AN: This is a challenge I found on Ars Amatoria, the ranger romance site. This will be a series of 40 short Drabbles about my favorite couple, Kat and Jason. None of them have much plot, or ranger timeline, or are in any kind of chronological order. I can't even promise they'll be connected to each other. But is you like the story, visit Ars Amatoria for the challenge itself.
Friends
What does it mean to be friends with someone? That was a question Katherine Hillard was asking herself a lot these days.
Did it mean just being there when you needed them? Or did it mean being there all the time for no real reason? Does it mean giving each other presents on your birthdays, Christmas, or even on Valentines day when neither of you have a Valentine? Or is a note in your locker every now and then that just brightens up your day?
It's a strange question to ask oneself when your waking up on their couch at 3am with their arms wrapped around you, and the menu of the DVD you feel asleep watching is on loop.
Kat considered waking him up, but there was really no reason. They were both perfectly comfortable, and it was late, and if his parents hadn't woken them up then they had probably called Kats parents anyway. Besides, it was nice to feel the steady rise and fall of his chest behind her, she reasoned.
She supposed part of being friends was having someone to hang out with when everyone else was off doing something with their significant other. Like earlier that night for example. Tanya and Adam had, of course, made some excuse as to why neither of them wanted to hang out, which Kat had translated into "Leave us alone, we're making out". Billy had, like usual, been swamped with work from his undergrad course and the constant repairs and upgrades that had to be made in the power chamber. She had offered to help, but I had apologetically said that she would only distract him. Tommy was visiting Kimberly in Florida for the weekend, so he had originally been off the list. Rocky had been off with one of his many girlfriends on a date he probably didn't have the money for, and Kat knew that Rocky would go through the girl in a week and regret the lavish first date, so she wasn't angry he couldn't do anything.
It was only when she had called Jason that he had admitted to having made all the same phone calls, looking for something to do on a free Saturday night. So they'd picked up a movie to watch, made fun of it, thrown popcorn at each other, and fallen asleep during the last stretch of the movie. And that was where Kat found herself now.
It was where she'd been finding herself a lot lately. Kat shifted gently and glanced up at Jason's face. For some reason she wasn't at all surprised to find him watching her. She grinned and put her head back down on his chest.
"Comfy?" He inquired after a moment. Kat nodded, nuzzling into his chest.
"Very." She said quietly, and she felt him give her shoulders a gentle squeeze.
"Good." He murmured, adjusting his pillow a little bit and falling slowly back asleep.
Maybe 'friends' was a bit to impersonal of a word. But more than that? Kat sighed and closed her eyes. She'd worry about it in the morning.