Room 528, Wednesday Afternoon/Evening

[icecoldfrost]

Wednesdays were Emma's slow day. No classes, no homework, and she typically did all her Special Classes on Thursday before going to film studies.

She'd already talked to Jack and was bored again. So since Triela would be out part of the afternoon at Gun Club, she had the door open and her music up, and was reading a completely trashy magazine.

What? She knew what her roommate had been up to last night when she'd been out. Any teasing from certain other parties would result in teasing and potential blackmail. Unfortunately for Triela, telepaths either made the best or worst roommates ever, depending on their mood.

[Open door, open post, looking for two in particular.]

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[glacial_queen]

Which just meant Karla had to nip at it. Because the island was stupid and hateful and yet oddly awesome.

"They aren't weapons if they don't work," she retorted.

[icecoldfrost]

"They seem to work just fine," Emma retorted, inspecting her nipped finger. "You bit me, you know how to pout, and you're being sassy. Therefore, they work just fine for lips."

[glacial_queen]

"Hmph," Karla said, trying to tug the pillow back. "Not what I meant."

Though if Emma was a good friend, she wouldn't ask what Karla meant with all this pesky honesty going around.

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was a great friend! Which is why she was going to ask for clarification!

"Why? What did you mean?"

[glacial_queen]

"They don't work on you."

And now Karla was just going to bury herself in Emma's blankets instead. Take that, Emma.

[icecoldfrost]

"Karla!" No, no hiding under blankets, Karla. "What do you mean by that?"

[glacial_queen]

"What do you think it means?" Karla asked in lieu of answering. Or coming out from under the blankets.

[icecoldfrost]

"You want to kiss me, don't you?" Emma wasn't completely unaware of Karla's crush, no. "Karla, come out, I'm not going to tease you."

"...much."

[glacial_queen]

"Of course you are," Karla said, peeking out from the blankets. "And Mother Night yes. For ever now. You're beautiful, Em. And smart and sassy and dangerous. So much of what I've always wanted to be. But I don't want to mess up our friendship, either, because no matter how much I want to kiss you, I want to stay friends more."

Apparently Karla saw six more weeks of winter (or six more sentences of non-stop babbling) and dove back under.

[icecoldfrost]

"Karla!" There she went diving under the blankets again, so Emma sighed and laid down next to her, curling up and putting an arm over what she thought was Karla's waist. "Don't be stupid, darling. I know you don't want to ruin anything, I'm not upset, I promise. I'm very flattered, really."

"Besides, if I can stay friends with Jack after everything and despite part of me being stupidly in love with him, I think I could survive if you kissed me. Not that, you know, I kiss girls regularly. Except that thing with Rose which I wasn't myself for, and I did like Val, I think, but I'm not sure..."

FUCK. Where the hell had any of that come from? She most certainly did not love Jack Priest. It was ridiculous.

"...oh get out from under there. It's my turn to hide."

[glacial_queen]

"You can use the pillow you stole," Karla retorted, but peeked back out from her blankets anyway. "You're in love with Jack? I knew it! Then why don't you just say so. He'd come running in a minute if you just snapped your fingers."

Unless he was feeling stupidly prideful at the moment. Which, with him, was always a possibility.

[icecoldfrost]

"I don't! Or I didn't know that I did! I mean I don't but-!" Emma covered her face with the pillow before she could keep talking.

[glacial_queen]

Karla rolled her eyes a bit. "I've known you were in love with him for forever," she said, a tad exasperated. "Him, too. Why neither of you can admit that--especially to one another--baffles me."

[icecoldfrost]

"There is nothing to admit," was the muffled response from under the pillow. "Even if there was, it wouldn't do any good."

[glacial_queen]

"Because he's got Sebastian," Karla guessed. Well, it wasn't really a guess. "Because he's there and you're here and neither of you are going to unbend enough to ask for the other?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I don't want to talk about this," Emma whined sulked whined from her pillow. "Drop it, Karla, and I won't say anything about what you said."

[glacial_queen]

Karla smiled a bit. "My self-preservation thinks this is a great idea, even if if I'd rather keep asking you about it. I like you and Jack together. You make me happy."

[icecoldfrost]

"What is there to ask?" Emma retorted, an edge of anger in her voice. "Is talking about it going provide any enlightenment on the topic? Which is so not a topic."

[glacial_queen]

"It might," Karla answered, because Emma had asked and Fandom was demanding truth. "Because if I can figure out why you guys can't be happy together, maybe there's something I can do to help." Hopefully the excited flailing Karla was doing was enough to inform Emma she was still speaking not of her own volition. "Because I only want you happy, Emma. Which is why I'm going to stop talking about this, just as soon as this stupid island lets me!" she ground out through clenched teeth.

[icecoldfrost]

"Where would you like to start? The overprotective streak, rampaging trust issues with humanity in-general, deep-rooted need to overachieve for self-validation, Sebastien, or 'other?'" she snapped.

...she wasn't sure which one of them those applied to. Both, most likely.

"...Great! We can stop talking about this, and instead talk about this crush of yours on me!" Meeeeeeeeeeeeeean, Emma.

[glacial_queen]

"That is not giving me any reason to drop this conversation," Karla grumbled. "Quite the opposite, in fact."

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes, but it's a conversation that would make me happier," Emma pointed out. "Do you have a third topic to suggest?"

[glacial_queen]

"If the main reason it'll make you happy is because you'll get to tease me, then I'll come up with one," Karla decided. "I still owe you a thank you for getting everyone to Kaeleer. Or an apology. Or both."

[icecoldfrost]

"Can you blame me? You are adorable when you blush, and teasing you is fun. I don't mean it mean-spiritedly," Emma replied. "But, really, I want to talk about anything that is not the mess that is me and Jack. I'll accept a 'thank you,' and a promise that you won't lie to me like that again. I don't appreciate it."

[glacial_queen]

"When did I lie to you?" Karla asked, bewildered. "I gave you all the information I had when I left the message! I was deceitful when I let everyone in Kaeleer think I took the portal back, that's true, but I never lied to you!"