Room 322, Monday Midday

[not_every_mage]

Kathy had no way of knowing this, but her Valentine's Gift couldn't have come at a better time -- although probably not for the reasons she intended. Nathan had gone home over the weekend, and he hadn't been sure how long he'd need to stay. The important thing to Anders was that, romantically speaking, it had been goodbye.

Anders knew from the start that they'd almost certainly need to split up to go back to their respective worlds someday, and Nathan's growing distraction had made that unpleasant fact ever more clear of late. But Anders still held on to a stupid romantic hope that somehow, the break wouldn't come until the hazy future.

With that hope dashed, he was going to drain the bottle of champagne from the gift basket, eat the strawberry tarts, and write maudlin poetry in the journal. He knew he'd recover, but he deserved a good wallow first.

[OOC: Door closed but knockable.]

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"I'll drink to that," Anders said, finally cracking a smile. "Maybe you're even right. Maybe it's all uphill from here."

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"You'd drink to it if we had something to drink," Kathy pointed out, ready to commit to a Monday afternoon of drinking with Anders if that was going to help. Maybe she'd finally understand Dante's Tuesday hangovers. "I don't know if the cider's going to work for this, sorry."

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"What is that?" Anders asked, nodding to the bottle. "I read the label and it's just juice?"

He sounded properly horrified by this.

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"I thought--" Yeah, you know what, she wasn't going to go into her train of thought there. "I grabbed the wrong bottle, sorry," she said, ducking her head. "I thought it was a bottle of hard cider. Should I run up and snag that vodka? It might make for a good mixer?"

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"No, it's all right," Anders told her. "I want to have you here more than I want vodka right now. Is that horribly sappy?"

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Kathy's heart hurt at that. Giving him a soft smile, she shook her head. "No, it's not," she told him, leaning in to give him another hug. "I'm here for you whenever you want me. I promise."

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"For three more months, anyhow," Anders said, still deep in self-pity even as he hugged her back. "Then you'll be gone no matter what."

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"Hey now," Kathy said, nudging his shoulder. "There's the whole summer, too. And if you even think that you're getting out of visiting me at college, you're crazy. And I'll be back for Homecoming and will probably portal in for random visits, too." She shook her head at him. "It'll take a lot more than a little graduation for you to lose me, okay?"

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"Okay," Anders said, but dubiously. "I believe you. It's just -- people who leave me don't have a great record of coming back."

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"Yeah, well, maybe you need to make friends with more superheroes," Kathy said, giving him a victory sign. "We always keep our promises. It's part of the superhero code we have to sign when we first put on our masks."