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[semifreakingnormal]

[The breach ends and Scott is exhausted, from the drifts and the new memories and the attacks. He doesn't want to think about how many people got hurt there, because it's impossible not to think of that place as real. There's another him somewhere, piloting a Jaeger with another Clementine, and they're both fighting for their lives.

He makes his way back to his bedroom and drops face first onto the bed, not realizing how long he's actually been asleep. That's where he'll be found, but the usual conga line of visitors. Except this time, he'll probably wake up when people start talking around him.]

[Public Video, later]

[Scott looks really weirded out. Like. Really. For a moment he just stares into the camera; it passes, and he shakes his head like he needs to physically clear it.]

Okay, so...I guess I was asleep for a while. Sorry, if that freaked anyone out. [A beat.] It's totally freaking me out.

Anyway, I'm back, so if anyone needs me, uh, I'm here? I guess I never actually left...[He mutters the last to himself, and decides to turn the feed off there before he starts babbling incoherently.]

[Private to Clementine]

How are you?

[It's not a lead in to something else. It's not just polite small talk. When he asks, he means it. He's worried about her, because in the unlikely chance she needed him, he wasn't awake to answer.]

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[voluntaryapnea]

[He is bone-tired, and what he wants to do is crawl into bed and sleep for the next twenty-four hours. But what he needs to do is check on everyone, the same way he always need to check on everyone after a port or a flood or a breach, but especially after one where he was just fighting freaking Godzilla. When he shows up back on the Barge, he's outside of Scott's room, which makes some sort of sense considering it's where he's spent most of his time the last few weeks.

So he might as well start the rounds there.

Scott had been there during the breach. He remembers talking to him, seeing him in the mess hall. He hadn't felt any sort of real attachment to Scott there, which is all kinds of weird that he doesn't know what to do with, but now that he's back, he's just hoping Scott is, too. For good.

He pushes the door open and pauses when he finds his best friend unconscious in bed. His voice is decidedly exasperated when he speaks.]

Are you freaking kidding me right now? You woke up long enough to go fight Godzilla and the second we're back here, you coma again?!

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[semifreakingnormal]

[It's not even that Stiles is particularly loud - god knows the sheriff has had to practically shout to wake them at times. It's just that he's barely asleep and, really, he's had more than enough sleep, even if he doesn't realize it yet. By the time that exasperation is out in the air, Scott is springing up from his bed, practically hopping over it and falling when his foot gets caught on the mattress. It's probably thanks to all those dumb wolf powers that he springs up almost instantly, arms braced and eyes wide in that wild, who-am-I-who-are-you-what's-going-on post wake up kind of way.]

What? What's going on?

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[voluntaryapnea]

[He's startled when Scott suddenly springs out of bed and trips over his own foot and his eyes widen.]

You're awake!

[It's blurted out, surprised, but his brain catches up with his mouth after a second and he moves forward, hugging Scott tightly.]

Don't ever do that to me again, jerk.

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[wegotarunner]

...how long were you asleep?

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[semifreakingnormal]

Dude you were here fo...

[But he trails off because no way would Stiles ask him that, he was just here. And he was just...camping out in his room for weeks, too. And it's not like he'd forget.

Plus the hair. Hair seems to be a give away, with Stiles.]

Who are you?

[americasdirtiest]

Hey, look who finally decided to wake up.

[semifreakingnormal]

If I had a say, I'd have been up a long time ago.

[Video]

[lydiascreams]

[Lydia is-- adjusting to being back from the breach. She goes to her room first and she plans on going to find Stiles, Allison and the others as soon as possible. Andrew-- she might need a little more time before checking on him.

But after a shower and a change of clothes, she's about to head out of her room when she hears a very familiar voice over the communicators, which makes her pause.]

You're awake! Scott, thank God. How are you feeling? Is Stiles there with you?

[Video]

[semifreakingnormal]

Yeah, he was just here, I'm...I'm okay? This is really weird?

[He looks fine, because, well, he is, but this is definitely an alarming kind of coma.]

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[punched_hitler]

Hey, welcome back to the land of the living. Good to see you up and around, pal.

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[semifreakingnormal]

Yeah, seriously. I'm still wrapping my brain around being asleep for like a month.

[spam]

[betamax]

[After Stiles stopped by to give him the good news, Liam only took a few minutes before heading over. Before he lost his nerve, maybe, but it was Scott anyway. Not like there was any reason to be weird about it.

When he got there, he knocked once or twice before letting himself in, although he lingered by the door at first; by now it was habit, Stiles was usually there anyway.]

Hey. You up?

[spam]

[semifreakingnormal]

[Scott has gone wandering and returned, mostly to eye his bed like it might rear up and swallow him whole. A month? A freaking month?

He smells company before he hears the knock. It's nothing he recognizes, but that doesn't stop him from turning a politely welcoming look toward the door - but once he sees Liam's face, he jumps up and promptly freezes here.

Oh.

He knows this kid, and feels so dumb for not putting what Stiles told him together with the breach. He doesn't just know this kid, he cares about him - except they were both someone else - except those aren't really their memories, except they are...]

Yeah, uh....Liam, right?

[He gestures for the younger boy to come in, blinking back pilot suits and giant robots. His model of the Alpha Omega is standing on his desk.]

[mistconduct]

Wow. Way to wake up and smell the music.

[semifreakingnormal]

I can smell a lot of things, but I don't think music is one of them.

*action spam*

[whatthefoxsay]

[She regrets not being there when Scott first woke up, but the regret is such a brief flash considering the fact that he's up and awake and moving and talking that she has no time to linger over it. Her instinct is to run as fast as she can to his cabin to affirm that what she's seeing on her video screen is in fact the real deal.

But she doesn't.

She waits. The truth of the matter is the first person Scott will want to see is Stiles, and she absolutely cannot fault him for that. So she spends an agonizing hour or two belaying her own desire until finally she can't stand the waiting anymore, and takes the brief walk to his cabin. She starts to reach for the handle - she's been coming in of her own volition to do her shift all month - but hesitates, and thinking the better of it, knocks on the door.]

*action spam*

[semifreakingnormal]

[He opens it almost immediately, because he was on his way out to grab something to eat as she came to him - he stares at her for a moment, caught off guard by the timing. But then he breaks into a grin, and without thinking, leans in to hug her.

It's not a big deal, right? Basically everyone's hugged him so far.]

I was wondering when you'd get here.

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[takeyouapart]

[He's obviously in the Infirmary as a patient, not an employee.]

Welcome back?

[He's not sure this is the right sentiment, but he likes Scott and he's glad he's awake.]

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[semifreakingnormal]

[Well that's concerning, Merlin.]

Thanks. Are you - did something happen?

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[visetvires]

Oh. You're awake.

[She can't decide if she's glad or just . . . unimpressed. He can't even stay in a coma properly. Weird little nerd.]

[No, she obviously totally missed him a lot. Damn it.]

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[semifreakingnormal]

[If he was aware of how much time had passed, he would have totally missed her too!! He smiles crookedly, nodding.]

It would've been kinda crappy if I woke up to punch monsters with you, then went back to sleep.

[theresalwayshope]

Scott.

[His name leaves her like a sigh of relief, or a breath drawn after being underwater for a very long time. It feels that way, too, like some part of her can finally breathe again because he's awake and aware...not just her Alpha, but her Scott, that little piece of him that still belongs to her and makes it possible for her to keep functioning.]

...hi.

[semifreakingnormal]

[He smiles when he sees her, the same way he always smiles when he sees her: small and warm and fond. It'll always be the way he smiles at her, now.]

Hi. Sorry I was asleep so long.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Should I bring over an emergency package of cookies?

[semifreakingnormal]

Does being a vampire give you mind reading powers?