The Perk- Wednesday morning

[throughaphase]

Kitty had had a great night, but today she had to head to New York for her other job. On one hand, she wanted Peter to find out from her so she'd have to tell him first and she wasn't looking forward to the potential awkwardness there, but on the other hand, she wanted to tell everyone, and many of those everyones were at the school. She could be away for one night.

Since she had a little bit of time before her portal, she stopped in at the Perk to get some coffee. She took a seat at a table while she waited, playing on her phone but mostly still staring at her hand because seriously, how had yesterday even happened.

[I have no work. Open!]

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[newroutines]

"Holy shit!"

Mike hadn't known she'd be here, and he hadn't even meant to come by here, but he'd been going past the Perk, and caught sight of her through the window and look, he'd listened to the radio this morning.

"Which do I need to check out, babe, my hearing or your hand?"

[throughaphase]

With an opening like that, Kitty laughed and happily presented her left hand. "Let me guess, you listened to radio."

[newroutines]

"Hell yeah I listened to the radio!"

Yes, Mike, she knew. He gave her ring a once-over.

"Oh, wow. Careful or you might sprain something."

[throughaphase]

"Yeah, every once in a while I catch it out of the corner of my eye and freak out that it's there," Kitty admitted. "It's still really new."

[newroutines]

Mike chuckled. "Yeah, I bet," he said. "Big surprise?"

[throughaphase]

"Yeah, but it probably shouldn't have been," Kitty said. "We'd talked about it, but some things happened at home that sped things up and I was not prepared for that."

[newroutines]

"Do I want to know what happened at home?"

Look, with the shit that seemed to happen when anyone he knew went home, he had to ask.

[throughaphase]

"Uh. A mutant with reality-warping powers built us into an alternate universe, and Clint and I were engaged there. We got snapped out of it early and potentially had to stay in that universe knowing everything was a total lie," Kitty explained. "There's way more to it, but that's the relevant part."

[newroutines]

"None of what you just said made any sense," Mike decided, after a beat. Of course, that was an exaggeration, since he'd been in Fandom for almost three years. A number of things that shouldn't have made sense... did. "Glad you got something good out of it, though. And, um, congratulations."

Yeah, he remembered he was actually supposed to say that out loud.

[throughaphase]

"Thanks," she smiled. "It's so weird. How are you?"

[newroutines]

"Me? I'm just ––"

Probably heading towards some kind of a life situation crisis if people didn't stop getting engaged around him.

"–– y'know, getting my stuff together to get a business thing off the ground."

[throughaphase]

Sorry!

"Really? What kind of business thing?" Kitty asked, totally interested and making internal bets with herself on the answer.

[newroutines]

He was pretty predictable if you were at all aware of his interests.

(Although no, it wasn't stripping.)

"Furniture," he said. "Custom furniture. I've done the math, I know I have at least a chance of getting this thing started now."

[throughaphase]

At least she guessed right! (The other choice was stripping.)

"That's so cool," Kitty grinned. "I didn't know you actually wanted it to be a business. I thought it was just a hobby."

[newroutines]

"It's uh, it's been that too, yeah," he confirmed, scratching the back of his head. "But it was also this big dream I had back in Tampa. Just wasn't very realistic with my situation back there."

[throughaphase]

"Then I'm really glad you could get it going here," Kitty said. "And any help you need, I'm here."

[newroutines]

"Thanks." In all honesty, he probably needed moral support more than anything else. "Gonna be a weird ride, I think. Dunno yet what this'll mean for my work at Caritas."

[throughaphase]

"Not a problem. However you need to do things, we'll make it work," Kitty assured him. "I got your back."

[newroutines]

"Sure you're not gonna be too busy planning a wedding?"

Annnd he was back to teasing.

[throughaphase]

"Hey now, I am the Queen of Multitasking." It was second only to her self-appointed Goddess of Computing title. "Besides, Clint says he's going to help. Besides, I don't know when it is yet."

Details.

[newroutines]

Mike pretended to be surprised. Oh so very surprised. "What, you disn't set a date immediately?"

[throughaphase]

"That is actually the first question my mother asked, but she was serious," Kitty laughed.