Room 218, Laaaaate Friday Night

[glacial_queen]

Karla looked around, giving one last check to make sure she wasn't leaving anything behind that she might need. Granted, if she was, she could always pop back to the island and grab it, but she wanted to keep those emergency visits to a minimum if she could. She'd be incredibly busy this summer and any time off she got to take, she wanted to be able to keep it for fun things, like trips and visits and not wasting an afternoon searching for her...well, whatever it was she couldn't think of right now.

A summer back in Kaeleer, then back to the island for her last full year here. That seemed crazy to think of, especially since it didn't really seem possible that she was going on her fourth year here. But calendars didn't lie--unless Fandom was being wonky again, anyway--and it was time to start making sure she had some real, practical experience being a Queen, rather than just relying of birth-caste and strength of Jewel to back her claim when she finally did graduate.

Okay. All packed. Now just to find the boyfriend she'd been avoiding for almost a week now, say any last minute goodbyes, and get going.

...Oooor maybe she could go back to making sure she'd packed everything. Of all her other options, that one seemed the least intimidating.

[Meant to post this earlier, but illness and Avengers beckoned! Post & door opened for visits, phone calls, and texts]

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[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

It was late by the time Gabrielle got back to the room, but she wasn't so tired that she didn't notice the state of the other side of the room.

"Oh, no, you are not sneaking off on me," she warned lightly -- but a touch sternly. So maybe she was a bit adamant about making sure proper goodbyes were said, but after what had happened last time she had snuck off. Well.

[OOC: And I am crashing now, but I had to, if you'll indulge the SP?]

[glacial_queen]

"No sneaking!" Karla said, holding up her hands to show Gabrielle she had only the best of intentions. "If you hadn't shown up when you did, I was going to call for you. I couldn't leave the best roomie in the world with only a note."

That was a lesson they had both learned, wasn't it?


[I am also crashing soon, so SP is ALL THE WIN. I was gonna poke you tomorrow anyway for a Gabs thread, so YAY!]

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"That rarely ends well," Gabrielle replied, coming over to sit on the edge of her own bed. "But if you'd had no other choice, I'd have forgiven you for it."

[glacial_queen]

"Fortunately, there is a choice," Karla assured her. "Which means I have plenty of time for goodbyes. And don't get any ideas about renting out my side of the room or anything. I'll be back to visit from time to time."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"I've lived with you for three years now," Gabrielle pointed out to her as if either of them needed the reminder. "This room would just feel wrong with anyone else on the other side of it."

[glacial_queen]

Which was why Karla wasn't planning on asking anyone else to move in when Gabrielle was gone. It just wouldn't be right to have someone else be there who wasn't her Amazon Queen friend.

"Not even for storage space?" she asked, even as she was leaning over to give Gabrielle a fierce hug.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

One Gabrielle was only too ready to return.

"Only if I decided all of a sudden, while you were gone, that I was mad at you," she replied in a tone that suggested it wasn't going to happen. (Considering it was her, it probably wasn't.) "So don't go and get yourself in too much trouble."

A pause, for rhetorical effect.

"Not without calling for backup if you need us."

[glacial_queen]

"I intend to be the best-behaved witch in all of Kaeleer," Karla assured her, ignoring how often her intentions and reality matched up. "I'll call for help if I need it, but if all goes as planned, the only reason I'll be calling is to invite you to come up and see how my village is thriving."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"Of course you will." Gabrielle nodded very seriously, but the look in her eyes suggested she wasn't ignoring that intentions/reality disparity. "But I won't complain at all if that ends up being the only reason I have to come visit. I'd like to see how everything is coming along."

[glacial_queen]

"You're welcome any time," Karla said. "Don't feel like you have to wait for a phone call from me. The invitation is always open. And I don't just mean for this summer, either. Anytime you and Xena need a vacation, I'd be happy to see you both."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"Once I get home, phone calls won't really work anyway," Gabrielle said, making a face. That was going to be a problem. "And we just may take you up on it -- if I can ever convince her she could use a vacation."

She smiled. "Part of me wants to see what would happen if we leave her and Lucivar in the same place for too long."

[glacial_queen]

"Impressive amounts of collateral damage," Karla said thoughtfully. "And a very interesting betting pool, I'd imagine."

Oooh. Just who would Karla put her money on in that fight?

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle would put her dinars on Xena, of course, but that was to be expected.

"And a lot of fun to watch," she added, vaguely; it was a distracting mental image, all right?

[glacial_queen]

It was; even Karla could admit that. Lucivar was pretty. A giant jerk and she'd never feel anything for him that way, but pretty.

"We could sell popcorn. And fans." Doing very brisk business, she'd imagine.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"I know someone who'd love to get in on that market," Gabrielle noted, because Salmoneus would. "This might be enough of a compelling reason to guarantee a visit from me sometime soon."

She absentmindedly twisted the metal bracer around her left wrist.

"Thank the gods, this time when one of us is leaving for a while, it isn't an emergency."