[Sealed to Chloe]
Stay with me until we figure out whatever this is?

[It's a question, but only just barely. And only because he remembered to add a slightly questioning tone at the end there.]

[Sealed to Liz]
Where are you? Near light?

[Sealed to Alex, Toph, Sollux, Shepard, Kevas]
You good?

[Sealed to Chloe]

I need to go to the forest. You don't have to come with if you don't want to. [He leaves 'but please come' unspoken.]


[Sealed to Alex]

Time for a Change. Gonna be out in the forest and on the grounds for the next while, if you feel like going for a run or something.


[After Changing, Derek can be found wandering around the forest and the Keep grounds as a huge black wolf. Come play with the big, fluffy puppy?]

[It's been just under a week since Derek died, and he's finally coming back. He'd woken up naked, smeared with dried blood, and he's currently trying to decide whether the blood is more or less disturbing than the fact that he can't remember anything.

He'd cleaned up and explored the room to no avail - except to note the prominence of two scents: one, his own, and two, a girl he doesn't remember. The only other thing in there is the journal, so he grabs it and heads out of the cell he'd woken up in, thumbing through it as he does.

Derek's only skimmed enough to know that he's not the only one with this problem before he decides that this is only going to confuse him more, and makes his own post.]

So I don't remember who I am. I guess this means I must have died?

This thing says my name is Derek. So, uh, if there's anyone out here who knows me and might be able to tell me more, I'd really appreciate it.

[His tone is open and curious, mixed with a bit of concern, with a notable lack of any kind of sarcasm or guarded-ness. He's also wandering about the barracks - yeah, still naked - if anyone wants to run into him.]

Alex, Toph, Shepard, Kevas.

[There's a brief pause.]

Chloe's asking after Sollux, even though I already saw you post, and Jack, Talia, Bobby, Xanth, and Kairi.

You okay?

[There's a muffled voice that sounds like Chloe protesting, then the audio clicks off. Derek's still watching the journals, though, and will answer.]

[This post comes in fairly late, some time past midnight.

Derek doesn't say anything about being back from the tunnels. Not because he's being secretive - not really, anyway - but mainly because he's reasonably sure that there wasn't anyone who noticed he was gone. He's already read the journal entries made while he was gone and determined that both Alex and Sollux are all right. Eventually he'll want to meet up with Shepard and Sollux, but right now, there's been more pressing things on his mind.]

There's waffles in the kitchen if anyone wants some.

[There'd originally been a lot more than there are now, but that was before Chloe and Derek had gone through them. Still, there's more than enough left for a number of people. Chloe'd gone to bed, and Derek probably won't be able to eat all of what's left. And she'd suggested he'd leave a note to let people know they were free for taking.]

And bacon.

[There's a brief pause filled with a faint chewing noise.]

Maybe.

[Derek'd read the note in the journal he'd found in the cell he'd woken up in, snorted at its ridiculous, and set about exploring in an attempt to find a way out. It hasn't gone so well. He's on the first floor of the library now, originally with the vague hope of trying to do some research, but instead he's resorted to the journal.]

This is stupid.

All right. You caught me. Congratulations. The least you could do is come up with something mildly convincing.

[A short pause. He doesn't want to admit a little bit of exploration has him more open to being convinced. But just because this place is nothing like the Edison Group's facility or Lyle House doesn't mean they're not involved. They've lied and pretended to be something else to keep them prisoner before.]

It doesn’t matter.

I’m not going to tell you where they are, if that’s why you kept me alive. You might as well just kill me and get it over with.

If there's anything you dislike about how I'm playing Derek - or anything you like, for that matter, post away! Constructive criticism is always love, especially if you think I'm straying a bit from his character or there's something you think I could be doing better.

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