005. Rub a Dub Dub Apparently -- Video

[voluntaryapnea]

[The device clicks on and reveals a dripping wet and more than slightly annoyed Stiles Stilinski standing in the middle of his bathroom, fully clothed. There are suds all over his shirt, and in his hair.]

So, there's a very clear reason for that saying be careful what you wish for, apparently. Except I haven't made any wishes and somehow I ended up fully clothed and in a bubble bath with a rubber duck.

[He holds the rubber duck up as evidence and shakes his head a little. It's annoying, but he knows it could've been a lot worse. Still. He'd been in the middle of working on his database. It's the second time in twenty-four hours that he's had something really weird happened. The first being when Needy had teleported into his room and scared the crap out of him.]

So okay not a huge deal but please don't do it again. [Whoever did it. Because no.]

Comments

[notsoneedy]

Who knows. [She's not holding her breath, though. A lot of her life got messed up and then it just kept getting worse and worse.] I'm glad that you believe me, though. I'm not so used to that anymore.

[voluntaryapnea]

We can hope. [That, however, doesn't surprise him to hear. That she isn't used to people believing her about these things.]

Yeah, well. I get that. I mean, when I told my dad that werewolves were a real thing? He thought I was a lying liar who lies. [And okay, he has lied a lot to his dad over the years but they were mostly for good reasons.] Or that I was crazy. Probably both, actually.

[notsoneedy]

When I tried to warn people about Jennifer at first, nobody believed me. They thought I was making shit up, or that I was going all unhinged like a rusty door because I was there the night it all began, when there was a big fire and lots of people died.

Then after I killed her, at least no one thought I was lying anymore. Just that I was psychotic.

[voluntaryapnea]

Yeah that sounds pretty par for the course when you're dealing with supernatural stuff. Most people think it's all crap.

I kinda...think that might be worse.

[notsoneedy]

People thinking you're insane instead of just being a liar? I dunno. In my experience, they're about as equally frustrating.

[voluntaryapnea]

Neither one's really appealing, no. But hey, I don't think you're either.

[notsoneedy]

I like that you don't think that. [Blunt, but true.] If there's one thing I really like about this place so far, it's that most of the people here don't think that.

[voluntaryapnea]

[He grins a little at that, nodding.]

Well, it'd be kind of messed up if they did, you know? I mean we're on board an inter-dimensional time traveling ship floating through space. Nothing seems too out there after that.

[notsoneedy]

True. In a way, it means I get to be ahead of the curve. Coming here already believing in weird shit. Gives me a leg up on everyone else who doesn't.

[voluntaryapnea]

[Considering what she went through back home, it doesn't seem like a great trade off to him, but he nods anyway.]

That's very true.

[notsoneedy]

[She knows exactly what he's talking about - but she's reached the point where she has to laugh about it.]

I mean, come on. Can you imagine my face if I came here from just another boring small town where nothing ever happened, and then I saw the aliens here and that one...glowing dude?

[voluntaryapnea]

[He can't help but smile a little at her words because she definitely has a point.]

Yeah I guess that would be a pretty big culture shock, wouldn't it?

[notsoneedy]

Yeah. I kind of feel sorry for the guys and gals that got it that way. There have to be some here that do, right?