Tourist, May I?

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Tourists and visitors!
Broadcast: Nooooooooope
Action: On the Tourist
When: May

[ Ship Catch all for May! Mingle! Talk to your neighbors! Walk in on your friends! Wait, don't do that. ]

Comments

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, with my luck, I'd be friends with every one of the secretly evil ones.

[passingthrough]

Well, I'm friends with two of them. I also think it's less evil and more "made some questionable choices" but I'm probably inclined to want to think well of them. [She may get hurt.]

[takingkarabusiness]

I would too, after the initial shock.

[passingthrough]

It's those initial shocks that always get you. [She still feels bad about how she must have made Hank feel that first day.]

[takingkarabusiness]

They say you only get one chance to make a first impression, but I think we're all lucky relationships aren't built on that.

[passingthrough]

Wow. So lucky. You would be one of my only friends. [Because their meet cute went well, right?]

...I didn't mean for that to sound like such a bad thing if you were one of my only friends.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ hey, it works for winn ]

Well, thanks. I think having more than one friend is the way to go, though.

[passingthrough]

I am a fan of it. [Especially since you can lose them just as fast as you make them especially in places like this. Always cheerful this one!]

And thank you for letting me borrow one of yours. [Not that she intends to return him.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Next one is going to cost you.

[passingthrough]

What if I lent you Kurt?

[takingkarabusiness]

How is he at cooking?

[passingthrough]

Fine? I haven't had his cooking in a really long time. It hasn't come up on the ship and even if it did, I'm not sure any of that counts as food.

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh, damn. That's a requirement for me.

[passingthrough]

Fine won't cut it? High standards.

[takingkarabusiness]

I'm a 20,000 calories kind of gal.

[passingthrough]

Even when you're running low on juice?

[takingkarabusiness]

No, not really. But I'm planning ahead.

[passingthrough]

I guess this is why you have Winn and I working on the powers while Hank works on the food. Joint effort to keep you running.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ some uncomfortableness is being projected ]

Yeah, that's it. I'm very conniving.

[ her heart's not really in the humor, though. she gives it a moment, but decides to tell kitty ]

Hank and I aren't going to work out. If you were worried about that. Which. You've been doing a really good job of managing your impressions of him so I don't want to make it sound like there's a reason you would be worried, and we're definitely still friends and everything so you don't need to worry about any kind of change of personality from him but it was just the sort of thing that's not going to work out.

[passingthrough]

[That surprises her. She really thought they were going somewhere. She'd been trying to make herself okay with it. Hell, she was was probably more not okay with how easily she became okay with it than anything. Her feelings as they relate to Hank are pretty complicated. But she's not worried about her feelings right now.] What happened, Kara?

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she's still smiling—but any appearance of a good mood is mostly a function of using humor to cover up awkwardness. it's strained, a bit ]

His ex showed up, and it's complicated between them. It's kind of the story of my life, if we're being honest.

[passingthrough]

[Kara, she's going to do the thing, okay? She's going to hug you.] I'm so sorry. [These places really know how to make things hard. If it isn't future memories of a girlfriend it's girlfriends just showing up.]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she'll hug her of course, but she doesn't really want to get into the whole thing just in the kitchen ]

Maybe we can go back to my room? If you don't think Winn will miss you too much.

[passingthrough]

Sure. And I could always poke my head through the wall and tell him it will be a minute. He probably but I'm sure he'll be fine. He'll probably be excited he has more time to work on his projects without me distracting him.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ that makes her laugh a little ]

Please don't give him a heart attack.