My dumbass brother is missing. To be honest, when Ben was freaking out about it yesterday, I just figured it was Klaus being Klaus because he just does stupid shit like this... But now we've found some weird shit in the back of the shop he works at and we've got some leads on where he might be.
[ Derek almost — almost — sends a text to interrupt Diego right there and tell him that, actually, yeah. He's definitely too busy to look for Klaus, because just seeing the other man's name makes Derek's healing wound from the train tear open again, spilling renewed rage over the whole thing. However pissed he had been at Vanya for basically Pied Piper-ing him to the door, it was Klaus who actually physically shoved him onto the platform.
But, for better or worse, Klaus is Vanya, Diego, and Allison's brother and he's not just going to shut them all down if he can help. Which, because of the bullshit with the train, he actually probably can.
So the text takes a while to come through, but it finally does a few moments later. ]
And you want your werewolf buddy to track him down? Yeah, I can do that.
I mean, I was asking because more hands on deck, but now that you mention it...
[The pause between that one and the next text is... awkward. Diego tries to debate internally if it's completely out of line to ask what he's about to next-- normally it might not matter, worse words have come out of his mouth for less plenty of times in the past, but he and Derek have only just gotten back on good terms... he'd rather like not wrecking the hell out of that right now, too.]
I don't know how helpful I would've been outside of that, but I appreciate the vote of confidence in that case.
[ Derek's own response takes a little while, little dots popping up and disappearing before popping up on the screen again as he tries to decide, as he types a response, whether he wants to fuck with Diego a little.
In the end, he decides it's not a great idea given that they're still on sort of precarious ground and, besides, his brother is missing. The timing would probably be a little inappropriate for it. ]
Or. I know his scent already, but for the record, if someone I don't know ever goes missing, yeah, I'll need something. If I don't know someone's scent from close proximity already, I need to get it from somewhere.
I was going to try to get a little rise out of you just then, but I thought better of it. You're welcome.
Theoretically, your eyes are better than ours, too, hey?
[Diego thinks the guy that decided bouncing dots when people were typing was a good idea needed to be punched in the face. He hates watching that happen, every time it happens, no matter who he's texting when it does.]
Well, you've got more tact than I do, then. But I guess that's not a hard bar to step over.
All right, I'll meet you at the Porter in Jeopardy. That's where we're looking, by the way. I...don't think I mentioned that.
Oh, and Derek? There's ghosts all over the city right now. Just fyi.
At night, yeah. In the daytime, they're pretty much the same.
If we'd been having this conversation in person, I wouldn't have had as much tact, because then at least you'd have been able to see me fighting the shit-eating grin and you'd have known it was a joke.
I don't know Jeopardy very well, fair warning. I've only been there once and I wasn't really paying attention to the surroundings.
[ There's a long pause, then, as Derek deflates again.
[And this time, he's just glad he wasn't in person for that one. He's still not really okay from that encounter, or Chloe having witnessed any part of it, or him after it, either.]
Great. Well, at least I can try to mentally prepare on the way over.
[ There's another pause as Derek starts to get himself ready, changing out of lounging clothes and into a pair of jeans, a shirt he doesn't really care that much about ruining, and a jacket.
Should he ask or should he leave it alone...? ]
If you want to talk about it, I'm listening. If you don't, I never asked.
[He can't even be objectively appreciative of the sentiment-- it begs too much toward a raw openness he isn't usually apt toward. So he doesn't even respond to that, and lets the silence speak for him instead.]
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
text » 11/3
no subject
no subject
To be honest, when Ben was freaking out about it yesterday, I just figured it was Klaus being Klaus because he just does stupid shit like this...
But now we've found some weird shit in the back of the shop he works at and we've got some leads on where he might be.
no subject
But, for better or worse, Klaus is Vanya, Diego, and Allison's brother and he's not just going to shut them all down if he can help. Which, because of the bullshit with the train, he actually probably can.
So the text takes a while to come through, but it finally does a few moments later. ]
And you want your werewolf buddy to track him down? Yeah, I can do that.
no subject
[The pause between that one and the next text is... awkward. Diego tries to debate internally if it's completely out of line to ask what he's about to next-- normally it might not matter, worse words have come out of his mouth for less plenty of times in the past, but he and Derek have only just gotten back on good terms... he'd rather like not wrecking the hell out of that right now, too.]
...do you need something of his for that or...?
no subject
[ Derek's own response takes a little while, little dots popping up and disappearing before popping up on the screen again as he tries to decide, as he types a response, whether he wants to fuck with Diego a little.
In the end, he decides it's not a great idea given that they're still on sort of precarious ground and, besides, his brother is missing. The timing would probably be a little inappropriate for it. ]
Or. I know his scent already, but for the record, if someone I don't know ever goes missing, yeah, I'll need something. If I don't know someone's scent from close proximity already, I need to get it from somewhere.
I was going to try to get a little rise out of you just then, but I thought better of it. You're welcome.
no subject
[Diego thinks the guy that decided bouncing dots when people were typing was a good idea needed to be punched in the face. He hates watching that happen, every time it happens, no matter who he's texting when it does.]
Well, you've got more tact than I do, then.
But I guess that's not a hard bar to step over.
All right, I'll meet you at the Porter in Jeopardy.
That's where we're looking, by the way. I...don't think I mentioned that.
Oh, and Derek?
There's ghosts all over the city right now. Just fyi.
no subject
If we'd been having this conversation in person, I wouldn't have had as much tact, because then at least you'd have been able to see me fighting the shit-eating grin and you'd have known it was a joke.
I don't know Jeopardy very well, fair warning. I've only been there once and I wasn't really paying attention to the surroundings.
[ There's a long pause, then, as Derek deflates again.
Fantastic. ]
Of course there is. I'll see you soon.
no subject
It's okay, I know it well enough, I work here so... I'll just meet you at the Porter and we'll go from there.
no subject
Question: are these ghosts supposed to be people we know?
no subject
[And this time, he's just glad he wasn't in person for that one. He's still not really okay from that encounter, or Chloe having witnessed any part of it, or him after it, either.]
no subject
[ There's another pause as Derek starts to get himself ready, changing out of lounging clothes and into a pair of jeans, a shirt he doesn't really care that much about ruining, and a jacket.
Should he ask or should he leave it alone...? ]
If you want to talk about it, I'm listening. If you don't, I never asked.
[ That should do it, right? ]
no subject
[He can't even be objectively appreciative of the sentiment-- it begs too much toward a raw openness he isn't usually apt toward. So he doesn't even respond to that, and lets the silence speak for him instead.]
no subject
[ Hint taken. ]