[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[bookofnope]

[Yay, snow!!]

We're all one big happy family here for the moment. Well, one big freezing, unhealthy family. And have you reconvened with the amnesiac wondertwins?

Thank you for the pictures. I see our Russian trailblazer continues to deliver.

[swatsflies]

[ ITS NICE SNOW. ]

Family, huh? :)
Is someone sick? Are you sick again?
And yeah, we met up with them. Jim had to convince them to come over here and they checked their histories first. Guess some things don't really change.
Kunsel got his memories back the day after we met up.
Zack hasn't yet.
I told him he's been demoted to youngest of the group.

[bookofnope]

We're all suffering some degree of NM poisoning. It's not even exciting anymore.

I'm surprised you were able to persuade Kunsel - he's even more paranoid than I am. Was it the network records that did it? Zack is considerably less surprising. I'm sure Jim is delighted to suddenly be twice as mature as someone.

[swatsflies]

That blows.

Yeah, I told him to check through history.
I think he keeps notes on everyone on his phone anyways.
That and Zack wanted to meet us. He likes going along with what Zack wants.

You say that like it's something new. :)
For a while there, we were considering attaching a rope to Zack.
Stuff keeps happening to him and Kunsel.

[bookofnope]

At least when everyone's running a fever, we can keep each other warm?

[See? Optimism!]

Well, Kunsel is rational and I commend his record-keeping habits, even if he did have a point about it being not conductive to his chances of ever getting laid. And I am in absolute favour of attaching a rope to Zack. Loop it around his ankles a few times just to be sure. The wrists too. Can't have too much security.

[swatsflies]

Did they turn you into a snuggler?

Pretty sure someone wouldn't mind the information gathering. Some day maybe.
After this place. I don't think he would date anyone until after we're out of here.
Maybe I should just attach Zack to a sled.
For now, Morph is helping guard him.
As sneaky as Morph can manage.

[ Which isn't sneaky at all. ]

[bookofnope]

The temperature's turned me into a person who enjoys heat. The rest is a sad inevitability.

But I am not sure sneakiness is the quality you need to manage Zack. A firm hand, a hard head... perhaps a pair of good puppy eyes. In which department you and Hawkins are both uniquely gifted, I recall.

[swatsflies]

He's immune to puppy eyes.
Maybe I should ask Angel to help out.
She's a cute girl and he decided to trust us because of her.

[ :D ]

Or I can bribe him with embarrassing pictures of Kunsel.

[bookofnope]

[!!!!!]

I'm sorry, would you repeat that? Zack decided to trust you because of Angel? Zack is hitting on Angel?

[swatsflies]

Yeah he did! When he came back. He asked her out on a date.
She didn't tell you?

[ : D ]

[bookofnope]

Don't sound so smug about it, damn you! What did she say to him?

[swatsflies]

What smug? Not smug at all :)
They talked about possible dating places.

[ THEY DID.

He will send a second message after that though to let Beckett know he doesn't have to worry about anything. ]

For him to take someone else.

[bookofnope]

[In the space between those messages, Beckett learns what mortals feel like when having a heart attack.]

Never scare me like that again. Do you realize what I would've had to do to him?

[swatsflies]

[ Someone feeling dad feelings? ]

Alright. I won't do that again.
Would you actually hurt any of her would-be suitors?
Or just him?

[bookofnope]

Much as the thought of strangulation is tempting, the truly painful thing is that I wouldn't hurt him. I'd have to be nice to him. Because I must respect Angel's choices, even when they are absolutely terrible.

[swatsflies]

That would be enough to freak him out actually. If he had his memories back that is.

[bookofnope]

Good lord, that's right, the lad's sixteen. I might have had to give him the bloody Talk.

[Forget fever, now he's in a cold sweat. JUST IMAGINE.]

[swatsflies]

[ Okay sorry, but he's going to take a few to get back to him cause he's laughing. ]

Yeah, he's sixteen. I think he's hitting up every chick too.

[ Not going to convince him not to do the thing. ]

[bookofnope]

Please stop him before he gets to the admin. Or Winter. Its bad enough I keep having to smack Rhys upside the head.

[swatsflies]

Does Rhys hit on them both?
I don't think he'll hit on the Admin.
Maybe he'll be normal before we hear from Winter again.
I'll make sure he knows that she has someone already.

[bookofnope]

I would think it's not a good idea to let Zack talk to the Admin even if he can stop from doing it with his balls. But I shall leave that judgement call to Kunsel - is Kunsel getting any sleep at all now that he has to babysit Zack at sixteen?

[swatsflies]

I think it might be nicer for him with Zack like this.
It's before
Before a lot of bad shit happened in their world.
So maybe he's sleeping a little easier.

[bookofnope]

I admit I haven't considered that.

[What a good thing that they're on text. This just made him do the saddest double take.]

It's hard to think of Zack as, well - hard to imagine there was ever an even more innocent version of Zack.

[swatsflies]

Right?
He has more energy. There's a spark in his eyes and he actually has HOPE for his own future.
I miss the old Zack, but it's
It sucks he's going to lose that again.

[bookofnope]

Oh, I don't think the "old" Zack was totally without hope for his future - unless the aggressive optimism was some kind of coping mechanism. I'm not very good with those.