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[ Uh yeah, so Steve is waking up next to a drone for the first time and falls out of bed because hey, wasn't he in 2012 a second ago? And wasn't he, you know, taller? He's going to do the right thing this time, which is not freak out and tear a hole through the wall, probably because it would kill him to do so.

Instead, he will walk downstairs and snoop around and-- there's a picture of him on the wall, smiling, with his 'wife' and two kids.

He sees a rotary dial on the phone and he picks up to call numbers he remembers from 2012. And then numbers he remembers from 1943. And then zero. And then hangs up and goes to rifle through anything he can find in the shoeboxes of the downstairs closet to tell him where he is and why he's there.

Have fun waking up to your new dad sifting through files all over the kitchen table. ]

[ Action, around town ]

[ He doesn't believe this for a second. But this isn't just any sort of thing; he's small again. Someone's trying to make him forget. So he walks around town, because the one thing he needs right now is to get out of town. ]

Excuse me. Do you know the way to the train station?

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I don't know. No one does, really. They keep us here and make us pretend we're all family. [She turns and gives him a pointed look.]

They'll expect me to call you my father, but you're not. My Lord father was brave and noble and strong and you're not him. [So don't misunderstand what's going on here.]

[ Oh... ]

I'm sorry, miss.

[ He never knew his father, so he doesn't know what it's like to lose one, but he knew what it was like to lose his mother, so, to be away from him in a place like this... ]

--Look, we got off on the wrong foot. I'm Steve, and you don't have to pretend I'm your father.

What are you sorry for? You didn't trap me here.

[She plops the toast on the table and turns back to him.] I'm Arya of House Stark. And the drones will expect me to. This place is weird like that.

Edited 2012-08-11 09:11 (UTC)

Arya... Stark?

[ Wow, okay, he's definitely not her father. ]

What's your father's name? Maybe we can at least get you to the right house.

[ Tony never mentioned a sister, but then again, she'd have to be seventy by now-- and definitely would know who Steve was. So, no relation then? ]

This is the right house, aren't you listening? [Yes, he is. You are just explaining horribly, Arya.]

Wherever you are supposed to be, you're not. This town is called Mayfield and we're all trapped here. My father [the slightest pause] isn't here.

Where are you from, originally? If we got kidnapped by someone in town, I'll just report them to the police and then we can maybe find a flight back to where we're supposed to be.

The police are part of it.

[Wait. She stops being a know it all long enough to look up at him curiously.]

A flight? People can't fly.

No, but planes can.

[ He stops. ]

Guess we'll have to drive a few towns, if no planes have flown over here.

We have a car, right?

Planes?

[Oh! She knows that one!] The horseless carriages, right? We have one. But you can't leave town. It just brings you back.

...That's not... exactly how cars are supposed to work. We can try it sometime, right?

We can. But nothing here works the way it's supposed to. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

I'm sure we can find a way, but if you don't want to come with me, that's fine. I'll come back, if I find a way out. I'll get you back to your folks.