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KATE BISHOP

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[axeyou]

You're touched or you're touching yourself?

Just for clarification.

[alsohawkeye]

Well I was one but now I'm reconsidering the other.

[axeyou]

[A few second's grace, so Kate can formulate a potentially sexier answer but...]

And?

[alsohawkeye]

[ She gets to wait a few minutes for another message, as Kate attempts to come up with the sort of reply that's clearly expected. It involves a lot of blank staring and a half-dozen versions deleted, none more than a word or two long. Eventually she gives up.

And sends a photo instead. It's just a tease, a narrow shot of dark jeans unzipped, a sliver of pale skin between waistband and tee, and a hand slid into lacy purple panties. Better? ]

[axeyou]

[For being just a tease, it's very good, and it's much appreciated. And an improvement over words.]

Bad angle. Get up here so I can see more clearly.

[alsohawkeye]

You want me to just stop? Rude.

[axeyou]

I want you to finish so I can see. I want you to wait, and get on the lift, and come all the way up here.

[alsohawkeye]

Why waste the travel time? You come to me and I'll send you another for the trip.

1/2

[axeyou]

Tempting.

But if you wanted me to come to you, you should have messaged me first. Get on the lift and come up here now.

[axeyou]

I want to make you wait.

[alsohawkeye]

I'm coming.

[ She types it and then stops, and laughs and hits send without adding. ]

[axeyou]

[okay she laughs.]

You'd better not be. And if you are, it can't be very good, because you're still managing to type.

[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate stops typing, and makes Johanna wait in suspense to find out why that is. But eventually there's a knock on her door and Kate is outside, hands shoved deep into the pockets of her jeans. ]

[axeyou]

[She knows who it is. But she still takes her time with answering the door, because she can. Once it's open, she leans against the doorframe with her arms crossed over her chest, and lets her gaze crawl slowly over Kate, lingering at the shape of her hands in her pockets.]

That doesn't look very satisfying.

[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate shrugs, the shift of her shoulders pushing her hands even further, until the ridge of a hipbone is glimpsed between jeans and the hem of her grey t-shirt. She smiles crookedly. ]

I've never found these elevators much of a turn-on.

[axeyou]

[She makes a thoughtful little hmm, as she studies that narrow line of bare skin.]

I bet I can change your mind. Just ask Katniss about her elevator ride with me.

[But then she breaks her gaze and turns around to grab up her axe, and slips out into the hallway with Kate.]

Come on.

[And she starts down the hallway.]

[alsohawkeye]

What?

[ Kate is confused at the axe, and Johanna breezing past her, naked, and doesn't bother to hide it, though she does follow, a couple quick steps catching her up. ]

Where are we going? I assume not far....

[axeyou]

[She smiles over at Kate, like this is a literal walk in the park. Just a couple of girls, walking together. One girl naked and with an axe, one girl who sent the other girl a picture of herself with her hand down her jeans.

You know. Normal.]

I said gym first. Didn't I?

[alsohawkeye]

Yeeaaah.... [ Kate concedes that sort of reluctantly and uncertainly, replaying the message in her head. ] But that was definitely before the whole sexting thing. [ Surely that changed the plan??? ]

[axeyou]

[Sexting. Another thing they don't have in Panem, at least not by that name. Johanna laughs.]

You want to skip naked wrestling? Come on, Katie. This is a date. I didn't invite you all the way up here so you could use me.

[She smiles over at her again.]

I want to use you too.

[alsohawkeye]

[ Naked wrestling? Kate laughs. And then stops, head cocked. ]

You're not-- you're serious? You're serious. [ She laughs again and lifts a hand, shaking her head. ] I am not wrestling you naked in the gym.

[axeyou]

Why not? No one lives on this floor.

[She swings her axe off of her shoulder, to carry it at her side instead.]

Like, actually no one. I never see anyone. If that's what you're worried about. And it's not like I haven't seen you naked already. Now we're just adding wrestling to it.

[alsohawkeye]

[ That doesn't actually make Kate feel any better about being here, but it's not really the issue at hand, either. She rolls her eyes. ]

It just sounds like a lot of really awkward bruises and chafing I don't need in my life. If we're going to be rolling around naked why bother with the wrestling?

[axeyou]

[She sighs.]

Because it's so much fun, Kate. You've never tried it, have you?

[They've reached the gym by now, and Johanna opens the door, smoothly, and keeps on leading the way, into the room.]

[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate's face says it all, the skeptical way she's eyeing Johanna. Seriously, all she's seeing is mat-burn. ]

No.