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Mystery Sign Theatre 3000, Wednesday

Kate had been away for an entire week, repressing the hell out of the reasons she'd wanted to bolt in the first place. And it had worked. She'd genuinely had fun just hanging out with Bod and her family and unpacking and organizing their room and all the other silly stuff.

But however good she'd felt while away, it all dissolved soon enough once she'd made it to work. She felt on edge, not quite as badly as she had for most of her shift last week, but still twitchy enough to be constantly fiddling with some of the concessions (as if they weren't neat enough) or playing around on her phone (as if she was actually planning to text or call anyone).

Occasionally sneaking in to watch the movie on show today soothed her somewhat, though she had no real idea why. Lord knows a summer blockbuster wasn't meant to do that, but she wasn't going to question it. She'd take anything she could get.

NOW SHOWING:
Emerald Torch

MST3000 was open for business.

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Hopefully she wouldn't be in the theater when Hannibal strolled in. He hadn't intended to come back for a visit so soon after his last one but he hadn't seen Kate and he didn't want to get yelled at for calling her when he'd just been around two days ago.

So, he popped back in Wednesday, basking outside in the sun for awhile before stepping in and glancing around. He didn't know if he'd ever been in here when he'd been on the island as a student.

Kate had actually been poking her head into the theater just then (well, there was no one currently in there, so no one could complain about her propping the door open), but when she heard someone come in she turned around, letting the door close.

And promptly grinned, twitchy mood at least temporarily dispelled. "Hannibal!"

"Oh, you look busy," Hannibal joked having seen where she'd come from. "I can come back when you're not busily watching a movie and making this extremely long line of customers wait around for the pleasure of your service."

"Super busy," Kate drawled, approaching him with the intent of hugging him. Which... may have said a lot about all the random shit she'd been going through lately, that loss of acting anywhere near guarded. "Your fault for coming in at our peak hour."

Hannibal didn't back away or sidestep her at least even if there was a split second of panic before he tamped it down and half smiled at her. "I don't think I've ever been in here before. Better late than never, right?"

"Still miles ahead of most people on this island," Kate replied with a sigh as she wrapped her arms around him. "I mean, even I only came here a couple of times for class before I got the job."

"How's it going?" Hannibal asked, returning her embrace though he kept it loose just in case. "Enjoying graduated life?"

"It's okay, I guess," Kate replied, shrugging. "Kind of just your normal Fandom life, only I don't have to go to classes anymore."

"I always liked the whole not going to classes part," Hannibal said, smiling. "Especially when the island ends up in places like this. I was here a few days ago and actually couldn't go back to New York without chilling on the beach for awhile."

Kate raised an eyebrow up at him. "You were here and you didn't call?" See, he could still get complaints about that. Just teasing, not yelling. "I'm hurt."

"And I'm here again so you couldn't use that excuse on me," Hannibal pointed out, gesturing to the theater. "I could have just called and left you with the knowledge that I'd been here and not seen you but I came back to see you since I had some time this week."

And, you know, he'd actually wanted to get out of Abigail's house.

"I was away, anyway," Kate replied with a brief shake of her head. "I was in Kansas with Bod. Thanks for coming back for me."

"Well, you know." He shrugged. "How was Kansas anyway? Flat, boring and annoying?"

Well, he'd heard things like that about Kansas before. Could she blame him for assuming?

Kate snorted. "It's gotten better," she shared. "I've been back there quite a lot lately. Plus, me and Bod have a room there, so..."

"A room?" Well, that was a little less panic inducing than the flat she'd been about to get a few months ago. "Like a hotel room on rent or something?"

"Actually, it's just a bedroom in my aunt's house," she explained. "She's having a baby, so rent is basically helping her out as she gets more and more massive."

"And she's cool with your boyfriend bunking there?" Hannibal asked, surprised. "How progressive of her."

"Well, as I tell everyone --" Which Charmaine appreciated for sure. "-- she got knocked up while engaged to a dude that's not the father, so she has no room to judge." She shrugged a shoulder. "'Sides, Bod's polite and offers to do the dishes and take out the trash and whatnot without any propmting. She kinda adores him."

"Whipped," Hannibal noted and even mimed whipping something invisible nearby. "Good show, Kate! Way to wrap him around your finger like a pro!"

"It's not like that." It was a little like that. "That's just how he is."

"So, what's the room for anyway?" Hannibal asked, curious. "You guys planning on shacking up?"

"Kinda, or not really, I guess," Kate said. Not all confusingly. "I mean, he's still got a year to go here. So, I think it's more of a psychological thing to call it our room, even though I'm the one who's gonna be living in it most of the time."

"You planning on going long distance?" That's what it sounded like to him. He wouldn't have thought the Kate of the past into that sort of thing.

Kate of the past probably wouldn't have been wondering whether the basement in her aunt's house would make for a good makeshift salle, either.

Kate of the present just hid a smile. "I suppose that's the idea, yes."

"Cool," Hannibal said approvingly. "I did long distance for awhile. It's not too bad. It's got a bad reputation. Glad to hear it's all going well for you with him again."

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