one. choose your own adventure.

[macdaddy]

[ a. action inside 2239 Stevens Road ]

[Mac wakes up. Mac is wearing pajamas that he's never seen before in a room he's also never seen before.

He very carefully gets up, walks calmly to his bedroom door, and glances out into the hallway. Nope, he is definitely not in his apartment or at Foster's. He shuts the door again, digs around until he finds some clothes (that he's also never seen before, what does whoever lives here have against cargo?), gets dressed, opens his bedroom door again...

And starts to scream.]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHAHA! [Yep, he's opening doors and slamming them shut at random, running up and down the hallway like, well, a panicked kid. How appropriate!

In the midst of his screaming and opening/shutting doors, he can be heard shouting the following as well:]

Where's my mom? Where's my brother?! What's happening?? Where am I?!?

[ b. phone (open) ]

Okay. Okay. Not panicking. Ahhhhh. Why won't my number work. Why won't my mom's cell work. It's okay, Mac, pull it together...You're done panicking...

[He kind of wheezes into the phone. He has no idea who he's actually talking to.]

[ c. action on the mean clean streets (also open) ]

[Nothing to see here, just a morose and somewhat twitchy kid walking to school. His not!mom told him he had to go, and gave him a bookbag to carry with him that he hates purely on virtue of it not being his tried and true backpack, which he also couldn't find this morning. But he is basically done with panicking for now, at least.]

Comments

[macdaddy]

[he makes some attempts at deep breathing that don't actually sound healthy at all. but at least he's trying?]

Not panicking is kind of hard right now!

[mal_addict]

Yeah, well. From what I can tell, we arrived in a quiet period, so I think you should save your panicking for later.

[Maladict that is not helpful to the scared child]

[macdaddy]

[nope...]

What do you mean, a quiet period??

[mal_addict]

I'm not sure, I've not long arrived myself. They say it gets worse than this, though.

[macdaddy]

Worse than being kidnapped by alien parents??

[mal_addict]

Apparently. There was something about poisoned milk. So you probably shouldn't drink it.

[macdaddy]

Right, okay, don't drink the milk. I can handle that.

[because that's all that could possibly be wrong, right?]

[mal_addict]

And there was something about not going near the dairy...

Just keep away form anything and everything related to milk. Cows too, probably.

[Of coouuurse]

[macdaddy]

Everything--like, even ice cream? Milkshakes?

[mal_addict]

It looks that way.

[Crush the child's dreams, Mal. Good of you]

[macdaddy]

Oh...that's...

That's terrible!

[mal_addict]

I think that could be the slogan for this entire place.

[macdaddy]

Just so you know, this is the opposite of encouraging!!

[mal_addict]

Well, I'm not the most encouraging of people, I'm afraid.