#25 - [Accidental Video Post]

[totallyinaband]

[The feed opens to an awkward angle of Stephen's bedroom from where the device is lying on his bedside table. There is a shot of rumpled covers and Stephen's hunched over back. The device suddenly makes an insistent high-pitched beeping noise. A hand comes out from under the blanket and slams into the device screen.]

Mum! I told you I don't need to get up early, it's a half-day!

[The beeping continues. The hand comes over again, and this time the device is picked up. The network is treated the the blurry-eyes, mussed-hair, and noticeably non-beardy face of a fifteen-year-old Stephen Stills. He stares into the device for a moment, then slowly takes in his surroundings.]

What the fu-

[The feed ends as Stephen accidentally turns the device off.]

[ooc: Oh hey City! Say hello to BEBE!STILLS! Yes, Mark Webber was in the movie Snow Day as a teenager. No, I couldn't resist. Answers coming from almostinaband. I'm going to work in a few minutes, but tags will come on my lunch break and this evening. :-D]

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[sempreadagio.livejournal.com]

Your mom's here?

[action.]

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Shouting from the kitchen:]

Hey, man! Were you gonna make breakfast, or...?

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

I live with my parents. Obviously. But I don't think this is my room.

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

[Stephen wanders out of his bedroom, his see wide with shock.]

Uh, where am I? And who are you?

[sempreadagio.livejournal.com]

Today seems to be a really weird day so you might be lost.

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

Did I... Sleepwalk here? I don't think I've done that before, but I guess you never know.

Where is here, exactly?

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Neil is reaching into a cabinet for a mug when Stephen wanders in.]

What are you talking ab--? [And then he turns. And stares.] ...Dude, did you shave? [More staring.] And... shrink?

[sempreadagio.livejournal.com]

Here is the City, lame name for here but... yeah. Where are you supposed to be?

voice;

[thewildone]

Um...hello?

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

Whitby.

[And because she sounds American...]

Southern Ontario. Specifically my bedroom.

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

I shaved once, but I cut myself a lot and my sister told me I was being ridiculous so I didn't try it again.

I hope not?

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

[Oh shit! His phone... thing is speaking. Stephen tentatively picks it up.]

Hi?

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Neil raises an eyebrow. Guess that means he's not getting breakfast out of Stephen today. He down a box of Frosted Flakes instead.]

Something is weird, man. You're cursed, or I'm dreaming. Maybe both.

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

Cursed? Like opened-a-forbidden-Egyptian-tomb cursed?

And I'm pretty sure if anyone's dreaming it's me.

Can you tell me where I am?

[thewildone]

If you can hear me I was wondering if you've seen any aliens...

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

No. Unless that guy in the kitchen is an alien is disguise.

Dude, did you see an alien? HAVE I BEEN KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS?

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

No, listen, dude. Something weird happened to you. You're not usually all.... [He makes an incomprehensible arm gesture.] ...tiny. Something's messing with your memory, and other stuff.

[thewildone]

I DON'T KNOW!

[Deep breath.]

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I just contacted you on the alien communicator because I could see you like on TV and you were the only one about my age. But I'm in a bedroom, not a spaceship, so that's weird.

Did you see any doctors? Does the guy in the kitchen look like a doctor?

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm the same height as you.

I don't think I have memories missing or anything. Just how I got here. Which you still haven't told me.

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

You live here. We both do. For a long time.

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

[Ahhhh! bebe!Curt, you are not good for slightly neurotic teenagers. Stephen's breathing speeds up.]

Did you wake up in a weird bedroom, too? That's totally what just happened to me!

The guy in the kitchen definitely doesn't look like a doctor, though. He looks more like my sister's old boyfriend.

That doesn't rule-out alien, though.

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

I live with my parents.

You didn't... kidnap me did you?

[Stephen breath is starting to speed up, and he looks like panic might be forth-coming.]

[thewildone]

Yeah...how weird is your weird bedroom?

[Having woken up in big!Curt's bedroom, weird seems like kind of an understatement.]

[almostinaband.livejournal.com]

[Hopefully it wasn't full of naked people?]

Well, it's not mine. That's kind of weird enough. Other than that, I dunno. It's full of plaid.

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[This actually makes Neil laugh.]

You haven't lived with your parents in years. That's what I'm trying to tell you, dude. Your memory's frakked.