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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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I...talked to someone from home. But she was like - from the future? And everything sounds insane and kind of awful, but - also kind of good? And me being a...werewolf makes a difference. I guess.

Aren't you a little young to be a superhero?

[But it's being said in a weirdly non judgmental tone of voice. He kind of sounds like he's kidding, although not necessarily about the superhero thing.] And here I thought I was done with time travel for a while.

Dude, no arguments from me. All I wanted was to make first line this year.

[Oh. Boy.]

....Can we talk about the time travel thing?

Sure. I don't know how much I'll be able to tell you, [He's pretty sure even Sawyer and Juliet wouldn't be able to tell him much, if they were here instead. It was sort of just a thing that happened. Maybe Faraday had come up with a real reason it was happening.] But I'll do my best if you've got questions.

Can you just start with what you can tell me? I mean - I only skimmed the file. I'd rather just hear it from you.

If that's okay with you, anyway.

Sure. [He's going to find out anyway, assuming he ever goes back and reads more of the file.]

After Ben moved the Island, the people we'd left behind started basically skipping through time? And eventually John moved it again, and that kind of stopped the time flashes, so everyone who was still on the Island wound up living in the 1970's for a few years. When the rest of us tried to get back, our plane crashed on the Island and a few of us ended up in the 70's with them. I don't know what happened to everyone else, or how we're going to get back to the present.

So, wait - you crashed there twice?

Yeah. It was the only way we could get back.

Is there seriously no place to just...land on the island?

There's no landing strip or airport, if that's what you mean.

What about those, like, water planes?

We still would have had to crash. It was the only way to find the island. I don't pretend to get the science behind it, but whatever it is, it worked.

That doesn't really sound like science.

It's probably not.

This whole thing is so crazy. So you were in the 70s when the Admiral pulled you here?

Yeah. '77.

Jimmy Carter was president. [... Not that you're going to get that joke or reference, but.]

[Nope he's just rolling with it u_u]

Did you have any idea how to get back?

I was going to set off a nuclear warhead and reset the timeline so the plane never crashed. Apparently I got shot and wound up here before I could do it.

[....Wait.]

You were going to set off a bomb?

That's what I said.

Dude - what if it didn't work? What if you just killed everyone?

I couldn't have. Either the timeline got reset, or things worked out the way they were supposed to. Whatever happened, happened.

You're talking about setting off a bomb!

In the past. So whatever happened either already happened the way it was supposed to, or everything changes. It would have saved hundreds of lives if it worked.

Yeah, but how many people would have died?

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