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

video:

[affectioning]

It happened to me, my mom, my friend Stiles and our other friend, Derek. [ So much more complicated to explain what Derek is to everyone. ] I've heard it happens to other people, too.

Thanks. ...Have we met?

Re: video:

[grigio]

No, we haven't. I just got here a couple days ago. I'm Julie.

video:

[affectioning]

Scott. Welcome to the City, Julie.

[ He doesn't have anything really else to say. He doesn't know her yet and he has a lot more to do right now. Namely fill in Lydia, Derek, Stiles and then Isaac. He'll be more talkative another time. ]

Re: video:

[grigio]

I'll let you get back to your reunion and bother you another time.

[She just had to express her shock that people Came Back. Score one for Natasha.]

video:

[affectioning]

Thanks. Hey, -- it's not as bad here as it might seem. Not all the time.

Re: video:

[grigio]

I dunno. I like it so far. Found a job and a home within the first thirty minutes of me being here. That's kind of awesome.

video:

[affectioning]

That is kind of awesome. Good job. People here can be really helpful.

Re: video:

[grigio]

They can. It's awesome.

[Not that people back home aren't helpful. They can be, but they're all focused on just surviving that no one actually lives. If that makes sense.]

video:

[affectioning]

Yep. It is. Okay, I do have to go but good luck.