"Ugh, what?" Kate mumbled, pressing her face deeper into the pillow, trying to avoid having to be awake for at least a few more minutes. "Moosh, quit it." No one else would be in her room in the Compound and no one else would be poking her shoulder, trying to get her to wake up.
But that wasn't Marshall's voice and Kate was completely sure she hadn't had a sleepover the night before. Turning her head, she opened her eyes to find Britta beside her. "Did you drug me and kidnap me?" she asked, because this wasn't right. None of this looked right.
"Well that's good," comes a voice from the floor, and Fred sits up, a confused frown on her face. She'd fallen asleep in her room in the Compound, and while she sometimes has pretty vivid dreams-- the last of which involved V.N. Efimov turning into a mermaid-- this doesn't really seem the same.
"At least I'm not the only one who's someplace they're not supposed to be. Not-- not the drugging and kidnapping part."
"I did not drug or kidnap anyone," Britta said, looking down at the floor as her voice rose. Now there were two, which meant the island wasn't just some kind of weird dream, because she knew these people and they were here in her apartment. She'd really been kind of hoping for that. "This is my apartment. In Colorado. I don't know how we all got here."
Rubbing a hand across her eyes, Kate looked down at the woman on the floor and then blinked back up at Britta, slowly dragging herself into a sitting position. "We're in Colorado?" she asked, then scrambled out of the bed and went to the window, hoping to see mountains.
"I'm Kate, by the way," she added to the woman on the floor.
Nothing else had quite sunk in yet. It didn't matter that she wasn't at home, that she was with people from the island, that all of this was strange. She was somewhere other than Kansas and that was amazing.
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But that wasn't Marshall's voice and Kate was completely sure she hadn't had a sleepover the night before. Turning her head, she opened her eyes to find Britta beside her. "Did you drug me and kidnap me?" she asked, because this wasn't right. None of this looked right.
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"At least I'm not the only one who's someplace they're not supposed to be. Not-- not the drugging and kidnapping part."
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"I'm Kate, by the way," she added to the woman on the floor.
Nothing else had quite sunk in yet. It didn't matter that she wasn't at home, that she was with people from the island, that all of this was strange. She was somewhere other than Kansas and that was amazing.
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