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[Once he gets past the urge to just spew apologies, once he feels a little less like tearing his hair out, he gets on the network.]

You know, I don't remember if I ever said anything about it. But there's an animal clinic on board. [He holds up a set of keys, jingles them.] That's what those keys were, a while ago. I've got some experience working in one so, um. If anything happens, I've got stuff for splints and vaccines and worms and stuff. Since it'd be really easy for one to infect a whole bunch, you know?

[He pauses, because he remembers how people said apologies were unnecessary, that flood-selves weren't real, but like before, it just feels necessary, just to get it off his chest.]

And I'm sorry I was so...I'm just sorry.

[Private to Daneca]

You especially.

[Private to Jack]

So that's got to be, like, the worst thing to get paired off of, right? [WORST BEHIND THEM THOUGH right? right?]

[Private to Iris and Bruce, separately]

And thanks. For not letting me do something...really bad.

[Spam for Alana]

[He thinks Alana probably needs more than a straightforward apology, though he's not sure why. Something tells him she doesn't really have friends here, and while it's kind of weird trying to be a friend to someone who could be, like, a school therapist or counselor or something, he also thinks it'd be nice to know that someone's thinking of you.

Or something. He's seriously not over thinking it.

So eventually, Scott makes his way to her door, knocking. He knows there's a dog in there.]

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[patheticvillain]

No. I mean - I don't, but - I do. But I also . . .

If I start, I won't ever stop.

[His smile, now, is real. Crooked, a little pained, but real.]

Maybe some other time. Now you know the weirdest part, anyway. [He is lying.]

Tell me about Allison Argent.

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[Scott nods - he doesn't completely understand, but he nods.] You know how to bug me at work now, so. [So when some other time comes, Cassel knows where to find him.

And with that subject laid to rest in favor of Allison Argent, his little dorky smile is growing.]

She's awesome. She's smart, and she's funny, and she's really nice - I don't know why anyone wouldn't like her, I mean she just moved to Beacon Hills and she's got a bunch of friends already. That can't be easy. And she's - she's like a total pro with a bow.

[Which he's weirdly proud and terrified of, and this is inching closer to the star crossed lovers crap that has been freaking him out.]

[patheticvillain]

A bow?

[Cassel shifts uncomfortably.]

I can't tell if that's hot or terrifying. Or, uh, both.

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[This is an enthusiastic nod. Y e p he gets that confusion.]

Yeah. Did I mention the Argents are werewolf hunters?

[patheticvillain]

. . . Doesn't that, uh.

Isn't that.

Sort of a problem?

[semifreakingnormal]

It's like a freaking crisis. I'd kill for a problem. Her dad shot me in the arm with an arrow like, the night before I met her. They're looking for a werewolf, but they don't know it's me. Or - they didn't, anyway. He figured it out.

[patheticvillain]

Seriously? And he let you keep going out with her?

[semifreakingnormal]

He tried to crush me between two cars.

At prom.

[Sooooooooooooooo no his relationship with Chris Argent is awful rn :C and he's sad :CCC]

[patheticvillain]

Duuuude.

[A sympathetic wince.]

Lila's dad wants to kill my whole family, if that makes you feel any better?

[semifreakingnormal]

Kinda and not really? Why's he after your whole family?

[patheticvillain]

Because of the cat thing. And my mom is crazy. Never mind. Talk about Allison some more.

[semifreakingnormal]

Oookay. Ummmm - her hair smells really good? [Scott that is not...]

You'd like her. I mean - she's really easy to get along with. I think she wouldn't like Chris at first, but she'd probably warm up to him fast. I don't know how much she'd like the Barge, though.

[patheticvillain]

[He linefaces and sends Scott a big double thumbs up at the first, but he does listen seriously to the rest of it.]

Nobody gets along with Chris at first. I mean, except for me, but that's different.

Not everybody is a Barge person. I could live here forever, but again - it's different.

Would she play death bingo?

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Death bingo?

[What. What the fuck.]

[patheticvillain]

Did I seriously not tell you about death bingo?

[Ilia flicks his tail in irritation. Right in Cassel's face.]

This is a goddamn travesty, Scott McCall.

[semifreakingnormal]

Dude, you definitely did not tell me about death bingo.

I'm not even sure I want to know.

[patheticvillain]

You totally do.

[Right? :c 8c?]

[semifreakingnormal]

Why? Who the hell wants to win that?