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Second Time Bitten ✗ Video

[The feed flicks on to the redhead, looking concerned. Her normal semi-cheerful smile is gone, and those who know her would know she hasn't been herself since the last jump.]

I know I ain't the first person who's come back here before. I mean however long the jump normally lasts? I went back home for a few weeks. Seems like there's always something. [Which she's fine with. She always seems to manage, make it through. But now with Bill being as brainwashed as he is, and everything completely fucked, it's taken a lot out of her.]

Guess I'm just wonderin' how y'all cope with knowin' that there's some pretty heavy shit goin' on back home, and there's nothin' you can do about it.

[She chews on her lip for a moment.] I think it's the not knowin' that's botherin' me the most. I ain't helpless. Best part'a bein' a vampire is you can really fuck some things up, but what do you do when another vampire-- who is supposed to be dead [thank you, Eric]-- is three thousand years old and about to attack like an entire race of-- well whatever fairies are? Not to mention someone close to you.

And I'm here. In space hell again. [She gives an exaggerated smile.] Fantastic.

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Is being here a lot worse than back home where things have gone to shit?

[ignore the text that gets sent first. he's still trying to break himself out of that habit.]

Trying to work out how to deal with shit back home is a waste of time. You're just gonna forget all about this place when you leave.

[well, in his experience, at least.]

You're a vampire?

[You probably get that a lot, Jessica. But seriously, what. The cyborg doesn't believe you.]

Gonna go out on a limb here and say fairies are probably, uh, just fairies. [ not that any random species is just anything. but what else would you call them? that wasn't her main point and he tries to weed out the influx of information. try the explosion of awesome!

right, right. fist bump over super powers or vampirism later. she's being serious. he can try. ] Honestly, I have a ton of experience with getting thrown into things that should have nothing to do with me and that seem impossible to handle. I try not to think about it so much, here or there. But I know that doesn't always help.

[ oh people can go home and come back, huh? that is... interesting to note. he would press on it but it would just be making her repeat stuff anyway and he knows how to use context clues SO CHANGE OF PLANS: ]

Vampire, huh? That is fascinating in a purely curiosity only standpoint. Can't really help on the "heavy shit" front though. My problems are more like "I hope I don't get fired" instead of "mass fairy genocide" so...

You do not get to pass judgment on me, baby vampire.

[He's only just barely holding on to his temper here]

[ it's stupid to think you're the only one on the ship who knows or is a vampire, but caroline's been thinking that way since she first boarded the tranquility. the only vampires she knows are the guys who come from her home world, so there's a magic word in this broadcast that has caroline rearranging the settings of her response. ]

You're a vampire?

[there are a number of responses to this, he knows, and it takes him a moment to consider a response before he flicks on the video]

That rough, huh?

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