( 001 ) PARKER'S POV | TEXT/IMAGE

[spidersenses]

	NEW SURROUNDINGS I read the FAQ and stuff...It's gonna take a while to get used to things - but I guess I'm pretty adaptable. Waking up in blue goo is pretty surreal. Do you ever get used to it?

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[omicron]

[ hound you? YOU COULD SAY THAT. ]

Uh, acquaintance, actually, and yeah, probably.

[ sorry dude. good thing derek's eyes were closed, btw, otherwise you'd have gotten lens flare out the ass. ]

It's too late now.

[ and is also priceless tbh. ]

[spidersenses]

[ Oh man. ]

Too late? I mean, is your acquaintance the type to make a big deal out of stuff?

[ because its a concern and there are lockers in space, and he knows what it's like to be shoved inside one. ]

[omicron]

No—well, yeah—I mean it's too late to do anything about it. Unless you've discovered how to take it down, which... I don't think you have. Have you?

[ asking if derek makes big deals out of stuff is like asking if water is wet. dude's pissed off like 24/7. okay, with good reason, but still. ]

You'll be fine.

[ and that is at least 60% truth right there. ]

[spidersenses]

In my defense, I'm pretty new. I don't even know how to encrypt stuff. I think I get some kind of free track on this.

[ just combing a hand through his hair. ]

Yeah, I dunno. I dealt with dudes like that back in school. The kinds with all that misplaced anger and stuff.

[ What he really wants to know if this is gonna get him bullied. Tranquility you are just like high school. ]

[omicron]

Hey, that makes two of us. [ stiles had never thought 'being new' could be a seriously hateful thing, but he's managing to hate it just fine. ] I'd definitely go ahead and treat it like a get-out-of-jail-free card for now. You know, excuses first... hacking later.

[ his mouth slants in vague, distanced sympathy. stiles wasn't ever really bullied in high school, beyond the general asshole commentary from guys like jackson, but he can kind of relate. ]

Sorry, dude. That's rough.

[spidersenses]

You from this jump too? [ he nods a couple of times. ] Just yeah, I kinda wanna lie low and I don't think you're friends gonna make that easy.

[ a beat. ]

It's okay.

[omicron]

Yep. [ FML ] I'll make sure he de-wads his w— [ stiles you can't use 'werewolf' as a descriptor in polite company anymore gdi ] —his panties.

[ . . . ]

Well, this got awkward. No hard feelings about the picture, though, seriously. It's got a kind of... [ instagram feel to it. stiles will bet 20 this dude's a hipster. ] Je ne sais quoi.

[spidersenses]

Did I miss a beat of this conversation?

[ AWKWARDLY. ]

I mean, how'd panties get thrown into topic? I don't know what you mean by de-wadding.

[omicron]

Panties. In a wad. You know, it's like a [ you can't not know this ] figure of speech? To say he's a cranky jerk-ass who can't take a joke?

[ peter pls say you know what he means don't make him say panties again ]

[spidersenses]

[ GROSS CRYING. ]

- Oh, yeah. Okay. De-wadding. Gotcha. - So, this nothing new then? Like, I didn't spectacularly piss him off?