[ he knows something's coming, but not what and he doesn't react quite quickly enough: she's on top of him and instinctively he fights to free his hands but then there's a second (which manages to feel like longer) where the costume and the hair and the voice all register as one, and— ]

—Cat? [ it comes out slightly strangled, something between surprise, shock and relief, and there's a moment in between breaths where he can't quite decide which he feels more of. there are a few faces he might have expected to see here — loosely speaking — but felicia's isn’t one of them. ] Uh—. [ is the only answer he manages at first: the last time he’d seen her had ended, he thinks, on amicable terms; he also doesn't have a witty answer to that. it'd be easier if he knew where they were and how (who), but he doesn't and that combined with her throws him. there's a 'why are you here?' on the tip of his tongue that instead comes out as: ] That answers my question of 'do you come here often?', so I'll just go with 'I don't know what a nice girl like you is doing in a place like this'.

( ooc: obvs just lmk if you want anything changed..... )