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[compulsions]

[That may or may not be a very faint bruise across the bridge of his nose. Elena's arm swing is a little stronger than it used to be and apparently he bruises now which is perfect.]

So how's being in the real world working out for everyone? Scale of zero to zero.

Remember, don't hurt yourselves with those brand new toys.

[Especially you, Elena.]

Comments

video;

[coy]

Damon? [Any familiar face is a good face. Kinda. Sorta.]

video;

[undying]

[Guess it's nice he had the surprise of Mr. Emotionless Ripper himself, otherwise hearing (and seeing? What the hell, video phones) another vampire who is terribly familiar (and somewhat unwanted) would surprise him.

Okay. It still kind of does. Alaric even hesitates to respond, a) because he's still pissed, shitty apology or not, and b) ... he's still pissed. It's a good enough excuse. But. Devil that you know and all that.

Also, survival.]

Your brother almost shot me in the head.

video;

[sainted]

[Stefan feels his heart stop when he sees his brother's face on his phone. The dryly sarcastic cadence of his voice, sharpened by decades of bitterness. It's him, without a doubt, and if this is Damon and that's Caroline and Alaric is skulking around elsewhere...]

Is she here?

video;

[you_dont_work_alone]

Are you really buying that? The 'real world' thing?

[And he looks a bit more carefully.]

Were you injured?

text;

[speculates]

You believe we're fictional?
What weapon did they give you?

-SH

[Audio]

[runsonbatteries]

Big ghost town. No Internet.

I give it a negative seventy-five.