Horror 101, Monday

[chosehumanity]

It had been an incredibly long two weeks.

Not that Mitchell had suffered from the gremlins this weekend: he hadn't come back until late last night, and for some reason, the creatures - like most Fandom weirdness - had given him a wide berth upon sight.

He wasn't going to complain.

"I know you've all had a rough weekend," he started, "So I'm going to make a deal. If you feel the need to talk about what you've done or what's happened to you in the past couple of days, you can. If you don't, I've got a copy of the worst film ever made and a generous supply of tea and coffee."

A beat.

"Either way, I think we're covering horror well enough."

Another beat.

"And yes, Kate, everyone's encouraged to talk through the film. Come on."

This whole 'focusing on other people's problems' thing was getting a bit desperate on his part.

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Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

"Even I won't go to Baltimore just for coffee," she snorted. Then she brightened up a little. "Although I'm gonna start going there regularly, starting this week."

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

"The whole dancing thing, right?" Hey, Mitchell might've been old, but his memory was still fresh, thank you very much.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

"The whole dancing thing, right?"

He might be old, but his memory was still fresh, yeah.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

"Exactly. I met with the instructor lady on Friday and she liked me."

And she was totally cheerful and smug about that.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

"Well," Mitchell said, "there's no accounting for taste." His tone was a mixture of actual snark and the consequences of his mood being a little more guarded lately.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

"Nothing to do with taste. I've got mad skills, and you're just jealous because you can't dance."

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

"You've never seen me try," Mitchell pointed out, slouching. This wasn't conducive to any images of him dancing, no.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

Not really. "I doubt I need to," Kate said. "You don't strike me as the type."

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

"I can dance," he defended. "I just choose not to."

To be fair, the last thing he knew as an actual dance dated back to the 60s, but he blamed that on the fact that things like the macarena couldn't possibly be considered dancing and so he wanted no part of it.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

Kate might agree, although it was entirely possible she didn't even know macarena at all. People born in 1993 could be happily clueless about atrocities like that.

"Riiight. I'm not buying that. ...But anyway, this is reminding me that I should hassle Hannibal about dancing in spandex."

It made sense to her, and that was the important thing.

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

Blink.

Blink.

"Have I mentioned how I'm glad I'm not a teenager?"

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

Kate snickered. "What you should really be glad about is that you're not stupid enough to make bets with me."

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

"Offer Hannibal my sympathies."

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[vanillajello]

"Hannibal got what was coming to him," Kate said firmly. "I told him I was good at bowling."