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[ some background noise, as if someone is dragging himself upright from the ground...and then a mild groan ]

What the---

[ pause ]

What the hell was that?

[ feed cuts off ]

[ooc; still slugged but pretending like he just woke up from the slug leaving and then well, leaving him knocked out after all that lovely noise........beware,

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[worksmart]

[Here's someone with no idea what to say. There's relief, but he doesn't remember infecting you, Peter, and has no idea whether that's mutual. Whether there's blame to be apportioned, here. But there are more important concerns than his own perhaps misplaced guilt. He clears a sticky throat.]

Peter? Where are you.

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[ pause....oh the slug remembers you, and thanks you, Australian native...well sort of ]

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Don't know.

[ that slight sound that most people let slip when they hurt all over...which to be fair Peter's body does, not that the slug cares of course ]

Somewhere in the woods?

...that's what it looks like, I mean.

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[worksmart]

[It should remember him. It's the progeny of the slug Chase had and, apparently, didn't hold onto. Meanwhile he's wincing in sympathy for that tone, still shaking off the aches of the week despite medicinal and magical help through the worst of it.]

You can't stay out there, there's more of them. How are you for walking?

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I'm okay.

[ pause. hm. ]

For the walking part.

[ though that's a stumble....and then more even steps, but slow. slow as in could take all night, slow ]

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[worksmart]

The walking part isn't a bad start. [He's pretty aware, himself.] Get to the dge of the woods and I'll. I'll meet you.

[The reluctance, almost fear in his voice is entirely readable, but so to the determination not to be completely useless in this.]

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You don't have to.

[ That part comes almost unnervingly naturally. ]

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Someone does.

[And the hospital is down to a skeleton staff at this point. He's not asking Cameron.]

I'm not busy.

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[ an almost annoyed sound ]

I'm not letting you or Claire come out here.

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I don't want to risk that. Especially since it's not like I'm stuck.

[ the slug will keep certain folks at a distance. they both just happen to be blond....hmmm..... er anyway, it acts on the rather agreeable notion that Peter wouldn't want to endanger his niece or his roommate who has clearly not had an easy time of it...which actually is amusing to the slug at this point but certainly isn't to Peter. ]

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You're speaking to Claire?

[Well, that saves him calling her, something he'd been debating the merits off doing before or after her uncle was certified Back Safe. It does change things slightly, though.]

What do you really think the likelihood is of her sitting on her arse and leaving you there? She's been out looking already.

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She called me.

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I know. I'm just...I can get myself out of here. She's...I wouldn't even know what to tell her. Where I am, I mean.

...but I don't think the...whatever they were would have the same effect on her.

[ there is no sound for the rubbing of temples and Peter isn't doing it anyway since no one can see him but this is that would-be silence ]

I guess she can meet me.

I wouldn't...want to just sit around either.