Room 417, Monday night

[fates_jaye]

Jaye's vegging, trolling through bad Vanessa Saturn fanfic and occasionally looking over at her laundry like she's expecting it to get up and do itself. It's Fandom. It might.


Jaye picks up, checking the caller ID first. "Hey there!"

"You spend too much time in Photoshop," Mahandra greets her.

"I do not," Jaye says. "I didn't even have to sharpen pictures."

"Liar. You did not go to another planet."

"I did so. I even bought you stuff."

"Are you sure you don't mean 'sold you a bridge'?"

"No. Seriously. That's a real library in there. I still have to show the pics to Rory," Jaye tells her.

"I'm totally looking through Google right now for these pictures."

"You should be glad I'm not dead. They wanted me to fly a spaceship."

"Are you on drugs?"

Jaye frowns. "Why does everyone always ask me that? No! I'm serious. I hung out, I shopped, I took pictures, I went to a bar with two hot Jedi, one of them being my first choice for a prom date."

Mahandra pauses. "That guy again?"

"Uh huh."

"Ooh."

"I know. So yes, I went to another planet and it was actually a lot of fun."

"I so don't believe you."

"You have photographic evidence!" Jaye reminds her.

"I have Photoshop!"

Jaye blows into the phone.

"What the hell was that?" Mahandra asks, sounding startled.

"Must be getting static. Talk to you later?"

"Sure," Mahandra says.

"Cool. Bye." And then she hangs up the phone.


She'll call back tomorrow and have a normal conversation, but right now she's just adding this to the list of things she's just not going to talk about with normal people. Seriously, it's getting to be a big list.


[Will be a linkdrop later. Door's closed, but stop by if you feel like it.]

Comments

[fates_jaye]

"Uh huh. Fast Eddie's. There's also pool and games," she says. "I haven't done any of that there, though. And it's fun when you play right."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Pool?" He perks up a little, grinning. "Sounds like we've got a date then."

[fates_jaye]

"That's a better reaction," Jaye smiles. "You play?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Picked it up on my way here," he says, nodding. "Made enough money so I didn't need to steal the whole trip. But we can do the bowling too, since I've never tried it."

[fates_jaye]

She's actually impressed. "Are you saying you hustled your way to Fandom?

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"If by hustle you means something other than 'a dance' or 'too move quickly or unceremoniously', then yes." He's preening a little. Not literally.

[fates_jaye]

Jaye grins. "First, I'm remembering that before there is pool-playing. Second, that's the coolest thing ever."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"No other way to get money," he says, looking rather proud of himself. "Plus it was way more fun to see the looks on people's faces when a kid beat them."

[fates_jaye]

"I bet," she says. "You're big on revealing hidden talents today. Between the non-dirty scrapbooking and this..."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I could probably think of a couple more," he says, grinning. "And there could always be dirty scrapbooking too."

[fates_jaye]

"That's pretty much a given," she says. Moving a little closer, she asks, "So what's one of the couple more?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Well, I can play the piano," he says without thinking, and if he immediately regrets saying that out loud he's good at not showing it. Alec moves a little closer as well, lifting his head to press a kiss to her temple. "Maybe not all that well though."

[fates_jaye]

"Hm. Still a good talent." She slides an arm around his waist, lifting her face a little. "What else?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec smiles. "Let's leave a mystery for later," he suggests, and leans in to kiss her.

[fates_jaye]

She doesn't answer, kissing him back instead.

She'll bug him about it later.