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. ]

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[passingthrough]

[Do you ever feel like you have an accidental extra crew member on board, Tourist folks?

Between Winn's discomfort with shuttle rides and their mutual discomfort of sleeping alone, Kitty ends up on board frequently. She generally keeps herself to his quarters, but it's not hard to find her in the hallway, bathroom, or kitchen. Hey, sometimes a girl needs a completely unsatisfying snack after a wholly satisfying work out.

Or maybe she just had an urge to explore further. She did just phase her room into Kirk's bedroom once just to be nosy. She's a menace! And Winn isn't her only friend on board so she might be looking for the others too. Who knows who she could run into. Maybe you!]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ Kara runs into Kitty in the kitchen, probably after one of Kitty's "workouts". For a little while, there was some avoidance, while the stuff with Winn shook out, but since then, they've just been missing each other. But here they definitely do not miss each other. Kara has an upbeat energy, especially when she sees her ]

Kitty! Hi!

[passingthrough]

[Kitty really didn't even catch on to the part where she was involved in any of the conflict Winn and Kara were having. Not running into Kara didn't seem that surprising since Kitty had been so focused on Winn. She should probably work on more moderation there.] Hey, you. [She smiles easily at the other girl. It also helps that she's nice and relaxed from her work out.]

[takingkarabusiness]

I feel like we've been missing each other lately. Which, all things considered, might be less shocking for both of us.

[ remember that time she didn't knock. and you weren't even having sex. ]

[passingthrough]

[Oh, the times they've had!]

It does seem kind of impolite not to drop by and see all my first friends while I'm here. [She gets so eager to see him and it's hard enough to leave already that she doesn't like delaying it further once she decides to go. It's full-on ridiculousness.]

But I doubt he'd like hearing I was hanging out with Kirk.

[moonbay]

[With the excess of engineers and lack of a cook, Moonbay's taken to dishing out what decent meals she can make with the provided ingredients. It's one of those times when Kitty enters the kitchen area, the substitute chef is busying herself over a giant pot, working on something resembling stew.

She hears someone enter, and not really concerned who it is, shoves a small bowl at her without turning around.]

Try this and tell me if it needs more salt.

[takingkarabusiness]

He'd get over it, I'm sure.

[passingthrough]

What is it? [Oh yes, she remembers Moonbay. It's a hard name to forget even if you wanted to.]

[passingthrough]

He might not even comment on it, but he'd have that face. [Poor little kissable face.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Did he tell you he surprised me with a drawing he commissioned?

[helladoomed]

[Chloe's head pokes out of the lab after seeing Kitty walk by for the third or fourth time that day.]

So.

Weren't you the one giving me shit about living on two ships?

[passingthrough]

He did not. Drawing of what?

[passingthrough]

That does sound vaguely like me. [Of course she did. She stops and leans against the wall, cocking her head to the side. Not too distressed at being caught doing the same thing.] I was just trying to shake the truth loose.

[takingkarabusiness]

My sister, actually. Because he knows I miss her.

[passingthrough]

He's so sweet. I don't even know where he finds time to think up the things he does for people let alone get them done.

[takingkarabusiness]

I know. It's pretty great. I guess this is what we get without video game consoles.

It was especially nice because I thought he was still mad at me, but we hashed it out.

[passingthrough]

It's hard to picture Winn angry. [But she also understands now that he has been and he's been keeping it inside because of his fears surrounding his father.] He did mention you guys had some weirdness.

[takingkarabusiness]

Is that how he mentioned it?

Were you mad at me, Kitty? I just feel so bad about everything... I really didn't know what you'd gone through or anything like that.

[passingthrough]

Yes. Why would...? [She looks confused for a moment as pieces fall into place.] It was about me? The thing that came between you two? [He hadn't mentioned that and she hadn't pressed for details.]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ YO KARA WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS never. the answer is never ]

So you guys didn't talk about it?

It wasn't "about you", per se. It was about the fact that I told you stuff about Winn without talking to him first. I think he was embarrassed? And then I realized I put you in a weird position...

[passingthrough]

We talked about it, but I didn't ask for specifics and he didn't volunteer them. I figured, you know, best friends have their own things going on. [She didn't want to intrude when she could support without it. If she'd known she was part of the topic she would have though.]

I wasn't mad.

[takingkarabusiness]

Okay. Okay, good. Sorry. One of these days I'll learn how to stop myself from saying things I shouldn't, but I just get so nervous... Sooo yeah. Good. I'm glad. That we're okay, I mean. Except we were never not okay I was just being weird and I really don't like having conflict with Winn, especially when I didn't even really get what the issue was, though I do now. Don't worry about that.

[passingthrough]

You sound a little nervous, Kara. [Lots of talking. At least that's a tell of Winn's.]

[takingkarabusiness]

More... relieved I think. But probably also nervous. Nervous energy coming out. You know.

[ she takes a breath ]

I guess it just brought up a lot for me. Like it did for him, and you, but all in different ways.

[passingthrough]

It really did. [Thinking more about what it brought up for Winn when they talked.]

That probably kind of sucked for you, huh? You needed your support system and we were full of our own trauma.