71 Serendipity, Friday Afternoonish

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell was planning on heading back up to Bristol sometime ... soon. If he was entirely truthful, he wasn't looking forward to his trips quite as much as he used to. The tension in the house had been racking up lately, and Ivan's warnings still rang heavily in his mind.

So: procrastination. Namely by hanging in front of the telly with a bag of crisps (occasionally using the machine in question for target practice if someone really annoying was on). He had a Portalocity subscription, after all. He could miss a portal if he wanted to.

Yep.

Ah, Friday afternoons.

[[ for his partner in DAMMIT. ]]

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[vanillajello]

"Hmph." She wrinkled her nose as she was getting the bag open. "I just can't even get my head around how twenty four hours ago everything was just fine, and now it's not."

[chosehumanity]

"Big shifts tend to come out of nowhere," said Mitchell. Not that he'd been worrying about that himself, recently. "They shake everything up for a bit. Then they come to an end."

And to make that a little less metaphysical... "You just need somewhere quiet to be and something brainless to watch for a while."

[vanillajello]

"It's just that my life seriously seems to be nothing but a series of out of nowhere big shifts, lately," Kate told a chip. "Still waiting for them come to an end. And you better not make me watch The Real Hustle."

[chosehumanity]

"I think The Real Hustle is a little too intellectual for you right now," Mitchell replied. "Only stupid reality shows where everybody makes breaking a nail out to be the biggest disaster of the moment."

[vanillajello]

"A broken nail is the biggest disaster of the moment." She didn't think that, of course, but it was... vaguely fun to claim she did. "If one goes, you have to even the others out too."

[chosehumanity]

"And then you'd be spending an hour breaking all of your nails in turn?"

[vanillajello]

Kate rolled her eyes. "I know you're not a girl, but you must've heard about nail files at some point."

[chosehumanity]

"I have," Mitchell said, with a thoughtful bob of his head, "But I thought I'd see how far you carried this runaway train of an idea."

[vanillajello]

"It wasn't that ridiculous," she protested, mildly. "You just don't understand because you're not a chick."

[chosehumanity]

"I'm so glad you noticed that."

[vanillajello]

She rolled her eyes again. "Well, you know me. I'm real perceptive."

[chosehumanity]

"Not for long, if you keep rolling your eyes like that," Mitchell lectured with an easy grin, snagging a bag of crisps for himself off the table. "My portal's not due for another hour. Kardashians?"

Just admit you watch them, Kate.

[vanillajello]

"Fine, Kardashians," she sighed.

And then rolled her eyes once more. Just because.