Katchoo and Francine's Dorm Room, St. Louis, Monday Noonish

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Since Francine had lucked out with no afternoon classes on Mondays, it was the perfect day to grab lunch to go at the dining hall, then take it back to the dorm to sprawl on the bed, dunk fries in ranch dressing, flip through the latest issue of Wendy the Werewolf Stalker: Season 8, and catch up on the world outside of eastern Missouri.

Via her phone, not a comic book about creating new universes by having airborne sex with ... seriously? Wow, this series had not only jumped the shark, it had done a belly-flop onto the shark's back and was now waterskiing behind it while performing opera in Chinese.

[Open for calls, texts, etc., and as always, Le Girl]

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"Are you feeling better? Are you bundled up with tea and soup?" Dinah asked, half-joking, half-planning on having Alfred send her some. "Okay, wait, I thought his birthday was in May? And did you go there? ... time runs different there than it does here, doesn't it?"

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Francine nodded.

Give her a moment.

"Oh, um, yes! Yes, we went there, and yes, time runs different, or the season was just different when they left in the first place. I've given up trying to think too hard about it, as long as we don't see them again and they're suddenly twenty years older."

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"That part sucks. Even two years sucks." Dinah would pretty much have issues with that forever. It was a wonder she didn't check in every day to make sure people were aging at the right rate. "So, how are classes this semester? And how is that girl who keeps hitting on Katchoo, downt he hall?"

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"Different, and ... not so different. Except she's stopped batting her eyes at Katchoo, and moved on to making comments about how she admires us for being so open to nontraditional relationships. Which sounded fine until she asked if four was our limit..."

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Dinah facepalmed. "She just doesn't process rejection at all, does she?" She shook her head. "I really hope she finds someone else to bother this semester. Hey, I could always call her up and intimidate her?"

Although if she hadn't been intimidated by Katchoo....

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"Yeeeeah, good luck with that." Francine snickered. "Besides, it's not worth it. She's nice, when she's not being overly nosy."

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"Oy. I'm so glad the guys here get that I won't gossip about Gabby's girlfriends with them."

Especially after she hit that one guy on the funnybone.

"So, what are you doing today? Which classes? And did you see Snarled yet? Is it too late to wish for long hair as a superpower?"

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"I just had Intro To Child Psychology today, then I went to the comic shop and picked up lunch to bring back to the dorm." Francine tugged on a strand of her own hair as she thought about the question. "Haven't seen it yet, just the commercials. That could really kick some butt in a fight, though."

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"So yay, you got through the math, and they let you at the fun classes!... I assume." Dinah grinned. "And yeah, I want that hair. Plus it would be easier to illustrate than the stuff I'm going to explain to Kyle tonight, you know?"

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"You're telling Kyle, TA, about your powers? Wow, sounds like things are getting serious."

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"Well, at least enough to want to try for that, maybe?" Dinah bit her lip, wandering around her room. "If I leave it for too much longer, it's like lying. There's so much I'd have to leave out... And I think he'll take it okay, you know? He knows me now."

Famous last words.

[thatsamilkshake]

"I'm sure he will." Francine tucked her feet under her and leaned back against her headboard. "If he knows you at all, he's got to know you're a good person, so he shouldn't be scared. And it's not like New Gotham is, well, Camelot."

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"True." Dinah relaxed, smiling again. Needing to believe that. "And it's not like I'm breaking out the costume yet, either. That's way more serious. I-want-to-be-totally-exclusive-forever serious." She grinned. "Remember when we were talking about this, watching that one movie? With the two girls and the feast and her mom coming home?"

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Wow, flashbacks. "I remember me yelling HIDE IN THE BATHROOM!" Francine giggled, though at the time she'd been taking that whole scene a lot more seriously. "No, I do, you were saying it could be dangerous to tell people, but dangerous not to if things got serious, too."

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"Yeah. Yeah." Dinah grinned at the memory. Wow, they'd both come a long way since then. "We're not at that point yet. And won't be for a good long while, I think. But, the meta stuff-- it's a start." She blew out a slow breath. "And if ever we're going to do anything more than kiss, he should know about the telepathy." She tilted her head. "Do you hear from your Mom much? Are things still the same as it was at Graduation?"

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"Not as much. She's moved onto the part where she pretends she never heard it, but not like, actively?" Francine sighed. "So she's not asking me how Katchoo is when she calls, but she's not talking about setting me up with guys, either."

That was probably only because she hadn't met any eligible ones yet, Francine.

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"Well, it's still progress. And ... she'll get used to it. Once she realizes you guys aren't breaking up or anything." Dinah smiled a little. "I still have to introduce Kyle to my sisters. And outwait the inevitable bibbling when he meets Helena." From either fear or lust. Or both.

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"There is that. At least Katchoo and I don't have any intimidating women in leather in either of our families."

Somewhere, Tambi laughed, and three sparrows gathering seed outside the window of the coffee shop she was sitting in perished instantly. Two heart attacks and a pulmonary embolism.

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Someday, Tambi and Helena should go out for coffee. And the multiverse shudders.

"Yup," Dinah said blithely. "You guys can deal with anything else that happens. I'm sure of it."