[Ginny]

[everyone_takes]

The nice thing about being kind of self absorbed was that Kate didn't really think about the shit she did affecting people negatively. 

She was sure it happened -- hell, she'd tried to burn down the bookshelf -- and she was sure there was at least one person on the island who didn't like her much, but the other nice thing about being self absorbed was that it brought a kind of confidence to a person, too. Someone out there might hate her, but it was pretty easy to not care about that much. Still, part of not thinking about it was avoidance of certain things and although Kate knew she hadn't exactly done anything wrong, she still felt sort of awkward now and then if she let herself think about Harry and Ginny.

He'd decided to stay with her, so that had to mean something, and Kate was happy with that decision. But it also meant she avoided thinking about Ginny much, just in case she wasn't happy with that decision.

Avoidance only worked so long as she could actually avoid someone, though, and sometimes that got tough. Especially when the person she was sort of avoiding -- not actively, though, that would be weird and they did have a class together -- looked exactly like someone she considered a friend. It was with the thought that she had spotted Wichita ahead of her on the boardwalk that Kate hurried to catch up with the other girl.

"Hey," she said, sounding a little breathless, though not nearly as breathless as she might have once been. That self defense class was paying off in that sense.

It was only when she arrived there that she realized that she wasn't standing beside Wichita. She tried not to be an asshole, but she also didn't exactly go out of her way to talk to Ginny either, which meant her sudden arrival at the other girl's side was probably pretty weird. "Ginny," she added, not wanting to let on that she'd confused her with someone else.

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[ashotofgin]

Ginny wasn't about to say that it was easy having Harry about and dating someone else, but she was living with it. In fact, it sort of sucked, but there was no use in complaining. If he had broken up for Kate the moment she had arrived, Ginny would have shouted at him. She might still have feelings for him, but they hadn't been a thing since he had gone off to do the stupid, noble thing. A lot had changed. She had changed.

There was a look of mild confusion on her face when Kate stopped her. It was quickly explained away when she realized that Kate had been confused. She wasn't going to call the other girl on it, but rather smiled. "Hey Kate. What's up?

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"Not a whole lot," Kate said, then wrinkled her nose, because it was pretty obvious to basically everyone -- or just the two of them, same thing -- that she'd thought Ginny was someone else. They could be awkward about it, which Kate knew some people preferred, or they could just acknowledge it. Which was generally the sort of thing she preferred.

"Yeah, so I totally thought you were Wichita for a second," she admitted, then grinned. "Sorry, I feel like a total ass. So, I'll just own up to that and we can get rid of that weirdness and carry on." Now that she was standing here, actually talking to Ginny, she figured maybe it wouldn't be so hard.

[ashotofgin]

Personally Ginny was more than a little grateful that Kate got that particular bit of awkwardness out of the way. It had been plain to both of them that some sort of mistake had occurred. Pretending it hadn't been that way wasn't going to make that awkwardness go away. Actually it was quite likely to make it worse and frankly Ginny was certain there was enough room for awkward without that.

"Ah yeah, I thought so," she admitted with a nod and a wry smile. "Glad you said something otherwise I was going to have to ask and that would have been even weirder." Not that it didn't already have the potential to be painful. Ginny was bound and determined to try to make it less so. "The not-twin thing is a bit complicated unfortunately."

[everyone_takes]

"Yeah, I'm pretty glad there's no one here who looks like me," Kate admitted. "Although there was this guy here who thought I was some weird rocker chick from his world named Envy. So that's a little creepy, knowing she's out there somewhere." It sort of added to the whole fictional thing, which Kate tried not to think about very often. She didn't have any proof of it herself, but between the not-twins and the fact that some of her best friends were fictional in her world, she sort of figured she wasn't going to be the exception to the rule.

"Besides, Envy. I mean, seriously, she couldn't come up with a better stage name than that?" she asked, smirking faintly.

[ashotofgin]

"Oh that would be a bit weird," Ginny agreed wrinkling her nose with a bit of distaste. She didn't have anything against Wichita or Olive, both of whom were a bit taller and a bit less properly ginger than she was. The little differences were quite comforting when confronted by someone who looked like her but wasn't a blood relative.

Laughing Ginny would have to give Kate that one. "Yeah, that's a bit rubbish. I'd go by Joscelind Muckrackle if it was me. Or a better emotion. Envy's just played out."

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"Yeah, it's pretty predictable, isn't it?" Kate asked, but there was, of course, a little part of her that was curious about who this person was. If they shared a face, it might be kind of neat to see herself being some ridiculous kind of rock star. "I bet she's the type of singer, too, who's just all about pouting and showing a bunch of cleavage," she said thoughtfully.

Now that they were talking, it actually wasn't that weird at all. That was sort of a nice surprise and Kate wondered if she should have tried talking to Ginny ages ago.

[ashotofgin]

"Pretty much. But Envy's a bit more glamorous than something like gluttony or sloth." Much as Ginny didn't care to admit it, she could understand why that doppelganger of Kate's had gone with that choice. It might not be clever and it might be played out, but it did hit mental image that wasn't horrifying.

"Oh yes. The sort who ends up on the covers of magazines half-dressed and talking about how she wants to be taken seriously a performer." Ginny laughed rolling her eyes at the very thought of it.

Now that they were talking she wasn't focusing on how weird it might've been, but rather on how natural it was. It was much better than the few times she'd tried to have a conversation with Cho. That girl was just a wet blanket.

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"I bet I could find this girl," Kate said, considering her options. "I mean that bookshelf gives me all the other shit that I want." And plenty of things she didn't want, but that was another story entirely and one she definitely didn't want to get into now. There were things to tell your current boyfriend's ex-girlfriend and things not to tell her. Kate figured the fact that she'd nearly burned down the bookshelf was one of the things in the 'not' column.

"Like a video or a magazine," she continued. "That would be super weird and yet I totally want to do it."

She didn't have much to go on besides a name, but sometimes, given the island, that was enough.

[ashotofgin]

"Probably. What you find could end up being seriously terrifying."

It would be a little bit above and beyond the whole 'oh we happen to share a face' level of terrifying. Ginny was certain that it could quite rapidly cross into places where it made no sense what so ever. The revelation that the bookshelf gave Kate what she wanted provoked a raised eyebrow from Ginny. Apparently some people were luckier than she was.

"Maybe you'll get a magazine and then the jukebox will start ruining your life with her music. Which would actually take the cake as far as weird things go. I think."

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"Yeah, but how fun would it be for a little while?" Kate asked with a grin. It shouldn't have surprised her how well she and Ginny were getting along. People had a type, after all, and it didn't surprise her in the slightest that Harry had been with Ginny. She wondered if it went both ways, if she was what Ginny expected of Harry's new girlfriend.

"Come on, we totally have to go look," she invited. At this point, she figured, if she was going to go with anyone to find this shit, it would have to be Ginny now. They'd spent too much time talking about it for her to ask someone else to look with her. "It'll be totally awesome to make fun of someone with my face, right?"

[ashotofgin]

Tilting her head to the side slightly she made a bit of a show of thinking that over. There honestly wasn't that much to think about, but sometimes it was good to draw a conclusion out a bit. In fact she was spending this time thinking about Kate, who actually wasn't all that bad. It pleased her, actually, as much as these things could please her. At least Kate wasn't some sort of horrible drip like Cho or worse, a complete lunatic like Romilda Vane.

"It would be," she conceded with a nod. "So let's go have a look. See how long it takes us before we're drowning in this sort of junk. I say less than five minutes."

[everyone_takes]

As she turned in the direction of the Compound, Kate had to wonder if it was a good idea. Usually it never would have occurred to her to think that it wasn't, but she still wasn't sure what Ginny thought of her and, worse yet, she actually sort of cared. That was rare enough that she had to wonder if giving Ginny a chance to make fun of a clone wasn't a bad idea.

But it was done now. And she figured maybe it didn't matter anyway. She wanted to make fun of the clone, too.

"Less than five minutes," she agreed, mounting the steps to the Compound door. "That bookshelf is either super nice to me or super mean and I'm pretty sure finding something on this girl would count as both."

[ashotofgin]

There was something very weird about this. Girls weren't supposed to be friendly with the girls that their ex-boyfriends were dating, but Kate was nice if not a bit odd. The blonde certainly was different, which wasn't bad. It just made Ginny look for the reasons that Harry had picked her. It made her trust that Harry actually had good taste, which was something of an ego boost.

Besides it wasn't as if she had thought they were still together. Back home they had broken up, lived their own different versions of the war at hand. He had died, for Christsake. So much had happened. It was just a matter of moving past it.

Turning as well she nodded. "Yeah. I think it's definitely a bit of both. It tends to be straight up horrid to me, but I've come to expect it so it might just end up being nice."

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"This one time, it gave me basically all the worst books in the world that it could give me," Kate said, remembering that night. She was still lucky that Jeff had been there and that Danny hadn't turned out to be a total ass of a cop. "But then it also gave me this ridiculously amazing video I made back home with this artist lady. So that was pretty cool."

Heading into the rec room, Kate went straight for the bookshelf and began to look over the titles that were there. "So do you think the fact that we look like other people means we're all like... from some kind of work of fiction?" she asked slowly. It was something she'd been thinking about a lot lately, trying to wrap her head around the idea that her whole world, her mother, her father, their problems, it might all be fiction.

[ashotofgin]

"That would be terrible." Ginny can't really imagine what that would be for her. Maybe something in which everyone she knew died? Come to think of it, there had been that rather bleak and depressing children's book called All My Friends Are Dead. That one hadn't been particularly thrilling to receive.

"But that video would be a bit impressive. More impressive now that I actually know what a video is." She laughed following Kate over to the bookshelf. Running her hand along the shelf she thought about Kate had said. It was something that had crossed her mind before. How else could she explain the weird looks she sometimes got when she said her name? Or that she looked like a pair of American girls. "It would bloody barmy, but I can't say it would be that much a stretch. I'd sort of hate it though. Kind of a shit story."

[everyone_takes]

Kate hadn't even considered the fact that Ginny might not know and she suddenly wished she hadn't said anything. Instead of making a big deal about it, though, she just nodded her agreement, because Ginny had to know by now that other people on the island were fictional. "There's some people from that show Firefly here," she said, looking over the titles on the shelf. "River's my dance teacher."

Kate had never actually watched the show, but she'd heard about it.

"Oh, here," she said, grabbing a film reel. "Envy Adams, Black Sheep. This totally has to be it." Turning to the projector, she loaded the reel and then turned it on. "Shit, here goes nothing."

[ashotofgin]

It wasn't that Ginny didn't know, it was more that it had taken her slightly longer than it might have had she come from later in time or had been a Muggle. It would have been something that she had cottoned on to had she encountered certain staples from her childhood. The months that she had spent here she had devoted to playing a mild form of catch-up. Soon she'd be somwhat like anything else.

"Oh. That's cool," Ginny said with the confidence of someone who knew what they were talking about which she definitely didn't. Stepping forward so that she could see the screen, she took in all that was happen. "Wow. She's...those shoes are mental."