in from the rain

[lastofthekellys]

WHO: Kate Kelly
WHERE: The Inn
WHEN: 10th - 13th
OPEN TO: Helen Magnus | E V E R Y O N E
WARNINGS: TBA
STATUS: Closed | Open

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Closed to Helen

Once Kate's back in the Inn - once she and Margaery have been found, once the forest lets them be found - her first port of call is her bedroom. She wants clean clothes, dry clothes. She wants to warm up and she's too cold to bother much about propriety.

Someone said something about getting Helen Magnus, but, really, Kate is fine. Scratches, including one across her nose. Bruises. Her ankle is painful, but she's fine. She just needs to warm up and maybe sleep, which is why she's in the bathroom, half-undressed, sitting in the bath and scrubbing at her skin with a warm washer.

She wants clean clothes, dry clothes, but she can't pull those on until she's warm and clean. She just...

She can't.

Open

Mostly, after Miss Magnus has sorted her out, Kate spends a lot of her time sleeping. In her few lucid moments, she thinks it is not unlike as if her body has suddenly realised how little she's been sleeping, and is trying to catch it all up at once. She gets out of bed to eat, to perform necessary bodily needs, and then she goes back to bed.

Once, she goes for a brief walk, because just being inside was making her feel awful, but only a brief one, where she wound up seeing Miss Carter. Then, it was to the Inn and her warm, warm bed.

By the second day after her and Miss Margaery's rescue, she's progressed to sitting up. It's all terribly indulgent of her, but people fuss when she tries to do anything more serious than checking up on her chicks, and she's so very tired. She can relax this once, can't she?

So Kate sits in bed and she sews. She plays with Miss Hoppity, who alternates between clinging to her as if worried that her human mama will vanish again and ignoring her, as cats do. She combs out her long hair with her fork, which takes rather more time than she'd admit. She naps. When she feels adventurous, or rather, when she's tired of her bed being so seductively warm, she sits at the chair at her dresser in the little alcove her room has, and sews there by the light of the now appearing sun.

She leaves her door open when she's awake, to let anyone come in when they want to. She might feel awkward admitting that sitting by herself is lonely, when she's been ordered to rest, but she does get that way.

Comments

[lastofthekellys]

"Only sleepin'" Kate says, pushing herself up from her bed. She hasn't yet really tackled her hair, and certainly she's not dressed in anything more than her chemise and drawers. But after so many weeks in Mr Brightwell's company, it's easier to think of him as a distant cousin rather than a stranger, so all she does once she's up is make sure her sheets and blankets are covering as much of her chest as they can.

They all can deal with some bare shoulders.

[booklegging]

Kate's a looker, there's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Before he'd gotten comfortable with his squad and before Morgan, Jess might have had more of an internal reaction to catching her partially undressed in bed, but he's showered with his female teammates plenty of times since then. He and Kate's situation isn't that different after this long living in close quarters. (Besides, he wouldn't want to give Benedict more of a reason to be protective.)

Even so, his timing could be better if he'd disturbed her in the middle of a nap.

"Sorry if I woke you." Jess lingers outside the door. "I can come back later."