Jeff, God of Biscuits, Friday afternoon

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Jessica found keys and an ID with an address in her costume last night, which was a little weird. She tracked the place down, found the apartment, and was able to let herself in. She found clothes and a bed to sleep in, a few photos of people who looked kind of familiar, and so many suggestions that she was in the home of an alternate universe version of herself.

So she wasn't going to sweat the clothes or dinner or breakfast too much. Or a lunch out. To be fair, she was just getting a bagel. That was barely anything.

Still, as she sat in J,GoB and looked out into the town, she wondered how exactly the alternate her ended up in a tiny little town like this.

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Tamsin had tied up her enormous hair in an ungainly ponytail of crazy curls. It... didn't quite work. But she was hungry now, and way too energetic to stay in the house forever anyway.

"Hi," she chirped, poking her head into J,GoB with a grin. "Do they have doughnuts here?!"

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That was just so many curls. It didn't seem possible. "Hi. Yeah, it looked like they had a pretty good variety." Jessica gave a nod toward the counter. "And despite that, I chose bagel."

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"Is it a good one?" Tamsin asked brightly. She let the door shut behind her. "I'm so hungry and all they had in the house was like, cereal."

And not even the kind with sugar in it.

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"It's pretty good," Jessica said, trying not to be a NYC snob about bagels. "Definitely good enough to make you feel like skipping cereal was a good decision."

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"Then maybe I'll have jelly doughnuts and a bagel," Tamsin said, beaming at Jessica. "Thanks! It's been a really weird day but you're super-helpful."

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"Weird days seem to be going around," Jessica sighed. "But I do pride myself on being useful. I'm Jessica."

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"I'm Tamsin," Tamsin supplied easily. "Did you just kinda wake up here too?" She poked at her ponytail. "Sorry, I woke up with the worst hair. I probably shouldn't be out like, at all, but whatever."

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"I got here late yesterday," Jessica said. "Fortunately I have a cousin here who's letting me stay at her place while she's out of town." It was an easy cover story to use while she figured out if Tamsin was experiencing similar weirdness or if she was just being overly dramatic. "And your hair's not that bad. The public can see it without being scandalized."

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"Oh, you're so nice," Tamsin said. "But I'm hideous, you can say it, it's okay."

... Tamsin of Fandom had taken a while to reach the level of Tamsin she was at. This younger one had not even started that journey.

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"But I'm not going to because it's not true," Jessica said. She had her own issues with being in her body right now. She wasn't going to help someone shame herself when she was actually really pretty.

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Tamsin blushed a very obvious scarlet. "Okay," she said, clearing her throat. "I'm going to-- do you want a doughnut? Too? I'm going up there anyway."

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"Um, sure. If you don't mind," Jessica said. "Thank you."

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"Okay," Tamsin said, immediately losing the embarrassment in favor of a happy little hop and a quick jaunt towards the counter.

She came back not long after with two jelly doughnuts and a bagel, handing over one of the former with a bright smile. "So hi, Jessica," she said, "Did you wake up this morning having like, no idea how you got here too?"

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Kitty had decided to check out where she was, and see if she could find anyone she knew. But she was also hungry and this place smelled good, and she decided to come in.

"I'll have a coffee and a doughnut," Kitty decided.

Which was a terrible idea. She didn't know how to handle coffee yet.

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Jessica thought she recognized that voice. "Kitty Pryde?" she asked, mostly to herself. What was an X-Man doing here?

She maybe said that name louder than she expected to.

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"Yeah?" she said, turning around to see who was talking to her. "Who're you?"

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"It's probably weird to say that I'm a fan of the X-Men, right?" Jessica said. "In fairness to me, you do good work."

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"Oh. Thank you? I mean... I wear a mask," Kitty said slowly.

A mask with her bangin' costumes, yes.

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"Total honesty, I think I'm here from an alternate universe. In my world, you don't. Your costume is a cute dress, and I don't think it would work with a mask," Jessica said. "I'm Jessica. Again, big fan."

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"A dress?" Welp. Kitty was getting a new costume after this. "What universe are you from?"

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"One that has X-Men, but doesn't apparently pull people into it at random," Jessica said. "I ended up here kind of suddenly late last night."

It sounded like that was going around, so Jessica was going to float it out there.

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"Well, at least it's not just me and that guy who had that problem," Kitty said, accepting her order.

Mmm, coffee that was going to keep her wired all night.

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"I'm starting to think it's happened to a lot of people around here," Jessica said. And then, after a moment, she asked, "What guy?"

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"The guy in my bed this morning."

It wasn't her bed and she knew that. Not the point.

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"I'm guessing you weren't expecting him to be there?" Jessica checked.