[video]

[foreverbouncing]

[Charlie is sitting on the floor in a bedroom that is not her own, but Josh's. She's leaning her back against the edge of his bed, and she looks...dissheveled, like she has been crying but has managed to wipe away most of the traces of it. She's holding something in her hand, another network phone, turning it over and over as she talks.]

Uhm. ...Has

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[video]

[batghoul]

[Cass just frowns a bit. There's an obvious explanation for what happened to him, but she wouldn't want to believe it either if it was Reilly that was missing.]

...Will go look... around city.

[video]

[foreverbouncing]

[Charlie smiles weakly. She's been looking all day.]

...Thanks Cass.

[video; hours later]

[batghoul]

I, um.

[There's a pause. She doesn't really know what the best way to break this to someone is. So she just says it.]

Couldn't find him.

[video; hours later]

[foreverbouncing]

[Charlie just sort of wilts a little on screen.]

I've looked everywhere...

[wrong_sometimes]

Wait... he's not with you?

[foreverbouncing]

[She just shakes her head and rubs at her eyes again.]

permavoice;

[wrong_sometimes]

[Cassie abruptly turns the video off. She doesn't want Charlie to see her face right now.]

When was the last time you saw him?

[foreverbouncing]

L-last night. I saw him for like, an hour...

permavideo;

[sweetvalleygirl]

[Beardless Jessica looks genuinely concerned.]

Josh is missing? Oh no...

[foreverbouncing]

You haven't seen him, have you?

[Hopeful charlie is...not very hopeful.]

[sweetvalleygirl]

No, I haven't. I'll look around the MAC. Maybe he's visiting someone.

[foreverbouncing]

I looked! I looked all over the city...

[She slumps.]

I found his phone at home...

[tooksteps]

A search of the network shows that he has not logged in for some time.

[foreverbouncing]

I saw him last night, though. He was...

[She just sighs.]

[tooksteps]

It is possible that he has been injured. Although a search of hospital admissions records show no unidentified adolescent males have been brought in.

[The Red Queen pauses, her head tilting and her expression a bit sadder.] It is much more likely that he has been transported back to his home dimension.

[foreverbouncing]

He's still here.

[Poor Charlie.]

permavoice.

[spadassin]

He's gone.

[foreverbouncing]

[Charlie just stares at the screen. She doesn't have it in her to argue with Scatty...if anyone would know Josh was gone it would be her. So instead she just starts crying again.]

[spadassin]

[o-oh gosh, emotions]

... I'm sorry, Charlie. I'll miss him too. [awkward pause] But I'm sure he's ready for what awaits him in our world.

[foreverbouncing]

I-I know he can take care of himself! I just...

...

I wanted him to stay here...