"Oh, god, she totally would've grilled me," Kate says with a nod. "I'm not the adopted sibling." And she's not good at the whole being grilled thing, she probably would have just gotten pissy and refused to answer any questions, which probably isn't the best way to make an impression, but she's sort of never care about that kind of thing. Either people like her or they don't and if they don't, it's not like she's going to start pretending to be someone else so that they do like her. If they don't like her, then that's their deal and they can do whatever the hell they want with it.

Because she's awesome. And she changes for no man. Or woman.

Her expression brightens when Newt mentions strip statistics, though, because she's like, totally certain she can get on board with something like that. They're going to get totally distracted, but she doesn't even care, so long as it means she gets to spend the night getting naked with her seriously amazing husband. "I like this plan, you're full of good plans," she tells him as she lets Newt lead her over toward the refreshments. She stops in front and turns to him, leaning in for a long kiss, because newlyweds and then she pulls back to smile at him properly. "I should always come to you whenever I'm having a hard time."

She's doing fine, she's passing all her classes, but she gets bored easily. There are too many distractions in a place like this. On the island studying had been easy because a lot of the time there hadn't been anything else to do, but here she can do almost anything.