Barry's Old Warehouse, Saturday Afternoon

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Kathy hadn't meant to lie to Anders when she said that wouldn't be alone tonight. She'd had every intention of going back to the apartment, letting Raven yell at her for that bullshit note she'd left, and then spend the rest of the evening pass by in a Netflix binge, where she'd watch six episodes of a forgettable anime and only drag herself to bed

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There was music in the back of Dante's head, but there always was, these days-- picking up the guitar and taking Starsmore's music class were probably two of the best decisions he'd made in the past year. He'd found himself humming a few bars from Elena Hudson's record - now lost to him after his trailer got trashed - occasionally on his way back, but that wasn't new, either.

... A few hours into the day, however, he had been stripped of his comfortable delusion that nothing was going on by a burst of song. He'd like to say that was the reason he'd gone wandering around the island instead of staying at home, likely as he now was to start singing about all of the shit running through his head.

But mostly he was just walking because of the shit running through his head.

He wouldn't have stopped just because he heard someone else singing - not on a day like this - were it not for the voice attached to it. But... that was Kathy.

So he stopped and looked up at the warehouse.

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Not so long ago that detail wouldn't have just made him walk faster.

"Look at me and tell me who I am,
Why I am, what I am.
Will I survive?
Who will give a damn,
If no one knows who I am?" she sang, unaware that anyone was listening. Not that it would have mattered.

Damn it, Fandom. You didn't just put someone's confusion and hurt and doubt out there for public consumption.

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Yeah.

Yeah, that was definitely Kathy.

Dante sighed. He had enough on his mind without adding someone else's shit to it. On the other hand? Fuck his own shit. It'd be nice to get away from it for a few seconds, and she sounded fucked up.

So he turned and went for the door. At least he knocked?

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There was a long pause while Kathy gave serious consideration to just pretending nobody was here. Granted, whoever was outside had probably heard her singing...which was also a check in the 'Pretend Not To Be Here' column.

Except it was Fandom and nobody here would take silence as an answer. So she sighed and opened the door.

She hadn't expected it to be Dante, that was clear by the way her eyebrows shot up at the sight of him. "Oh." she said, Totally Casual. "Hey. What's up?"