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[ you know, caroline's a little intense when it comes to people. she's had tyler leave her not only once, but twice — and she's had her friends abandon her for the dust. to hear that stiles is gone almost makes her heart sink, but caroline doesn't accept pessimism at all. she scours all of wonderland over the days that he is missing — and some when he returns — before she decides that, one: it's kind of horrible for her to never have learned where his room was, for this would be so easier if she just knew which floor to go on and press her ear intently to the door, and two: she hadn't noticed he was gone until his friend with the blue, puppy eyes had said something. ]

[ he deserves an apology, so he gets an ass whooping instead. ]

You can't just tease me about picking me first for your lacrosse team and leave, Stiles!

[ then, she remembers, she's never really personally sent him a message. they've always communicated on the network of wonderful things or in person. ]

BTW, this is Caroline.

[ stiles gets the text when he first returns to wonderland, but he doesn't get the chance to properly read it until he's settled in bed, wrapped up in a bunch of blankets. it makes him grin on sight, struck with affection for her, and he goes to tap out a reply. ]

don't worry I just went on vacation!
sorta
it wasn't a very happy vacation
but it was still vacation :P
you're still first line, don't worry

[ she feels so awful! it's not like she can do anything about stiles' vacation that wasn't quite vacation, but she feels as though she can still do something. she wants to press for details, to gain the specifics so she can properly fix whatever it is she cannot obviously fix, but she thinks that maybe not inserting her foot into her mouth might work here. at least he remembers her! and she's still first in line for lacrosse. he has to be okay — on the front that she had been an awful friend and on the front that he still has skills at this game. ]

Did you at least get lei'd?

[ stiles pauses. thinks about what he barely remembers from eichen house and winces to himself. ]

let's go with no for now.

[ of course the nogitsune did that to him, too. good looking girl, semi interested in stiles, and he makes the creepy moves on her when stiles is barely present. he would not have done that--there was way too much going on for him to have just up and had some kind of make out session with a girl while he was in an insane asylum. ~~thanks a lot jeff davis TAKE NOTE~~ ]

Nothing totally died while I was gone, right?
at least nothing more than usual?

NOTHING. Like, seriously. Nothing. So, maybe you should follow suit. Stay safe, out of Wonderland's creepy little grasp, and not leave again.

[ he's one of her only friends. caroline had found herself completely and utterly gutted at the idea of stiles being gone forever. his friend with the blue eyes is cute and everything, but he lacks the moles and sense of humour caroline has come to love so much. he'd reminded her a little too much of matt with all of his pessimism, something that caroline wasn't sure if she wanted to tackle head-on or simply avoid altogether. ]

The only thing that happened was people were really weird. They did things that … I'm not sure if they'd even do it? Like, I kind of felt compelled to let people know …

[ oh, wow, caroline doesn't need a bad decisions event to run her mouth off. ]

That I once liked Twilight. Soooo embarrassing.

that was a pretty serious nothing
was it a "NOTHING" as in 'it was so boring i almost wish they were turning us into kids again'
or a NOTHING as in 'something horrible but i don't wanna tell you about it'
:P

[ it's really nice to know she cared about him missing, too. stiles likes caroline a lot--she's really cute and funny and great to hang around with, and there's just something about her that he can't put his finger on that feels sort of familiar. it doesn't matter what it is, just that he likes it. a lot. ]

team jacob forever :P
totally a joke i swear
that's...pretty weird. and embarrassing
sounds like typical mansion fodder
glad you were able to keep your team edward shirts in your closet. :)

Like watching paint dry would've been more interesting. The only bad thing that happened was my stupid friend with moles decided to go back home and not even say goodbye! You might know him, he's, like, the biggest d-bag.

[ this has to be the nicest way she has ever said d-bag. caroline wonders if the event was truly boring because of the lack of stiles … she hasn't run into him with too many of the events, so she can't exactly say he's a blast to wind up stuck in a mineshaft with, but, she likes to think wonderland's just a little boring without him. because, she thinks, it is. ]

OMG! Wow, so not Team Edward, thanks!

[ not anymore. ]

Yeah he's a total jerk. :)
Next time he'll try to warn you when he gets unkidnapped.
i heard that one from a pretty good source.

[ he can't help but laugh at her outburst, because oh man--caroline is just so charmingly normal. well, stiles normal. (little does he know how "stiles normal" she actually is.) ]

fur over fangs, huh :P

A BIG JERK.

[ but it takes caroline a moment to let a specific word sink in. kidnapped. it's not something she particularly likes. she's been kidnapped one too many times, held at werewolf claw and by her father's own hand. to think he's not joking … ]

[ god, she hopes he's joking. ]

But you were kidnapped? Screw talking about Team Jacob and Team Edward. Are you okay? Besides being a total jerk.

Oh--yeah
I just meant like
kidnapped by wonderland.

[ although he definitely has been kidnapped before, oops. ]

home kinda sucked ass but
hey, it's home
i got to see my dad, which was good.
i'm actually just kinda really glad to be back
as weird as that is
maybe that makes up for being a total jerk. :)

Being happy to see your dad totally makes up for being a big jerk. Is he okay? I mean, besides home sucking. It mustn't suck too much if you got to see him!

[ if home sucks … caroline doesn't want to think of mom or her dad, of how she'd simply twist a neck to see him one last time, to hear him say words she knows he'll never, ever let pass his lips. while she had been saddened to hear stiles had gone home, at least he knew someone she thought he viewed as important to him (as he'd mentioned his dad in his text, why wouldn't he be important?) was okay. take the positivity wherever you can, right? ]

yeah...
relatively, yeah.
definitely better than he was the last time i went home, but not by much.
is it weird to say i kind of prefer wonderland?

[ wonderland has people stiles likes, wonderland has death that isn't necessary permanent. wonderland has horrific days but a good balance of fun ones too. it's not home, there are no demons hanging over his shoulders here. ]

No. I prefer it, too.

[ even though she's in the lurch with regards to tyler's fate, she thinks she pretty much prefers to not know. here, she can become too occupied, with stiles, with everyone around her … she can be in everyone's business and not a single one of them really knows that those who call themselves her friends sometimes look upon her intruding with a curled lip. she's caroline forbes: fresh slate. and the selfish part of her likes it. she likes this thick cloak of denial. ]

If you want to talk about your dad anytime, you can tell me. My dad's … not really around anymore. But my mom's the sheriff, and I worry about her, in case time doesn't like stop when we leave home. I don't like to think about it. But maybe it wouldn't hurt sometimes to do so. The thinking thing. Instead of the ignoring ... thing.

wait--your mom's a sheriff?!?!
so's my dad!
I knew I liked you for a reason :P

[ /SPARKLE ]

My mom's not around either, but...
probably for a different reason.

[ she's dead, would be the easy thing to say there, but stiles isn't sure, eight years later, if he can bring himself to tell her that. it's easier to pretend it doesn't exist. ]

we can not ignore it together sometime.
(not all the time--I've pretty much got the method of ignoring your problems till they're gone patented)

Yeah! She has been since I could remember. Maybe your dad and my mom should go bowling and share really lame cases. Does your dad deal with a lot of animal attacks? I swear, it's like the only thing small towns have to deal with.

[ she wonders if stiles had been as resentful toward his father as she had toward her mother. work always came first. the badge was always more important than her. it had seemed to black and white, when she was younger, to hate her mother for simply doing her job. it's all she had — and caroline punished her for it. ]

Really? Because I might have to sue you for that patent. Delete this text, but, my friends say I'm a really great swimmer in this pool called Denial. You may have heard of it?

mountain lions.
or, well "mountain lions"
it's a real epidemic, apparently.
They can share old cop stories
just tell her to ask him about the army
he'll talk about it for days :P

[ oh caroline, you should not have said that. stiles immediately has to wonder if she's from a place like beacon hills--where the supernatural are so often abound? wild animal attacks in beacon hills meant werewolves. (or the occasional coyote.) ]

What a coincidence
I'm the same with a river. :P

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