Belles de Jour (TAG: HYDRACAT)

The phone call she had received a few days ago had been unexpected but was a welcome surprise. Katt could not remember the last time she had seen M’gann face to face, the two would talk on the phone every now and then or Skype each other, text..but it wasn’t the same. After The Team had taken down Darkseid Katt had left and moved here to Harbor City and M’gann had left for Chicago so it made their standing friend dates harder to keep. Yes both girls were able to fly and there was always the Bioship but personal life gets in the way and made meeting up hard.

One thing was for sure thou, Katherine was excited to see her friend. M’gann had a way about her, her positive attitude was infectious and Katt had a hard time feeling down around the Martian. Her friendly and welcoming nature had been what had drawn Katt to her when she first joined the team and M’gann had been one of her closest friends since and in fact, next to Tula Katt would even go as far as say M’gann was a best friend.

When the day finally arrived for them to meet up Katt couldn’t help but have this smile on her face, others had noticed as well. Some of her coworkers at both the lab and her small job had asked what had gotten into her during the days leading up since she wasn’t one to outwardly smile that often. It was a good feeling and after the past few months she needed a change. Katt spent most of her day putzing around and kept finding herself glancing at the clock every few minutes to check the time, which didn’t make the hours tick down any faster. After doing that about fifty times she decided she need a distraction and set up her yoga mat in her living room and did her usual routine. When she had finished that it was closer to the time the girls were supposed to meet and figuring that was as good as she was going to get Katt decided to roll up her mat and start getting ready.

Putting the mat away and jumping in the shower Katherine spent the next hour getting ready. She dried her hair and let it go in its natural waves, put on a little makeup and got dressed. Seeing as how the sky looked a little dark today Katherine decided to put on a short sleeved purple shirt, a pair of black capri leggings, threw on some ankle boots and couple of layered necklaces. By the time she was dressed and ready it was time for her to start walking to meet M’gann and Katt set off, grabbing her favorite cropped leather jacket on her way out.

Checking her phone again she double checked their meeting location and set off in its direction once she left her apartment building, taking out her earbuds and sticking them in her ears so she could have a little music as she walked. It took about a good fifteen minutes for her to reach the coffee shop but as she started approaching Katt could see the firey red hair of her friend. It looked like she had decided to go back to the long hair (she envied M’ganns shapeshifting ability a little. If she ever got bored with one style she could easily change it and that sounded nifty) As she approached the young clone removed the buds from her ears and waved when she heard a ‘Kat!’

M’gann! Katherine quickened her step a little and hugged her friend once she was close enough. It was good to see her.

When the girls finally met in the middle Katt hugger M’gann back and listened to her give her explanation on how she had not planned on being so emotional by using some pop culture reference and Katt laughed. ”It happens to the best of us” she really had no idea what M’gann was talking about as Katt didn’t watch much TV but she knew her friend was a TV junkie..Katt did have a few guilty pleasure shows but nowhere near the amount M’gann had. ”it’s good to see you too!” the clone answered back excitedly, this was almost out of character for her and it had been anyone else it would have been but with M’gann this side of Katherine came out naturally.

As M’gann explained how she had only ordered a drink so far and suggested lunch the other woman nodded ’Yes, I am starving and I made sure I would have my day clear so we can do whatever you’d like.” They had so much to catch up on and Katt didn’t want to rush it. The girls linked arms and started walking toward their table while the red head rattled off that she wanted to know all that had been going on in her friends life and Katt had to stifle a laugh as how fast she was talking, it was always easy to tell when M’gann was excited.

When both girls were seated and M’gann had started in on the questioning Katt smiled and took a deep breath so she could answer. ”Ive been good, Harbor City has been good to me and I’ve found a nice little life here..and a nice nightlife. Katt figured M’gann would be able to pick up on the hero reference ”I intern at a marine lab and I am nearly finished with earning my degree…so so far things have been great! What about you? How’s Chicago?

When M’gann said that her life was more exciting than hers Katherine laughed a little ’Oh please, all I do is work and work and work not much time for anything else.” If she wasn’t doing school work then she was at the lab, if she wasn’t at the lab then she was at her part time job, if she wasn’t at her part time job then she was out in the city. There was little to no down time in Katherine Spencer’s life and as M’gann started to explain about her life in Chicago Katt couldn’t help but feel a little wistful. Not that she ever wanted to experience High School again, no thank you. She had entered Happy Harbor High as a Junior and those two years were enough for her but everything else. M’ganns life sounded busy but in the good way.

Then she mentioned Kyle and Katt was instantly interested in knowing more about this guy. So, Kyle huh? She gave her friend the expectant ‘are you?...’ look and waited. It was good that M’gann was seeing people again, after Conner and L’gann it was probably good to get someone stable…someone that wouldn’t be captured or something by the enemy or that didn’t have ten tons of emotional baggage he carried around with him. ”You could totally rock the silver, white and blue!” M’gann was a little ball of energy and she was perfect cheerleader material, it was part of the reason they got along so well she thought. M’gann was this cheerful talker and Katt was this depressive listener so it balanced out. They would be crazy not to accept you.

Katherine took the menu as it was handed to her she set it down on the table and learned forward a little so she could see and started to look over the options. Not very many vegetarian options but there were a few, there was even a veggie burger that sounded good and if M’gann wanted to go the burger route Katt night have to join her in that. When she told her that it was on her Katt just looked up and across at M’gann. That was not going to happen but they could fight about that later.

”it’s a good thing you’re a shapeshifter” Katt teased with a small smirk. She was only kidding but the way M’gann was talking it was like she hadn’t eaten in weeks!

And then came the question she had been hoping to avoid.

”I’ve seen a few people. Zatanna, talked with Artemis once or twice.. Katt paid close attention to her menu now, it suddenly becoming much more interesting at the words she was about to say. May have ran into Kaldur’ahm a couple days ago…. Katherine turned the page of her menu and continued her browsing, hoping to avoid that topic all together. Maybe they could focus on the others, the fact that M’gann said she hadn’t even been to the cave yet, maybe they could talk about that? Right? Right? Please? Why was she even worrying about this, it wasn’t like others knew they just knew the two of them had a falling out and that was all....

Of course she would want to know more. Katherine sighed heavily and closed her menu, she already knew what she was going to eat and there was no point in hiding behind it now. 'Great is a matter of opinion" that night had really been anything but. "He was in town following a lead and we bumped into each other..literately. It was awkward she reached over and picked up her glass of water and took a drink. 'awkward is a understatement, It was horrible" Katt set her glass back down once she had taken her drink. "The only thing we were able to talk about without it seeming like pulling teeth was his lead and even the mission we did after it was silence unless it was mission talk. I think it's safe to say that that boat has sank."

Katherine opened her menu again, she needed something to do to keep her mind busy just in case M'gann tried to take a peek inside to get more info. "But...So, living the single life huh? That's good." Try to change topics back to someone else, that was always a smooth transition wasnt it? Ugh. Why did he always have to make things difficult even when he wasn't here?

Katt appreciated what M’gann was trying to do but she was sure that boat had gone the way of the Titanic. There was no fixing that friendship and that was partly her fault she knew, her unwillingness to forgive would make taking strides in the right direction hard but it wasn’t like he was trying either and if he was not willing then why should she be? ”Trust me, it’s sunk.”

She knew that M’gann would be there if she needed but Katt really didn’t want to dive to deep into that area, it was better where it was, things were better left unsaid and eventually the feelings would pass. At least, that was what everyone had always said in similar situations. ”I know M’gann” she said with a small smile ”but it’s fine, really. “

"Nice deflection really if I wasn't a telepath I never would have guessed you were dodging."

Katherine laughed a little ”I don’t know what you’re talking about” she deflected again, playing dumb seemed like the better option right now ”Not selfish, sometimes you need to answer to no one, only worry about yourself and what you want. It’s normal. “ She wanted to say more but the waiter came up to the table asking if they were ready. Katt waited for her friend to order, trying not to smirk at the waiters question and when it finally came to her turn she thought about making a big order like the red head across from her but knew she would never be able to eat it all. ”I’ll take the veggie burger with everything and a chocolate shake.”

::Wait till they see when you order dessert:: the image in her mind of M’gann ordering double dessert after with no problem and the look on the waiters face was almost too good and Katt had to keep herself from laughing out loud and risk sounding like a lunatic that was laughing at nothing.

The Martians optimism was unrelenting and Katt was almost starting to agree with her. Maybe things weren't as bad, maybe they could still be fixed but that meant she had to be willing to fix them and forgive things and Katt didn't know if she was ready. That would be something she would have to think over and Katt had a feeling that if she tried to voice that opinion to M'gann that the other girl would have her ready to march to the cave to apologize after some good pep talk and frankly, Katt didn't want that. No, it was best to keep quiet on that situation for now. Which, was why she choose to ignore the question about throwing in the towel.

Now that their orders were in and the waiter had successfully thought they were at least a little bit insane the two were left alone once more and Katt heard M'gann's question about what she wanted to do. "Well, what do you want to do?" Since M'gann was visiting it really should be up to her on what they did next at least, it was just easier that way since Katt had never been one of the more sociable people on the team. Her idea of a good time usually meant staying by herself or going swimming and something told her that that was not going to be a option for the two of them.

Katt should have known asking M'gann what she wanted to do would be a bad idea. The martian listed off a number of things and some of them sounded fun while others..not so much but, Katt would do them if that was what M'gann wanted. Patrol could be fun, it had been a while since she had done anything like that with someone else, Kaldur'ahm excluded since it wasn't really a patrol. Katherine didn't think M'gann had seen her since she had been Aquagirl so it would be nice to show her her new identity...but, that wouldn't happen till later if it happened at all so they still had a lot of time to kill before that could happen.

M'gann mentioned about wanting to see the lab she interned at and Katherine supposed she could show her that if she really wanted, there wasn't really anything that exciting going on but maybe the two girls could take a dive in the water so Katt could show her what she was working on in the field. There was that idea and then there was the save all trip to the mall. That sounded easier and could keep them entertained longer. "We can go to the mall, I haven't been there in a while...If thats ok? Maybe go see a movie?" Katt thought she had opened Pandora's box by suggesting that given how much of a pop culture junkie M'gann was but surely there had to be something out that the other girl would want to see. Hoepfully it just wasn't something overly mushy and romantic because Katt did not need that right now.