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Yeah, you try living in the same not-that-big room as someone you'd had a nasty fight with not all that long ago; it wasn't all that fun, especially if you were like Katchoo and had a tendency to let these things simmer.
. . . if you were Katchoo, you also had a tendency to work these things out through painting. That explained the oil-based chaos strewn all around one side of the room (much to Clocky's indignation, but then again Clocky was always indignant in her view) and the sketchbooks and various paraphernalia scattered across her desk. Sure, painting people -- certain people, anyway -- was still a touchy subject, but she had a visual memory, and sketches, and was working from that.
With a cigarette dangling from the corner of her mouth, naturally.
From the rough staccato whisk of her brushes against the canvas, it was pretty obvious that she wasn't in the best of moods, but hey -- welcome to her last couple of weeks that way.
[OOC: Open for phone calls and that girl what lives there with her. Also, I must share Terry Moore's latest toongirls-as-superheroes sketch because it amuses me.]
. . . if you were Katchoo, you also had a tendency to work these things out through painting. That explained the oil-based chaos strewn all around one side of the room (much to Clocky's indignation, but then again Clocky was always indignant in her view) and the sketchbooks and various paraphernalia scattered across her desk. Sure, painting people -- certain people, anyway -- was still a touchy subject, but she had a visual memory, and sketches, and was working from that.
With a cigarette dangling from the corner of her mouth, naturally.
From the rough staccato whisk of her brushes against the canvas, it was pretty obvious that she wasn't in the best of moods, but hey -- welcome to her last couple of weeks that way.
[OOC: Open for phone calls and that girl what lives there with her. Also, I must share Terry Moore's latest toongirls-as-superheroes sketch because it amuses me.]
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Date: 2011-03-16 03:14 am (UTC)Or... as much. Or...as non-awkwardly. Or...or okay, so maybe she'd been spending a lot more time Not There, this last week or so. To, you know.
Hide from the chance of uncomfortable discussions.Give her space. To paint without Francine's issues gettingdealt within the way.But she did have to come home sometimes. This time, there was pizza. "Hey."
And awkward. Pizza and awkward.
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Date: 2011-03-16 06:17 pm (UTC)Imagine how thrilled she was about that state of affairs . . . which was less awkward than coming home was lately, anyway.
"Hey," she replied -- or grunted, more like, even that sound muffled by the paintbrush in her teeth -- and aside from a quick, furtive sideways glance kept her attention focused squarely on her canvas.
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Date: 2011-03-17 12:50 am (UTC)The point was... it was something to say, was the point.
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Date: 2011-03-17 01:01 am (UTC)Usually they'd make jokes about the mushrooms right now, wouldn't they? With the Fat Man voice and hijinks that would scandalize the neighbors if they weren't living in a college dorm.
A few more brushstrokes, and she set the painting aside for the moment; she was hungry, actually, and going for the pizza with incredibly paint-smeared hands.
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Date: 2011-03-17 01:29 am (UTC)Napkins. Nothing could stop Francine from being a mom. Nothing. Not even Epic Awkward.
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Date: 2011-03-17 01:51 am (UTC)"As much of it as I've gotten in my mouth by now, you'd think if I was gonna, I would've."
Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)
Date: 2011-03-17 03:23 am (UTC)"It is kind of amazing that your tongue isn't dyed rainbow colors by now."
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Date: 2011-03-17 04:37 pm (UTC)"Francie." The nickname snuck in before she could help it. "Not now?"
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Date: 2011-03-17 10:05 pm (UTC)"Yeah, okay." Eyes open again but cast down, she reached for a slice of pizza and added a quiet, "Sorry," that was nowhere near casual enough for nagging about cigarettes, if not so loud that it could be taken to mean Sorry for everything, ever.
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Date: 2011-03-17 10:22 pm (UTC)Oh, look. Free hands, and napkins, and what she'd said to Arthur about the less-than-admirable ways society had evolved away from public execution still on her mind; she spent a little too much mental focus on wiping the paint off as best she could before gesturing toward the pizza box again.
"Yeah," she answered, just enough of a break in her voice to hint that it wasn't the blow-you-off kind of acknowledgment, more like me too but that takes more words than I can get out of my mouth right now. Then, taking an awkward step or two toward the bed --
"You wanna eat now?"
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Date: 2011-03-17 11:30 pm (UTC)But then that seemed stupid, or maybe she was just way too focused on everything that seemed stupid, so she turned back to just grab the whole pizza box. If plopping that down on the bed beside her created a nice, safe No Man's Land, it wasn't really intentional.
"Are you--" But she trailed off before even finishing the thought, much less the sentence, because it had to do with whatever had got the paint on Katchoo's hands in the first place, and that just seemed like a bad road to walk.
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Date: 2011-03-16 03:53 am (UTC)...Arthur had decided that he didn't, particularly, want to talk about that.
Girls. Emotions. Stuff.
Still, eventually, he grudgingly agreed that he might wish to lend Katina some support; at least that had the added benefit that Katchoo was more likely to shout than cry, which at least improved his odds some.
And so her phone was ringing. Warily, if there was such a thing.
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Date: 2011-03-16 06:13 pm (UTC)Close enough.
"Well, well, Pendragon. To what do I owe the headache today?" Katchoo's gruff voice came over the line after about three and a half rings (she'd had to find a rag to wipe her hands, and had settled for a stray sock).
Not shouting exactly, at least not yet. But even for her, there had been more cordial days.
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Date: 2011-03-16 06:23 pm (UTC)"I... heard matters weren't faring too well." No. Instead, he'd opt for 'earnest but a bit wary about the whole thing'.
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Date: 2011-03-16 08:35 pm (UTC)Which was to say that she, on the other hand, wasn't. But why couldn't she be difficult about it?
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Date: 2011-03-16 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-16 09:39 pm (UTC)"You talked to Francine," she said instead, no hint of gravel beyond the usual hoarseness and in fact not much hint of any expression at all.
Except for a jab of her paintbrush at the canvas, hard enough that it might just barely be heard over the line.
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Date: 2011-03-17 04:44 am (UTC)What Arthur had done... probably did not constitute 'talking'. "He was a bit put out about it." And Arthur... had absolutely no clue what was really going on here.
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Date: 2011-03-17 03:24 pm (UTC)"We got into a fight," she said bluntly; may as well get that bit out there for clarity's sake. "It was messy."
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Date: 2011-03-17 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-17 03:35 pm (UTC)Maybe if you hadn't been so blunt about bringing her mother into it, Chewie . . .
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Date: 2011-03-17 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-17 04:38 pm (UTC)"Things in Camelot not going so well, then?"
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