Honolulu Heights, Thursday Morning

[chose_humanity]

It had taken Mitchell time to track down Daisy. He had only set off to do it after the first rushes of joy at Annie's return had faded - really, he'd rather not have done it, but he knew a deal when he heard one

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[vanillajello]

Another day, time for another take on the phonecall of major updating. Pseudo brother slash vampire edition.

Ring ring, Mitchell.

[chose_humanity]

"Yeah?"

One day, Mitchell would learn to answer phone calls properly.

That day was not today.

[vanillajello]

Kate expected nothing else at this point.

"Let me guess, you didn't even check caller ID?"

[chose_humanity]

"Hey, Kate," Mitchell said, ignoring the question. Or maybe answering it, in his way. "What's going on?"

[vanillajello]

"Not much." Well, not today! "I bought a dress for Bod's senior prom yesterday, and I have my first work shift in about a week later today. Also my mom and dad are gonna be in Boston for three months so she can get extensive treatment."

Sneaky.

[chose_humanity]

Sneaky like driving a bus into a storefront!

Mitchell's eyebrows went up. "Congratulations...?" he said.

[vanillajello]

"Hopefully?" Kate replied in about the same tone. With maybe a hint of apologetic thrown in for that lame attempt at sneak. "Eventually. Stuff's been pretty fucked up for, uh, a month or so."

[chose_humanity]

"Tell me about it," Mitchell muttered. That might have been an invitation, but it was also a fairly succinct summary of the whole Daisy mess that had been going on. "Tara got worse?"

[vanillajello]

"I don't know. Does developing a new alter based on your creepy, evil step-brother count as getting worse?"

It did.

[chose_humanity]

"Yeah, I think that by any objective standards, that's seriously worse," Mitchell said, because the narrative was there to be agreed with. "Really?"

[vanillajello]

"Really." Kate sighed. "He's -- was called Bryce and he just basically... Tried to poison Mom's psych professor, hit on me way grossly, took Moosh's room entirely apart and, oh yeah, he was killing the other alters."

[chose_humanity]

Okay, all of that sounded fairly terrible, but Mitchell's brain snagged on one particular aspect of it--

"You can do that?"

[vanillajello]

"Which one?" she asked. "Killing the alters? Apparently."

Honestly, everything had been so fucked up she hadn't even boggled at that too much.

[chose_humanity]

"But... isn't that just... technically..."

Something?

"...Odd."

Now he was trying to picture it.

"Now I'm going to be wondering about that all day."

[vanillajello]

"Well, I technically saw him off T, so I tend not to think about it." It was just a way to give yourself a headache, anyway. "But he's supposedly gone now. Mom said so. She didn't explain."

[chose_humanity]

"Sounds like you've not being getting an awful lot of explaining about anything," Mitchell commented.