six ✚ returned

[affectioning]

[ Melissa is not in her scrubs this time, but her civvies, and she’s smirking quietly to herself. The memory of Scott closing the door in his father’s face is one that she’ll treasure for a very long time. ]

Hello? Scott McCall and I are back again. I think we just took a year off the poor worker’s life, the guy doing the drywall in the clinic? Yeah, not pretty. I’ve never seen a saw bounce before. Hope I never see it again.

[ And, sure enough, there’s a very loud buzzing just off camera. Apparently the worker heard that. Oops.

Into the feed, a wild Scott McCall appears! Just his head, anyway, leaning down into it beside his mother’s. ]

But, he’s fine, he’s fine! [ He looks off screen.. ] Nobody was injured. [ He looks back. ] Sorry to anybody if we had plans. But, we’re back now and we’re not planning on going anywhere. [ Unless everyone else gets out with them.

Melissa pokes her head back into frame again.]

Oh! And Lydia? Tell me you fed the cat? I mean...how long have we been gone, after all? Ziggy wasn’t too much of problem, was he?

[ Scott is about to say something else, but he notices something offscreen. ] No way. [ And he slides out of frame leaving Melissa to take the reins. Offscreen… ] Cool.

...Okay. Just a note to say we’re back. Stiles, Isaac, Derek? Are you all okay?

[ And Scott is back. ]

You’re still here, right? [ Scott brings it closer, fiddling and then soon, the feed is private! ]

derek ]

Thanks. [ To his mom. To the device... ] I think I’m all caught up. Sorry if you came by Monday night. The City thought we didn’t need to talk. But, we still should.

isaac ]
We will hang out this weekend.

[ Fiddling with it again, Scott adjusts to make the feed public once more ]

public ]

So, that’s what leaving is like. We had no clue we were here. And then we were just… back. If anybody needs us, we’ll be back at the apartment in a couple of minutes. Angela, I’ll be in to work tomorrow. [ A beat before he adds ] Has anybody heard from Wally?

[ ooc: Replies will be coming from both Scott and Melissa! ]

Comments

text - better than a trophy for killing ppl 8')

[mortemscintilla]

That might not be such a bad thing. I've had plenty of moments where I wanted to vanish from class.

[ Not that Hei received much in the way of formal schooling. Unless you could Le School of Hard Knocks? ]

Well. A lot of people get dismayed when they learn they're back in the City. I can't really blame them.

text - it's a hard knock life for us

[affectioning]

I still have friends here. [ His pack. ] It's not that bad that I'm back. Before, things were up in the air but this second time questions were answered and my friends are all pretty happy. I can focus on here, now.

text - instead of kisses, we get ... paychecks?

[mortemscintilla]

Questions?

Can I ask what kind of questions? Or, um, is that something personal?

santa claus we never see

[affectioning]

Sorry, it's pretty personal.

no one cares for you a smidge, when you're in the killing biz

[mortemscintilla]

Oh! Sorry!

[ Can't blame him for trying, bro. Spies are nosy and jail is boring etc. ]

I have an embarrassing curious streak.

gutted bellies, stead of whole

[affectioning]

There's nothing to apologize about.

Rotten bloody life, full of entrails life 8(

[mortemscintilla]

[ Li apologizes for everything, Scott. It's part of his dorky, low-self esteem charm? ]

I guess there isn't.... [ If these words were spoken, they'd be inflected as a question. ] Welcome back, in any case. At least you didn't land in the fountain.

Confusing hairy life

[affectioning]

[ Scott can't see this but he can also apologize. ]

Thanks. And yeah. A lot of people do. Guess I've been lucky.