44 * [voice]

[starchilde_lost]

H-hello? I don't recognize this communication device... I swear Scrapper if you've been swiping your dad's stuff he's gonna kill you... Anyway, I'm trying to reach my parents.  Or Reed and Sue Richards? I was supposed to be staying with them and... I'm in a bar, why am I in a bar, Dad's gonna freak out...

If someone can just tell me how to dial out on this thing, that would be awesome, I just can't seem to reach the Baxter Building.

Comments

[inmyothertights]

Uh.

Rachel?

[starchilde_lost]

...I didn't tell you my name.

[inmyothertights]

....uh.

I know your mom. Technically. In theory.

[starchilde_lost]

You... know my mom.


And I'm supposed to buy that?

[inmyothertights]

Well I guess it sounds sort of lame, but it's true. She saved my friends life. So I was told.

[starchilde_lost]

...I've heard better stories.

Listen, I just need someone to tell me how to use this thing, lots of people at this bar seem to have them, at least what I can see from here, and there's lots of, I guess posts, here. I just wanna know how to dial out.

[inmyothertights]

No long distance calling.

[starchilde_lost]

Wait. How can it be long-distance? I WAS JUST THERE!

Jeez, Scrapper what did you do?

[inmyothertights]

You know.

All kinds of weird stuff goes on around here.

[starchilde_lost]

Weird?

Where am I?

[inmyothertights]

The City.

[starchilde_lost]

[She's probably starting to sound a little panicked.] Okay, maybe without the sarcasm, please? I want to go back to the Baxter Building, or even back home? Are we close to Salem Center, New York?

[inmyothertights]

I'm not....

Listen, it'll be okay. Really.

[starchilde_lost]

Okay? I was minding my own business, I was gonna watch a movie with Franklin, and now I'm- I'm at a bar.

I'm fourteen. I could get arrested for being at a bar, right?

[inmyothertights]

...which bar?

I mean, does it have a name that you can see?

I don't think anyone's going to arrest you.

[starchilde_lost]

There's papers on the office I woke up in... they say this is the Lux.

...can I trust you? If you try and hurt me, I can totally fight back.

[inmyothertights]

Okay, I don't think anyone will bother you.

Well, my name is Billy Kaplan, I punch like a ten year old and your mom scares the crap out of me, so you don't have anything to worry about.

[starchilde_lost]

...I'm Rachel Summers.

I'm suck in some other dimension aren't I? Did one of Dr. Richards' experiments go wonky again?

[inmyothertights]

Hi.

Yeah, sort of. Luckily for most people, this only lasts a day or so.

[starchilde_lost]

And then I can go home?

[inmyothertights]

Yeah, that's right.

[starchilde_lost]

So, I just... I hide here? And then I'll go home?

Oh, God, everyone's gonna be looking for me...