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[studmuffin]

[ The feed starts and there are bags under his eyes and a hollowness to his cheeks that didn't exist when he was in the City last week. There's also a tremble to the fingers holding the device, a clumsy shuddering view of what is unmistakably Derek's cabin, before it vanishes into darkness again.

Seconds pass before the text shows up. ]

City, I wish I knew how to quit you.

[ A joke he doesn't quite feel, naturally. Everything's fine. Everything's normal. The next message is for Chase and is very, very locked and nosy people can't see it okay. ]

Like Dr. Dre I need a Doctor. If you want me to try and find someone else because of some awkwardness I have totally forgotten about in the past three months, just let me know, okay?

[ Then the rest is locked to Lydia and Allison. Not that he doesn't trust Derek but maybe true alpha / imagining yourself a super wolf man means you can hide from the other one. ]

Derek said Scott's gone. Is that true?

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video;

[anunluckypenny]

[You're not looking so good there, Stiles.]

Are you doing okay?

perma-text on stiles' end.

[studmuffin]

I'm going to have to go with a negative here. I'm not great.

have it your way, mr. hiding-stuff guy.

[anunluckypenny]

would anything help?

he's sorry penny he loves you.

[studmuffin]

No, not really. Did I miss much?

<3

[anunluckypenny]

not so much. people turned into ice sculptures, usual stuff.

[studmuffin]

Just an average day, huh?

locked

[lefthandedgenius]

Come home. Allison and I are worried and I'm holding a 3br.

We haven't seen Scott in a while. I'm worried about that too. You look awful. What's going on?

locked

[studmuffin]

I can't. Not right now.

[ Everything is broken and fractured and he thinks trying to be there for Allison and Lydia would just make the crack wider. ]

Did you check the Hall? If he's gone home his name would be there. The Nematon. What we did. It wasn't good.

[lefthandedgenius]

It wasn't good, but all three of you agreed it was necessary. Even with the consequences.


These are the consequences, aren't they.
Taking a quick walk to the Hall. Talk to me.

[studmuffin]

I know. I needed to save my dad. I would do it again.

Scott thinks he's about to change into an actual mega wolf, Allison's seeing her dead aunt haunting her, and I'm having the world's biggest nervous breakdown. The future is super fun.

[lefthandedgenius]

suddenly I'm not the crazy one? this is different. what can I do to help?

[studmuffin]

Can you close a door in my head?

[ He thinks not ]

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[intheblanks]

what awkwardness. nothing's awkward.

am i making a house call or picking you up?

[studmuffin]

I'm @ Derek's. I can come down to the clinic.

[ He can sleepwalk there, it'll be fun. ]

[intheblanks]

[Yeah, he caught a glimpse on screen.]

picking you up. right.

[studmuffin]

[ It's totally fine. ]

Are you sure you want to venture so far down into Wolf Mountain?

[intheblanks]

i'm up to date on my rabies shots.

[studmuffin]

Okay. Then yeah. That would be good.

text;

[hexuality]

[The way he looks reminds her of the war and it cuts deep.]

what's your favourite food?

text;

[studmuffin]

Pizza. Yours?

[ Playing twenty questions might actually make him feel better but who knows? ]

video;

[mortemscintilla]

You ... look like you've been attacked by zombies.

[ Stiles r u ok? ]

text; text 5ever who needs to see this mug?

[studmuffin]

[ He kind of wishes he'd been attacked by zombies. Zombies he could deal with. Going slowly crazy because of a tree? Not so much. ]

Long couple of days.

text; so stiles isn't inflicted by Li's O.O face

[mortemscintilla]

[ ...Set the tree on fire? ]

Days that were spent *fighting* zombies?

[ It's always zombies, ok :| ]

text; li tell him you're an assassin it'll cheer him up

[studmuffin]

i'll say yes so my life seems cooler.

text; omg stiles he can't do that it's against top sekrit speshul spy procedures

[mortemscintilla]

Well, if you like, I could bring by some post-zombie-war victory cakes.

In the shape of swords and battle axes, even.