(OPEN FOR KARA)

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen finished dumping popcorn and chips into glass bowls. She's prepared quite a spread: candy, chips, popcorn, lots and lots of Diet Coke. She even went out and bought board games (Monopoly, Operation, Life, Scrabble etc

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[kara_marie]

Kara came bearing cookies. She had a lot of cookies to come bearing. She didn't think she could really send them to Harry, not after what Cordelia had told her. That would just be pathetic, wouldn't it?

Or maybe she could send some of them. Just... maybe not the ones shaped as love hearts with the pink icing. Maybe not those ones. Gah. She didn't know what she was supposed to do. This was all just not good.

Thank goodness for eye drops. That's all Kara could say on the matter.

So she stands outside and rings the door bell and waves at Tucker to say she's fine and he can drive off.

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen opens the door and smiles at Kara, who's holding mass amounts of cookies.

"Hey Kara. I'm glad you came."

Gwen reaches over and helps Kara bring some of the cookies into the apartment and onto the kitchen counter. Gwen takes a cookie and takes a big bite.

"I bought some games..." Gwen mumbles around her cookie and gestures to the coffee table which has stacks of various board games on it. She takes a second to swallow,

"These cookies are really good!"

[kara_marie]

Well, at the very least Gwen wasn't all paranoid that Kara was out to poison her.

"Careful,"

Says Kara.

"You'll get crumbs on your floor."

She shouldn't care, it isn't her floor. But she does care. It stresses her out - all the mess in the world.

"And, of course they're good. I made them. I can so make cookies. Of course it doesn't take a degree in... well... I dunno... cookie science... to make cookies. But! I did get an A on my test at school about the composition of an egg!"

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen holds her hand under her chin to ease Kara's worries about getting the floor dirty. Gwen's sort of a neat freak fanatic as well.

"That's reassuring. I don't know if there are many cookie sciences classes anyway. But, composition of an egg... intriguing. Now, I've always wondered, is an egg that you get in a grocery store a dead baby chick, or is it like an chicken reproductive egg that hasn't been inseminated?"

For socially awkward and slightly disturbing moments? Oh yeah. Gwen rules them all.

[kara_marie]

"It depends what sort of egg it is,"

Kara says seriously.

"You know, if it could potentially had a baby chicken life in it or whatever."

[gwen_the_freak]

"Really?"

Gwen is genuinely interested. She's not a vegetarian or anything, she doesn't really care that she's eating half a potential baby chicken life, I mean hell, people eat dead animals all the time. She just hadn't really thought about it before.

She'd never been one to really get the whole concept of 'When is a life considered a life'. It was too overwhelming.

"Yeah. But on that same level, every chicken sperm or any sperm could potentially be as much of a life too, right?"

Oh yeah. Nice light conversation and board games and junk food.

[kara_marie]

"I don't think people eat chicken sperm. It's not like female chickens give head or whatever."

Kara says quite seriously and sits down.

"Could I have a drink or something?"

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen tries not to laugh at the thought of chickens giving head. Though, there are some pretty messed up people out there...

"Yeah, I bought sodas, there's water, juice, booze... What's your poison?"

[kara_marie]

The whole beak thing? Wouldn't make for good oral.

"Diet coke?" Please let it be coke and not, like, coke substitute. Coke substitute is the worst EVER.

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen pulls out a can of Diet Coke from the fridge and sets it on the counter. She remembered that Kara loves Diet Coke. Gwen personally hated the aftertaste, but she bought a case of it anyway.

"Ice?"

[kara_marie]

"The can is fine."

Kara says.

"I actually prefer cans to glass. Cans always taste the freshest."

Great conversation you're making here, Kara. How lame can you get? But, in all honesty, with all her recent dramas, Kara has kind of started to lose sense of how normal people interact, what they talk about, celebrity gossip, latest trends...

She has to get a grip.

"So! Your place is nice!"

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen agrees. She hates pop in bottles. Hates it. She looks around,

"Yeah, it's alright."

Gwen never knows what to do with compliments. She offers Kara a bowl of popcorn.

"So, how are you?"

She tried not to say it in the sympathetic, 'How ARE you?' because there was nothing that made Gwen more angry when people did that to her. Nothing except pop in bottles.

[kara_marie]

"Same old, same old."

Kara says easily. Which, you know, is true. Kara's pretty much used to the concept of people making promises they can't keep - you grow to dread the moment a promise is made because you suddenly see down the track how the damn thing will be working out - and having feelings that seem to fall away. This is an old routine, but she's had enough, it's not getting easier even if it is an old familiar tune.

"How've you been? I mean, well, what is it you do?"

She means aside from being all electro-gal. She suddenly realises she doesn't know that much about Gwen.

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen nods in the way that people nod when they're trying to look understanding.

"Oh, me? I've been fine... I steal things for a living."

Pretty much that's all there is too it, really.

[kara_marie]

"Oh."

And she can't help but add:

"Not people's boyfriends, I hope?"

[gwen_the_freak]

Gwen nearly spits out her pop,

"What? No! I steal important blue prints and pricey stuff. I'm not in the whole boyfriend stealing business."

Oh man.