Katchoo and Francine's Dorm Room, St. Louis (Tuesday Fandom Time)

[thismaskiwear]

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.]

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Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"Geez, Francie, I wasn't going to eat it!" Note Katchoo not attempting to make a grab at the discarded mushroom, as evidence.

Making a grab at Francine's hand, maybe.

Okay, that, definitely.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

This time Francine didn't let it drop away. "Well, you said eeuw, but you just said liver sandwiches before that, so how am I s'posed to tell? You might have a head injury or something. Or inhaled too many paint fumes."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"You're the one who thought fried eggs on pizza sounded delicious," Katchoo countered. Never mind that it didn't sound bad to her either. "I had to check."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"You're the one who came up with the idea in the first place." There might have been tongue there. Not the especially sexy kind, but it was still more lighthearted than this room had seen in a while.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Clocky sure thought so; that was a distinctly relieved-sounding whistle.

"You mentioned breakfast." You know that hand-grabbing thing? There might've been a little bit of a squeeze to go with it now.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine gave her a Look. The Look of Who are you and what have you done with Katina Marie Choovanski?

And yet with the squeezing back.

"Since when is cold pizza and warm coke not a perfectly balanced breakfast by itself?"

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo gave her a Look -- the I have no idea what you're talking about, la la la, perfectly innocent, would you like to buy a bridge one -- in return.

"Who said I wanted breakfast balanced?"

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"You better remember that the next time I'm carrying it and spill it all over the floor."

Not that that had ever happened.

More then once.

Every few months.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"Soooooooo."

Katchoo weighed the odds of having to get up and run, then decided, screw it.

"Next week, then?"

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"Ooh, you...." Francine considered several options, but most of them involved letting go of Katchoo's hand, and there seemed to be some really sticky cheese on it or something, because she didn't seem to be able to do that.

On the other hand, the other hand was free, and would you look at that? Beds come with pillows on them! Who knew?

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"Francine, not the pizz--mmph!"

Poor bacon and mushroom slice.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"....Whoops." Poor pillowcase, too.

"Chewie?"

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"'m still alive," came the muffled reassurance from somewhere on the other side of that poor pillowcase (and the pillow inside it). "I think."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"Not what I was gonna ask, but also important." Francine pulled the pillow away and set about checking Katchoo's hair for wayward mushrooms.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

No wayward mushrooms there, but there was a splotch of pizza sauce on her chin.

"Oh, good, as long as we have our priorities straight." Not that Katchoo's tone had been all that light to begin with, but it did ramp up a notch or two of serious. "What was the question?"

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"Can we be not fighting now?" Oh look, a mushroom. Or at least Francine was going to pretend she'd found one and was studying it intently. "Because that sucked."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"Vacuum cleaners everywhere were jealous." There wasn't really a bit of cheese on Francine's cheek, but Katchoo could reach up and brush her fingertips across it as if there was, right? "God, yes, we can be not fighting now."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"Good. I was getting tired of Clocky glaring at me every time I got up and left for class early."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"And running over my toes afterward . . ." Their clock was not only sentient, but a shipper. Go figure.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

There was an offended-sounding tweedliert from under the bed which Francine steadfastly ignored. "Sorry. I mean... not just about the toes. I guess maybe I'm just... not very brave sometimes."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo could agree with that, but she just shrugged. "You also have a mom who gives a shit about you," she added gruffly. "Makes sense for you to return the favor."

She still didn't entirely agree with the sentiment, but cooldown time and talking to Arthur made it a little more . . . well, logical.

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"I don't--" But she didn't want to get into the parts where it wasn't just about her mother, maybe wasn't even mostly about her mother. "I don't want to do everything in my life worrying about what she might think. But with this... it's just too personal. I don't mind sharing that stuff with you, but it's not for the rest of the world -- her or anybody else. And when I was posing for you it felt like I was in front of the rest of the world. That's what made me so nervous."

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"They're paintings, Francie." Katchoo absently reached out to brush away a stray lock of hair from Francine's face. "Paintings that don't have to go anywhere outside this room if you don't want 'em to."

Leaving aside the logistics of moving out of the dorm eventually, but this is what drop cloths were for . . .

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thatsamilkshake]

"I know, but..." Francine dropped her chin a bit, glancing at their hands. "I don't know. I need more time to think about it than I thought I did, I guess. And you should be able to paint things you can show people! Isn't that the whole point?"

Re: Aaaafter any phone calls, which means SP is our friend. (When isn't it?)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"Pffffffffffft." Katchoo waved a pizza-sauce-spattered hand. "Things like this, Francie? I paint 'em because I care that much. It's --"

She blew out a breath, trying to find the right words to explain it.

"Some people write poems. I do this."