everyonetakes: (24)
2014-05-20 02:13 pm
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June 5th

She's basically a superhero.

That's what Kate has come to accept over the past few days. It's kind of a weird superhero thing she's got going on, pretty much like Spider-Man, only she's been way too lazy to make herself a costume or those cool shooting things he uses, but it's almost the same. (And, okay, it's not entirely that she's lazy, she also has no idea how to go about making something like that.)

Besides sticking to things, though, which had pretty much sucked that first day, she's super strong and she can jump like, really high, and it turns out that being able to stick to walls is actually kind of cool. She's gotten a little better at figuring it out, at sticking only to the things she wants to stick to and she's maybe experimenting with climbing a particularly tall building that evening. This is the part she hasn't exactly shared with Newt, because these powers had come on so suddenly and she thinks he might worry about her if she tells him she's been climbing buildings. If the powers disappear just as suddenly, she's pretty much doomed, but she doesn't think they'll just fail her while she's halfway up a wall.

As she heaves herself onto the rooftop and looks down at the street below, she finds herself feeling kind of exceptionally free. Her life is amazing and she's happy, but this is something like she's never had before and she doesn't know how long it might last, if she'll be like this forever, but for the moment, it's kind of nice to just sit above the city like this, having climbed up here all on her own.

Looking down, she spots Marius, small and far below her and she grins, wondering if she should jump down and scare him.
everyonetakes: (03)
2014-05-20 01:59 pm
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June 2nd

She's seriously late coming home, but she's going to blame the electrical storm for it if Newt is pissed. Which she doesn't think he will be, because she had texted him just as the storm started to let him know she was going to stay at work for a little while longer and try to wait it out. Inventory is pretty much the worst part of her job to begin with and she hates having to stay at work so late after the store is closed, but trying to do it in the middle of an electrical storm? It's a million times worse. All she'd wanted to do was stand at the window and watch, but she'd managed to get most of her work done, too.

But she's finally getting home now and when she presses the button for their floor and her fingers stick, she only yanks her hand back, wrinkling her nose. "Gross," she mutters, convinced there's something on the button that she's stuck to. She holds her hand out in front of her like it's contaminated, then digs her keys out of her purse with her other hand, using her elbow to open their apartment door after she's unlocked it.

"Hey," she calls once she's inside. "Sorry I'm so late, I just didn't want to walk home during that storm. Did you see it? So cool."

She closes the door behind her, but her entire palm sticks to the surface and she groans, trying to pull back. Whatever was on the elevator panel seems to be all over the back of the door and she slowly pulls her hand back, brows drawn together as she looks at the surface and tries to see what might be on it. But there's nothing that she can see.

"Dude, are you sticking to things?" she calls to Newt. "Is this some weird electrical storm thing? Because I'm sticking to things."