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Outside Snow Monster- Sunday morning

For once Jaina had woken up a little late, and then it was an incoming call from her comlink that woke her. It was probably sad that she'd automatically reached for both it and her phone to take them outside so as not to disturb anyone, but considering it'd been kind of a long call, it was probably a good move on her part.

After she'd thumbed it off, she stayed sitting on the front steps, off to the side so she wouldn't be in anyone's way. And she'd just leaned her head against the side of the cabin, closing her eyes. Not sleeping, just honestly resting her eyes. For now, at least.

[So, so open. Bored and icky-feeling so I rely on you, game, to keep me entertained.]

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"You look like you need coffee," Rose commented as she sat down on the steps by Jaina. "Or doughnuts."

Jaina opened her eyes, looking over at her. "Got either of those?"

What she really needed was a therapist, not-boyfriend cuddles and to get out of Fandom. But she could settle.

Rose handed over the bag of fried dough she'd picked up after her run. "Give me five minutes and I'll make some coffee for you."

"You're wonderful. Have I said that lately?" Jaina said gratefully, taking the bag.

"It's always good to say it again," she teased, standing up to go inside and make said coffee. "You like milk or anything in it?"

"No, the blacker the better today," she said. "Thank you." Somehow she was thoroughly unused to anyone making her coffee these days.

She gave Jaina a quick grin and went inside to make the coffee.

It was right about five minutes later that she returned with a enormous mug of black coffee for Jaina and a mug of hot chocolate for herself. "See? Coffee and doughnuts. I can totally deliver what I promise."

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"I can now agree with you on that," she said with a little smile, taking the coffee. "Though for the record, I really was just resting my eyes."

"Good thing cause falling asleep right on the front steps like that would probably lead to someone trying to play a prank on you," she pointed out, sitting down again.

"That would lead to them dying," Jaina pointed out. She had once stabbed a guy in the throat while dealing with exhaustion, after all.

Rose snorted and stole the bag of doughnuts back to take one. "Death by Jaina. Bet we could find more than one guy who'd think that was a reasonable way to go."

"If that's true, I think I've been building up the wrong sort of reputation," she said thoughtfully.

"Think that'd have more to do with you being hot than your reputation," she replied. "And, you know, a lot of guys being idiots."

Jaina made a face, sipping her coffee, and said, "Is there any way to make them think I'm not hot?"

"Probably, but why would you want to?" Rose asked. "When did hot become a bad thing?"

"There's only one guy I want," she pointed out. "Attention just complicates things." Speaking from a lot of experience here.

"There's only one guy I want too," she replied, feeling oddly comfortable admitting it to Jaina. "But it's not - I mean, it's not like I can't kick someone's ass if they think checking me out means something."

And she was going to end up weathered and old-looking like all the rest of the female guardians anyway. Might as well enjoy it while she could.

"Yeah, I know," Jaina shrugged. "I just tend not to react well to it. I actually had someone try to train me in the 'use your looks as a tool' sort of way and it didn't take. At all."

Rose glanced over at Jaina. "So what's bugging you? Other than the lack of being a dog on demand."

"I don't know," she admitted, making another face. "I think I might be nitpicking at stuff just to nitpick at this point."

"Have another doughnut," Rose advised. "Fried dough makes a lot of things better."

"Believe it or not, that's the first time I've ever heard that?" Jaina said, reaching into the bag anyway.

"Totally not surprised," she teased. "You didn't understand the awesome of pedicures either."

"That got stares from my dad, by the way," she said, since she didn't think she'd gotten a chance to tell her before now.

"...why was your dad looking at your toes?" Rose asked. She didn't have a lot of experience with fathers or anything, but that still seemed weird.

"I was sitting on the sofa in bare feet and he was sitting next to me," she said. "Were you expecting something weird?"

"I had no idea," Rose laughed. "It sounded weird."

"It's completely not weird, I promise," Jaina told her, tearing off a piece of her doughnut to eat.

"And I promise I'll totally take your word for it," she teased.

"Yeah, somehow I don't believe you," she teased back.

"I'm shocked to hear that," Rose said, trying to frown and failing.

"Yeah, you look it," Jaina said. "Serious as you are right now." It felt kind of good to tease after all the stress.

"Damn skippy," Rose agreed, nodding. "Is there anything I can help with or is the nitpicking just how it is right now?"

"Hmm. Don't suppose you can get us out of the cabins, bring John here and/or send me home?" she asked. "I think the nitpicking is just how it is."

"We're out of the cabins next week, I think," she said. "And why do you have to be sent home? You could just go if you wanted, right?"

"Yeah. I've just got a feeling I'm still supposed to be here," Jaina explained. "And I'm supposed to follow feelings like that. I'm getting impatient waiting for whatever it is to happen." Hopefully it was something good, or she'd feel bad if she just jinxed people.

"Still - at least it's your decision," she replied. "That makes it better." Which was Rose's view of it, sure, but it made sense to her.

"Yeah." Still, she did have the occasional thought that staying had been a bad move on her part. But she'd decided to stick it out, so. "Sorry, I think I've just been no fun to be around lately." Despite yesterday's bouncy castle.

Rose shrugged. "Happens to everyone sometimes. "I'm not your friend just when you're 'fun to be around.'"

Jaina couldn't help but remember what her mother had said to her, about how the people that she went through the war with were the ones she'd keep with her. When Rose said that, she could see how that applied to friends in general, really.

"Thanks," she said, meaning it. Then, trying for lighter way to ask how things were going, she asked, "So how fun are you to be around these days?"

She snorted and then shrugged again. "Apparently I'm in need of fun. I have tomorrow afternoon set aside for it. Emma and I are hanging out on the beach. You should come."

The terrifying thing was that she felt like she had something to do tomorrow... and realized all she had was work and training. Wow. She was really getting back to that point, apparently. "I might take you up on that," she said.

Rose smiled over at her. "See? We can totally have fun, dammit. It's supposed to be sunny and everything."

"I can do sunny," Jaina decided. "So good. Fun will be had." And she was going to have it without even having to be talked into it!

"I wanna mock this whole planning in advance thing we're doing here," she said, shaking her head. "But I don't think I have anything I can actually mock about it."

"Let's not mock. Let's just be glad we're both going for it," Jaina told her.

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