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[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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No, I - I'm alright. Everyone's been very kind.

Does it hurt, still? I can take some of the pain away.

[....cautious filter change, not sure how secret this is.]

Is that something you can do as a werewolf?

Yeah.

[He notices the change belatedly, and smiles a little. He assumes it comes from a place of wanting to protect other people, and Scott can't fail to appreciate that.]

It's okay. It's not really a secret. I've been offering since I figured it out.

[Merlin nods. He fell out of the magic closet pretty much immediately but wouldn't presume anything of anyone else.]

How...how does it work?

Honestly? I don't really know. [He offers a sheepish little smile.]

I can just take pain away. [It's not away, not really. But he's learned better to say, I can take it into myself. That will stop goodhearted people, and his well being shouldn't be a death tolling patient's concern.]

There's....kind of a lot like that. Things that work but I don't have any clue how.

[Merlin smiles a little wryly.]

I know what that's like.

...it's alright. I've tried some things already that should have worked. I think the death toll, I'll just have to...live with.

Really? There wasn't just, like....a book or something to teach you?

[He nods, though; despite wanting to try it anyway, to show Merlin that it isn't so bad, he's learning to accept other peoples' decisions. He can't just force his powers on other people.]

A book about...? The Death Toll, you mean? If there's anything like that I haven't been told.

No, I mean your magic. I thought you meant there's stuff you can do that doesn't make sense but just...works.

Oh. That's -

There is, yeah. When I was a child, I could just - use magic. It wasn't until I was older that I ever read a book about it. But even now there are some things that are more... instinctive.

Tell me about it. [He smiles crookedly.] I found out about this book called the Bestiary [And he's real careful about saying that cause heheh past misunderstandings] that a family of Hunters used. It didn't have everything - some stuff I just had to learn from other werewolves.

[His thoughts snag on one particular word.]

Hunters?

Yeah. They...hunt werewolves. I only know one family and we, we all kind of came to an understanding.

An understanding where you...don't get hunted by werewolf hunters?

[Sounds marvellous, where can he find someone this amenable to understandings in Camelot.]

[Definitely not in an Uther shaped camp. He chuckles.]

Basically. It was a lot more complicated than I'm making it sound.

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