back."

Basically, she'd traded it for the glamorous world of debt-collecting, but that wasn't one of her proudest moments.

"Distracted by Fandom or just life?" Nico wondered. "I mean, I got distracted watching you play, thinking there should be a game that let you shoot things while dancing, but I'm betting that wasn't your kind of distraction."

"No, mine was kind of a more long-term one," she admitted, chuckling just a little. "I mean, it was Fandom and life, really. That's kinda how life here works, right? First you have nothing going on, then suddenly you have a... someone you spend a lot of time with, then bam! You're a cat for a week. That's enough to distract anyone."

"...you were a cat for a week?" Nico so feared this animal thing ever happening to him. It was so prevalent. "That sounds like a whole lot of nothing going on."

"Actually, I've been a cat for a week four different times." Because that would totally make him feel better about the prospect. "Fandom thinks it's funny sometimes. But it's not really all that bad. I got to sleep a lot."

"Wow, I think I'd be a lot more pissed," Nico admitted, his natural chill giving him a shiver at the idea of four weeks as a cat. "Not getting to do your stuff or train or...okay I won't pretend to care about classes, but it's a lot of stuff to miss, potentially!"

"Well, I didn't have a lot of stuff to miss," Kate shrugged. "I was just annoyed at not being independent. Opening doors is kinda hard when you're a cat and you kinda have to rely on someone else to get you food, too."

Which, okay, hadn't been so bad those times when she'd had a boyfriend to pamper her.

It sounded really awful to Nico. He been self sufficient as long as he could remember and no matter how nice Luke was, animalism was not a good enough reason to make him deal with the feeding and care of another demigod.

"You didn't go hungry for long, did you? I mean, people found you and it wasn't horrible? Do you remember what it was like being a cat? Could you understand others?" Ahh, rapid-fire questions that changed as quickly as his attention span.

Good thing Kate, at least, had a decent enough attention span. Although that was still a lot of questions, wow. She frowned a little, processing, but could answer the gist of it.

"Yeah, it was still me in there, just all cat-shaped," she said. "I would never let people just let me go without food. Though I'm a little fuzzy on what it was like, because I kinda tend to end up just going with the whole cat thing by day two. But turning back is weird because for a while I have these memories that don't match my body. It's kinda disorienting."

Was she talking about it like she was expecting it to happen again? Yes, yes she was.

"I'm not sure I want to imagine," Nico admitted. "Wasn't it enough to make us change sexes on vacation? This island, for all the good parts, is a little fucked up."

"Mmhmm, and I think the transformations are really one of the more minor things," Kate replied, then rolled her eyes at herself. "Which just goes to show that I've been here way too long."

Fast Eddie's, Friday Afternoon

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