Timeline - The day after Just Friends
<Hope> In her game of avoiding the newborn, Hope had taken the opportunity to return to campus for the items she had left in her room. She left the door open in case Shinobi got lost in his adventure to explore the place and called for help. He would be better served to think at her. She slid a telepath's power on, just in case, and hunted for the duffel bag she left there.
<Kat> Kat walked down the hallway. She approached her room and noticed an open door that she had never seen open before. Had someone new moved in or was this a returning student? Either way she decided to stop and say hello to her neighbor. She knocked on the door frame so she wouldn't frighten whoever it was.
<Hope> Hope popped her head up from the opposite side of the bed. "Oh, hey Kat." She ducked back down, still hunting for that bag.
<Kat> Kat briefly saw Hope and heard her voice give her a causal greeting. "Hope? What are you doing here?" Kat started to get angry, thinking of Chris.
<Hope> "Looking for my bag so I can get the rest of my stuff. Ahha!" She grabbed it from under the bed and pulled it out. She tossed it onto the bed and ran her hand through her hair. "Get settled in then?"
<Kat> Kat ignored Hope's question. "So. You are moving out then? Moving in with that guy that you in the tabloids with? What's his name... David, I think."
<Hope> It took Hope an entire few seconds to remember David was her fake boyfriend for the sake of the media. And people were buying the story! Excellent. She grinned. "Technically, if anything, he'd be moving in near me, as he's my security detail... but I'm glad the puerile minds of the masses are buying the story we sold them."
<Kat> "Well, I'm just so glad that you are so happy." She said sarcastically. "I hope that you don't leave your room the way you left Chris." She turned to walk away.
<Hope> "The hell is that supposed to mean?" She asked, glaring at the brunette.
<Kat> Kat turned back around with her arms crossed. "You broke him. You left him in pieces and you didn't even think about what you leaving would do to him. You were supposed to care for him, instead you treated him like an empty shampoo bottle. You got what you needed and tossed him out."
<Hope> "I'm sorry... what?!" Hope asked, moving around the bed to approach her. "The hell are you even talking about? I didn't think about what my leaving would do to him? So I'm supposed to stay with him just to keep HIM happy? The kind of fucked up logic is that?!"
<Kat> "You didn't just break up with him. Maybe that he could have taken. But YOU CHEATED ON HIM." Kat was yelling now. "HE WAS MESSED UP AND INSTEAD OF STANDING BY HIM, YOU SLEPT WITH SOMEONE ELSE."
<Hope> "And did he tell you the part where he left me to die in a hospital bed and didn't bother to come? Did he tell you the part where he yelled at me all the time? Hm? That he was so busy getting high that he really didn't care that I almost died? Course not. He told you about how I made a mistake."
<Kat> Kat paused, startled by what Hope had shared. Chris had never mentioned any of that. She was seething... at Chris and Hope! "Ugggggh." She let out her frustration and starting pacing back and forth.
<Hope> Smirking, Hope leaned back against the dresser. "I made one mistake after several bottles of scotch. Sue me. Perhaps what you're really angry about, Katherine, is that he's still in love with me and not you."
<Kat> "Perhaps Spoiled Stark, what I am really angry about is the fact that you didn't have the decency to end a relationship when you knew that you had problems and then you decided to not stand by your man in his time of need. Instead, you chose to run to someone else. If he had treated you so horribly, why did you stay?"
<Hope> "He was kidnapped? A little hard to break up with someone when they aren't there. I guess you're right. I should have just moved on while he was gone. Would that have been better? And, in case you missed it, David is my body guard. Not my boyfriend. The pictures were staged."
<Hope> Hope pushed off the dresser and moved to face Kat better. "And I had the decency to dump him when I did. I don't see as it is any of your business what I did... except. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but he hasn't just swooned over you. Give it time, sweetheart. He resisted dating me too." She flipped her red hair over her shoulder as she turned, going back to the bed.
<Kat> Kat had had enough of Hope's nonchalant attitude and she was pissed. She lunged at Hope, grabbing the red hair that had just been flipped. She wound it around her wrist, pulling Hope tightly towards her.
<Hope> Reacting quickly, Hope phased through Kat's hand and spun around, using the telekinesis to blast her backward.
<Kat> Kat flew backwards from the blast. Instead of hitting the wall, she phased through it and landed in the hallway. Not bothering with the door this time, she ran back through the wall to attack. She kicked Hope in the stomach.
<Hope> Hope shifted powers quickly... picking up Chris'. She grinned as she absorbed the blow, glowing purple. "Oooo do it again, Katherine! Hit me!"
<Kat> Kat calculated what do to next. She knew what Chris' power was capable and Hope was glowing purple. She decided to aim low and tried to take out Hope's knee.
<Hope> Still glowing purple, Hope phased through the attack and tsked. "Now, now. Do you know what hitting me would do to you? Allow me to demonstrate." She released the energy at Kat.
<Kat> The blast took Kat completely off guard and she fell to the floor. She was thankful that she didn't phase through and fall to the room below. She got up slowly, making sure to face Hope. She had to keep tabs on her at all times.
<Hope> "Are you done?" She asked her smoothing out her hair.
<Kat> "No, you bitch, I'm not done." Kat lunged for her.
<Hope> Hope tapped the telekinesis again, pushing Kat back with her mind, her hand outstretched. "You have no idea who you are fucking with."
<Kat> Hope was right. Kat didn't know who she was fighting. The last time they had fought, it hadn't been like this. But Kat couldn't just give up; she had started this after all. She leaped at Hope, praying she'd make some sort of damage. She didn't like losing in a fight.
<Hope> Hope pushed hard with her mind in order to throw Kat back against the wall. "Enough!"
<Kat> Instead of hitting the wall, Kat slammed into the dresser hitting her head and face. It took her a bit to get up, her head was pounding and she could feel a bruise coming on her cheek. She struggled a little to stand up, but finally made it. She didn't say anything to Hope, just glared at her.
<Hope> Hope glared back, crossing her arms over her chest. "Next time you decide to attack me, remember what my power is. And remember that you are a button push away from being tazed." She smoothed out her red hair again, adjusting her clothes.
<Kat> Kat stalked to the door. She was pissed. On her way out the door, she picked up a lamp and threw it at Hope and slammed the door on her way out.
<Hope> Having already turned to start her packing, Hope was expecting that one, and it did make contact with her face. She scowled as the lamp fell, barely missing her foot. "Fucking bitch." That had actually hurt.