event } was there somethin' that made you come back again?

[seeingyou]

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Missing passengers return to Navi, trauma recovery begins (or not).
WHERE: Anywhere on Navi.
WHEN: March 21 until the next event (date TBD)
WARNINGS: Add these to your comment subject lines as needed! And if you end up getting lovingly strangled by another passenger, please record it on the death page.

There’s no fanfare to signal the return of passengers who’ve been missing for the past few weeks, just a sudden influx of familiar faces, returned to their respective cabins like they never left. Anything that was on their person at the time when the shift occurred came along for the ride, so those bellbottoms from the magic closet? Yeah, you’re stuck with them now.

Another thing the returning passengers will be stuck with is their memories of their time in Xanadu. Add those to the memories of their time on Navi, before their “death,” which have all now been restored. Ain’t the multiverse a wacky little thing?

Have fun getting to know your new neighbors and reuniting with old friends! Oh, and watch out for goose droppings - the feathered menace’s reign of terror hasn’t entirely been cleaned up yet.

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[11calls]

For a long moment, Alex pauses, her face a mask of confusion as he brews her coffee. It's an uncharacteristic silence, honestly, one that feels almost unnatural, but then again a brush with death (never mind actually being dead often causes someone to reflect on their situation; Alex is not really all that different on this one) even if what she's reflecting on is the fact that Simon is here. Knowing all too intimately where Strand's base point is on her timeline, she's well aware of the fact that he didn't know Simon. Honestly, Simon hadn't reached out to Strand or even talked to him other than that first meeting in Three Rivers. So Strand doesn't know how to handle him back where she's from, never mind having a basis for comparison when he's from two months before Dr. Barnes had reached out to the show for help.

(Even if they had been on a break then, because Strand has to Strand and he was upset over the absurdity of podcast Chopped. There's every possibility that if it wasn't for Simon, Strand might not have returned. Honestly Alex doesn't know if the world is better off for it or worse.)

"Simon Reese?" Even though Alex knows that there's only one Simon, she still needs to say it aloud. "That must have been difficult. Sometimes" (all the time) "Simon speaks in riddles and what not. But I'm glad I'm back too. I missed you when I was there. My fake soulmate was a demon, so that was fun?"

[imarealistnotacynic]

"Yes he does." Grateful for a seeming ally he offers her the coffee and sitting across from her, "He has been...difficult." Then the soulmate comment hits and he sputters briefly.

"You had a fake soulmate?"

This shouldn't bother him as much as it does. She is a woman who is entitled to her own life but the tension between the two of them has been real and raw and his head aches at the thought.

"...Was he the one that kills you?"

[11calls]

 For a moment Alex just frowns and the entire Simon being completely impossible thing is gone in the favor of answering his questions about Xanadu and what life was like for her in the month that she had lived through it. Wrapping her hands around the cup of coffee and savoring it’s familiar warmth, Alex stares into the oil slick sheen on the top of the cup as if it were tea leaves and she could somehow manage to tease out what Strand’s words and tones meant.

Alex had learned early on in their working relationship how jealous Richard could be (Tannis Braun and Sexy James Bond spring to mind immediately) and it’s something that he’s already shown here when she was talking about Jon. Alex finds herself speaking to him like she would have on the show after they’d fought: very carefully.

“Yeah. It was part of the set up to torment us. It’s very much the hell is other people thing. So of course I was paired with a demon, even if he wasn’t so bad honestly. And no he wasn’t the one who killed me: that was all robots.”