When he comes scratching at your door- better run, better run, what you waitin for?

[andthewolf]

They are very friendly here, aren't they? I just had a long and amiable chat with a particularly outgoing young nurse. She even offered to show me the best places in town to get a bite to eat. Then they offered me this handy phone. I suppose you need a pleasant welcoming committee when you drop a bombshell like that one on a person.

Fictional, hmm.

I've been called many things in my day, but that was never one of them until now.

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[garou]

[ See this look? This look is one of brief 'HA I WAS RIGHT I'M NOT CRAZY' quickly turning into 'fucking shit i was right i'm not crazy'. Derek grimaces, finally, glaring at the screen with his uncle's face on it. ] Hilariously enough, Lydia was calling you that just a couple of days ago.

[andthewolf]

[You see this, Derek? It is that 'absolutely nothing is wrong here' smile, a slight raise of his brows and a quirk of his head.

Oh. Now that was interesting. very interesting.]

Hello, Derek.

[See this injured look at that grimace? You wound me, Nephew.]

You don't look pleased to see me.

[garou]

Should I be?

[andthewolf]

I know we have a lot of broken glass between us, Derek, but I did think we were past this point by now. You don't trust me, that's fine.

But I am only trying to help you.

[This is going to require a lot of careful re-evaluating. He no longer has the full knowledge advantage. Unfamiliar ground, unfamiliar hazards and aides at his disposal. Time to take a few steps back. Sacrifice some more appearance of strength to buy himself more useful resources.]

Today, it seems as if I am the one who needs your help.

[garou]

[ That? Catches him off guard, and part of him is telling him not to believe it, but since when has Derek ever listened to the part of him that's usually right?

He raises an eyebrow. ] Yeah?

[andthewolf]

You have been here for longer than I have. That much is obvious. I do not know this area, the people or the land. In fact, the only thing I do know, is that you are here as well.

[Play to Derek's desire to be in control without getting too suspicious. Peter looks away, as if this is the hardest thing to say, stares up and off at the ceiling as he noticeably stifles a sigh.]

I'm not what I used to be. [Double meanings, there, and he glances sideways back.]

I am not even entirely sure where we are.

[garou]

[ From this vantage point, though a camera phone, far away from the hospital, Derek can't tell if Peter is lying. He probably wouldn't be able to even if he was standing next to the man. Derek wants to believe.

So he does.

He's still grimacing, though, still wary, even if he's already made the choice to not to kill Peter just yet. ] We're on an island, and no one knows exactly where it's at. It's called New Moore.

[andthewolf]

[Somewhere in the back of his mind that name draws a familiarity. Some story he read in a book or newspaper once a long time ago. Something to work toward remembering in the future.]

You are still here. [It is so hard not to just turn the sass on full blast, really.]

And judging by the welcoming committee - I'm going to go out on a limb and say this isn't an ordinary island.

[garou]

[ Derek rolls his eyes. ] There's a forcefield preventing people from going anywhere, and everyone here is supposedly fictional. I'd say it's pretty normal.

[andthewolf]

[Peter doesn't bother to hide the slight smirk at that reply. Derek is definitely a Hale, even if he is rough and wild around the edges.]

And the Alpha pack?

[It has been so hard to hold off on his true curiosity, but he manages to pass it off as just another in a line of questions, and not his primary concern. Trapped on a force field island, fine. Trapped on a force field island with the Alpha Pack? That would be cause for immediate action.]

[garou]

Not here. [ Thank whatever god might be watching over them. ]

[duckface]

Because he wasn't here a couple days ago.

[garou]

He was here last week, you were the reason he showed up at all.

[duckface]

You can't prove that, so don't even try and take this out on me.

[garou]

You drugged me, and then dragged me out into the middle of the woods.

[duckface]

Did I drug you to make you like 50lbs lighter? I don't have the upper body strength for that.

[garou]

Probably. Because it happened.

[duckface]

You're delusional.

[garou]

Obviously I'm not, if he's talking to us.

[andthewolf]

[Nudging at that brilliant mind you are hiding in there, Lydia.]

[duckface]

Leave me alone.

Private - Lydia

[andthewolf]

Lydia, Lydia. I would love to let you return to your busy day of pretending to be an unobservant member of the female alpha hierarchy of high school, but something tells me you are not holding that position quite as firmly as you once were.

And I'm afraid you know things I need to know.

Private - Peter

[duckface]

You're wrong.

Private - Lydia

[andthewolf]

So more than half of your classmates don't believe you are turning into an island nutcase, and my nephew hasn't been accusing you of raising the dead?

[Peter doesn't believe you, Lydia. He'll just be over here, tapping a clawed finger rhythmically against the side of his face and pressing at the bridge between them.]

Private - Peter

[duckface]

Nobody believes him. Lots of people come back from the dead here, this island doesn't exactly operate on normal.

[stilestilinski]

[ AAAAHHhhh— ] Not again!

[alwaysimpure]

[Sirius isn't actually all that social right now, what with everyone having left, but he does take notice of how this man is putting Derek and Stile into a frenzy. Pack, even without Remus here.]

I like to think of it as 'incredible' instead. Makes it sound more flattering.

[sasstastic]

What else have you been called, then?

[sagittarium]

...you've got to be kidding me.

[coinmover]

You seem to have drawn an interesting welcoming committee.

Just what is it that they think you're guilty of?

[sossery]

... So what have you been called?

[easy_a]

I wouldn't believe them if I were you. They might slap on a smile, but it's all a load of bullshit.